The Bulletproof Entrepreneur™

Joe Kashurba grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets. He now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and agency owners.

Hans Finzel is a successful author, mentor, speaker and trusted authority in the field of leadership. Hans has trained leaders internationally on five continents. He and his wife Donna founded HDLeaders in 2012 where he serves as President. Before that, Hans completed twenty years as President and CEO of international non-profit WorldVenture. Hans and his wife Donna spent ten years living in Vienna, Austria while training leaders throughout Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain before the fall of communism. He earned a doctorate in the field of leadership from Fuller School of Intercultural Studies and had served on the Board of Trustees of Columbia International University (CIU.EDU) for twenty years. He is the author of ten books, including his bestseller The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make(David C Cook) and his newest release Top Ten Ways To Be A Great Leader(David C Cook). His books have been published in over twenty foreign languages. In this podcast, we talk about his about his life's work and his new book on leadership. http://www.hansfinzel.com/about/

  Steve Blue is a pre-eminent business growth & transformation strategist. He has over 40 years of experience helping companies survive and thrive in almost any business environment. He’s the CEO of Miller Ingenuity, a 60-year-old rail safety company he's helped transform into an international technology powerhouse. In his long and illustrious career, he has seen and solved every single problem there is in business. He notes that most CEOs and entrepreneurs fail because they don’t prepare for bad times when things are going well, and they don’t ruthlessly control operating expenses daily. In addition to the many activities Steve participates in the business community, he also sits on the board of several nonprofit organizations and shares his wisdom by contributing articles to Entrepreneur, Forbes.com, Inc.com, Fortune.com, Success.com, American business journal, and several industry magazines. In this episode, he shares actionable business tips that can be implemented right away to see immediate results. We talk about transforming your business, preparing for the impending disruption and competition from A.I, brainstorming, and leadership. If you're interested in learning from Steve, you can check out his award-winning & bestselling books listed below. - The Art Of Success which he co-wrote with Jack Canfield -American Manufacturing 2.0 -The $10 Million Employee - Burnarounds Steven L. BlueMiller Ingenuity  

Mac Prichard is the founder and publisher of Mac’s List, an online job board for people looking for rewarding, creative, and meaningful work. He's also the founder of Prichard Communications, a fast-growing PR firm that helps clients in the non-profit industry. Mac has had a long and illustrious career in the public and private sector, but his passion lies in helping people succeed in finding their dream jobs. With over 100,000 visiting Mac's list every month it's easy to see why Mac is highly regarded in the business world. Mac also hosts a weekly podcast called, “Find Your Dream Job” which is listened to by listeners from around the world. He is the author of the new book, “Land Your Dream Job Anywhere.” What you’ll learn about in this episode Proven strategies for success in every industryHow to decide what to say “yes” and “no” to every dayHabits that will shorten your path to successHow to tap into the hidden job market and much more How to best connect with Mac:https://www.macslist.org/bulletproof/Email: mac@prichardcommunications.comTwitter: @mac_prichardWebsite: www.macslist.orgBook and free book chapter: www.macslist.org/onwardnationWebsite: www.prichardcommunications.com

Ace Chapman is the founder of Ace Chapman Business Acquisition Consultants. He bought his first business when he was nineteen, a stock market simulator called CoolWallStreet. After selling it, he realized that there were benefits to buying already running businesses as opposed to starting off from scratch and thus began his adventure into the world of private equity. He dabbled in investing in the markets for a while but began to lose money at an alarming rate. He then decided that he needed to work on honing his skills in the business world before continuing on his own. He took advantage of an opportunity to work in corporate America but gradually realized that the prospects of the future were very limited in a 9 to 5 setting. He took some time and spent a good bit of money investing in mentors and then jumped back into buying businesses. In his career he has bought and sold over 25 businesses and seen hundreds if not thousands of companies. Ace notes that the key is to find the diamond in the rough. So while he may go through 100 companies just to find the right one, there are other factors that may affect the deal. In this episode we discuss the strategies he uses to identify winning companies, how to put a deal together and how to pay for a company even if you don't have any money. Ace has taught a lot of his students to replicate his system and now invites you to sit in on our conversation so that you too can learn how to become a “Master  Of The Universe”.

