What are the qualities of a great leader? It is not always about being charismatic or having good people skills, but it's important to have confidence in yourself. Leadership can be challenging so establishing a collaborative and competitive team is essential.  Having a competitors mindset is important to keep up with your niche’s changing landscape in order to innovate. If you are looking to grow your business through leadership, this episode is for you.  I’m so excited to share guest, Brain Covey, VP of Loan Depot, who will be sharing all about how to build a team that encourages growth.  Main Topics:- How to be empowered by a failure mindset- Leadership- Building a team that encourages growth Key Takeaways:- Setbacks can turn into setups for success- Competition becomes collaboration- Always learning and growing matters

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How to Have a Competitors Mindset in Leadership

Finding your niche is one of the most important steps in starting a business. You want to find something that you are passionate about and that people will be interested in. While there is no clear cut way to do this, defining your uniqueness is a good first step on your journey. Our guest today, Jonathan Tuttle, Founding Director of Revenue Ascend is going to share with us his journey on finding his niche through his unique real estate knowledge and what steps you can take to discovering your niche! Main Topics:- Unique ways to invest in real estate- Digital marketing trends- How to find value in unlikely places Key Takeaways:- Be unique when finding your niche- How to invest in real estate so you can split your time amongst different places- The riches are in the niches

How to Discover Unique Ways to Find Your Niche

As entrepreneurs and business owners, we may find ourselves in a unique position to give back and make a difference. Many times not quite knowing how to get started.  You first have to evaluate what works for you and your business and how you can use your time,  resources and skillset to make the biggest impact.  I’m so excited to welcome today’s guest, Kris Putnam, President and Global Philanthropy Advisor of Putnam Consulting Group. She is going to share with us everything you want to know about giving back! Main Topics:- The top mistakes most donors make- The one thing all philanthropists should be doing today - How to you help your clients Key Takeaways:- Most funders are delusional (but not crazy!)- Effective philanthropic giving starts by asking the right questions- The top donors seek help from top advisors and coaches 

How to Give Back with Impact

Do you have a strategy? Like a real goal driven strategy when it comes to creating and sharing content? If you, answered “why do I need a strategy” this episode is for you! It can be challenging to know where to start, but with the right tools and information you will be creating consistent content in no time!  Our guest today is Mark Savant, founder of Mark Savant Media, if you are looking to build your brand and reach people online, he can help! Listen in as we talk about focusing the power of strategy to create consistent content. Main Topics: Podcast Growth Tactics Repurposing Content for Social Media Power of Video Collaborations Key Takeaways: Podcasting is Powerful Social Media is Your Storefront Do You Want to Trade Time or Money? More About Our Guest: Mark Savant is a digital media expert and social media agency owner. He helps people create better content in less time. Mark focuses on the power of video collaborations to help clients create constant social media presences in less than 1 hour a week. His YouTube channel has over 600,000 views. His podcast, the After Hours Entrepreneur features top digital marketing and media experts.  If you’re looking to build your brand and reach people online, Mark Savant can help.

How to Create Consistent Social Media Content

You’ve probably heard the saying “expect the unexpected” and being a business owner is no exception! Every entrepreneur faces unexpected challenges and obstacles. These challenges can be both big and small, and they can come from any direction at any time. Pivoting is hard, but if you do it right it can change everything for the better! It will likely take some sweat and tears to get there, but when you overcome the challenges and look at your business on the other side of pivoting, all your hard work will all make sense.  I’m so excited to share this week’s guest, Eman Pahlavani, Founder & COO of HUNGRY a food tech startup that has innovated to meet a need and grow their business in ways they never would have imagined! Main Topics: How HUNGRY was born How to use your platform to give back during hard times How to pivot and then grow even more afterwards Key Takeaways: Pivoting is hard as hell...but if you do it right, it can save everything. Take care of your employees during scary times. It's critical to keep morale high when things look apocalyptic. Figure out what motivates you and focus on it. Figure out what motivates your team and get them to focus on that.  More About Our Guest: Eman Pahlevani is a successful D.C.-based serial entrepreneur. After graduating from law school in 2012, he and his brother Shy Pahlevani founded LiveSafe - a venture backed mobile app company that crowd sources safety intelligence. The brothers teamed up with long time friend and business partner Jeff Grass to successfully grow LiveSafe into a global enterprise. Over the next five years, the trio would raise more than $30 million dollars for LiveSafe and take the brand international. Later in 2017, Eman, Shy and Jeff again teamed up to create food-tech platform HUNGRY - the first ever online marketplace connecting local top chefs with businesses in need of office catering. The company grew quickly from a $1 million dollar run rate to nearly $20 million dollar run rate in less than 24 months. HUNGRY began launching in new markets earlier this year and today operates in D.C., Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston and NYC. Throughout his startup career, Eman has been recognized as one of D.C.’s top entrepreneurs. Eman currently resides in the Washington D.C. area where HUNGRY is also based.

