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 Joining Alan on this episode of Entrepreneur is Sissie Hsiao - Vice President and GM of Google Assistant.   What is Google Assistant?  It’s designed to help busy people.  We want to build a natural and conversational helper to help get things done.  How good is it at recognizing what I am saying?  People don't enunciate well, or have heavy accents, so they are creating programs that will be able to understand all sorts of speech.  Google Assistant is compatible with other Google programs such as Google Calendar.  Can you use Google Assistant in your day-to-day life or is it just made for business?   Sissie says personal and business are merging and Google Assistant gives you the extra minutes needed.  Alan says if we use these tools it's a no-brainer!  Sissie goes on to say that mobile devices are so powerful.  GA is a way to get things done without getting sucked into the “vortex”.  General philosophy on building teams?  Building the right team, pragmatic dreamers, and working with the materials we have available.  Hiring with the right attitude, and humility is one of the things she looks for.  Humble and creative curiosity.  Personal advice?  Deliver real value to people.  Focus on what you are building to make people's lives better.   Up next is Dennis Houlihan - Former President and Past Chair of NAMM and also former President of Roland Corporation.  Dennis is interviewing from the trade show for Music Products World.  What is it about this business that dominates?  Dennis says the entrepreneurial spirits who crafted the instruments by hand, are what created the backbone of the music industry.  Large companies didn't happen overnight, it took years, and established roots.  Create products that the musicians can use to make masterpieces.  One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music industry was Laurens Hammonds His first successful creation was not the Hammond Organs but the Hammond Synchronous Clock. NAMM- National Association of Music Merchants began in 1901.  It was started with a bunch of Piano Merchants getting together to ensure pianos were being made correctly and being sold accordingly.  It is the largest trade association in the world, for people who design, manufacture, make, and sell music products all over the world. [00:00:00] Google Assistant [00:06:23] Daily Use [00:12:22] Creative Curiosity [00:19:43] NAMM Show [00:29:04] Hammond History [00:34:45] What is NAMM

Alan welcomes Coach JC - Mental Conditioning Coach, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, and Author of Win All Day!  Alan talks about his Aha! moment when he understood business  It's when he lost everything due to arrogance.  Question to Coach JC, "when was your aha! moment?"  He replied, "my breakthrough came when he realized all else failed and have no choice but to reinvent himself!"  Coach JC say's you have to believe in yourself!  Believe that you are a winner and that you deserve to have it all.  He shares about his "Win All Day" book series. Body Transformation, becoming what you want to be,  How to win as an entrepreneur and have success in that realm, Win All Day-for athletes,  Win All Day-Personal Branding, and Fit For Duty, Fit For Life and lastly 6. Playbook for your Life.  After hitting rock bottom, he helps people become the winner to build the life they desire through personal development.  Every single person on this earth was created to win.  With his 5 "focus" keys you will be able to achieve that.  Here you will find the questions that you need to answer before you can achieve all that you want to achieve. 1.  What do I want?  What is my vision? 2.  Why?  What's my purpose?  Why do I want it? 3.  Who am I?  Who do I want to be? 4.  How do I create a winning mindset? 5.  To find out what this is, read his books! Up next is Chris Martin  - CEO of Martin Guitar.  He is being interviewed at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.  It is an annual event that is organized by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), it is the "industry's largest stage, uniting global music sound and entertainment technology communities".  Chris shares that this is the 6th generation of his families legacy.  He shares the struggles and changes that the company had to go through and it's surviving.  Chris explained how "Hawaiian" music during the Pan Pacific Exhibition brought a whole new era with the ukulele.  The Folkboom, and later how MTV unplugged helped turn the tables for Martin Guitars.  Chris explains that acoustic instruments will never go away.   [00:00:00] Coach JC [00:05:09] Believe In Yourself [00:11:31] 5 Keys To Your Kingdom [00:18:52] NAMM Show [00:28:58] The Ukulele [00:34:40] Generational Strong

As the world turns, entrepreneurs are flourishing.  Joining Alan this week is Jason Brown, founder and CEO of Family Central.  Jason started building chains of retail stores until 1999 when he dove into the digital world and started building digitally native businesses.  Though he was successful in building new companies, he also experienced failure.  As the world was changing with so were the consumers and that caused a ripple affect.  However he was given an opportunity to which he and his team spent 4 years building and running a multi million dollar immigration company which helped men and women and their families in foreign countries move to the United Sates.  He helped them make a financial investment and establish their green card.  He then went on to create Persona Nutrition, a personalized nutrition business where you go online, receive free coaching, and get a customized nutrition program of vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements.  Later this company was sold to Nestle Health Science in 2019.  From there he and his team created Family Central, a depository of information that allows communication of your family, cradle to grave.  It empowers your family to be in a secure environment where they can store all kinds of documents such as medical records, ID's, immunization cards, and share with other members, or to be put into a secure vault.  Family Central is helps with global family stress that is caused by chaos.  With the leveraged technology by using Cloud Based tech, it empowers family at their fingertips.  Another feature they offer are Legacy videos, which allows a family member to make a video recording for their loved ones which can be used to say, goodbye, I Love You, or how to handle their assets after they are gone.  Jason was asked to give one sound advice to up and coming entrepreneurs.  Follow your passion, find what makes you happy, focus on it, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you to make it happen. Up next is Simon Leslie, CEO of Ink, author and motivational poet.  Simon wrote a book called, Equanimity, which basically he describes as remaining calm under pressure.  Simon has faced many failures and changes but through his book, he found his way back.  The book focuses on 52 interviews with messages that resonated with him and later turned into a support line for him.  Powerful messages from kindness, gratitude, health & wellbeing, negotiating, selling, and brain power.  However through the writing of the book he realized that he was a broken human a complete mess.  Yet here he is writing a book on how to live a better life.  So decided to make the second half about his turn around and what he has learned through these interviews that impacted his life.  Alan asked Simon which interviews touched his heart?  The first to come to mind is, Allison Levine, American woman you climbed Mount Everest, and crossed Antarctica.   Her story of determination and her attitude of never say never resonated with Simon.  She just kept putting one foot in front of the other and for Simon, that became his mantra.  There were a few other stories from Adrienne Banker, who spoke of kindness, to Tim Grover who coached Michael Jordan, delivering a power message about having a winning mindset.  So what advice would Simon give, "One foot in front of the other, pay it forward, meditate and be more conscious." [00:00:00] Organic To Go [00:06:01] Immigration [00:11:30] Cloud Based Legacy [00:18:51] Remain Calm Under Pressure [00:26:57] Powerful Messages [00:33:52] One Foot In Front Of The Other