Lyndsay Phillips is the founder of Smooth Sailing Business Growth. She's a self-confessed organizational freak and appointed task master, project ninja and warrior VA for life & business coaches, accountants, and other online entrepreneurs across North America. With the help of her amazing team of highly skilled and talented VA's, Smooth Sailing supports emerging entrepreneurs who are seeking fast-paced business growth but have finally realized that they can't-do it alone. That’s where Smooth Sailing Online support comes in to save the day. They eliminate the stress most business owners hate and keep the business running at a steady pace. In this episode, Lyndsay shares some of her success tips and strategies for helping clients stay on track. The main advantage of working with Lyndsay is that business owners get to work on their business while Lyndsay and her team keep things running smoothly and efficiently in their business. It's an insightful interview with plenty of actionable points.

OVERVIEW Linda is the Global Managing Director of Achieveblue Inc.. She's  a proven leader with experience in Fortune 10 companies building teams and driving talent development initiatives that support productivity and company growth. She has specific expertise in culture transformation, developing high potential leaders and building scientific and data supported talent processes that yield better leadership capability. She is an internationally recognized expert on global leadership development. Her co- authored book Winning With Transglobal Leadership was named one of the top 30 best business books for 2013. She also co-authored Optimizing Talent with Dr. Paul Eccher. Optimizing Talent is a groundbreaking work spelling out proven steps to build a talent rich organization. This book has been cited as a must read for every leader who knows talent is the real competitive advantage. Her latest book, The Optimizing Talent Workbook, will be out this spring. Dr. Sharkey is an inspiring keynote speaker at many global events. She is currently leading the Global HR Academy with the Conference Board, and she was a keynote speaker at the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India. Linda was honored to be recognized at this conference with the “Super Women Achievement Award” for 2013. She has a reputation as a no nonsense executive coach that enables those she coaches to show measurable behavior change in the eyes of others. CURRENT POSITION Linda currently is Global Managing Director for Achieveblue Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in global leadership and talent development and cultural transformation. Linda brings a unique set of tools to Achieveblue and her work focuses primarily on applying scientific methods to human capital strategies that correlate to business outcomes.. Additionally, Dr. Sharkey is a Founding Member of the Marshall Goldsmith Group, a premier executive coaching organization that shows measurable improvements in those they coach. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Most recently Linda was Chief Talent Officer and V.P., People Development at Hewlett Packard, responsible for establishing and driving the company’s talent management initiative, performance management processes, career development, executive staffing, coaching, employee engagement, and diversity and inclusion efforts. In this capacity she launched an executive development process that resulted in key actions to drive a high performance culture. She refocused the diversity efforts to be part of the mainline talent management initiatives and embedded them into the core processes of the company. Prior to HP, Linda was with GE and held numerous Senior Human Resources and Talent Management roles. She established a leadership development effort for GE Capital that became part of the Crotonville offerings and was named a best practice by CEO Jack Welch. She led several key cultural integrations and established a coaching process for executives, developed HR professionals as coaches and personally coached many senior leaders. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND EDUCATION Linda is widely published in the area of leadership development, culture change and executive coaching. She is frequently a keynote speaker at company events, Linkage, Talent Management Magazine conferences, Conference Board and the Organization Development Network. She holds a PhD in Organization Development from Benedictine University, MPA from Russell Sage College and a BA in History from Nazareth College. She is a past two term member of the Academy of Management Board for OD as the scholar practitioner. BOARD & PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Distinguished Fellow, Center for Global Leadership Development, The Marshall Goldsmith School of Business, Alliant UniversityAdjunct Professor – Benedictine University, Naperville, IllinoisExecutive Board Member of The Academy of Management Organization Development and Change DivisionFormer Advisory Board Member of CatalystFounding Board Member,

Lee Caraher Discusses Millennials, Management, and More. Oh, My! Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing; She's an acclaimed communication strategist known for her practical solutions to complex problems. Double Forte works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the USA & around the world. Lee is the author of “Millennials & Management” and “The Boomerang Principle” both books were written based on her experiences in the marketplace. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn’t hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble. Lee is active in the community and currently serves on three nonprofit boards. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Lee’s background and journeyWhat Lee and Double Forte did to survive the market crashHow that crash forced Double Forte to become exceptional at customer serviceWhy they changed their model from only hiring people with 10 years of experience to hiring people straight out of college and what their balance of employees under/over 30 looks like todayHow Lee’s experiences were failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials led to her publishing “Millennials & Management.”Why you have to have millennials in your business if you want to have a futureWhy you need to work on creating an environment where your Millennials will thriveCreating a culture where employees are appreciatedWhy you need to explain to Millennials why they need to do thingsWhat “A Players” look like to LeeHow Lee finds her “A Players” and what Double Forte does to use them effectivelyRunning an alumni programWhat Double Forte’s interview process looks like Ways to contact Lee: Website: www.leecaraher.comTwitter: @LeeCaraher

