The Entrepreneur Way

With over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Steven Page has led his Canadian-based logistics and fulfillment company, Stalco, to become a top 3rdparty logistics provider by Multichannel Merchant in 2019. Recently, Page launched a Duty Drawback program which is a Canada Customs (CBSA) Trade Incentive program that provides refunds on customs duty paid on applicable imported goods. This Trade Incentive program is combined with a U.S. Customs Clearance method (Section 321) for low-value consumer orders (under USD $800) where no duty is paid on entry into the United States. U.S. companies can have their goods shipped from China to Canada then be fulfilled by Stalco directly to individual U.S. consumers to eliminate all duty cost. Under Page’s leadership, Stalco has foreign goods imported to its fulfilment center in Toronto. The team then picks and packs the applicable goods and ships them to consumers in the U.S.at the same cost and delivery time as if it were shipped directly from the U.S. His team ships in excess of over 60,000 direct-to-consumer orders per week throughout North America concentrated mostly on the U.S. “really identifying obviously at an early stage path you are going down, doing the research and validating your business model and then surrounding yourself with the people that can either mentor you within your business depending upon the size of your company or ultimately from outside to be able to be resources that you can leverage to get outside opinions… Ultimately drive and persistency, stick-to-it-iveness and not letting anyone get in the way for what you believe you want to do. To be willing to just push forward...Begin with the end in mind. See yourself getting to where you want to get. It’s almost like a dream environment. Just see yourself being able to achieve whatever it is you are trying to get to ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7gj

Frank Fiume II is the founder of i9 Sports—the nation’s leading franchisor of youth sports leagues nationwide and author of the new book, Running With My Head Down: An Entrepreneur’s Story of Passion, Perseverance, and Purpose, which is a no-holds barred, rags-to-riches story about finding your purpose and living a life of no regrets. “remember that a decision that they make out of fear is almost always the wrong decision. Sometimes that means… not making a decision to do something is in itself a decision because you decide you are going to play it safe. And that’s no decision at all. So, I would say make a decision for your business that you know is the right thing to do. Again it means you want to live your life with no regrets and do what’s right even if it’s scary but definitely don’t make a decision out of fear”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7gd

Armand Peri is an American executive, entrepreneur, real estate investor, artist and former NPC and IFBB bodybuilding champion. He is the CEO of New Age Productions, Inc., a New Jersey/New York-based nightclub production and entertainment company. He is also the founder of Hunk-O-Mania Entertainment, a live choreographed male revue show for women, which operates in one of the largest nightclubs in New York City. Hunk-O-Mania nightclubs continue to receive acclaim as the largest and most successful male revue nightclubs in the world from various news and media outlets. Armand founded the first Hunk-O-Mania nightclub show in 1998 in New York City and the show has now expanded to over 18 cities including Chicago, Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlantic City, Orlando, Tampa, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Diego, Atlanta and New Orleans. “find something that you know well, that you are good at and that you are passionate about. Don’t going to a business you don’t know anything about. And I think that’s the problem with a lot of people that they choose something that somebody else is telling them is a good business rather than just really choosing something that they know a lot about. So, it doesn’t matter what it is, whether you work construction today. Whatever you are doing today if you like what you do get into a business that does what you do but find a way to do it better”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7g7

Victoria Bennett ran her first successful crowdfund campaign over six years ago, a long time in crowdfunding years. A strategic marketer by training, she has worked on many major brands including Tide, Pampers, ENMAX and TD. Her skills as a marketer are all skills vital to crowdfunding. She has run successful campaigns in Canada and in Europe and her team is currently consulting for a number of equity and rewards crowdfund campaigns, and has spoken at the Global Crowdfunding Conference on women in crowdfunding. “follow your passion… You have got to keep yourself motivated and following your passion really helps that”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7g3

Jenna Edwards is an Actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Malcolm in the Middle), an Award-Winning Film Producer (iTunes, Netflix, Hulu) and a #1 Best- Selling Author who is passionate about spreading the idea of Aggressive Optimism as far and wide as she is able to. She believes the skill of Aggressive Optimism is crucial to living an entrepreneurial lifestyle. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Jenna was (what she calls) a “walking statistic." According to the experts, she should have been pregnant at 16, living in poverty with an abusive husband, addicted to some form of drug. Instead, she made the choice to break the cycle and since then she has traveled the world (beginning as an exchange student in Thailand her senior year of high school), been on TV, and in movies, co- authored a #1 best-selling book and currently lives (not in poverty) in Los Angeles with her loving and supportive husband and she has just recently traveled the country for a year. She attributes her incredible life to being aware that she has a choice, that our circumstances do not have to define us and that if we practice aggressive optimism when the going gets tough, we truly can create the life we dream of living. “find your people. But more importantly than that even the first step is figure out what your dream looks like ultimately and understand how that manifests on a daily basis. Like what that looks like on a daily basis. And then you have to believe in it, aggressively optimistically, like 100 percent. You can’t let anyone poke holes in it because the world freakin need you to be the entrepreneur that you are going to be. It’s just a requirement”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fY