How to Overcome the Unexpected as a Business Owner

There is a lot of pressure on entrepreneurs to be successful, and there’s many roads to success. You may start down one path and find yourself on a totally different route down the road.  It can be challenging not knowing everything all at once, but when we embrace our individuality and uniqueness, everything else falls into place. Today, I’m so excited to share our guest Erin King, Founder of Socialite. She is a best-selling author and 3x entrepreneur, who is going to share with us all about how to embrace who you’ve been, who you are and who you are destined to become… no matter what the world tells you. Main Topics: - When your inner GPS is telling you to take a different route – how do you respond?- When you find yourself at a personal or professional crossroads - where do you turn for answers? Exactly how do you get unstuck?- When you find yourself in a challenging situation- do you gravitate towards the comfortable, even when you know you should level up?  Key Takeaways: - Audacity: how to embrace who you’ve been, who you are and who you are destined to become- no matter what the world tells you- Courage: how to identify and overcome the obstacles keeping you stuck and holding you back - - Leadership: how to develop and deploy concrete action steps for you and your team to ignite powerful progress towards your biggest goals and decisions  More About Our Guest: Erin King is a best-selling author, 3x entrepreneur and the CEO of the Socialite Agency. She’s helped clients ranging from The Academy Awards in Hollywood to The United States Navy at the Pentagon communicate more compellingly using her award-winning PUB method. She is the author of “Digital Persuasion” and “You’re Kind of a Big Deal” which both draw from her personal and professional experiences having founded three companies before the age of 40. Off-duty, you can find her either mountain biking with her husband Hartman, Facetiming with her huge, crazy Irish family, or being an annoyingly extra dog mom to a cavapoo named Betty White.

How to Unlock Your Audacity

Show of hands, are you managing multiple brands? It's no surprise that managing multiple brands is challenging. Some may even call this being a “serial entrepreneur”, but with the right plan you can achieve success in all of your brands! The key is to find the right balance between time spent on each different aspect of your companies. I’m so excited to share today’s guest, Dixie Bagley, owner of The Farm in Rome, GA. Dixie is going to share with us her organizational process behind managing multiple brands, how to know that you are ready for growth, and what to do to ensure that your brands work off of each other. Main Topics: - The organizational process behind managing multiple brands- How to know that you're ready for growth- What you should do to ensure that your multiple brands can work off of each other Key Takeaways: - Businesses need more than efficient management they need organic, timely content and someone to engage with each audience effectively- Balance your brand identities while serving customers through various avenues- Having a solid team is essential to growing and managing multiple brands

How to Successfully Manage Multiple Brands

Building a profitable online business can be challenging. But remember if it were easy everyone would do it. There are so many different and competing ideas and methods that it's difficult to know where to focus your time and energy.  There are some key tips to making sure your online business is not only successful, but also financially sound. I’m so excited to share this week’s guest, Parker Steven, Partner and Cheif Business Officer of Evolved finance. He will be sharing his top tips to building a more profitable and financially stable online business.  Main Topics: - How can an online business owner make their finances easier and less stressful?- What are the most important expenses an online business owner needs to be monitoring? - How much should an online entrepreneur be paying themselves?  Key Takeaways: - Keep your business and personal finances separate.  - You need a better bookkeeping system- Making sure you're getting a monthly salary each month is so crucial 

How to Build a Profitable Online Business

The future of business is changing and business owners are faced with the decision to stay where they are or adapt to the changes and grow. If you're an entrepreneur looking to scale your business, but technology is holding you back, I promise you there are ways to grow your company, no crazy coding or complex technology required! The key is making the choice to step out of your comfort zone, take the plunge and dive into all that running modern day business offers. There’s so many things that can help you increase your productivity and get your time back!  Get ready, because today’s guest, Caroline Creidenberg, founder and CEO of Wedfuly, is sharing with us how you can scale your business, no coding required! Main Topics: What tools Wedfuly uses in its no code operations back end Ways entrepreneurs can implement this in their own business Why to choose this path even if you have the skillset to code Key Takeaways: You don't have to code to build out a sophisticated operations system for your company Automate when and where you can - it'll allow you to focus on more important things Everything is a prototype until it's not - no code allows you to move quickly and not get too precious about anything. It allows you to move fast in a smart way!  