Amy Bruske is an internationally renowned author, sales trainer and keynote speaker. She's the president of Kolbe Corp, a top level consulting firm that helps family owned businesses around the globe achieve optimal efficiency, increase profitability and enhance corporate and personal success. Amy rose from humble beginnings at the Jenny Craig corporation to become a divisional supervisor responsible for sales training and operations for different regions in the USA.  She transitioned to Kolbe to help lead the company's sales and sales training efforts. Over the years her responsibilities and profile grew and today she serves as a key member  of the executive team. She's the co-author of BUSINESS IS BUSINESS: Reality Checks for Family-Owned Companies and is a highly sought after keynote speaker helping business leaders around the world. She was recently named Business Owner of the Year by the Phoenix chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). In this episode we discuss Amy's entrepreneurial journey, the challenges she's overcome, what it's like working in a family owned business (her step-mom, noted entrepreneur and thought leader Kathy Kolbe founded the company) and lots more.            

Ty Crandall is an internationally renowned speaker, author, teacher, coach, and finance mentor/business credit expert. He is the CEO of Credit Suite, a fast growing finance company that helps small business owners and entrepreneurs understand and utilize the untapped power of business credit. He has over 20+ years of financial experience in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair. In addition to helping people solve their financial problems, he’s a highly acclaimed author and has written several books including  Perfect Credit and Business Credit Decoded. 
When not hosting his popular podcast The Business Credit and Finance Show, Ty is a frequent guest on several nationally syndicated radio shows and TV programs. He’s also a contributor and frequently quoted expert on several publications including Entrepreneur, Inc, and Forbes. In this episode, we covered Ty’s experience in the USAF, how he got into finance, how to establish and use business credit to grow your business and the appropriate steps to take to repair broken personal and corporate credit. As always Ty’s high energy personality shines through this episode and you get to learn a lot from the master. Listen and enjoy.

Tom Mulliez is the Founder and CEO of iTREKKERS. He founded the company in 2014 after realizing that there was a need to create a platform where people can access the wonders of nature and the outdoors without the stress. Tom and his team are bringing together vetted professional captains and guides that make the outdoor adventure experience fun and memorable.   iTREKKERS is a combination of Tom’s desires to share his love of nature and to simplify the process of booking guided outdoor activities. His mission is threefold: to get people to experience the outdoors through iTREKKERS; to help people get outdoors, period, by providing useful tips and referrals; and to educate people about the outdoors and ways to be mindful.   Resources www.itrekkers.com https://twitter.com/iTrekkers https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommulliez/

Barbara Annis, Founding Partner of Gender Intelligence Group (GIG), is a world-renowned expert on Inclusive Leadership through Gender & Cultural Intelligence, advocating the value and practice of this new type of leadership in Fortune 500 companies and numerous organizations worldwide. Her insights and achievements have pioneered a transformational shift in cultural attitudes across the globe on the importance of gender unity to organizational success. Barbara began her career as the first women in sales at Sony and became the first woman Sales Manager with 14 Outstanding Sales Achievement Awards and Sony’s MVP Award.  Over the past 27 years, Barbara Annis and her 51 global associates have facilitated over 8,000 corporate workshops and conducted thousands of leadership assessments and executive coaching sessions. GIG has introduced breakthrough research on the practice and benefits of inclusive leadership and gender diversity.  Additionally, GIG offers diagnostics, workshops, and coaching sessions both onsite and online. Barbara Annis is chair emeritus of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School and was recently conferred the International Alliance for Women, Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as famed psychologist Dr. Virginia Satir, Dr. Fernando Flores, Director of the PhD program in Linguistics at Berkeley University, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder and President of the Noetic Sciences Foundation. Barbara has produced four transformational books: Her latest book, Gender Intelligence: Breakthrough Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Improving Your Bottom Line (May 2014) co-authored with Dr. Keith Merron, represents the culmination of twenty-seven years of gender-based research and global practice that uniquely apply cutting-edge brain-based research to the workplace.  It offers leaders the mindset and systemic changes needed to transform their organizations, bridge the gap between men and women at all levels of leadership and management, and in the process, create more inclusive and productive organizations.   She is also the co-author of Results At The Top: Using Gender Intelligence To Create Breakthrough Growth. What if your company could gain a greater profit share of the market simply by promoting more women into its senior management team? Sounds like a no-brainer, and despite nearly every study done in the past three decades proving companies with women leaders deliver superior performance, the number of women in the C-suites of companies all over the world is noticeably low. Results at the Top is written for the men who know the value female leaders bring to the table and need a tangible way to get them there. Whether you're building your leadership team from scratch or trying to transform long-established norms for a competitive advantage today, the practical guidance inside wastes no space with blame for the current state of women leaders and goes straight to the immediate steps organizations can take to change it. It gives you everything you need to both create the internal systems for promoting gender diversity on every step of the career ladder and motivating employees to celebrate its shared, bottom-line benefits. Up-to-date viewpoints don't confuse equal with same and go in-depth into the scientific differences between men and women that can complement each other to produce higher performing teams. Along with neurological variances, there are societal behaviors men and women need to recognize and substitute with more productive and advantageous ones. Through eye-opening research and illustrative examples from the real world, both sexes gain a deeper understanding of how we got here and the pioneering systems companies in the highest echelons of their industries are using to evolve leadership development all the way to the top. This everyday guidebook will immediately change the way you approach work with: A powerful n