Entrepreneurs Ethan Nyholm and Adina Jacobs launched STM in 1998, becoming an industry leader in the creation of laptop bags, packs, fitted cases and other accessories designed to safeguard tech devices, stylishly. Today, STM Brands is the parent company of two global brands designing lifestyle accessories for tech devices—STM Goods and Element Case. “my best advice for someone who is just starting out its cash is king. Is that at the beginning if you can pay your suppliers, if you can pay the people that you are working for or if you can pay yourself you will stay in business… Upstage that changes a little bit but at the beginning, the first 3 to 5 years that cash is king. How much money, how many zeros how much money you have in that bank account is the most important thing so you can continue to operate”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fU

In 27 years of nursing Yvonne Heath witnessed our reluctance to prepare for grief BEFORE it arrives, causing excessive suffering. With heart and humour, she now shares her message of how to live, grieve and die well, through speaking, her book, television and radio, and the I Just Showed Up movement. “find what you love to do and how you can create a career out of it. Let passion and purpose be your compass and remember that you are capable of doing so much more than you could possibly imagine. Go for it”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fP

Melanie Colling is the Founder of Purpose Driven Projects, Co- founder of Experts On Air Podcast Booking Agency, an Amazon International Best - selling Author, Podcast Host, Business Accelerator Facilitator and Public Speaker. Melanie is a collaboration expert, passionate about helping business leaders and experts succeed and accelerate their businesses by developing valued connections to become in-demand industry leaders. She believes entrepreneurs, not governments, will make the change we want and need to see in the world, and is committed to supporting and connecting entrepreneurs to empower change! Melanie provides entrepreneurs and business leaders with a proven framework and strategies to accelerate their businesses through connection and collaboration. “just do it. Like Nike says. Just get out there and do it and have a go and have a try. Yeah you might fail or you might look stupid sometimes. But actually, it’s not as bad as you think. You always think it’s going to be worse. But just go out and do it and try. And if you don’t try you will never know.”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fK

Yasmine Mustafa is a social entrepreneur and community leader fueled by a passion to leverage technology for good. She's the CEO of ROAR for Good, a certified B-corp with the mission of utilizing technology and education to create safer workplaces. Before that, she founded and sold her first company to a prominent content marketing firm in Silicon Valley. Yasmine brought Girl Develop It to Philadelphia, a non-profit providing affordable opportunities for women interested in learning software development. In addition, she sits on the board of Coded by Kids, a non-profit organization committed to providing free tech education to inner-city youth. She is a 2x TEDx speaker, discussing challenges she experienced migrating to the United States as a refugee and discovering she was undocumented. Her "Birth Lottery" talk highlights the challenges (and opportunities) inherent in each life. BBC selected Yasmine as one of its 100 Women of 2016 due to her work in empowering women. She was also recognized as Upstart 100's most dynamic people shaping business, Philadelphia Magazine’s Top 20 Best Philadelphian's, Philadelphia Business Journal's 2016 Tech Disruptors, Technologist of the Year by the Philly Geek Awards, and Innovator of the Year by Rad Girls. She is the recipient of the "Women of Courage" award from Lutheran Settlement House and "Visionary Leader" by the City of Philadelphia. Yasmine graduated summa cum laude from Temple University with a Business Management Degree. “I think the learning that I had in terms of ‘treat others the way they want to be treated’ versus the way you want to be treated, its helped me so much. I would say this has been the number one most critical leadership skill that I have learned that I would pass on to other people”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fF

Marko Mandaric founded Bmmpr in 2017, bringing over 20 years of leadership experience and meticulous design to the company. Spearheading the company's strategy and vision, Marko was quickly awarded a U.S. and International product patent for the company's revolutionary smart security technology and looks to make Bmmpr a factory must have in the years to come. When Marko is not busy transforming the world of security technology, he obsesses over all things car related and is dreaming up his next great innovation. “stay the course. Focus on details and be mindful that there is no such thing as luck. There is only hard work, giving enough duration of time and the likelihood of an opportunity presenting itself at the end of it”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7fB