In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Sarah Dudley. Sarah is the founder of Marketing Macros, a company that helps individuals and brands define and build their digital eminence. Helping you figure out things like - Who are you? What do you portray online? Why should people listen to you? Why should people buy your product? Sarah works with clients to help them understand what those are and how to build a digital brand.
Sarah has an MBA in Marketing from Northwestern and was named by LinkedIn as a Top 15 Millennial Influencer in 2016. In her short career, she has already made a major impact on so many companies. As Sarah says, “Marketing is the perfect intersection between psychology and business. Every day, we ask ourselves who is our audience, what do they want, and how can we give it to them in the format they prefer. We need a deep understanding of our customers and an even better understanding of how to show them, in a profound way, that we are the best people to help solve their problems.
From a young age, Sarah was drawn to books. She used them as escape from the world around her. She came from a somewhat broken home. Her parents were never together and her mom had trouble with jobs causing them to move around a lot. Growing up this way was fuel for Sarah to live a better more stable life. But, books were an escape for her and she fell in love with writing and storytelling herself.
She excelled in school and when she went to college fell in love with psychology and the science of why people do what they do. She majored in business and psychology.
After some soul searching, she realized that marketing was the perfect intersection between business and psychology and went and got her MBA.
In one of her early assignments she was asked to take on social media for the company. She became addicted and started building a community and voice online.
Now she has helped small and mid-sized business, as well as executives create personal brands and provides thought-leadership. She loves helping people build their value through a digital brand.
Sarah’s Elements of a good story:
Sarah talks about millennials and explains that they distinctly value experiences more than things and that they are much more entrepreneurial than people think. They are bigger risk takers when it comes to following their passions.
In building a brand, Sarah talks about how one of the bigger reasons to build a brand is to take back control of what and who you are portrayed to the world, and what is out there about you. You want think about what you want to be known for or be the expert in. Then, depending on where you audience is at, those are the platforms you concentrate on. For example, if your audience is professionals, then you would focus on Linked In. Once you have this, focus, focus, focus and create your own content.
You have to put yourself out there. What could you do if you live without fear? Will you regret not doing something as much as you would doing it? Take the leap and act.
Sarah’s formula for a successful social media strategy:
Top tips for energizing an existing brand:
Best tip for building a tribe? Be relatable and relevant to your audience and be “human” in your mediums
Up and coming platform to watch? Facebook Live (not so up and coming, but new and difference and driving the future)
Biggest lesson? You don’t have to be defined by your circumstances. You can always change them.
How can businesses engage Millennials more? Millennials want the opportunity for their ideas to be heard and bring their experience of growing up in the digital age to their roles.
Best Quote: “In order to get people to act, you must ask them to act.”
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Charles Gaudet. When small business owners and marketers want to grow their companies, they turn to Charlie Gaudet to help grow their traffic, leads, and sales. As the founder and CEO of Managed Marketing, LLC – the company behind Predictable Profits – and the author of The Predictable Profits Playbook: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Dominating Any Market and Staying On Top, Charlie combines personal experience, expert wisdom, and cold, hard facts to illuminate the previously overlooked profit centers that exist in nearly every business.
Charlie and his wife Heather invested over $500,000 traveling the world and learning from the world’s leading entrepreneurs, spiritual advisors, billionaire business moguls, tribal leaders, and professional coaches like Tony Robbins – and the lessons he’s accumulated along this journey have become the essence of the Predictable Profits methodology.
This business-building expertise has earned Charlie a reputation as the go-to source for actionable, dependable, and systematic strategies for gaining and retaining customers, earning premium prices, and becoming the obvious choice over the competition.
He’s been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fox Business, Mashable, and on national radio outlets. He has also won numerous awards including Earnst and Young best seed stage companies, He was named one of American Geniuses’ Top 50 Industry Influencers and a host of others.
Dave has personally worked with Charlie on several online launch campaigns and been part of a group that has done million dollar plus launches with him, so what he is going to share with you works!
The Predictable Profits Playbook
Charlie started out as an entrepreneur at 4 years old! Charlie’s dad was an entrepreneur who worked constantly, and there was never a doubt Charlie would fall in his footsteps.
Like many entrepreneurs, Charlie went through ups and downs, losing a company early on. He then started another business in real estate following the age old advice of working hard longer than others and would work from 3am into the evenings every day. He did this until he almost literally killed himself from stress. His body was literally shutting down in his early 20’s.
