The Entrepreneur Way

Pete Sena is the founder and CEO of Digital Surgeons; a global innovation and experience design company that accelerates business growth through experience design, creative marketing, and digital business model innovation. Pete has a sixth sense for predicting (and, in turn, preparing for) abrupt shifts in the digital climate. Pete’s been known to remix tried and true strategies with unconventional thinking, splicing together ideas from different worlds, cultures, and sectors to create a mashup that connects people on a human level. In fact, that’s how he created Digital Surgeons. “find your one thing that others valuing you that you also value in yourself and strive to do that one thing as much as possible and you will be successful and happy and fulfilled in all of the things that you do”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6VF

Christine Powers "amplifies the amplifiers." She is committed to supporting transformational leaders who are "on the front lines of humanity's consciousness," pulling us all forward into a transcendent world. Founder of the Philosophers Camp in New York’s Adirondack Mountains, she is also building a retreat and refuge center for leaders to come rejuvenate, create, and gather in micro-momentary community. “team up be in a community don’t go it alone you can learn from each other, you can build each other. Don’t be afraid to find those other entrepreneurs who have an expansive mindset and aren’t afraid of you as competition and really work together. Work together as a consortium, work together and collaborate. We are all better together you can short-circuit a lot of mistakes. And when the times are tough you won’t be isolated and you will have people to reach out to. I think being part of a business community specifically geared towards entrepreneurial mindset is very important”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Vp

Chezza Badaracco is a speaker and author of the 1 Element- Conversations with visionary entrepreneurs and thought leaders that share their secret for living an extraordinary life. She is the owner of Aesthetics By Chezza in Auburn, California offering full service skincare and permanent makeup services. Additionally, Chezza is licensed for paramedical tattooing helping those who have undergone a mastectomy for breast cancer. She is a cancer survivor and educates on the importance of not only caring for your skin, but being aware of the toxic chemicals that are in our personal care products we use daily. “keep your head up, keep your confidence level up and just keep walking forward and don’t look back”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Vl

David Levich is co-founder of Sun-Staches, a novelty eyewear company that creates fun glasses for all ages. David and his partners appeared on Season 6, episode 5 of Shark Tank where they landed a deal with Daymond John. Since then, the partnership has been flourishing and with the help of Daymond, Sun-Staches has secured major licensing deals with companies like Disney, Warner Brothers, and Marvel, Universal, Nintendo and many more, and their products can be found in tens of thousands of retail stores around the world. 1145: The Importance of Protecting Your Intellectual Property with David Levich Co-Founder and Partner of Sun Staches Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Vg

Howard Mann is a player-coach who helps entrepreneurs attract and win better clients. Author of Your Business Brickyard. Helping make business more fun to run. “business is supposed to be fun to run. So stop take a breath ask yourself how you are really feeling about owning your business? How do you feel about the experience? Is the business everything you hoped it would be? And if it’s not don’t just shrug your shoulders and say I guess this is just what business is, it isn’t. Business can be rewarding , it can be fun, the path to getting there can be difficult but don’t give up on the fact that your business should be what you always hoped it should be. And be determined to fight through to get it there because once you get it there I think owning the business having provide kind of life that you want is just about as good as it gets”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Va

Born and raised in New York and French Culinary Institute-educated, Chef Peter Sherman is the creative force behind the restaurant BarBacon as the owner and the head chef. In BarBacon, Peter has capitalized on his intimate knowledge and his considerable talent with menu’s focused on the single craving of bacon that has proven both underserviced and underappreciated. Throughout his career Peter has worked for and under some of the best chefs in the world including Joel Robuchon L’Atelier, David Bouley’s Danube, April Bloomfield’s Breslin, Veritas and the Four Season’s Hotel. “one surround yourself with smarter people than you and make sure that they are giving you constructive criticism not just being a yes-man. And secondly you need the support in your house, whoever that significant other is needs to be your constant cheerleader, needs to be partner in the truest sense of the word. And don’t be afraid to fail. And change is a competitive opportunity, it’s an opportunity like everything else on the planet. You want to challenge yourself to make sure you understand what you are capable of doing. In the toughest moments are always the moments that separate you from the rest of the pack. And you are going to face as dire moments as you can possibly think to overcome. The minute you overcome them you realise that you know separate yourself from other people who haven’t been able to do that. And don’t be afraid of the really really hard moments almost look for one… you are going to know exactly the character of the person that you hold, the amount of work ethic you think you actually have.  All of it will be challenged and all of it will test you. You have got to be welcome to the idea that that’s going to happen and you have got to be ready for the challenge of overcoming”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6V5

