The Business Simplicity Podcast

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Danielle Alice Desanges Aucéane Thiam Mékà de Goguenheim, sharing her vision on Exponential Technologies and Ethics, from Cameroon. Danielle shares her journey from telecom engineer to pursuing her purpose of empowering and leading with exponential technologies and ethics. We discuss how the OpenExO and Purpose Alliance communities have enabled her to connect with new ways of learning from around the world. She shares her view that our collective mindset needs to shift from victim to victor before we are able to truly benefit from exponential possibilities. This episode is part of the Purpose Alliance, OpenExO and BostonExO series. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/danielle-goguenheim/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/purposealliance/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Janice Mandel, the Voice Tech Storyteller from the United States. Janice shares her journey over the years as a journalist covering emerging technologies and her perspective as part of the Ethical Use Task Force community of the Open Voice Network. We discuss some of the issues that can arise through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence, which drives voice assistants. She dives into some amazing possibilities of the value of voice, with a particular focus on how this can be a benefit for the blind and visually impaired. This is part of the Open Voice Network series of conversations. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/janice-mandel/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/open-voice-network/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Shyamala Prayaga, the Founder of the Digital Assistant Academy, from the United States. Shyamala shares her vision of the future which is, “when the vehicle becomes the driver, a voice becomes a companion.” She is the founder of the Digital Assistant Academy and the lead for voice assistants in autonomous vehicles for a major automotive manufacturer. After discussing the emerging trends in the voice industry, we go meaningfully into how voice assistants and other technologies can be life-changing for people with disabilities. This conversation is part of the Open Voice Network series. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/shyamala-prayaga/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/open-voice-network/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Shawn Smith, the Founder of Smith+co from the United Kingdom. Shares his journey over two decades of helping some of the world’s leading brands improve their customer experience. He shares some of his strong insights from the expertise, such as ‘best practice is bad practice.’ We have the chance to dive into two of his books, Bold and On Purpose, and discuss how branded customer experience and being purposeful as an organisation leads to ongoing success and sustainability of the business. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/shaun-smith/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with John Vuong, the owner of Local SEO Search from Canada. John shares his journey from watching the decline of his Yellow Page ad sales to jumping in early on Seach Engine Optimisation and growing that to a successful international agency. We have fun talking about what not to do, and tips on where to start, with your SEO improvements. John has some sage advice on getting the basics right with your business before trying to ‘game the system’ with SEO hacks and tricks. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/john-vuong/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Monique Drent, the Owner and Co-founder of the Swap Shop, from the Netherlands. Monique shares her journey from deciding to stop buying clothes in 2012 to co-founding a store concept that makes ‘swapping the new shopping.’  The Swap Shop just opened their second store in Amsterdam and are on the verge of launching their online store.  Monique shares how she has evolved as an entrepreneur over the years and has a vision of truly global impact.  This conversation is part of the Startup in Residence series. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/monique-drent/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Michelle Seiler Tucker, the Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Inc, from the United States. Michelle shares her journey of having sold over a thousand businesses and how she has dedicated her work to helping business owners avoid contributing to the shocking statistic about business failure.  She walks us through the 6P model which is described in detail in her upcoming book, Exit Rich: The 6P Method to Sell Your Business For Huge Profit. Throughout the conversation, she shares lots of stories of successful, and not so successful, efforts to sell businesses. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/michelle-seiler-tucker/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Arjan Postma, otherwise known as Mr. Unconventional, from the Netherlands. Arjan shares his journey which is driven by his unconventional approaches. He explains the planned regeneration of the FreedomLab company, which literally rebooted every five years. We have a really nice discussion about the difference between ‘future-proof’ and ‘future ready’, which brings up the extreme importance of language during times of change. We share different patterns we see, such as Amor Mundi, which means: Love the world around you before you love yourself. He shares his latest initiative, which may be considered impossible to do… Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/arjan-postma/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Younis Hijazi, the Exponential Transformation Coach from Luxembourg. Younis shares how his experience as an expert on EU grants has enabled him to be a perfect partner for governments to become future-ready. Inspired by the attributes of the Exponential Organisations framework, he is leading the charge in bringing these new mindsets and methods to public agencies. We discuss the differences between scarcity and abundance mindsets, and what this means for public organisations. This is part of the OpenExO series of conversations. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/younis-hijazi/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/openexo/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Remco Janssen, the Founder of Silicon Canals and Proudly Represents from the Netherlands. Remco shares his journey from walking along the canals of Amsterdam fourteen years ago to having the inspiration to start one of the leading start-up and tech news platforms in Europe: Silicon Canals. Based on his years of discovery covering the sector, we discuss the differences between startups and investing between the US and Europe. He flips the switch and asks me about podcasting and we have a really interesting conversation about how this media could benefit his community. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/remco-janssen/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Art Bell, the Author from the United States. Art shares his journey from having the inspiration over thirty years ago that the world needed a 24-hour comedy channel. This eventually became, with a tremendous amount of struggle and perseverance, the Comedy Channel of HBO. Later, this was merged with a competitor and Comedy Central was born. His memoir, “Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor,” has recently been published. We talk about the inspiration to write the book, his new podcast and even get into the importance of comedy and satire in our society today. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/art-bell/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Carlos Sentís, the CEO of the World Innovation Alliance from Spain. Carlos shares his inspirational journey through various professional roles which have been preparing him to launch his life mission project: the World Innovation Alliance for Social Impact. We discuss how he is preparing this international movement and go into details on the first area of focus: Education. He is very clear on the impact they will make, at scale around the world, and how they will bring together the power of public, private and individual contributors. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/carlos-sentis/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Wineke van Aken, the Mindfulness Coach from the Netherlands. Wineke shares her journey from being a corporate communication professional to founding her mindfulness coaching business. Originally inspired by Jon Kabat-Zin’s mindfulness to reduce stress, she adapted and expanded the concepts to help people discover more happiness and meaning in life. As Chris has been coached by Wineke, they talk about how her coaching has helped and about how people could improve step-by-step their mindfulness techniques. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/wineke-van-aken/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Luciana Ledesma, the Entrepreneur-as-a-Service from the Netherlands. Luciana shares her journey through various entrepreneurial experiences which have resulted in being an ‘entrepreneur as a service.’ We talk quite openly about her current initiative, which is currently on hold, and some of the lessons and thoughts about making the decision to stop with a venture. Luciana is also a proud member of the OpenExO community, and we talk about the community and how she brings this into her startup activities. This conversation is part of the OpenExO series. Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/luciana-ledesma/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/openexo/

Everyday Entrepreneur Everywhere conversation with Aernoudt Bottemanne, who is helping leaders Think Exponential in the Netherlands. Aernoudt shares his journey from being an expert in technology R&D to being an expert in enterprise sales. We discuss the fateful dinner in Toronto when his career changed, and how this has brought him to some of the top tech companies in the world. We touch on enterprise tech sales techniques and get a bit geeky speaking about the possibilities of ‘composable architectures’. This conversation is part of the OpenExO series! Learn more: https://ebullient.com/podcast/aernoudt-bottemanne/ More in this series: https://ebullient.com/podcast/openexo/