How does someone with a full time job, a wife and kids build a business on the side that generates more income than a full time salary? And why did he wait 15 years to do it?
Dan Himel is our guest on this episode of Starting from Nothing and he’s the founder of Trainium, a social platform aimed at helping endurance and triathlon coaches build their business.
I have to be honest. Sometimes when I hear advice like “all you have to do is believe it’s possible” – my inner skeptic stands up and prepares to take over. That’s what today’s guest said in the first part of this interview. But as I listened to him talk about his experience, I realized something. This guy knows what he’s talking about and I can trust his advice.
What would you do differently if you had to pay postage for every email you sent to your list? Do you think it would make you a better marketer?
Brian Kurtz is the Executive Vice President at Boardroom Inc., an industry leader in both direct marketing and newsletter publishing that does well over $100 million in revenue. He’s overseen the the mailing of approximately 1.3 billion pieces of direct mail.
Carl Mattiola is one of the most successful members in the Foundation of last year’s class. You’re going to hear today how he went from having no idea for a business to quitting his job at Tesla Motors. And it’s all because he took action (just 2 hours a day!) and followed the process of the Foundation.
Would you like to know how to get a Mentor who’s bad ass? Andrea is a seriel entrepreneur who makes millions. She was on the Apprentice with Donald Trump, and she has mentors from all around the world teaching her top secret strategies. Her mentors are so big they can’t even be named. Wanna know how she got them? Listen now.
Chandler Bolt studied at The Foundation 2 and a half years ago and at the age of 19 was one of our youngest ever students. Having caught the entrepreneurial bug, Chandler was focusing on his business, Student Painters when he decided to write a book about his experiences, but it took a while for the penny to drop that what people were really interested in was writing and self-publishing books.
Kyle Gray is a mentor within The Foundation who helps businesses turn their stories into growth tools. He is also the author of the bestselling book The Story Engine, which has helped thousands of entrepreneurs tell their stories and grow their businesses with content marketing.
When we launched this podcast you told us you wanted to hear from entrepreneurs who were just starting out; people whose businesses were doing a few thousand a month and hadn’t reached “elite” status. That’s exactly what we have in store for you today.
How does a business therapist, who trades time for money, go from having zero customers in the first week of business to building a six figure income helping entrepreneurs uncover the psychological roadblocks that keep them from being successful? And how does he do it working only 15 hours each week?
Sometimes I get tired of these online experts trying to convince me that what my business really needs is the one secret tactic they happen to be selling this week. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying their ideas or intentions are bad – I’m saying too many opinions can be a major distraction.
It can be a challenging path to change your mindset from being a wantrepreneur to an entrepreneur, but Andy and Dane have both done it, and now help their students at The Foundation to do it too. In today’s show Dane and Andy discuss all that they’ve learned personally and nail down 5 steps to changing that mindset to become a successful entrepreneur and maintain momentum in the tough times.
The Foundation’s star student from last year was John Logan. He blew everyone else out of the water by recording a massive $120K of sales in his first 6 months. John believes that if you ask enough questions to businesses, people will give you the answers that you are both looking for in terms of their needs and he has made this his business to great effect.
Suli Breaks is an inspiring spoken word artist whose work balances funny with informative and tackles many of today’s toughest issues like education, racism and living a life of purpose. And even though he’s been writing for a while it wasn’t until this year that he began building it into a business that could support him full time.
Chris Stevens was ready to give up on his work in IT Consultancy. It was only after he joined The Foundation course that he understood his ‘why’, and gave himself permission to stick in the industry and build his software company, Data Patrol. Chris managed over $25K of pre-sales and is now happier than ever, with his business going from strength to strength.
Dan Corkill holds a place of honor at The Foundation as our first millionaire. Having done everything that he was supposed to do – school, college, university and then a job in finance. It was at this point that he decided that this wasn’t the life that he was after, and turned down the entrepreneurial path.
In 2011 James was unemployed and couldn’t find a job so he bought a $40 skill saw, some stain and wood and built a coffee table in his garage. He sold it online and soon more orders started coming in. Two years later his company has 20 employees and is generating 5-6 figures a month in revenue.
How did a former Christian heavy metal band member, end up building an information product business that’s done over $100 million in revenue since inception? And how did he do this without any outside funding or previous business knowledge?
Jesse Elder is one of the happiest dudes I know. He has three secrets and a two step process for waking up happy every single day. Take the happiness pill and watch this interview. Starting from Nothing – The Foundation Podcast Guest Name Interview – Jesse Elder
Rohan Gilkes a serial entrepreneur and has founded a number of companies. He has recently bought the subscription service business, ‘Wet shave club’ through Reddit and through re-branding , re-designing and re-launching, has taken it from $300 per month in revenue to $62K per month in profit in less than a year.
Starting from Nothing – The Foundation Podcast Andy: What’s up everyone, Andy Drish and Dane Maxwell coming at you from Boulder, Colorado and Des Moines, Iowa. Dane: Des Moines, Iowa. Andy: Des Moines, Iowa. Still living it up out there. This is the first episode of The Starting from Nothing Podcast
Tai Lopez has a 5000 book library, which is good, because he reads a book every day. He considers himself to be a student of life, and has used everything that he has learned to become a self-made millionaire in his 20s. He has now founded 12 multimillion dollar companies and lives in Hollywood next door to Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry.