Alan welcomes Liam Martin - Co-Founder and CMO of Time Doctor, Co-organizer of Running Remote Conference and Co-author of Running Remote Book.  Alan starts the show by sharing how as an entrepreneur the need to control everything comes with the territory, yet at the same time he believes the best work comes from an employee that is able to be motivated and inspired with no time stamp.  Lian says that working remote changed dramatically during COVID.  He explains that a new group of workers merged onto the scene that he calls, Pandemic Panickers.  Liam believes its the largest shift in work since the Industrial Revolution.  With the new fundamental change of how work is done remote, he reminds us that it isn't a place.  It doesn't matter where you work as long as you get it done.  Asynchronous! Liam exclaims is the key along with autonomy.  Not having to directly interact with people by working through a communication system allows an individual to work remote and to have maximum freedom in your life.  Discipline equals freedom.  Freedom allows your people to work on more difficult problems.  To solve really unique difficult issues that move a business forward.  Bureaucracy!  No micromanaging...says Liam.  He goes onto explain the fundamental of a remote business.  1.  Set of processes, creating digital information that can be shared.  2.  Don't have positions, become the operators.  Delegate responsibility.  3.  Automate all of the reporting.  Have the same information available to the employees as the CEO so everyone is on the same page.  Lastly Liam shares the common mistakes of remote business owners.  Don't make working from home turn into living at work.  Divide social space from work space.  Stop requiring or asking for immediacy, it speeds you up but slows the company down, and lastly have team members tied into the same goal. [00:00:00] Control! [00:06:07] Accountability! [00:11:30] Methodology! [00:18:50] Asynchronous! [00:28:17] Bureaucracy! [00:33:49] Philosophy!

Alan welcomes long time friend and muse Pam Golden - President of GLA Communications.  Alan asks Pam if she can explain her long run of success.  Pam summed it up in 8 key points as follows:  #1 -   Never stop learning.  If you don't keep learning and evolving with times you can't help your clients.  Don't stay still.  Keep changing and try new things, move forward with the time and analyze what works.  #2 - Tell it like it is!  Be honest even if they don't like what you say.  Bring knowledge, honesty and thoughtfulness to the table.  3-# Be a trusted partner.  As a business owner or an entrepreneur we realize we can't do it on your own.  Having the right people in y our corner helps things run smoothly which moves into the next point.  #4 -  Surround yourself with good people and in order to do so it takes you to #5 - Ask for help!.  It's so important as an owner of a business it to when you need the help.  And it's ok.  It's nearly impossible to do it all.  Find someone who can do what you can't do.  You both win. #6 - Share it back/pay it forward.  Help other's be a success. #7 - Understand your business.  Know how to read your financial reports, be on it all the time.  Be on your business, not just in your business.  #8 - Knowing what you know and knowing what you don't know.  Surround yourself with people who can help you become smarter and help you grow.  Pam closes the show explaining how important it is to mentor the younger generation and entrepreneurs.  Ask them the tough questions and guide them.  She reminds them to have the strength to ask for advice for your journey doesn't always have to be your own. [00:00:00] Never Stop Learning [00:05:52] Tell It Like It Is! [00:11:30] Ask for help! [00:18:51] Understand your business [00:25:08] Know What You Know! [00:33:53] Mentor

Entrepreneurs are gonna take over the world!  Alan welcomes Rohan Sheth - Founder of GrowRev.com  Rohan shares how he came into this world with a Golden spoon only to have it gone in a blink of an eye.  Having to move to Canada as a young lad with his parents to start over, he quickly adapted and advanced in the assembly of a fast food chain.  Rohan was offered the keys to the kingdom and denied it for he knew running a fast food chain was not what he was put on earth for.  He then took on a door to door sales position and excelled in that area all the while going to school to become a pilot.  Still that is not what he desired to do or in other words, Rohan was bored.   Eventually the skillset he developed in sales exploded into a whole new world when he founded GrowRev.  It's a direct response paid advertising agency.  His company helps other companies grow their revenue.  Alan asked what are three things he would share with upcoming entrepreneurs?  One, believe in yourself no matter how hard it gets.  Two, when you develop and know your skillset, bring it to the world.  And three, share your story.   Up next is Jeff Hunter - Founder of Crypto Gaming Team.  Alan asks Jeff to break it down for everyone.  What is crypto?  It is a form of decentralized finance.  No bank controls your money, but the consequence is when you lose it, you lose it.  It's all about being able to take your currency and give it to someone else.  No middle man in between.  It's about belief and trust, it's a culture coin.  He said he developed Crypto gaming to you are able to take your tokens from one place to another and even turn them into real money.  His hopes is that this will eventually solve world poverty.  Jeff says it's a Metaverse that gives you the ability to move digital assets from one place to another.  You are in control of your money not the banks! [00:00:00] Who is Rohan? [00:05:51] From Riches to Rags [00:11:31] No Golden Cuffs for me! [00:18:54] Crypto Gaming Team [00:27:57] Decentralized Finances [00:33:51] Who's Money Is It?

Alan welcomes his first guest Evan Goldberg - Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite.  It's a company designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. From 11,000 companies to over 27,000 companies in the past five years have turned to NetSuite to help with their hypergrowth. Evan says during this time of dislocation and disruption there is a lot of opportunity.  Companies are being built in the "new normal".  One of the biggest changes is selling directly to consumers because the retailers are less reliable.  Evan goes on to share the 5 benefits that his company provides.  Visibility, being able to see around the bends.  Agility, to be able to respond to changes.  Control, knowing what is happening so there is no potential loss.  Automation, we help eliminate manual tasks to allow one to focus on their mission, and lastly Collaboration, being able to work and communicate on ideas.  Alan say's you need the right tools in this entrepreneur world and using artificial intelligence for practical application is the answer for the future.  Joining Alan next is Author of "The Cactus and Snowflake at Work", Devora Zack.  What is the "Cactus and Snowflake"?  It's the description given for the Thinkers and the Feelers.   Thinkers feel and Feelers Think, say's Devora.  Most of us are in the middle.  She say's your life is an Ecosystem and the 3 main differences between a Cactus and a Snowflake are:  The cactus leads with it's head and a Snowflake leads with it's heart.  The cactus is analytical and the snowflakes are empathetic. And lastly, the cactus are direct in conversation as the snowflakes are diplomatic in situations.  She believes we can work together and be symbolic which will allow us to understand ourselves and others better.  Devora explains how we are all different and how we respond to things in the world shows so.  She reminds us that we can't compare our insides with other people's outsides.  In her book she say's the term NAY - Not About You.  Most people's behaviors and mood having nothing to do with you.  We need to learn to mind one's business.  Devora also shares that we have 3 things we can control.  Our thoughts, our words, and our actions.  It's ourselves that can change and improve in order to have a better relationship with others.  People are who they are.  Develop a mantra that will allow you to be able to deal with certain things in today's world. [00:00:00] The Oracle [00:05:18] 5 Benefits [00:11:30] Right Tools [00:18:50]  Cactus or Snowflake? [00:26:38] Internalizing and Projecting [00:33:51] Mind Your Business

