The Entrepreneur Way

Psychologist Dr. Diana Kirschner appeared regularly on the Today Show and stars in an Amazon Prime TV show, Love in 90 Days: Finding Your Own True Love. Her smash bestseller, Love in 90 Days is just out in its 10th Anniversary edition. Dr. Diana’s work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Through her books and acclaimed Love Mentor® Coaching team, Dr. Diana has helped tens of thousands all over the world to create greater self-love, empowerment and lasting passionate soulmate relationships. “Figure out where you are going to find your bliss… Lead with that and figure out how to make the business work in such a way that you are going to optimise that”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YZ

Patrick Bardsley is in charge of strategy and management in the running of Spectrum Designs Foundation. He holds a Masters in Special Education, with a concentration in Behavior Analysis through Long Island University. A natural leader and innovator, he spends most of his time securing future growth and relationships for the betterment and expansion of all of our social enterprises. Patrick brings an enormous skillset that spans many disciplines, as well as over 12 years of experience working with teens and young adults with autism. Outside of his work at Spectrum Designs, Patrick is a member of both the internationally renowned NationSwell Council and the invite-only Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). Patrick also oversees the running of all Spectrum’s enterprises; Spectrum Bakes, Spectrum Suds and Spectrum Grows and serves on the board of the Nicholas Center and New York State Industries for the Disabled. “The biggest obstacle is often yourself and the stories you tell yourself about why you can’t do something. So, I really, really believe that if you can figure out the story you are telling yourself and really question its validity you will do well…Wherever you can have your company and its actions leave the world in a better place than when it started… I believe the good you put out into the world comes back to you 10 times over”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YV

Ryan Boykin has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and partner of Atlas Real Estate Group, which is a full-service realty group specializing in real estate investments, brokerage and property management. Ryan was also a Denver Business Journal 40 Under 40 honoree in 2017 and is a graduate of the University of Denver. “somebody told me when I was getting going two pieces of advice which I have treasured always and I have repeated so many times. This gentleman said Ryan starting a new business that’s fantastic, I’m proud of you, is going to be a long journey but he said you have got three things. You have work, you have family and you have friends. Choose two, you are only going to have time for two. What is it going to be? Obviously, you choose work and family. That’s how I have had to choose where my time goes. And that was really illuminating for me in terms of how little time will be available and how big of a lift it is to start a business. Second piece of advice that put out there is same person told me in my commute home after a long day at work, let’s say I get 15 minutes in the car on the way home. He said you have got to treasure that 15 minutes, you have got to take that 15 minutes relieve your stress, get home to whatever home is for you and find your inner peace. Because that 15 minutes is your 15 minutes to recharge for your day really begins. And you walk in that door at your house because your wife and your family are all waiting there for dad to be present. And a lot of times of you don’t have that recharge and 15 minutes on that commute home you are not going to do what you need to do when your day really begins which is being that father and that husband ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YR

Guy Dawson is the Managing Member of Classy Communications, a full service public relations and advertising. He is also the host of PR Connections: The Business Edition Radio Show and The Guy Dawson Show, a video streaming show. “find someone who has been there and follow their advice… Find someone who’s maybe not necessarily in your industry but who has achieved success and listen to what they have to say be extremely teachable”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YN

With us today is Dan Zurcher. Dan is the owner of The American Striping Company and the author of "How I Stripe a Parking Lot, 24 Years, By Myself". He's here to tell us why he believes that parking lot striping is the all-time best, small business startup, ever. “look around you, just keep your eyes and ears open… I know, I bet there is a skill that you have that might be related to what you do now that you could start small business in and who knows where that might go… You need some ideas seeing if there’s a maker’s space around you… If money is tight look for an industry that has a low start-up cost, no workshop is needed, no real inventory is needed, you can start part-time and it works in almost any economy” …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YI

Bruce Borenstein is the CEO of business accelerator PH Advisors. He is also the author of the book “Don’t Be A Schmeckle” a common sense approach to sales and inter personal relationships. He was President and CEO of AfterShokz a bone conduction headphone company and has held other executive positions with several tech companies. “you need to have passion and you need to have persistence. Without that I just don’t think that any entrepreneur will be successful. And quite frankly if you don’t have passion and persistence you shouldn’t be an entrepreneur”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6YD

Brian Rowe began coding at age 13, developing Internet-based applications programming. He took that love for data to a position at Cummins that won him an award from CIO Magazine for “50 Best Intranets.” Later, he founded a software company that was purchased by iGoDigital, which eventually sold to Salesforce for $21M. Today, Rowe is using his life-long love for data and analytics to change the way students experience college with Perceivant, an education technology company that replaces traditional textbooks with cost-effective and interactive digital courseware. “Try to go out and sell your solution before you start… You don’t have to lie about it, you don’t have to say it’s done. I think you can go out and find who you think your target customer is and say here’s my solution, here’s what I think it should look like, I want it to be like this. If I can offer it to you just like this with this much money would you be a customer for me? Would you sign up if I had it six months from now? Okay can you sign and LOI now. It’s just practice closing the deal even though there’s nothing that exists that you are talking about. And find out what’s it’s like to try to sell it, what feedback you get, can it be sold you are going to find nuggets of features or twists on how it should look and how it should work before you ever really hire anybody up to team together or raise money. You can get a lot sort of done in almost have hopefully with any luck a couple of beta customers that are going to be proponents of yours when you actually do get live”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Yv

Gabriel Safar is CEO and co-founder of LeasePilot, the only company creating a scalable, digital future for commercial real estate leasing. LeasePilot accelerates the timeframe to close leases by pairing innovative technology with rigorous legal industry standards. Gabriel received a BA in Economics from Tufts University and a JD from Boston College Law School. “always be willing to bet on yourself. I found there are lots of circumstances where people give you advice, lots of it makes sense, a lot of it doesn’t make sense, but at the end of the day you need to be able to figure out what are risks that are not in your control and what are risks that relate to your ability to perform for your ability to achieve results. And if you bet on yourself and then effectively make whatever it is happen that you want to have happen other people will be willing to follow and will be willing to bet on you as well”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Yr

Marty Schultz is a mentor-speaker, angel fund investor, award-winning innovator and creator of some of the US’s fastest-growing software companies over his expansive career. A firm believer in sharing his knowledge with others, Marty mentors entrepreneurs and presents at startup and venture capital conferences on how to bootstrap and grow software startups He has founded several businesses including Blindfold Games, McGruff SafeGuard, co-founded eSped , founded Omtool, and also founded and ran a company that enabled hundreds of computer resellers to prosper by selling the new generation of microcomputers. “constantly ask for feedback and never take it personally. Get used to being rejected and learn from being rejected. When you are doing some activity that is going to have a lot of rejection like cold calling set a goal of how many you want to do each day and stick with that… If you don’t like confrontation you need to do that over and over again until you basically don’t mind it. You will have confrontation, you will have rejection, get over it. And finally do what I did and take an improv class and start enjoy speaking in front of audiences”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Yn

An award-winning writer and former journalist, Caroline Lambert is a writing collaborator, ghostwriter and book coach. Endlessly curious about life journeys, she helps people write their stories so they can create and share their legacy. “keep taking imperfect action. Don’t wait until the right moment, don’t wait until things are perfect just keep taking imperfect action… Live with the discomfort. Yet it is going to feel a little bit uncomfortable knowing that you know you are not ready or that things are not completely lined up”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Yg