It was at this moment that he questioned what he was doing and what he was missing? This spurred a change in the way he setup his business, working smarter, and setting things up to work better for him. A year later, he had his first multi-million dollar business.
Charlie makes a point to be very specific about what is working and not working. Don’t guess. We have the tools at our fingertips to know the exact information. Only then can you truly make the right changes or decisions to get to your next level. The littlest things matter.
Charlie says that ultimately the secret to success is knowing what is truly working and what is not. When you know what is truly working, you can then put more effort into it and dominate a market.
Charlie gives some good examples of how little things can make such a huge difference in a business. Charlie talks about how to build your personal brand, he says there are two things you must do. First, you must write a book as it gives you credibility. Second, you must become a public speaker. Some other tricks he gives include the following:
At the 29 min mark, Charlie gives great tips for how to create awareness and write a killer article to get noticed and how to do a 1+1 = 3 benefit.
Charlie talks about the benefits of systems and how to maximize your results through automation and leverage. How you can do something once and then use it multiple times over and over.
At the 40 min mark, Charlie challenges Facebook ads and brings some interesting thoughts around how to use your marketing dollars and using retargeting on social media.
At the 45 min mark, Charlie talks about what it takes to build trust and a tribe for your business.
Fastest way of growing a business is to engage your past customers that are no longer buying, thank them, give them a very special offer reserved only for past customers. Give them a compelling reason to come back.
Smartest way of growing a business is to look at where you have the most momentum. Focus on those areas to make them better and increase the returns.
Best Quote: “There are reasons and there are results.The only thing that matters are results."
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Hello Misfit Nation! Welcome to a very special edition of the Misfit Entrepreneur. Tomorrow is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the states and we all have so much to be thankful for. Our families, friends, the opportunities we have. And for me, on top of all that, I’m thankful for you and the guests that come on this show. You support has made the show a success, and I cannot thank all of you in the audience enough for it. And for our guests, thank you all so much for your amazing wisdom and insight that you share with us each and every week.
Today, I’d like to take this episode to introduce a new type of format that I will be sprinkling in alongside our weekly episodes.
Introducing Lessons for Hannah! These are short, very useful, and sometimes comical lessons, that I have learned that I want to share with you and give to may daughter, Hannah to help in your lives. Because I want Hannah to have these for her life, I’m going to speak as though I am talking directly to her in the format.
We’re gonna have a lot of fun with this and if you think there is a lesson that we should include in these episodes, please don’t hesitate to send it over to us at support@misfitentrepreneur.com. We’d love to share it.
This week’s Lesson for Hannah
Hannah honey, I want to you to always remember not to forget your roots or where you came from. I realize this has multiple meanings for you and I want it to pertain to them all. Don’t forget where you came from in China and how you came to be with mommy and daddy, but also don’t forget what you’ve learned in life. Keep your humility, no matter how successful you become. Remember the values of hard… and smart work, gratitude for others, how important family is in our lives, and to never give up. Make it a mission to give to others and give of yourself along the way. And always cherish the special moments and experiences that you have in life as those are truly what make life worth living.
Years from now, you won’t remember all the stuff you had, but you will remember the experiences and special moments you’ve had with us, your family, friends, the places you’ll visit, and those you’ll meet as you go through life. Soak them in.
And lastly, laugh, a lot! Find joy in all you can and bring joy to others. Life is meant to be lived and enjoyed. I hope you find every way to do that.
I’ll end where I started, don’t forget your roots, stay humble, and enjoy the journey of leaving your impact on this world. I love you. Daddy
In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Kelly Roach. Kelly is the founder of Kelly Roach Coaching, a rapid growth coaching and consulting company for business owners, entrepreneurs, and executive leaders. She is the author of the #1 best-selling book, “Unstoppable, 9 principles for unlimited success in business and life,” and also the host of Unstoppable Success Radio.
Kelly has a unique background in that she went from being an ex-NFL cheerleader to producing more than $30 million in sales, in record time for a global Fortune 500 firm. She also received 7 promotions in 8 years. It was then that she launched Kelly Roach International, to help businesses do the extraordinary by using innovative strategies to rapidly increase productivity and profits.
One of the things that really caught Dave's attention about Kelly is that her philosophy is deeply rooted in helping others accomplish personal and professional success without compromising the ability to live a balanced, rich life. The key word being balanced. We all know how tough it can be to balance all of the obligations of running a business with making sure you are there for your loved ones…so the fact that Kelly keeps that front and center in her coaching with her clients is special.
www.kellyroachcoaching.com
Kelly grew up in large family just above the poverty line. They were always struggling financially and it caused a lot of stress. Kelly has used her upbringing as motivation to create a life of abundance and freedom. Because of this, her whole mission, in her business, is to help others do the same. She is a huge advocate of building and growing your own business as the best path to success and true financial independence.