Alan welcomes James Lawrence, Guinness Book of World Record Breaker and family man.  Author of "Redefined Impossible".  In 2015 he did 50 triathlons, in 50 days, through 50 states.  Why?  He wanted to know his personal limits.  When you reach on mountain top and you see another you want to conquer that one.  Alan asked how he got the name, "Iron Cowboy".  James explained that everything he did was a team effort with his family.  He wanted to stand out amongst the stream of athletes so he started wearing a cowboy hat.  It allowed his family to find him in the race.  James continued on about his journey starting in Hawaii to Alaska, and ended in Utah.  Each race required it to be completed within 17 hours.  James shares in order to achieve greatness, help everyone else around you achieve greatness and you will be at the mountain top with them.  What did you learn about yourself?, asked Alan.  As humans, we are getting in our own way.  We are out toughest critics.  One of the hardest thing to do is to start.  Believe in yourself and surround yourself with positive people.  Next James doubled the impossible by doing 100 Ironman Triathlons in 100 days.  Each race consisted of 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike ride, and 26.2 miles of running.  From March 1 through June 8th with no days off.  14000 miles and raised $500kl for "Operation Underground", to eradicate human sex trafficking.  What's next for the Iron Cowboy?  In January his company will be releasing a Fitness app for general fitness, a Mindset program for life principles and a 60 day triathlon challenge for beginners to the experiences.  James shares that he wants to give hope and experience on peoples journey, to help them achieve their dream. [00:00:00] 50-50-50 [00:05:59] Iron Cowboy [00:11:30] 17 Hours [00:18:53] Move Out of Your Way [00:26:43] Ironman [00:33:54] Choose Your Sport!

Alan welcomes Karen Chupka - Executive Vice President of Consumer Technology Association.  They talk about the Consumer Electronic Show that is coming January 5th thru the 8th in Las Vegas.  Over 1900 exhibitors.  Karen explains that Eureka Park is an area dedicated to start ups.  Entrepreneurs from all over the world, over 34 countries will be represented.  University innovations will be represented as well.  International borders opened which allowed the international attendees to come together and gather.  Places such as Canada, France, Italy, Ukraine, Japan, Spain, Belgium just to name a few.  Karen shares that they have a few new categories this year such as  Space Technology and Food Technology.   Up next with Alan is Michael Taylor - Book Coach and Author of "What If Jesus Were A Coach?  Michael talks about the 3 compensations in entrepreneurship.  The first is "Spiritual" compensation, this comes from the belief that you are filling a divine purpose.  That your products and services are contributing to humanity in some way.  Next is "Emotional" compensation.  When you provide a product or service that you feel good about it.  Or when someone buys your product that they feel good about it.  Lastly is "Financial" compensation where you make your money.  With purpose and passion you will be able to express your creativity.  They continue on about divine energy and intelligence.  He wanted to fit God into his head and based his book on viewing God as a life coach.  This is where his book, "What if Jesus were a Coach?  A powerful positive approach to God and Jesus teachings.  Connecting to the divine intelligence without the organized religion.  Next they discuss his book, "The Good News Is The Future is Brighter Than You Think".  It's about using your gifts and talents to make the world a better place.  To limit or minimize or eliminate the negative news into ones  consciousness.  And finding your flow through meditation.   [00:00:00] Consumer Electronic Show [00:06:30] International Attendees [00:11:30] Space The Final Frontier [00:18:51] New Face  [00:27:49] Divine Energy [00:33:51] The Future Is Bright

Alan is joined by Amanda Holmes - CEO of Chet Holmes International.  She is a second-generation business owner.  Her father wrote a bestselling book titled, “The Ultimate Sales Machine. Immediately Alan dives into wanting to know how to increase one’s sales for the upcoming year.  Amanda gracefully turns it around and offers, 3 things holding you back? First, it’s people! Because of COVID, people were able to sit and think with themselves and realized they weren’t happy where they were at in their jobs.  Which leads to, Skill Set!  The people you are hiring. The Belief Driven Employee!  The Pay, The Career Advancement, and How are you showing your commitment to do positive things while creating an environment of flexibility and remote options.  Employees want to feel they are taken care of, that they are doing something positive for society.   Secondly, it’s the Shiny Object Syndrome!  Average consumer spends 10 hours a day on media platforms.  Proactive vs. Reactive.  How can you truly stay focused on anything if you're constantly being sidetracked?  Finally, leadership.  Different levels of growth start from the leader.  Having systems in place. Amanda then entices us with 4 out of 6 things that having in place allows you to be proactive.  1.  Touch it once! 2.  List off the top 6 things you need to do.  3.  Allocate the time needed to complete them and 4. Prioritize by putting into your schedule.  Alan ends the show with a heartfelt question, how do you live a rich and full life?  Amanda’s answer, Your Intention. In service, gratitude, and humbleness.  To enjoy the fruits of the labor.   [00:00:00] 2nd Generation Business [00:06:22] Skill Set [00:11:30] Shiny Object Syndrome [00:18:52] Levels of Growth [00:26:28] Prioritize Your Time [00:33:53] Rich and Full Life

