The Entrepreneur Way

Jerome Myers left corporate America because he realized that although he had many accomplishments, he had not gained significance because he was not leading a centered life. Now, as a leadership coach, he uses his personal journey and unique training method to guide other apex performers in leadership positions to face their toughest personal and professional challenges head on. “Your dreams should be real. Now you just have to go out and make the sacrifice, pay the price of admission for them to be”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMQ

Jay Haynes is the Founder & CEO of thrv.com, the first and only Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) software for product, marketing, and sales teams. Jobs-to-be-done product management helps CEOs align their product teams with customers to dramatically increase their effectiveness by reducing roadmap risk, accelerating revenue growth, and generating superior equity value. “Customer empathy, customer empathy, customer empathy combined with mitigating risk. Always be focused on your customers and their problems independent of your product. Don’t ask them if they want a faster horse… Then the second is risk mitigation. So, make sure that you are mitigating risk. Don’t be an entrepreneur wants to take risk be an entrepreneur who wants to mitigate risk because that is the path to success. Then the final one was don’t run out of cash. Cash is king. All businesses fail because they run out of cash so don’t run out of cash”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMJ

Elizabeth Cunningham is a Love Coach who helps people create deep and connected relationships of all styles. In the past year, she has become a full time entrepreneur, scaled her coaching business to have its first 6 figure year by 2022 and has started a love apparel company called Cosacuore. “Don’t give up”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMB

Stephen Somers is the co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an online education and services company that helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from complete scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has won 5 two-comma club awards for Marketplace SuperHeroes, which is now an 8 figure business, and the guys have also helped over 8,000 people to create multiple income streams online. “Be a student number one, stop believing in yourself number two, it sounds strange but find a proven process. Always look for the proven process no matter what you are doing. If you are starting, if you are growing, whatever, find people who have already done it and then learn from them, model them, do whatever it takes. Because the answers are truly out there. Then as time goes on you can innovate”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMv

Claire Bahn is a personal brand strategist and the CEO and Founder of Claire Bahn Group. She helps high-achieving entrepreneurs, investors, founders, and executives create magnetic personal brands to increase their visibility, deal flow, and opportunities. “Being an entrepreneur is not for everybody and I think a lot of people think that it’s cool, it’s easy, it has sex appeal or whatever… It’s not… It’s really hard and there is not a safety net. I think that can be really, really scary for people. One of the best pieces of advice is to know what you are getting into and if you are really terrified about doing it maybe it’s not the best thing for you. Maybe there are other things that you can do and that’s fine… The first thing you need to do is do something because most people won’t actually execute”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMn

As a Chemist, Educator, and Naturalista, Rhonda Marshall brings a truly unique perspective to the beauty industry. Rhonda saw a clear consumer need and personal passion to take better care of her naturally curly hair. Her curls were something she was proud of and she felt distinguished her personality. After years of using relaxers and other chemical laden products, and high heat styling methods that damaged her hair to modify her natural curl pattern, she felt there had to be a better way. While at Helene Curtis (now Unilever) Rhonda worked on projects developing Suave Shampoos and Conditioners as well as the first Clear Stick for (Degree) Antiperspirant/Deodorant. After earning a Masters Degree in Education, she has also worked as a Certified Educator teaching Chemistry and Science at the Secondary level. Finally, after transitioning away from chemically processed hair in 2001, Rhonda eventually developed her own hair products incorporating natural ingredients that were especially effective for naturally curly hair textures. With this experience not only as a Chemist but also as a customer, Rhonda developed what would eventually become the Inahsi Naturals product line. Inahsi Naturals products have been used by award winning celebrity stylists behind the scenes for a number of shows including ABC’s ‘Black●ish, The CW’s Riverdale, and the film starring Eddie Murphy, Coming 2 America. “I would say the number one thing is don’t quit your day job, that’s the number one. And I know people say just go out there and just fly. No, no, no, no. Your job can help to fund your business. So it is nothing wrong, no shame in your game if you have a job and you are side hustling your business… To help fund your side hustle. Because you don’t want to get out there and your business can’t sustain or your family can’t sustain you. So, you definitely want to make sure if you have a job, you make sure you are saving… The demand is there”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lMc

Moe Abbas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Acadium, a company that matches emerging marketing talent with mentors looking to grow their business affordably. Acadium has raised $1M from top angel investors, and it has launched more careers in digital marketing than any other platform to date. “Surround yourself with the right people. You can start a business with very little in today’s world. So just take some time and ask the right questions about your business. That’s probably the best thing, ask the right questions. Sit there and just hammer out questions. Why am I doing this? How big could it be? Who are my customers? Where are they? That would be the 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-lM4

Jeff Wald is the Founder of Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers (acquired by ADP). Jeff has founded several other technology companies, including Spinback, a social sharing platform (eventually purchased by salesforce.com). Jeff began his career in finance, serving as Managing Director at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a Vice President at venture capital firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan. Jeff is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors. He also formerly served as an officer in the Auxiliary Unit of the New York Police Department. Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. Jeff frequently speaks at conferences and in media on startups and labor issues. “You have got to get started. Whatever it is that you are thinking about someone’s thought about it, it is just going to be a riff on our ideas… The only thing stopping your ideas coming to life is the fact that you haven’t done anything. And if you don’t do anything it will not come to light, somebody else will do it. And so just start, put that first foot in front of the other and start that journey”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lLV

Veronica Woodruff is sharing her passion with the world. As a parent herself, she knows how stressful planning family vacations and traveling with children can be. Millions of other parents face the same challenges. This realization created a need for Travelsist, the official travel support company that uses proprietary technology in the travel marketplace to assist families en route to their destination with age-appropriate baby travel gear. Travelsist is shaping the future of travel in relieving packing stress while focusing on who in the family matters most. The Travelsist value proposition is to treat your family like our own. Easy access to travelers at the world’s busiest airport - Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - as the starting point has boosted brand awareness. Travelsist is committed to providing hand-selected safety-first, eco-friendly travel products with core values of expectation and trust upon which the company was founded. Customer satisfaction is paramount to help facilitate travel experiences for families and develop new use cases to further global business growth. Veronica is considered alumnae in the ecosystem of Atlanta’s business accelerators, including Launchpad 2X, Invest Atlanta’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative, Microsoft for Startups, Switchyards Club and a recipient of the Growth Grant from the Start:ME Program of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. As an experienced traveler and subject matter expert, Veronica envisions giving insight on traveling trends and habits, pivoting where necessary in demonstrating endurance to generate revenue and help the company thrive. With a marketing and technology background, Veronica is the strategic leader of the business poised to demonstrate and deliver a return on investment providing baby and toddler essentials with Travelsist. “Definitely keep going. You know entrepreneurship is hard, it’s not easy, it’s definitely a rollercoaster and you have to fill your mind with positive energy. And you have to wake up every day motivated and you have to keep going. Because when you start you fail. And every day, every second and every time you believe in what you are doing is a new opportunity to get things done. So, you have to keep going no matter what… It’s literally a marathon, you can’t stop for breaks. If you stop them, it’s very, very hard to return”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lLM

Sean Manning is Founder and CEO of Payroll Vault, an outsourced payroll and HR service for small-businesses. Founded in 2007, Payroll Vault began franchising in 2012 and now spans the U.S. Sean previously owned Insperience Business Services and the co-author of the book 'Six Steps to Small Business Success.' “Let your mind be free a little bit. Look at the business opportunities, study it… Obviously we talked about some good books. Leverage those. And then kind of roll the dice and be excited about the opportunity. After you study the model make sure it’s financially stable then you can make that investment and hopefully be successful with the business”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-lLG