We tend to always want to force outcomes in our relationships, in our businesses and in our lives. The Tao explains that if we give it up, leave room, create space, we can allow the good things in our lives to enter. For those who practice NOT DOING, everything falls into place.

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Verse 3: Tao de Ching — Do by not doing

Verse 2: Tao Te Ching-Reflections

While I still plan to bring you great interviews, conversations and wisdom from leaders through the Silver Founder Podcast, I also want share that I’ll also be studying the great wisdom writing of Lao Tsu by meditating on the 81 Verses in the Tao Te Ching. I will also read from the Sage’s Tao Te Ching to uncover the true wisdom of these writings and give the perspective on how we can view or “access” this incredible work. .I hope you enjoy it.

Verse 1: Tao Te Ching. Reflecting on Reflections.

Gary Hoover began his entrepreneurial journey at an early age. He grew up in Anderson, Indiana, a General Motors factory town, and began asking questions about business at an early age. Convinced that the best way to change the world (for the better) was to lead or create enterprises, he started subscribing to Fortune Magazine when he was 12. While other kids were playing baseball, he was memorizing the Fortune 500. He visited hundreds of corporate headquarters and offices before he was 18, and studied the stock market in depth. His question was the same, “What separates the losers from the winners?” In this quest, Gary’s research was not limited to for-profit enterprises but included the study of all types of enterprise from empires to unions, from General Motors to the United States of America. As part of his education, he studied economics at the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman and two other Nobel Prize winners served as a securities analyst for CitiBank on Wall Street, worked as a buyer for Federated Department Stores, and headed up acquisitions and strategic planning for the May Department Stores Company. At the age of 30, he finally took the plunge and created pioneering book superstore BOOKSTOP, which helped change the nature of book shopping in America. BOOKSTOP also won kudos for its preservation and restoration of historic buildings such as old movie theatres. This company was sold to Barnes & Noble for $41.5 million cash when it was 7 years old and became a cornerstone for their industry-dominating superstore chain, which in 2007 did over $4.5 billion in sales out of 700-plus stores. After he and his partners sold BOOKSTOP, Gary returned to his first love of understanding businesses, and (in 1990) began a small business information publisher, the Reference Press. This company evolved into Hoover’s, Inc., the world’s largest Internet-based provider of information about enterprises. Hoover’s Online, at www.hoovers.com, covers thousands of companies around the world and includes private, public, and non-profit enterprises. Millions of users from all countries access Hoover’s every day for the site’s easy-to-use and easy-to-read information on enterprises, generating hundreds of millions of page views a year. In July of 1999, Hoover’s went public and in March of 2003, the company was purchased by Dun & Bradstreet for $117 million. Like BOOKSTOP, Hoover’s has changed the way we do things and today employs over 600 people. This is what Gary Hoover started out to do as a teenager. Gary lives in Flatonia, Texas, with his 50,000-book personal research library. In Austin, he has worked to develop entrepreneurial thinking among local young people, helping to create a group of students who meet monthly to learn the keys to entrepreneurial success. Gary Hoover also maintains a list of new business ideas, containing over 100 concepts, as reported in Fortune Small Business Magazine and elsewhere. In the spring of 2002, Gary’s alma mater the University of Chicago opened Hoover House dormitory, named in honor of Hoover for the gifts of stock in his companies made to the University over the last 20 years. He continues to be an active supporter of nonprofit entrepreneurship, particularly in education. Find all things Gary Hoover at his Website: https://hooversworld.com/gary-hoover/ American Business History Center Non-Profit: https://americanbusinesshistory.org/ Gary Hoover's Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/hooverbits/

E8: Insightful Interview with American Business Royalty! Founder of HooverOnline and BOOKSTOP, Gary Hoover!

Rylee Meek is the founder and CEO of the Social Dynamic Selling System, which turns dinner seminar marketing into a science. After responding to a small ad on Craigslist in 2009, Rylee was introduced to a new concept of selling, one in which radically changed his life forever.  Having just $673 in his bank account, but more importantly a burning desire for more, Rylee went on to produce over $80 million in sales over the past 8 years.  Now that he has perfected his model, through continual trial and error, he is sharing this learned wisdom and is on a mission to help other entrepreneurs and business owners achieve the revenue goals they have to live the lifestyle they desire. Everything he teaches is tried, tested, refined, and proven to create a predictable, sustainable, and scalable selling system. Find Rylee in the following Links: http://pfsbuilt.com/socialdynamicselling/# https://www.linkedin.com/in/rylee-meek-1556a919/ https://m.facebook.com/TheRyleeMeek https://twitter.com/ryleemeek

E7: Interview with Rylee Meek, Founder/CEO of the Social Dynamic Selling System

Some of my favorite peoples of all time are from Lebanon.   Authors Khalil Gibran, Nicolas Nassim Taleb along with many other artists, actors and writers have roots in modern Lebanon, and what the early settlers called Phonecia.   In our interview,  George explains how he arrived in America to pursue what he believed to be HIS American Dream!   He not only achieved success but has become a husband, father, real estate entrepreneur, business owner, and investor. George runs his businesses as a Family affair with his wife, two brothers (and their parents who are always close)-by to keep an eye on their boys. Enjoy this wide-ranging interview with my friend, George Chidiac! 

E:5 From Lebanon to Austin! My Interview with George Chidiac, CEO of Accent Auto

Gavin works with organizations to achieve business transformation through digital technology and professional consulting. After working his way up through the accounting profession for over 10 years, Gavin moved into technology by chance following a corporate implementation of a leading ERP system.  Always having a strong interest in IT, Gavin decided to align his accounting and technology skills to provide value and benefit to clients.  This began a new consulting career in the world of business intelligence, performance management, and business transformation.  Out of his consulting work, Gavin is building easy to use software that helps his clients solve big problems while allowing them to achieve their top objectives.

E6: The Finance Whisperer - Deep Interview with Gavin Allen, who's building a platform that solves problems for Founders and Finance Executives!

How does a Brit end up living his dream LIFE in the Caribbean?   One way is by delivering WORLD-CLASS EXPERIENCES for visitors to the beautiful Island Country of the Dominican Republic.   Phil shares how he identified the opportunity, set up shop, got hit by a Hurricane in his first year of business and 22 Years Later, His Outback Adventures has recently been rated the #1 TripAdvisor Experience in the Caribbean! We discuss success, failure, and the best advice he ever got in this episode the SIlver Founders Podcast! Find out more @ https://www.outbackadventuresdr.com/  or  contact Phil @ phil@outbackadventuresdr.com

E4: From the UK to the DR! Interview with CEO and CoFounder of the #1 RATED Outback Adventures, Phil Hodgekinson!

JC is the Global Ambassador and Pioneer of the Angelize Yourself movement. He is also the Founder of Angeldom Academy. In 1994, he retired after a successful career as a banker and financial analyst. Two years later, on June 25, 1996, he was killed by a chainsaw. During his afterlife experience, he was revealed the timeless mechanics of Infinite Intelligence and Angel Consciousness that the mind of God is. He was sent back from his afterlife experience to reveal the profundities and depths of Angel Consciousness and Infinite Intelligence Mechanics so their superpowers can be unleashed by anyone. From 1996-2019, he completed his twenty-three-year Angelization internship to prepare himself for its revealing. He has written fourteen books about his afterlife revelations and is today’s foremost authority on Angelization.

E3: JC Gordon is Angelizing the World

SEASONED Founders building value, solving problems and learning from mistakes. We choose to build anyway.

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