Alan welcomes Roy Sharples  - President, CEO & Founder of Unknown Origins.  Alan inquires about the statement “Philosophy starts in the Bedroom”.  Roy explains in the bedroom is where you as a child dealt with imagination and wonder.  The more you go through life and are able to retain the childlike wonder, helps keep you creative.  Power of creativity.  Picasso always believed that children are artists.  Alan asked, "Who is Roy?"  Roy is on a mission to save the world from unoriginality and unleashing creative power.  Bringing new products and services to market.  My creativity is the ability to make the invisible visible by taking what is not and creating what is.  And it manifests.  Embracing originality and making unique connections.  To light the way into the future.  Channel your passion and energy into creativity.  To create meaningful outcomes for the future.  Self Actualization.  To leave the world in a better place. Creativity…How does a person tap into those unknown origins?  Creativity exists in everyone.  Address it holistically. 5 principles- Imagination, innovations, esthetics, entrepreneurship, and manifestation.  Imagination - create and make new things about seeing the unseen, navigating the journey by invoking magic and delight. Turning your imagination into art.  Innovation - experimenting with technology.  Cross pollinate across multiple practices.  Esthetics - ability to blend art and science with excellence with your crafts.  Inspiration and culture.  Entrepreneur - ability to fearlessly lead to the invisible horizons to be productive and resilient.  Manifestation - breakthrough conventional values, manifest what’s in you and what’s around you and turn that into something creative.  Dream, Make, and Do.  Dream - Envisioning  Make - Using convergent thinking, and construct to bring to light  Do - Fine Tune, Bringing it to life.   Alans next guest is Danielle Cohn - Vice President of Start-Up Engagement and Head of Comcast NBC Universal.  Powered by TechStars.  What is Start-Up?  We sit within the strategic development team.  Early lens for future growth areas.  Bringing together leaders from across the company, work side by side strategically aligned global start ups.  To drive a startup mindset back into our already innovative teams, develop startup partnerships at the earliest stage to enhance customer and employee lives, make an impact in the startup communities.  Spot early disruptions, emerging technologies and platforms.  Alan says you're always looking for the next big thing.  In the world we are living in today, things are changing at such a rapid rate. Danielle says they are founder focus.  Content platforms are what they search for.   Talking to founders all around the world. Collaborate together.   How aspiring entrepreneurs can better refine their process?  Strong leaders who have a point of view, are transparent in their feedback, listen to themselves, they hire a diverse group of team members that bring varying ideas and expertise to the table. They focus on the most important outcomes that drive results.  Networking and communication.  Business development.  Comcast is an investment company.  Mentors that spend a lot of time with the companies to develop their businesses. What do large companies look for in startups?  Are at the forefront, are always looking for partnerships that are strategically aligned with our business goals and growth areas.  Media, entertainment, connectivity, sports, content platform.  Technology and innovations that can enhance our customers and employees.  Collaboration across  the world as teams.  [00:00:00] Philosophy 101 [00:05:59] Creativity without Frontiers [00:11:30] Dream, Make, Do [00:18:50] start-Up [00:27:18] Network and Communication [00:33:51] Lift.comcast.com

Alan welcomes actress, author, and producer Mariel Hemingway.  Mariel discusses her doctors.  Dr. Sun, Air, Water, Exercise, Nutrition, Earth, and Rest.  She explains finding your balance and slowing things down so you're able to stay in the moment is the key to discovering who you are.  Mariel believes everything you need to help you can be found in nature.  She reminds everyone that nobody knows you better than you do.  Listen to your inner voice.   Up next is Allison Hartsoe, Author of The Age of Customer Equity and CEO of Ambition Data.  Allison shares the framework needed to create Customer Lifetime Value.  To listen, learn, and lead.  She explains the necessity to create direct relationships with your customer.  It's a maturity curve.  To listen, learn, and lead your customer allows you to create "Customer Lifetime Value", and you can do this through data.  Allison say's companies who use data for the good, there's no reason for it not to thrive.   [00:00:00] Doctor's In The House [00:05:58] Sense of God [00:11:30] Balance [00:18:52] The Age of Customer Equity [00:27:41] Maturity Curve [00:33:52] Lifetime Value

Alan welcomes long time friend and entrepreneur, Marcus Lemonis - CEO of Camping World, Television Personality, and Philanthropist.  Marcus begins with evolution.  The twist and turns through the journey of life.  From good to bad, we change.  We change our logic to our looks.  Without change and or if you don't acknowledge change, you end up on a dead end street.  Alan shares that the best website he has been on is MarcusLemonis.com.  A powerhouse of information, and the best part it is free.  Marcus believes education should be free.  Alan asks Marcus what he learned from this pandemic.  Marcus responds that he learned what he needed to shed himself of.  It also allowed him to see what kind of people he is working with and their level of commitment.  Marcus talks about being an agent of change.  To be able to be vulnerable and expose yourself.  Willing to take the beating, the criticism, while you hold onto your convictions.  Be open minded.  As information and technology is changing, you must ask yourself it there is a different way, a better way to do something.  Alan talks about the "trolls" of social media and their hatred.  He asks Marcus how he deals with them.  He says to be mindful of the message and or lesson you are trying to spread.  Stay professional and direct.  Take a breath, and think about how to answer.  Allow them to explain themselves.  Usually softness and professionalism deactivates the hate.  But if you made a mistake or said something you shouldn't have, own up to it.  Lastly Alan asks Marcus to share at few pillars of his success.  Marcus said he has quite a few,  but these 5 are his top.  1.  Reminding ourselves why people are at the center of our business.  Employee recognition.  Find people that will make our business better.  2.  Understanding your financial statements.  3.  Recognize what you're good at, but most importantly what you're not good at.  Own your deficiencies.  4.  Don't keep your family in the dark about your business.  No surprises. 5.  Recognize if you may be the problem.  Own up to it, and evolve. [00:00:00] Twists and Turns [00:06:17] Powerhouse  [00:11:30] Level of Commitment [00:18:51] Agent of Change [00:26:06] Stay Professional [00:33:53] Pillars of Success

Joining Alan on the “steppingstone of wisdom”, is Glenn Stearns, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Podcaster, Philanthropist, and star of “Undercover Billionaire”. Glenn shares his journey as to how he got to be where he is today. Growing up with humble roots, he wanted more and so he and his friend packed it up and traveled to California. It was there he started his mortgage business. From a mortgage business to a Title Company, onto becoming the Lender.  Glenn shares that he failed and fell many of times before finding success. He had a pivoting point in 2007 when things came crashing down. However, he didn’t give up. He owed a lot of money to a lot of people. He decided to get on a plane and visit every single person he owed money to and said, “let’s fix this”, and he did. He became the largest Lender in America shortly after. As he is on top of the world, he finds out he had throat cancer. So, he took some time off to heal and be with his family. In 2014 he sold 70% of his company. In 2019 he came back and opened “Kind Lending”. Glenn then was challenged with an opportunity to show the world how to start a business from ground up with nothing but a cell phone and $100. He said, put me anywhere in the country with no money and no contacts and I can make it happen again. Undercover Billionaire was born. Glenn shares that he felt for a moment that he was going to be a colossal failure in front of the world as he did the show. But the show turned out to be a smashing hit. Every time he got into a deep hole; he gets himself out because he doesn’t give up. The show became an inspiration to many and the outpour he received from around the world made it worthwhile.  Alan talks about his struggle as an entrepreneur, and the failure he faced. It took him to realize that to win you must lose, sometimes lose it all. Advice from Glenn. It’s a crazy time. In business you're always going to find that it doesn't always go the way you plan it. The world may be against you, from weather to industry changes, even political. Be prepared for change. Reality is that while we are trying to create ourselves, we need to be authentic. Surround yourself with the right people. Having the authentic ability to connect to your people. Having integrity and doing it right. From Karma to planting seeds. Whether good or bad, eventually you will find out what you planted. Work hard and be authentic. [00:00:00] The Gardener [00:06:27] Cycles [00:11:30] Pivoting Point [00:18:51] The Underdog [00:26:36] Colossal Failure [00:33:53] Be Authentic