At the 4 min mark, Kelly talks about how she realized that becoming wildly successful in a job gave her less freedom and made her more stressed and beholden to it with every promotion she got.
As she says, she realized that “Outward success without inner peace is poverty.” It was this realization that gave the motivation to put her efforts into building her own business and eventually leaving the rat race. And now she is laser focused on helping others do the same.
Kelly’s formula for success, start with simplifying things and focusing on what really matters in driving a business. She starts with making sure the basic infrastructure and pillars for success are there. She say that #1 job is to pull her clients back to reality and help them understand the basic progression of building a business. Things like a sales and marketing system, infrastructure, documented processes and systems that can be duplicated. One of the big things is to have a set number of sales conversations each week that close a set number of clients.
The two areas she would focus most on with a client are sales and leadership.
At the 12 min mark, Kelly talks about the progression of her own business and how she did it. She says, start with one to one sales, then one to many, and then passive revenues like courses and online membership programs.
At the 15 min mark, Kelly talks about she started getting her first clients and how she effectively used different strategies like Facebook Ads.
Kelly spends time talking about mindset and why people need to stop resenting the 1% and join them because the opportunity is available to all of us.
At the 25 min mark, Kelly gives a great example of how her own mind was sabotaging her from getting to the next level in her business and how she realized it, and overcame it.
Kelly makes a very good point when it comes to having a coach. She says that even Olympic, elite athletes have a coach to help them in their success. It is the same at all levels of your journey. You will have different coaches, but you need to have the ones at each level to help you in your success.
Best Quote: "Wealth and success without freedom and fulfillment is poverty"
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Jesse Maddox. Jesse has a really cool story. He is the founder of TripLingo, one of the most awarded apps in the travel space. TripLingo is the ultimate tool to help travelers communicate when they don’t know a language. It allows you to Learn essential phrases, instantly translate your voice or connect to a live translator, get a crash course on the local culture and so much more.
TripLingo was born, as many of the most useful things in our lives are, out of necessity. For nearly two years ending in 2010, Jesse lived, worked, and traveled in 10 different countries throughout Asia. When he arrived in Vietnam, it didn’t take long to learn that without any language skills it was going to be rough. Lacking language skills, he often found himself frustrated. Perhaps worst of all, he had no sense for the culture he was now living in.
Something had to be done. Yet after an exhaustive search for options in app stores, bookstores, and websites, it became quickly apparent that each option had some fatal flaw. They were either ridiculously expensive, or they tried to teach Jesse phrases that he would never use, or they were simply impractical and difficult to use. Out of this need, the idea for TripLingo was born.
When he got back to the states, he made it his mission to help travelers better communicate and created TipLingo which is now one of the most decorated apps ever in the travel sector and has been featured everywhere from Fast Company, Forbes, Fox Business to Lifehacker.
But the story of how everything came together and the lessons Jesse learned is priceless.
Jesse originally started out wanting to be a lawyer, but saw an opportunity to help make it easier to search for textbooks and started a company around it, his first. That is how he fell in love with entrepreneurship – to take an idea and make it become a reality.
After college, Jesse wanted to spend time abroad. He spent almost 2 years in Vietnam working for Caterpillar. He had a huge problem understanding he language and culture. He had to hire 2 tutors to work with him every day for 9 months. It was out of this experience he learned some important things:
Triplingo became a side project at first for Jesse and he continued to work on it as he came back to the states. He left his job in Vietnam and lives in India for 6 months working on the business plan and then came back to the states.
He then began to raise money and found out it was much harder than he thought. He learned quickly that he could not raise money without having a team and readiness to execute.
At the 8 min mark, Jesse tells a great story of how he got TripLingo off the ground. It is a great example of hustle, perseverance, drive, and how you can be “professionally” persistent.
At the 10:50 mark, Jesse talks about transitioning an app from a total consumer focus to a business focus as well as how they did it.
Jesse talks about how challenging it is to start and monetize an app. He talks about how an app really is a delivery vehicle for a service that you are delivering. He also talks about the difference between individual consumer downloads through an app store vs. a business focus. But again, it is the service that they are buying. The app is the vehicle. So think about the service you want to deliver first, then build the app around that.