Stephanie Chung is an executive coach, trainer, speaker, author, and mentor. As the head of Stephanie Chung and Associates, she and her team offer high ticket sales coaching, sales training, and executive mentorship services that help sales executives work smarter. Growing up in a military family, Stephanie spent her formative years as a professional new kid. Her family moved every two years to a different city, state & country as a result of her Dad’s military deployment. She quickly learned how to adapt to new situations, build relationships fast and blend into her environment. She also acquired a love for airplanes which led her to a career in the aviation industry. Though she started her career in sales at an early age, Stephanie noted that nothing prepared her for what she would have to do to make sales in the aviation industry. She felt helpless when her boss gave her a sales target of $25 million in her first year in private jet industry. Not one to back down from a challenge, Stephanie dug deep and found the will to take on the challenge head on. She put herself through a rigorous self-study program and learned from the world’s best masters in sales & marketing. She became so good that she rose quickly within the ranks of her organization and eventually led her team to make $1 Billion worth of sales of private jets during the great recession of 2007 - 2011. In this episode, cover Stephanie’s entrepreneurial journey, the steps she took to learn the art of high ticket selling, how she came up with a strategy that led to $1 Billion worth of sales and how she helps clients succeed in the industry. You’re going to want to take plenty of notes because this is probably the most action packed interview you’ve heard in a long time. Stephanie ChungTw & IG @CoachStephChung Books Profit Like A Girl by Stephanie Chung Embrace The Suck by Stephanie Chung  

Peggy Caruso is the Owner of Life Coaching and Beyond, LLC. She is a Certified Executive & Personal Development Coach, Advanced Relaxation Therapist, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner, author and 8-time entrepreneur with 24 years experience. Her ‘Revolutionize’ series has been approved as a registered trademark and inclusive of that are her previous books, Revolutionize Your Life and Revolutionize Your Child’s Life. Throughout her professional career, she has helped not only countless professionals but numerous children rid themselves of depression, ADD, and ADHD medication. In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Peggy's life story and her entrepreneurial journey. We also talk about Peggy's work as a life coach and some of the problems people face in the workplace and how to overcome them. Resources www.LifeCoachingandBeyond.com

Felena Hanson is a long-time entrepreneur and marketing maven. She is the founder of Hera Hub, a spa-inspired shared workspace, and community for female entrepreneurs. With branches across the U.S. and international locations in the works, the company provides a flexible work, and meeting space that fosters a cooperative & productive community where business owners can thrive and succeed. Felena founded Hera Hub with the belief that women are the future, and they will be responsible for the next wave of prosperity across the globe. Hanson had her first taste of entrepreneurship when she was just eight years old. Since then her 20-year career has spanned from technology start-ups to digital marketing agencies, and her client list includes DirecTV, Epson, CNN, and Union Bank. She has been nominated for numerous awards and won the 2012 “Women Business Owner of the Year” award and the 2014 “Women Advocate of the Year” award. In 2014, she also won the “Small Business Champion of the Year” award. Hanson and Hera Hub have been featured in Inc. Magazine, BBC News, Forbes, and The New York Times. Her new book Flight Club - Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business, outlines tools and resources to help women in every stage of starting their business. In this episode, we discussed her life story, entrepreneurial roots, business, success principles and plans for the future.   Resources   www.herahub.com