Joining Alan today is his new friend, Sam Malouf -  Co-Founder of Malouf Co. and The Malouf Foundation.  Sam shares that the real engine of his company is the people.  You can't do it all nor do you know it all.  Getting the right people to work for you and with you makes a big difference in the success of your company.  His mantra is, "We Invest in People".  Sam and his wife then moved onto create the Malouf Foundation - a public charity that helps create awareness in Human Sex Trafficking.  They focus specifically on kids.  They work with the healing process of the survivors as well as the justice side of things.  Alan asks Sam, "What valuable lessons have your learned as an Entrepreneur?  Sam replies, besides investing in people, encouraging their ideas, passion, criticism, and creativity is the essence.  Trusting and empowering people along with hard work and never giving up. Up next is Austin McGhie - Author of Find Your Difference, Challenging Conformity in Business and in Life.  Austin says there isn't a lot of science behind marketing.  There's lot of tracking and measuring, just not a lot of science beneath it.  Alan asks what it is that he teaches in his books?  Austin says, business at the end of the day is marketing.  Marketing is about positioning, and positioning is about difference.  Brands and businesses are built through differences.  What is the "secret sauce" in marketing? You want facts and figures.  You build your mountain of information.  Then make that intuitive leap off. But the real secret is imagination.  Austin shares why his book is split into three sections.  The first section explains how important difference is.  The second is a question, Why are you so afraid of difference? And lastly, How do you go about being different in marketing and in business.  Alan asks why the word "Life" is on his book dealing with business.  Austin explains that there is a lot to be done to encourage people who are different to be different.  To celebrate difference and not to conform, to embrace things in life that are different. [00:00:00] It Started with Bed Sheets [00:05:22] Human Sex Trafficking Awareness [00:11:30] Hard Work and Don't Give UP [00:18:21] Find Your Difference [00:25:34] 3 Parts [00:33:23] Celebrate Differences

Welcome back Entrepreneurs!  This show we have a special guest interviewer,  Jennifer Gottlieb, who will be taking the place of  Alan Taylor as he is at the Barrett-Jackson Car Show in Houston, Texas.  Jennifer is at the Venture Fuel Summit in Utah, taking interviews with successful entrepreneurs asking them, "What is your advice for new upcoming entrepreneurs?" First up is Founder and CEO of GrowRev, Rohan Sheth, Facebook’s ad paid media master. GrowRev is a digital advertising and marketing agency.  He shares that making a difference in the masses is what drove him to create his agency.  First agency to be multi-platform.  Rohan's advice to entrepreneurs is to know what business you want to build and go and learn from someone in that industry who is willing to teach you. Next is Ty Brown, CEO and Founder of ZAF.  ZAF- Zero Attorney Fees. An innovative approach to legal help.  They specialize in accident victims and is a non-lawyer ownership.  Jennifer asks Ty how he overcame bad ideas and failures.  He said he had to become fearless and believed in what he was trying to achieve.  A relentless belief that it’s better.  Advice for an entrepreneur who has doubt?  Get out there and talk to people and surround yourself with people who get it and support you. Founder and CEO of Pickle,  Birch Eve is up next.   PICKLE is a conversation intelligence meets productivity intelligence.   A new style of smart note taking.  It will take notes and remind you about tasks that need to be done during zoom calls etc.  Advice to entrepreneurs?  Make sure your significant other is on board and to find a solid co-founder. Founder and CEO of Tamarack Capital, Keaton Hatch is next on the hot seat.  Jennifer ask's, How did the Venture Fuel Summit get started.  Keaton says it started off as an annual Summit for their portfolio companies.  It became so popular that they opened it to the public.  What is Tamarack?  Started investing in businesses and or ideas.  A growth equity investment firm or Investment management. They have an incubator program for younger companies and they help them grow capital.  What do you look for in a company to invest in?  It’s based on the individual.   Individuals that are excited about their idea, passion, and value. Secondly, the scalability of a company that can grow grabs their interest.  Entrepreneur Advice?  Before you go and raise capital, make sure you love what you are doing. Next is Founder and CEO of R Investments, Travis Steffens.  A vertically integrated real estate investment company.  They focus on multi-family housing and hotels.  For Travis, it's an avenue to people.  They purchase and renovate places in the “forgotten neighborhoods”.  They hire homeless individuals.  Take them off the street, give them full medical, dental, vision, to a bank account.  They help get them the bare necessities and housing and leave the past behind.  Advice?  Have a heart for people. Lastly we have Chief Technology Officer @ ClientTether, Kevin Hall. ClientTether is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) for franchised home services.  It solves issues for the franchise world.  Persistence is key to sales and success.  Entrepreneur advice?  You can’t wear all the hats.  You need to have either extra help or invest into a CRM ’that will be able to handle leads, set appointments like a virtual secretary. [00:00:00] GrowRev [00:05:37] ZAF [00:11:30] PICKLE [00:18:21] Tamarack Capital [00:29:16] R Investments [00:33:23] ClientTether

Alan welcomes James Burton, Chief Growth Officer at Personal Capital.  Turning a crisis into an opportunity is the question of the hour.  Alan asks James how do you define a crisis?  James says it's a time of great potential change, coming out of a situation of stress or problems.  James has spent about 30 years in the industry like Schwab and Fidelity.  He loves working close to consumers.  To help them achieve their dreams.  Alan says he doesn’t want to live in fear or mistrust and wants to move forward, so he asks James how do you turn a crisis into an opportunity.   James says to look at your company and determine if the crisis is occurring directly to you or maybe it’s an opportunity you see through the crisis of your environment.  But to figure out what it really means to you as an individual and or a leader.  How to use crises to build value for your clients or company and to grow your career.  Alan says personal growth is business growth.  He then quotes Winston Churchill, “Never let an opportunity go to waste.”   James tells a story in hopes to help ease Alan's mind about who or how to trust when it comes to his net worth.  He goes on to say that the new technology in Personal Capital, lets you see all of your finances and or net worth in one place, also known as your financial dashboard.  Alan wants to know what he did to have a great financial year in 2020 as well as how can you continue to pull me out of the mistrust in the Wealth Management industry?  James talks about how you can set yourself up in your financial life by creating your financial dashboard.  From there the Wealth Management industry comes in and helps you make a plan and get you invested.  Where do I start?  If you have time, open the dashboard, put your accounts in there or call us and we will help you figure that out.   What are you trying to achieve, what are goals, what are you saving for?  That's the conversation you want to have when you want to invest your money.  Up next the the Entrepreneur world is Jennifer Gottlieb, Co-Founder at Super Connector Media.  SCM is a PR and Marketing agency and an educational company.  They represent authors, speakers, to founders of fortune 500 companies.  The educational part is where we teach entrepreneurs, or business owners, anybody with a service, product, or story, how to be visible.  So they can be recognized as experts in their  space.  From challenges to boot camps.  Mindset work! Jennifer tells her story about how she got to where she is at.  Media is her key component.  Alan says the rock bottom moment is actually rebirth or born again moment is such an important place for people.  Jennifer shares a bit of how they help build entrepreneurs.  The Creation Process.  It has 5 steps.  If you can see it, believe it, speak it, receive it, and repeat it.  The last and hidden step is, then to DO IT!  One of Jennifer's favorite quotes is, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets the moment of opportunity”.  Last but not least, the next step is the,  "Confidence Continuum". It is a tool to make you confident.  The 5 C’s.  Clarity, commitment, connection, creation, and celebration.  Need more info or clarity you can visit Super Connector Media.com. . [00:00:00] Personal Growth is Business Growth [00:05:27] Financial Dashboard [00:11:30] Wealth Management Industry [00:18:20] Boot Camp! [00:27:01] Creation Process [00:33:22] Confidence Continuum