Jesse discusses the challenges of figuring out a market and selling a product while also developing it out per the feedback they were getting in near real time. They also had to take into account that there were multiple parties involved that affect the tool and how to get them on the same page. He also talks about getting partnerships off the ground.
Jesse offers advice when it comes to raising capital. As he says, “Raising does not only take a tremendous amount of time and energy, but it can be a very soul-sucking endeavor.” Jesse says to avoid unless you absolutely must have it. He also talks about how startup costs for anything technology related are so small compared to years ago that you should exhaust everything there first. It is a lot easier to start a company, but a lot harder to raise money based on just an idea. Investors want to see that you have a good team, good plan, and that you are executing on it. Get some proof and traction first. Lastly, Jesse makes it important to note that people try to raise money too early.
“Do not raise money unless you absolutely have to.”
At the 28 min mark, Jesse talks about marketing and hustle and gives some great tips on business in general.
Elements of a great pitch:
Lessons Learned:
Best Quote “Whatever you initial idea, it is not going to be what the ultimate idea is. Don’t be afraid to throw your baby out.”
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Marc Mawhinney. Marc is the founder of Natural Born Coaches, a unique company that focuses on helping coaches… become better coaches. Natural Born Coaches was born out of Marc’s life experience. After being in real estate for over a decade, Marc went through a business closure and challenges that almost caused him to give up. It was the help of coaches that got him back on track. After experiencing the power of having a coach, Marc decided that, that is what he wanted to do. But, as with any business, he found that it wasn’t easy and there were many challenges he had to overcome to be successful. In going through this he realized that other coaches are experiencing these same challenges and Marc knew he could help them in their journey. So, he started Natural Born Coaches which now is not just a coaching business, but a top podcast, blog, and resource for coaching success.
Marc@naturalborncoaches.com
Marc started out in real estate at 21 years old and was very successful. Over a decade he built a large business doubling revenues almost every year. In 2009, Marc had 5 companies under one banner with 100 employees, but decided to branch out on his own and start his own brokerage. It was bad timing with the financial crisis and by year’s end had to shut things down.
Marc then went through a 2nd business closure in 2012, also in real estate. So after a decade of success, Marc had two big failures in just a few years. What kept him going was the birth of his son. It gave him purpose to keep going and persevere.
Marc got into coaching after a mentor reached out to him after reading about his failures in the news. This mentor helped him to shift his perspective that others have gone through bad times and overcome. Marc immersed himself into coaching and being coached by mentors throughout the world. As he says, “this saved my life.”
In getting back into business, he wanted to be able to help people as he had been helped. He had coached people in his business and knew he could do it, so he got started.
During this time of learning and getting a coaching business off the ground, Marc learned a lot to be successful and realized that he could help other coaches going through the same things. That is why he started Natural Born Coaches.
At the 10 min point, Marc talks about how he overcame self-limitations that held him back as a coach and things really took off.
Marc talks about how consistency helped overcome the challenges of getting known.
Facebook is Marc’s favorite social media tool and where he focuses his energy.
Marc got his start all organically on Facebook. As Marc says, the key is effort and consistency and that is where he sees some of his clients fall short the most. That means being active every day throughout the day on your mediums. The more value you put out there, the more it will be reflected in your bank account.
Marc’s formula for success on Facebook as two-fold. As, he says, “It’s not scientific, I stay in your face as much as possible.” The other area is Facebook groups. He actively works the group and is in it every day helping people and starting conversations.
First thing to look for when coaching anyone?
Find out what people are afraid of. What is really holding them back? Then work through it with them and overcome it.
What advice do you have for coaches just starting out?
Don’t overthink it out of the gate. Plans are never perfect, so don’t seek the perfect plan and delay your success. Start with a more general focus, then niche down once you find what you really like and are good at. Getting started is more important. Don’t be afraid to “ready, fire, aim.”
For an established coach, what advice would you give to get to the next level? Getting over the “old dog, new tricks” syndrome. You can’t let the world pass you by. Things do change and change more quickly nowadays. Always stay in a state of constant improvement.
If someone is struggling as a coach, how do they get back on track?
What makes a good coach? Being able to listen, but ask the right questions and dig deep with client, and then enlighten them to find the “ah ha” moment that really helps them make a change and a difference in their lives
Two Important Lessons from Marc:
Best Quote: “Don’t try to do 20 different things. Find that one thing you enjoy doing that really works for you and then put as much energy into that thing as possible.”