How to Scale Your Business No Coding Required

Have you ever thought of writing a book? You have all kinds of history and experience that has gotten you to where you are today and you want to share it with the world, to help those who are going through their own similar journey. Becoming a successful author is not an easy feat, but it's possible! Sometimes to become a successful published author, it requires some major help and guidance from the experts! Telling your story and putting it into words can be challenging, but there are options available to help you along the way! I’m so excited to share our guest today, Jyotsna Ramachandran, Founder & CEO of Happy Self Publishing. She will be sharing with us why authors need not be writers, building and author funnel and converting readers into clients.  Main Topics: - How authors can land their first TEDx Talk- How authors who are not writers can finish their manuscripts- The top mistakes authors make while trying to self publish Key Takeaways: - Turning on the Author Switch- Building an Author Funnel- Converting readers into clients More About Our Guest: Jyotsna is a bestselling author, book publisher, TEDx speaker, and is an international Author Success Coach who helps coaches, trainers, speakers, and experts to build a super-profitable author funnel with the help of their book. She founded Happy Self Publishing to help overwhelmed, yet purpose-driven authors experience a transformative journey of self-discovery through the process of publishing their book and amplifying their message. So far, Jyotsna has helped over 400 authors from 35 different countries through her global publishing agency, Happy Self Publishing. While Jyotsna isn’t working, this mom of 2 kids also loves to dance, run, plan her next solo trip, and is a passionate advocate for educational rights. 

How to Become a Successful Author

The life you love is not a dream. It won’t always be easy, but it’s possible! If you want to create a life that works for you and not against you, if you want to change your life, you have to change your mind first.    We all have the same 24 hours in a day, and it’s up to you to make the most of it. When you're looking for ways to create the life you love, you may need to take the time to assess what roadblocks you need to overcome and get rid of anything that is standing in your way of achieving your goals.   I’m excited to share with you our guest Renee Bauer, Owner, Attorney, Author and Podcast Host of Happy Even After, LLC. Renee is dedicated to educating people to make to the otherside of divorce and into their next chapter and helps them embrace the power to create a life they love.   Main Topics: Divorce is so overwhelming – where does someone even begin? How do you know when it’s time to file for divorce? What does a successful divorce look like?  Key Takeaways: You have the power to create a life you love.  There isn't any shame in saying "good enough" isn't good enough.  Our stories are meant to be messy and your divorce is just one moment in your full, messy life  

How to Create the Life You Love

Ever feel like you are spending more time writing content than actually sharing it? You're not alone. It's hard to keep up with the demand for fresh, relevant content, especially when you have a tight deadline and competing priorities.  Live streaming can be a great way to get back on track by giving your followers what they want. An engaging experience that isn't just another article or company blog post. With livestreams, followers can see you or your product in action. Because livestreams are interactive (think Q&A sessions), viewers will come away with tangible takeaways that they'll remember long after the broadcast is over. I’m excited to share our guest, Christoph Trappe, Founder of Voxpopme who is sharing all about how to get more out of your content through live streaming.  Main Topics: How can live streaming help you get your brand out there? How would you tie it into your overall strategy? Should every brand livestream? How can live streaming help with building authentic brand experiences?  Key Takeaways: Live streaming tips as they relate to podcasting especially  Tips on how to start and keep going Top equipment recommendations 