Listen up Entrepreneurs!  Alan welcomes Lindsay Teague Moreno - Author of WAKE UP! The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind About What It Means to Really Live.” (link below) She is also the author of Boss Up! It’s about the idea that there is a replicable set of things that people can do that work across any kind of business.  What do I need to do to start up a successful business? How and where do I even start?  Boss Up!  Will walk you through what you need to do to get your business or idea that has been in your heart come to life.  Alan and Lindsay talk about her next book, Wake Up! It’s about Lindsay’s journey to success.  She discusses the important questions like, am I being fulfilled by this?  Is this working for me?  Reaching that good life with the 6 cornerstones of life business, work, financial, health, personal, and spiritual.   What does it mean to really live?   Alan shares a story with Lindsay in hopes she can share her great wisdom.  Accepting your challenges and knowing it’s supposed to be difficult.  Lindsay says tragedy triggers the thought that there must be more in life.  Finding the catalyst and breaking your life down into what has value.  To connect them to 6 cornerstones to a happier life.  We all have in us the capability of being happy and successful in life.  Wake Up 100! Alan wants the tidbits from Lindsay.  100-day challenge, pick 1 of the 6 cornerstones and do it for 100 days to make it a habit. Go at it hard!  And then you will be able to decide if you are being fulfilled, happy, does this work for me?  Am I better or worse?  This is where you will be able to tweak it to make it work for you.  Next Alan welcomes Kerry Goyette and Bryce Murray PhD - Kerry is a Behavioral Scientist & the Founder of Aperio Consulting Group. Bryce is the Director of Technology and Data Science at Aperio Consulting Group. Alan opens about his thoughts on A.I. Should I fear it asks Alan?  Kerry says yes, but don't avoid it.  A.I. is emerging and here to stay.  To have humans and technology evolve together to work for a better future.  Bryce talks about the explain-ability path. Understanding computational intelligence in 3 different areas.  Alan says at the end of the day, he has to do some self-analysis.  What psychometrics can I use to determine how successful an entrepreneur can be?  Ambition, drive, and perseverance.  Resilience to work through failures.  Some have derailing tendencies, or sabotage, unintentionally setting themselves up to fail. Successful entrepreneurs who have efficient tendencies, create their own community with advisors and mentors to protect them from failure.  Bryce say’s don’t be afraid of A.I., make the data work for you. . [00:00:00] Boss Up! [00:05:38] Wake Up! [00:11:29] 6 Cornerstones [00:18:19] 100-Day Challenge [00:23:47] To Be, or Not To Be, Afraid? [00:33:20] Make It Work For You   WAKE UP! The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind About What It Means to Really Live.” - Lindsay Teague Moreno

Alan welcomes Dr. Sanjeev Khagram - Dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors.  Khagram discuss the need for a master’s Program in Space Policy. 12 key technologies that are changing this world A.I., MACHINE LEARNING, AR VR XR, BLOCKCHAIN, QUANTUM COMPUTING, and SPACE TECHNOLOGY to name a few. He says there is a huge demand for Global leaders, managers, professionals in the state factor.  Alan asks what some of the issues are and or opportunities facing entrepreneurs when it comes to outer space.  Geopolitical and environmental challenges are but a few issues, transforming our planet socially, economically, and environmentally is where the opportunity lies for one to be a part of that.  They discuss Spaceforce and its benefits such as peace and cooperation and to have collaboration from people all over the world.  Alan say’s our minds have untapped potential. Who is this program for?  Entrepreneurs who want to create the startup of the future, engineers, those in government, aerospace engineers, military, veterans, and officers to name a few.  Space is important for entrepreneurs and businesses. Masters in Global Creative Industry is next, and they are hoping to reach 100 million learners.   Alan welcomes his next guest, Dr. Robert Flower - Author and leading authority on potential & achievement.  What is your potential?  They have discovered the potential molecule.  A process within the human psyche that identifies the way we think...not what we think.  Dr. Flower discovered we all have this potential molecule.  Intelligence is a free spirit energy.  Once you learn it’s principles, you’ll become smarter.  People don’t understand thinking and or intelligence because we think in chaos instead of structured thinking.  Cognitive engineering is the assessment that measures various factors to show people the proper or best pathway to pursue their thinking, and most importantly it gives you a sense of purpose.  Mission things that you should be doing in your daily life to keep you on track.  Motto:  Potential is the essence of humanity.  The love of money doesn’t help develop. mind and emotions and spirit.  What is your Why? Dr. Robert Flower discusses the Higher level of potential or achievement.  What’s stopping you?  Dr. Flower says because of 4 Significant restrictors; 85% fear, 65% ego, 60% ignorance, and deception (self). [00:00:00] The Need for Global Leaders [00:05:04] Spaceforce [00:11:31] Who Is The Program For? [00:18:21] Potential Molecule [00:25:50] Assessment [00:33:22] 4 Restrictors

Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT:  The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids.  Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives.  She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she couldn't find one on how to be a working successful parent.  Daisy goes on to stress how daunting it is to be a new parent and working while maintaining balance between the two.  She said her favorite chapter in her book is the one on how we need to manage our emotions and to not feel guilty for working instead of staying home with your children.  Daisy says that there are a lot of parents who have problems with switching between work mode and being a parent especially if you work remote from home.  Creating a structured schedule to help you close shop and turn on parent mode. Alan welcomes Ryll Burgin-Doyle - Author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and creator of her own non-profit, stepUP Foundation.  Ryll shares about growing up with a successful entrepreneur, her mother, and what it was like to run a business.  She later found that her passion is to help companies grow .  Her diverse background of helping companies grow into multi million dollar business are known all across Australia.  Ryll says that business owners need to be more strategic.  To work backwards from the future you are creating versus working forward from your current constraints and circumstances.  She goes on to say how all companies should be embracing technology to promote their business.  Even if it's just facebook, it's still a platform to get attention. [00:00:00] Successful and Satisfying [00:05:32] Finding the Balance [00:11:30] Structured Schedule [00:18:20] Passion  [00:25:38] More Strategic [00:33:21] Embrace Technology

