The Entrepreneur Way

John Knotts is a business coach and consultant with over 30 years of experience in military, non-profit, and commercial leadership and consulting. He has an extensive background in strategy, change, process, leadership, management, human capital, training and education, innovation, design, and communication. “look before you leap. Too many people start out in business without a good plan and they don’t even know that they need one. And I said it 9/10 business fail because they didn’t have a plan or the plan was poor, they didn’t use it. So my most important piece of advice is get a really good business plan that you use every day to drive your business”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7eB

Brad Sugars started the ActionCOACH brand in 1994 in Brisbane, Australia. Today the company is ranked as the leading business coaching franchise by Entrepreneur magazine. ActionCOACH operates in over 70 countries and has more than 1,000 coaches around the world, coaching 15,000 business every week. The franchise has received numerous awards including Fastest Growing Franchise, Franchisee Satisfaction, Best Overall Company and has been named the number one business coaching franchise in the world every year since 2004. Using the coaching strategies that have helped thousands of companies around the world, Brad Sugars and his executive team helped lead ActionCOACH and its coaches to some of its most profitable and best years ever… in the face of challenging economic conditions. Brad Sugars and his team continue to build “business re-education” to new, more innovative and exciting levels. “very simple, keep learning… Your business can only grow to your level of incompetence. The day you run out of ideas is the date your business stops growing. So if you keep learning your business keeps growing. I guess I will give one other piece of advice. My dad gave it to me when I was 20 think. I turned to him and I said you know what dad I just can’t get good people and my dad looked me dead in the eye and said ‘Brad you get the people you deserve.’ If you are an average manager running an average business, I don’t see how you are going to get amazing people who want to work for you. He said the highest calibre employee going to get is average. So, when I became a better leader, when I became a better manager, when I started building a better company great people wanted to work for me. Great people want to work in great companies that are doing great things led by other great people… If you keep growing the business will keep growing and you will start attracting better and better customers, better and better employees, better and better suppliers. Just remember that the more you grow the more the business grows.”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ex

Ron Carucci is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth. He has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies. He has worked in more than 25 countries on 4 continents. He is the author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power. He is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review, where Navalent’s work on leadership was named one of 2016’s management ideas that mattered most. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes, and a two-time TEDx speaker. His work’s been featured in Fortune, CEO Magazine, Inc., BusinessInsider, MSNBC, Business Week, Smart Business, and thoughtleaders. The Whole Me He lives in the Seattle area with his wife and two children. On weekends, you’ll find him on his bike, on the lake, on his skis, at the movies, or cheering for the Seahawks. His greatest joy is seeing leader’s thrive by having the impact on the lives of those they lead. Helping leaders find their voice, and use it to serve their organization’s greater good is what gets him up every morning. In his office, Ron has a collection of antique door knobs, door knockers and skeleton keys. Every day, they remind him that life is about finding and pursuing the open doors in front of you, and making sure those doors open for others. In the morning, one of his favorite routines is picking the coffee mug in the conference room from among his collection. Each mug hails from a difference experience and person in his life, and helps him begin his day remembering to be grateful for all those in his life who’ve been part of his story. “know who you are and know why you are doing it, really really know. Don’t just assume you have a great idea and the world needs it. Really know who you are and why you believe your idea matters 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-7et

Josh Levine is an educator, designer, and author, but above all, he's on a mission to help organizations design a culture advantage. Josh leads both Culture LabX, an international non-profit and Great Mondays, a culture design agency. His new book, also called Great Mondays, teaches organizations how to design a company culture employees love. Josh’s writing has been seen in Forbes, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and the Design Management Journal. “you have to be passionate about what you do you won’t succeed. You have got to love it, you have got to be able to be convinced that this is what you were born to do. If there’s other options and you can see yourself taking them that might be the way to go and I can appreciate that. If you are going to be a successful entrepreneur you have to commit 110% because there are going to be harrowing days, weeks, months, years where you doubt yourself. And if you have a deep belief in your passion, and what you are working on and a love for actually running your own business that is the one and only way that you are going to be able to make it because it’s a hard hard job. It is really difficult it’s not for the faint of heart… But as you know the highest highs is always about landing that next gig or launching that new product. It’s an incredible feeling that success. ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7eo

Deana Karim is the owner/founder of Good Dee's. The journey to this mix has been long, she embraced going low-carb and sugar free and looked up alternative sweeteners. Through months of trial and error, Deana made a cookie that after numerous taste tests with non-LCHF people, got a giant thumbs up. “research. I think it’s just great to go in and start something – I am that person. But also knowing what to research. So researching like I said… I think doing everything that won’t cause problems for you later on is super important and such a major component and foundation of a company that’s the least fun part but it’s vital. It’s not fun at all, it’s actually a headache and it gives me anxiety but it is so vital ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ek