How to Get More Out of Your Content with Live Streaming

The world is changing. The economy is shifting, social media has changed the way we communicate and technology has made everything more accessible. As entrepreneurs and business owners in today's society - you have to be able to change with it or get left behind.  Building a brand is no easy task, and it can be even tougher when the economy changes. It’s important to look at branding from an entrepreneurial perspective by identifying your target audience and creating a message that resonates with that client avatar.  I’m so excited to share today’s guest Deb Gabor, CEO and founder of Sol Marketing who will be sharing with us what irrational loyalty is, how the best brands in the world create irrational royalty and the key to rapid and focused scaling for growth organizations. Main Topics: The Definition of Irrational Loyalty How the best brands in the world create Irrational Loyalty The key to rapid and focused scaling for growth organizations Key Takeaways: Understand how to "hack" Maslow's hierarchy to grow your brand Learn about the power of the Ideal Customer Archetype and how that provides relentless focus as organizations grow Unlock the Three Questions every brand needs to ask in order to become one of the Best Brands in the World  More About Our Guest: “Leading Expert" doesn't come close to describing Deb Gabor's passion for brands. More accurate? Brand Guru. Brand Impresario. Brand ​Evangelist​. She's written the book on branding (twice!) with bestsellers ​Branding is Sex​ and ​Irrational Loyalty​. She's the founder and CEO of​ ​Sol Marketing​, a strategy-led marketing firm obsessed with solving major business and branding problems for clients in every industry. Companies throughout the world use Deb’s Brand Values Pyramid, Ideal Customer Archetype, and “Brand Swagger Questions” to align their teams and articulate their brands to audiences. Deb and her team at Sol Marketing have introduced her revolutionary brand strategy for organizations ranging from international household names like Allrecipes, The Associated Press, Dell, Microsoft, NBC Universal, NPR, NTT Data, and Siemens, to exciting emerging brands like hint water and Indagare. Deb also lends her brand authority with frequent contributions and commentary to major news outlets such as Entrepreneur, Forbes, FORTUNE, Inc., MediaPost, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. Business and marketing organizations regularly call on Deb as a keynote speaker and workshop leader, relying on her as an inspiration for executives to embrace the power of branding to create Marketing That Sells. 

How to Build a Brand in Turbulent Times

AI is an acronym for Artificial Intelligence. The definition of AI is the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages. AI can be used in many aspects of a business and there are various types of artificial intelligence.  The future is now. It's time to get ahead of the curve and start implementing AI into your business. AI has been around for a while, but only recently have we seen its massive potential in driving revenue. It's time to take advantage of this technology before it becomes mainstream and everyone else does too! I’m so excited to share today’s guest, Robert Turley, President, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of White Rabbit Intel. He will be sharing with us all about AI systems including the one he created to help business’ sales and marketing teams to know more, win more, and close often. Main Topics: Defining sales enablement and how technology enables predictable growth at scale Why it is important to maintain an optimistic and confidence-driven environment with sales, marketing, and customer success teams How relationship psychology directly relates to selling and business development Key Takeaways: If your company is not using sales enablement and data-driven practices, you best start now or you'll be way behind the competition Optimism and confidence is key to maintaining a successful business and the mental health for customer success Artificial intelligence enables sales and marketing teams to know more, win more, and close often More About Our Guest: Multi-faceted Designer | Entrepreneur | Strategic Relationship Builder Rob Turley specializes in creating versatile products and innovative services for the ever-changing digital landscape. Builder of strategic partner relationships, an expert at improving processes, business strategist, and executive leader, who drives critical new growth. Design-driven entrepreneurialism is my passion. I strive to always create innovative technologies that are innovative, seamless experiences both well designed and intuitive. Leading-edge technology the future holds will be the evolution of our species so I have dedicated my life to engineering the future to drive us all toward the brightest and profitable pathways while following "people first" ethics. 

How to Drive Revenue with Artificial Intelligence

Starting a business and scaling it to be sellable can seem like an impossible feat. But what if I told you that there is a proven way to build a sustainable, scalable, and sellable business?  Well then this episode is for you! I’m so excited to share our guest Michelle Seiler Tucker, who will be sharing with us insight into building a sustainable, scalable, and sellable business utilizing her proven techniques.  Main Topics Why it is important to know what type of business you own Some of the biggest mistakes business owners make Why is it important to plan your exit strategy from day one Key Takeaways: The 6 P’s and why they are so important How you are able to sell businesses for more than they are worth How to build a sustainable, scalable, and sellable business 

How to Build a Sustainable, Scalable, and Sellable Business

Business Unveiled is a podcast helping people in the creative industry refine their skills and grow their business. In every episode, you’ll be taken behind the scenes of the creative industry with celebrity wedding planner, entrepreneur, and productivity consultant Angela Proffitt as she shares her experiences in running a high profile event and design company around the world. There's nothing Angela and her team haven't seen before, and you'll get to listen to what she's experienced, how she got through it, and what she learned along the way. Business Unveiled is the go to podcast for anyone who wants to develop a productive and profitable business in the creative industry. For more helpful tips, visit www.angelaproffitt.com.

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