John Hawkins works with companies to develop high performance leadership teams that deliver extraordinary results. He helps companies attract, develop and retain incredible people increasing execution, effectiveness, and excellence! John, is known for his uncanny ability to stir up lasting change in a group, and for his casual yet powerful questions. “focus focus focus. To many entrepreneurs spend too much time working in the business instead of on the business. They spend too much time doing all this nonsense that doesn’t really add value to the customer or to their business… I am really a big fan of doing one thing, ordinary thing and do it extraordinarily well… If every entrepreneur out there can learn to focus focus focus, tightly, intently, very purposely, very intentionally, and do one ordinary thing extraordinarily well they will be highly highly successful ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6V0

Marissa Costonis is the health change guru and Amazon best-selling author of Change Bites, 5 Change Management Strategies to Transform Your Health. Marissa is a Certified Health Coach by Institute for Integrative Nutrition and previously spent over a decade in change management consulting leading a variety of transformation initiatives around the world. When she developed severe neuropathy and several health problems began to pile up, Costonis was forced to completely change her diet. Overwhelmed and confused, she began to apply all the leading change models and frameworks to simplify her own health transformation with great success. The “5 Bites to Health” process was born. Today Costonis conducts individual and group coaching programs, workshops and enjoys guest-speaking engagements to share her unique approach and support others in their journey to health. “When you help other people you are actually helping yourself…. The more I tried to help other people it just comes back to me tenfold… So no matter how busy you are and how crazy you are trying to get your own business off the ground sync up with other people that are in a similar state, it doesn’t even have to be in the same industry and doing the same thing, it could just be in a similar stages you or maybe stage a little behind or a stage ahead, and try to help them and you will be amazed how much comes back to you”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6UV

Mario Nawfal started business at age 23, with no money and became a millionaire in 1 year, 10 figures in 2. Launched more businesses and expanded to Fintech consulting, reached 7 figures again in 6 months, also bootstrapped. “the first one is learn from others. Learn from other people’s mistakes whether it’s a competitor or an incredibly successful business like Amazon and Mr Bezos. You could learn more from a competitor or another industry that is done really well than you can learn from a book. So learn from everything around you, whether it’s another entrepreneur in a coworking space that you work out of, or a competitor, or a business that is done well in other industries, podcast - they have got incredible value, listen to the right podcast. Because some of the interviews, some of those success stories you can hear in a podcast they still bring me a lot of value and I get a lot of ideas from them… getting knowledge and taking action would be my recommendation ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6UJ

Sarah Taylor is 16 x World Bodybuilding Champion, a recognised nutrition expert, transformational weight loss coach and international speaker. A formerly obese 40 year old, Sarah lost 25kg without dieting, used the same techniques to keep the weight off as she beat depression, before getting into bodybuilding and becoming the best in the world at age 48. Sarah lives by her motto 'It's never too late, start today' and is now dedicated to inspiring people of all ages to take back control of their health “Just do it. Just start. I think the number one regret people on their deathbed is that they didn’t try something that they wanted to. So just do it. My other advice is get a mentor, somebody who could guide you and support you through the journey, somebody who is been where you want to go and can help you along the way. You do need that support and like I say consistency, you have got to do something every single day.” Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6UE