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Leigh Bundy. Leigh is the founder of Team Beast Mode Australia, a unique firm that works with individuals to help them unleash their true potential. Leigh has an interesting story. A number of years ago, Leigh went through an experience that caused him to lose almost everything, including over $850,000, and force him to move from his penthouse apartment back home with his parents. His life spiraled out of control and he hit rock bottom.
As Dave says in the podcast, many times in people’s lives, things happen for a reason and in this case, hearing Leigh’s story, he had to go through what he went through to meet the person that changed his life. This person, who has become Leigh’s soul mate, Regan, taught lee how to take control of his emotions and turned Leigh on to learning about psychology and the mind. Leigh immersed himself into studying the power of the mind and became a Master NLP practitioner, Master of Hypnosis, a Success Strategist, and studied spiral dynamics.
He and Regan went on to found Beast Mode in 2013, created a reality TV show called “Through the Eyes of the Beast,” and now work throughout Australia, New Zealand, and India and Indonesia.
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Leigh talks about his journey and about how he would get ahead and he would lapse because he didn’t understand the mind and how it impacted his daily life and success.
Leigh discusses how he learned about programming the subconscious to be “unconscious competent” which is when you subconscious has been trained through repetition to react in the way you want it to further your success or get you what you want.
The difference between when say you believe something and when you actually program your mind to do and be that person that you want to manifest in your life.
At the 6 min mark Leigh talks about his tipping point where he finally made a change and the catalyst for it. Interestingly, the catalyst that made him to say “enough was enough” was the pain that he was causing for himself and his loved ones. He simply could not take it anymore and lifted himself out his self-imposed downward spiral.
At the 8 min market, Leigh begins to go in depth on the subconscious. As he says, your subconscious leads to your thoughts, your thoughts lead to your feelings, your feelings lead to your behaviors, and then your behaviors lead to your actions. Your programming is like a computer processor.
Leigh discusses NLP and what he calls “pre-framing” your thoughts and teaching your mind what the positive learning is to take away from an event because your subconscious can’t hold onto a positive or negative at the same time.
Liegh talks about how the mind naturally will hold on more to negative emotional events in your life and your job is to re-program it with a positive set of thoughts for those events. He talks about the importance of making things a daily routine and how that routine becomes habit and begins to manifest in your life.
At the 11:50 mark, Leigh gives his formula for how he trains his subconscious. The first thing he does in the morning is what he calls “Success Priming.” This is typically done while moving on something like a walk where you visualize your goals, understanding what you are thinking, feeling, etc. You then “prime” your mind with the positive thoughts of where you want and will be going. Then 2 hours before bed, Leigh does what he calls “A Results Creator.” This is not a “to do” list as much as it is getting your mind ready for the next day and speaking your success/results into existence. The last thing he does is a “Daily Debrief.” This is a quick of analysis of where he went wrong during his day and then visualizing and thinking about what he will do to change and keep himself from doing that again.
Leigh spends about an hour out of his day for all of this.
Pay attention at the 20 min mark where we discuss how just having passion doesn’t translate to success, it’s the action that goes with it. And Leigh gives the simple way he started Beast Mode
Leigh says, “Remember, the more you push, even if it’s one step in front of the other, you’re still moving forward.”
Leigh’s Triple “S” to Success:
At the 31 minute mark, Leigh talks about creating obsessions and how they can take you to your next level.
Best Quote: “Don’t do something because it sounds cool or for the money, do something because if makes you into a better person.”
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Ryan Biddulph. Ryan is the founder of Blogging From Paradise. He’s done what so many people say they want to do… quit their job, travel the world, and fund their lifestyle by making money online. And in Ryan’s case, not just some money – a lot of money. Ryan’s story is amazing. He bounced around from job to job, making just enough to get by. And after getting downsized, he finally had enough and decide to make his dream a reality.
Since then he’s been featured on Richard Branson's Virgin blog, Forbes, The Huffington Post and Neil Patel Dot Com. He’s spoken around the world and of course traveled the world everywhere from Fiji to Thailand and everything in between with his family. Ryan’s written 126 E-books, and that is not a typo – one hundred twenty six! Been featured on 200+ blogs and has a number of businesses surrounding Blogging from Paradise. And he did all of this in less than 5 years!
8 years ago Ryan was a security guard in New Jersey. It took a catalyst of getting laid off to spur him to do something more in life and more fulfilling. Starting out, he didn’t even know what a blog was! But he figured some things out over a couple years. Within about 5 years he was making enough money to fund his lifestyle and travel the world. But something was off. The way he was doing it just didn’t give him the true fulfillment and passion he was looking for.