Joining Alan this week is David Radlo - Author and business leadership & growth expert for RB Markets-Achieve most. David talks about his book: Principles of Cartel Disruption: Accelerate and Maximize Performance. He talks about how his book is a guide for entrepreneurs on how to negotiate deals. He talks about what it was like negotiating agreements with Fidel Castro. David goes on to talk about how he started doing business with Castro and how it led to them having a friendly working relationship. He talks about working with charity organizations in Cuba and how great it was that he was able to help a lot of people because he was allowed to by Castro because of them working together. David talks about how if a leader starts to give back to those in need that other people will also. He talks about how good it feels to help others and how it can be contagious. David says that he has a formula for business, that the more growth you have the more you must give back to others. David says that if you cannot give back with money than give back by donating your time and help others.  Up next with Alan is Gary W. Goldstein - Film producer, author, and entrepreneur. The talk about Gary’s book, Conquering Hollywood: The Screenwriter’s Blueprint for Career Success and how it can help you write and produce a movie. Gary talks about we are always in a perpetual growth cycle and it’s never too late to change the direction your life is heading. Gary talks about going from being a defense attorney to the Producer of the movie Pretty Woman. He talks about not knowing anyone when he first got to LA and every person, he met he treated them as a 5 minute mentor and afterwards decided if what they wanted to teach him was going to help him on his path or not. He talked about making his first connections by meeting people while playing tennis and talking with people.  Gary closes the show as he talks about how when you are starting out that you have to approach people while being open and humble and asking them for advice. Gary talks about how relationships are everything when it comes to business as well as how to treat everyone with respect and you will encounter so many unexpected people that will help you and rally to your cause. [00:00:00] Fidel Castro [00:05:58] Working with Castro [00:11:30] Leader Gives Back [00:18:21] Hollywood  [00:26:29] Pretty Woman [00:33:22] Respect the Unexpected

Joining Alan this week is Scott Duffy - Best Selling Author of Breakthrough. How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success.  They duo discuss the confusion business owners are having with the new guidelines regarding the use of masks.  At the end of the day, they just want to comply.  Scott talks about the event he is having at the Sundance Resort in Utah.  It's called the Breakthrough Mastermind and you can find more information about the event by going onto Scottduffy.com.  Scott and Alan discuss Scott's podcast called What Now?  They discuss how entrepreneurs need to have a beginners mind in order to not fall into the old ways of fixing things.  Your mind has to grow along side of your business.  Next up to join Alan is Kevin Oakes - Author of Culture Renovation, CEO & co-founder of i4cp.  They talk about how all businesses are having to adapt to the current situation and how hard it is to keep employees.  Kevin discusses how he gives ways to renovate your company instead of transforming it.  Transforming is a complete change and often drastic and isn't needed.  He says there are 3 phases to renovate your company, plan, build, and maintain.  Alan and Kevin talk about finding change agents that work for you and make sure that it is going in the right direction that you want them to.  Finding those agents and removing what's blocking growth in your business is a must.   [00:00:00] Restrictions [00:05:41] What Now? [00:11:32] Beginners Mind [00:18:22] Adapt and Change [00:25:20] Renovate [00:33:24] Change Agents

This week Alan welcomes Will Ahmed - Founder & CEO of WHOOP.  It is a high performance wearable device that measures everything about your body and acts as a 24/7 life coach.  It tells you what good and bad behaviors you have.  Will shares how he came about this idea and did a lot of physiological research to find out exactly how to measure and predict what amounts of exercise, sleep and recovery people need.  He say's he made this technology by scratch and offers a free wristband with their subscription. Sports 1 Marketing and Founder & CEO, /David Meltzer, explains why now is the time to focus on stability and the opportunities available to us in a faltering market. Take inventory in yourself, your stock, and your company and get in the right mindset through meditation. Also, find out why ‘toughness and telephone’ is one of David’s new mantras. [00:00:00] 24/7 Wearable Life Coach [00:05:50] Not Overdoing It [00:11:30] Whoop Band for Free [00:18:20] Grasping Stability and Opportunity [00:26:22] Take Inventory Through Meditation [00:33:21] Toughness and Telephone

Mike McDerment - FreshBooks Founder, shares what sparked his business and how returning home to work from his parents basement is where the magic began.  Mike goes on to say that building your team and having them share your values is really important as well as staying focus on your business so it doesn't go the wrong direction. Ryan Alard - VP of Marketing for Digistore24, talks about how he provides a turnkey online store for companies and takes all the processing and promoting off the entrepreneur's hands.  His company will find the people who want to sell your product.  Ryan goes on to say that you can make money by promoting products on your social media.  He closes the show with his advice that he tells all of his employees, to be the CEO of their position and to make it their job to be the best that they can be at it. [00:00:00] I'm Home! [00:05:49] Accounting 101 [00:11:31] Values and Alignment [00:18:22] Turnkey Promoting [00:26:06] Social Media Promoting [00:33:24] Own It!

Keri Ford - CEO of Elevate with Keri & Holistic Life Coach joins Alan today as they discuss the journey of healing oneself.  Alan talks about how he is taking care of business but no his body.  They discuss his keto diet, and Alan shares how he is constantly counting carbs and is afraid of eating things now.  This is a no no, says Keri, this will make you want to eat everything if you put yourself in a counting craze.  Keri believes a lot of our bad food habits could have come from being told negative things when we were younger.  She shares that we should use our intuition to eat, that we should listen to our bodies more.  Achieving the cookie confidence, which means, if you are craving a cookie and that is truly what your body is telling you, then have a cookie.  Food currency can be either positive or negative.  Alan shares that he got a somatic healing and was told he carries a lot of negative energy.  Keri shares how carrying around past wants or traumas can lead one to eating disorders.  She says we need to live on purpose with purpose.  Realigning and developing a healthy regiment is needed to make yourself a priority. [00:00:00] Business Good, Body Bad [00:05:25] Counting Carbs [00:11:31] Sticks and Stones [00:18:22] Follow Your Intuition [00:25:43] Negative Energy [00:33:23] I Am Priority

Joann Lublin - Longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and author of Power Moms joins Alan as they discuss the journey women have taken to become successful business women.  Joann talks about her book and how she interviewed women who are in places of power and are mothers.  From mothers to entrepreneurs, women are making a rise in the business world.  Kristin lee - Entertainment Business Manger and Founder of KLBM, talks about how she has clients from all over the world and she helps them navigate different policies and restriction that they aren't familiar with.  She shares how robotic men are when it comes to running a business in comparison to women who are more caring and nurturing.  Alan shares how there is a huge rise in women in businesses.  Kristin closes the show by saying, know your worth and to make sure you set boundaries, know when to say no. [00:00:00] Places of Power and a Mother [00:06:33] Working Moms to Entrepreneurs [00:11:31] Family Oriented [00:18:22] Rise UP! [00:25:23] Robotics [00:33:22] Know Your Worth