Based in the San Diego area, Reena B. Patel (LEP, BCBA) is a renowned parenting expert, guidance counselor, licensed educational psychologist, and board-certified behavior analyst. For more than 20 years, Patel has had the privilege of working with families and children, supporting all aspects of education and positive wellness. She works extensively with developing children as well as children with exceptional needs, supporting their academic, behavioral and social development. She was recently nominated for San Diego Magazine’s “Woman of the Year.” “Hang in there, every day is a different day. Make sure you practice self-care, take time for yourself, it’s a 24-hour job being an entrepreneur and you need to make sure that you take time for yourself. So make sure you practice self-care”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7eg

Sally Marshall worked for many years in the House of Commons as a Business Manager. She now uses those transferable skills to work with businesses on their strategy and planning as well as publishing a business magazine with a complementary app called Steer Your Business “talk to each other because you don’t need to be competitive but you can learn from each other. And When you look at businesses of all different shapes and sizes, they all have the same issues at different times in different ways but they basically all have the same challenges. So just by talking to someone you probably find that they’ve been there done that or know somebody who has who can help you. So don’t sit in the silo and worry about it just going find somebody that you can trust and talk to them, talk to each other”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ec

Dr. Steven Hymovitch, also known as “Dr. H”, is a certified executive coach and the co-founder of The Scottsdale Leadership and Coaching Center. Additionally, Dr. H is also and endodontist and the founder and CEO of Valley Endodontics and Oral Surgery. He has 10 successful endodontic and oral surgery practices throughout Arizona since 1996. Valley Endodontics and Oral Surgery is the largest Endodontic/Oral Surgery practice in the Southwestern United States “just because you do it by yourself that doesn’t mean you are all alone. Entrepreneurs usually we are lonely at the top but that does not mean you are all alone in… Take advantage of people. There is resources out there. We all feel like we don’t want to take the plunge but there is other people out there to support you and help you ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7e6

Cait Scudder is a business coach and success catalyst for driven, bold-hearted women who want it all - global impact, bursting income, and the legacy that comes from building a movement bigger than themselves. As CEO of a multi-six figure online business coaching empire, Scudder serves as the fearless front-woman of the boss babe revolution. A true trailblazer, she leads other inspired femme-preneurs in the fight to courageously make their dreams a reality, all while truly enjoying life and traveling the world with her husband. Scudder’s story began in 2012 while earning her Education MA from Smith College. She was awarded a Project Coach fellowship training at-risk inner-city youth to be leaders in their communities. With a newfound passion and gift for teaching, Scudder entered the world of academia only to discover that the 9-to-5 grind left her burned out, frustrated, and unfulfilled. In 2015, Scudder left her treaching career behind and sojourned to Bali to plan her next move. There she took an internal deep-dive to rediscover her own passions and, just two years later, after creating a plan and executing it, Scudder established a multi-faceted business coaching enterprise run entirely from her laptop - one which she scaled to six figures in her first 12 months. Having learned how to trust in her deepest passions, identify her unique zone of genius, and leverage that genius to serve the world, Scudder now teaches other women to do the same and earn the money they deserve while bringing their unique gifts to the world in a big way. Featured in Forbes, Fast Company, and many more - Scudder and her team now lead a tribe of more than 25,000 ambitious women across six continents in their quest to “nail their niche,” leverage their “zone of genius,” to finally build the profitable business and radiant life of their dreams. Her wildly popular Born to Rise podcast is pure mental fuel for go-getters thirsty for the inspiration and actionable tools to help master their mindset, explode their business, and achieve everything that becomes possible “when you decide that now is your time to rise.” “start when you are afraid, start when you are scared, start when you don’t know the answers but just start and don’t feel like you need to do this thing alone… There are so many incredible people out there further along on this path who would be so happy to support you. So reach out and ask for help, believe in yourself and just keep putting 1 foot in front of the other ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7dY

Autumn Shelton is a partner and CFO of Autumn Brands, a 50 percent woman-owned cannabis business located in Santa Barbara County, California. Autumn oversees the company’s financials and is in charge of legal compliance on the local and state levels, this includes, but is not limited to, ordinances, regulations, packaging, permits, and licensing. “I think in order to succeed as an entrepreneur you really have to be prepared financially and mentally for the challenges ahead. Don’t just jump into the business and hope for the best. Definitely talk to others in your industry that you are going into. Find out what their challenges and successes were. Be frugal in the beginning don’t try to go make some fancy office or systems, really live within the means or the finances that you have available to you. And if possible, have a secondary income source so that you are not just depending on this because you get one good sale you think that you are going to be on your way but it doesn’t always work out that way. So really just been in mind frame that when you start a business a slow and steady journey and not necessarily just straight up”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7dT