So he did what anyone making a lot of money through a business online that was funding a lifestyle to travel the world would do – he trashed it all and started over from scratch! He was scared, but he know starting over he could do it right and really follow his passion and that is how Blogging from Paradise came to be. That was 2 years ago and now Ryan is one of the most sought after blogging experts.
At the 6 min mark, Ryan talks about taking a failure/setback and turning it into an opportunity.
At the 8 min mark, Ryan talks about what it means to be open to opportunity
Ryan’s tips for success and being a successful blogger:
Pay close attention at the 12 min mark, Ryan tells you how to connect with top influencers and get them to promote you and your message, and how he used this secret to launch his first book.
Some fundamental tips for successful blogging:
81% of bloggers never make more than $100 during their entire online career. Because they skip the first few fundamentals which are being present and being mindful. The focus must be on developing authentic, powerful relationships over the long term. More than anything, focus on your inner game and be prepared to learn from your mistakes and get better every day. The mindset makes a huge difference.
What is the right mindset?
A lot is carrying an intent vs. just goals. Making sure you are focusing on the right tasks. For blogging that is creating and connecting. Spend your time giving and promoting others, giving value through what you do. Focus on giving and the process of it and it will make a huge difference for you. The rest will come. Don’t focus on “getting” because you will never be successful that way.
What about if someone wants to do blogging part time?
You still have to follow your fun. Strategy-wise, if you only have 8-10 hours/week focus on doing one thing really well, because where you attention and energy goes, grows. Start by focusing on writing 500-1000 words a day and a few mins a day on social and a few blog comments if you can. Then maybe write 2 really good guest posts per month.
Most Effective Ways to Monetize?
Ryan, “My passions precede my biggest profits.” For Ryan that is E-books, Freelance writing, converting his e-books to Audible, and blog consulting. Ryan has also used affiliate marketing and sponsored posts.
Lessons Ryan has learned:
1. Don’t get attached to business outcomes. Focus on what you enjoy doing vs. the outcome.
2. Be open to learning at all times. Spend 5 hours every week away from your business learning. Read, learn, implement
3. Persist – Push through, have faith, and keep at it 4. Embrace your fears. Really deal with your emotions and deep fears as they are most like holding you back and you have to get over them.
Best Quote: “Many times the biggest life changing moments come wrapped in what appears to be misfortune or something that appears to be really negative”
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In this episode, Dave is excited to welcome Stacey Mckibbin. Stacey is the President and COO of Multivariable Solutions, a consulting company devoted to helping companies, and the people within, to achieve the results they desire. They have a special focus on cementing the foundations or roots of a business to ensure greater, more scalable growth and success.
Stacey is also a Certified Master Practitioner of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) – which we have a lot of fun exploring in this interview - and a Certified hypnotist.
Before becoming the President of Multi-Variable Solutions, Stacey helped lead a startup that grew to over $36 million in just under 18 months before sale.
Connect with Stacey on LinkedIn
www.multivariablesolutions.com
Stacey gives us a lot of great content and useful information.
Topics Covered Include:
Pay close attention at the 10 minute mark as Stacey talks about how your beliefs lead to your results and how you can control this process.
We have a large discussion on the DISC personality profile and how this simple test and understanding of personalities can change your results and relationships dramatically.
Stacey gives us "The Platinum Rule" describing it as Treat others how they want to be treated and gives us some great examples of how this rule pays off.
Lastly, Stacey talks about how you your strengths can actually become your weaknesses and what to watch out for.
Best Quote: Ask yourself, “What’s useful to believe?”
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This episode was recorded beachside with Dave's good friend and entrepreneur, Christian Redman, AKA Flipper SurfGiant. Flipper has done what most people dream of doing. Giving up the so called "Rat Race," and moving to a tropical paradise and totally reinventing himself. Flipper is now the most sought after dive master on the Big Island of Hawaii and people come from all over the world to spend time with him and learn from him about the amazing world underwater. His guests include Hollywood A-Listers, Business titans, and other dignitaries. But, you'd never know from meeting him. With all he has done, he has managed to keep his amazing humility and childlike sense of fun that most people rarely do.
Flipper has also created an incredibly unique online brand using Facebook that touches thousands and thousands of people's lives every day throughout the world.
This is one of those interviews that you just love to listen to. Enjoy!
In this episode we cover a number of topics, but its best to just listen to Flipper and his subtle wisdom and life advice.
Topics Covered Include:
Best Quote: Having fear is good because it shows you what direction your need to go and what you need to stand up to, to get to your next level.
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