Brian Calle - CEO and Publisher of L.A. Weekly the Village Voice, Irvine Weekly and the Bay Area Marina Times, joins Alan as they talk about how over 200 newspaper companies have shut down in 2020 as they try to figure out how to pivot from having print only, while magazines like Entrepreneur is still one of the few still in physical print and thriving.  They continue onto discuss how different media groups report different facts and opinions on the same story.  Brian says, reporter are giving feeds based off of what they are hearing instead of real investigating.  He continues to say how media companies need to have a more integrated approach to their business with a combination of print and online.  With that said, Brian says having a good search engine helps optimize your brand and that there is a true science behind marketing in todays digital world.  He also goes onto share about teaching classes and bringing in guest speakers who have succeeded at building a company.  Brian says he learns from his students as well.  The duo end todays show as the ponder on what is considered normal these days, and how it is constantly changing and evolving. [00:00:00] Newspaperless [00:05:47] Entrepreneur Magazine Still Physical [00:11:30] Different Facts From Different Media [00:18:20] Would You Like to Make it a Combo? [00:27:12] Sensei learns from Grasshopper [00:33:22] What is the Norm?

In this weeks Entrepreneur, Alan is joined by Ruth King – President of Business Ventures Corp. and author of Profit or Wealth.  They talk about ways to show your clients and customers a bit of gratitude and appreciation.  From a little handwritten card to say hello or to ask how they are doing to a coupon for a free entrée on their next return if they come on their birthday or bring a friend.  Ruth says its important to be passionate about your job for it makes a difference. Chris Guerriero chimes in as we come into our next hour.  He is the Business Advisor, Speaker and Founder of Club 28.  Chris believes having a healthy regiment is essential to getting your day going and to be productive.  With all the distractions around us, we need to just turn it off.  From a personal trainer to a trainer of entire teams, Chris has helped many overcome their obstacles and shares how he constantly checks in on his team to see how they are doing.  Chris closes the show with Alan as he shares how comfortable methods bring uncomfortable result and uncomfortable methods bring comfortable results.  [00:00:00] Valentines Weekend [00:05:52] Customer Appreciation [00:11:30] Passionate About Your Job [00:18:21] Healthy Regiments [00:26:02] Overcoming Obstacles [00:33:22] Valuable Lessons

Once upon a time... in a land far way, the prince slayed dragon the end!  If life were only that simple and straight to a successful end.  Into today's chapter of Entrepreneur, Alan is visited by Kristina McCoobery, Co-Founder and COO of INVNT, and Co-Author of, Challenge Everything:  The Battle Cry That Blew Sh*t Up and INVNTd  Live Brand Storytelling.  Kristina shares how she chose to start her business at a risky time during recession, but had faith that it could only go up from there.  She goes onto express how one needs to challenge themselves. To not underestimated how people in your life want to help you achieve success.  You don't need to do everything yourself.  And don't get discouraged, it's ok to mess up, you grow from it.  Kristina and Alan wrap things up with their thoughts on how important mentors are and how hard it is to find good ones.  How starting one's business is like stepping into really large pair of shoes, to which you will grow into one day. [00:00:00] Blowing Sh*t Up with Kristina McCoobery [00:05:27] I Challenge You [00:11:30] Let Me Tell You A Story [00:18:20] Help Wanted! [00:25:48] Mentor Needed! [00:33:22] Oh, My! What Big Feet You Have!

 David Meltzer - Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Author, Speaker and Entrepreneur joins Alan as they talk about how they are usually together right now in Las Vegas for CES. David says his show Elevator Pitch, which is going on it's 6th Season, can teach you the critical skill of how to properly pitch something.  He says we all need to figure out what our frequency is for people who like our business or product and then to zero in on it. Consistency is one of the most important things in business and happiness. Alan continues his day with Steve Koenig - VP of research at the Consumer Technology Association (CES). Steve talks about how CES had to pivot and do a digital show this year and partnering with Microsoft to make the event happen. They talk about how important technology is for businesses now, to promote and to introduce new products.  You can’t expect the customer to come to you, that you need to go to them and engage them where they are, Steve chimes that CES is a great place to get caught up on all of the latest technology trends that can help grow your business.  5G soon to be in your neck of the woods and how CES is a great way for new businesses to get noticed. [00:00:00] Elevator Pitch, with David Meltzer [00:05:44] Finding the Right Frequency [00:11:30] Happiness is Being Consistent [00:18:20] Going Digital with Microsoft says Steve Koenig [00:25:48] Engage, Don't Expect! [00:33:22] Move Over, Here Comes 5G

 Joining Alan on this episode of Entrepreneur is Sissie Hsiao - Vice President and GM of Google Assistant.   What is Google Assistant?  It’s designed to help busy people.  We want to build a natural and conversational helper to help get things done.  How good is it at recognizing what I am saying?  People don't enunciate well, or have heavy accents, so they are creating programs that will be able to understand all sorts of speech.  Google Assistant is compatible with other Google programs such as Google Calendar.  Can you use Google Assistant in your day-to-day life or is it just made for business?   Sissie says personal and business are merging and Google Assistant gives you the extra minutes needed.  Alan says if we use these tools it's a no-brainer!  Sissie goes on to say that mobile devices are so powerful.  GA is a way to get things done without getting sucked into the “vortex”.  General philosophy on building teams?  Building the right team, pragmatic dreamers, and working with the materials we have available.  Hiring with the right attitude, and humility is one of the things she looks for.  Humble and creative curiosity.  Personal advice?  Deliver real value to people.  Focus on what you are building to make people's lives better.   Up next is Dennis Houlihan - Former President and Past Chair of NAMM and also former President of Roland Corporation.  Dennis is interviewing from the trade show for Music Products World.  What is it about this business that dominates?  Dennis says the entrepreneurial spirits who crafted the instruments by hand, are what created the backbone of the music industry.  Large companies didn't happen overnight, it took years, and established roots.  Create products that the musicians can use to make masterpieces.  One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music industry was Laurens Hammonds His first successful creation was not the Hammond Organs but the Hammond Synchronous Clock. NAMM- National Association of Music Merchants began in 1901.  It was started with a bunch of Piano Merchants getting together to ensure pianos were being made correctly and being sold accordingly.  It is the largest trade association in the world, for people who design, manufacture, make, and sell music products all over the world. [00:00:00] Google Assistant [00:06:23] Daily Use [00:12:22] Creative Curiosity [00:19:43] NAMM Show [00:29:04] Hammond History [00:34:45] What is NAMM