BizNinja Entrepreneur Radio

In a world filled with a wide range of spirits and alcoholic beverages, the gin market has been witnessing a surge in popularity in recent years. Among the many players in this industry, one individual has made a significant impact with his unique flair and innovative approach. Larry McGearty, the founder of Sweet Gwendoline French Gin, has captivated gin enthusiasts with his passion for creating...

My guest this week is a ball of energy. He is naturally gifted in engaging a crowd of people with his unique emceeing and deejaying skills. It doesn’t matter if it is an audience of professional people, corporate events, or high school students. He started as a motivational speaker at the age of 15 and since then has gone on and started more than 20 businesses. Smiles at Sea, an international dent...

Dr. Len Tau is warmly referred to as the reviews doctor because of his dedication to helping other dentists improve their businesses through reputation management and the power of online reviews. Online reviews greatly influence modern consumer spending habits. These reviews determine your business's reputation and whether people can trust you. Patients will look at a dentist's online reviews befo...

Today on the show, I am excited and honored to have one of my good and dearest friends, Matt Deseno. He is a mentor of mine and a successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of many successful and award-winning marketing businesses. He helps businesses market in a more people-focused way. In addition, he is a leader in the SaaS landscape, helping entrepreneurs build and scale their SaaS businesses...

Tanner Chidester isn’t your typical entrepreneur. He is a very successful online entrepreneur who helps other entrepreneurs scale their businesses fast through personalized coaching.   Having built an eight-figure business himself, he understands what others need to do to get there and shares all this knowledge and lessons he collected along the way in his program. He first built the Fit Warrior c...

Back in 2011, the Biz Ninja Show came to life. A Southern California NBC News affiliate asked me to create a show on the topic of small business and entrepreneurship. Since then, I have interviewed over 700 amazing entrepreneurs. Today the show airs on ABC News KMET-1490AM in California on Sunday morning, then releases on podcast platforms and YouTube on Monday morning.   To celebrate this milesto...

Growing up, Mara Smith didn't ever think about being an entrepreneur. She always dreamt of being a Supreme Court Justice, a position someone holds for life. A secure and stable position is quite the opposite of what entrepreneurship entails. She went on to study law and became an attorney in Chicago for a large law firm, followed by stints in a Fortune 500 company and later at Mcdonald's. It was h...

Gerry Cottle has always been an entertainer from a young age. His father owned a famous circus where he used to perform as a clown, juggler, and fire breather. He also used to craft unique events for his friends back in college. He then decided to get some education and experience by working for other people in London in the PR, marketing, and events industry before venturing on his own. Being a l...

Today on the show, we have a former teacher turned boutique chair designer turned online educator.  Wendy teaches how to create whimsical custom chairs - and makes a lot of money in the process. She has made well over a million dollars in 3 years selling online courses. She is also an award-winning author and speaker passionate about helping people live creatively, whether as a hobby or a business...

Having grown up in the deep South Texas countryside, sharing drinks with siblings, parents, aunts, and uncles, Leslie Owensby spotted a gap in the market for wine. Leslie noticed that very few foods are made to travel, so he wanted to create a wine that was accessible to everyone - and decided to make one in a can! But not just any wine… Leslie wanted to make a vegan wine in a can, and the next th...

Having worked for the U.S Department of Defense in 2008, and being deployed in countries in the Middle East and Africa, to falling in love with a British man on deployment, to bouncing around countless jobs on her return back home… ... Julia’s life flipped on its head when her boss asked her to make something work on the company’s website, and once she did it in less than 5 minutes, it sparked an...

Boasting clients such as Elon Musk, Paris Hilton, Kylie, Kendall Jenner, Facebook, The Grammys, The Australian Open, and many more, Jake Munday is not your ordinary next-door entrepreneur. He is an astute entrepreneur who knows a thing or two about using social media and SEO to grow a business to reach a worldwide customer base. Custom Neon, the company he co-founded with his wife, designs and man...

Growing up, Lauren Anderson knew she always wanted to be in a creative career. She ended up in the graphic design field, where she would put on her creative hat. However, life took a different turn when she had a baby with a serious medical condition. Her son underwent his first open-heart surgery at just a week old. Lauren had to leave her graphic design job to become a full-time caregiver for hi...

Tony DiMatteo and co-founder Matthew Clemenson looked for something that was inevitable in technology to become the category king. 7 years ago, they started what is now Lottery.com and took it public via a SPAC. Publicly traded as LTRY Lottery.com allows app users to legally purchase and redeem lottery tickets seamlessly on their phones. But the journey was not all smooth sailing. Going public has...

This week on the show, we have one of the most EXTREME people ever! Meet Tom Rauen… He is a serial entrepreneur running multiple businesses, Guinness World Record Holder, ultra-marathon runner, and overall good guy.   Tom is the founder and CEO of 1-800 TSHIRTS.COM, an Inc. 5000 company But what really sets him apart is that he is a modern marketing specialist. He knows how to leverage publicity t...

This week on the show, we have Jeremy Johnston, a lawyer, entrepreneur, Producer, and the Dad at the popular family vlogging channel, J House Vlogs. To date, the channel has over 2.5 million subscribers and over 3 billion views - very impressive for a family vlog. He shares his story and lessons he has picked through his 8-year vlogging journey, his mistakes, and advice for aspiring YouTubers and...

Pat Hilton is the CEO of Acoustic Force Media. He is a talented musician and does wonders with his acoustic guitar. He has been performing at gigs and events for over 20 years. But he is also an accomplished entrepreneur and has captured the attention of the biggest names in the entrepreneurial world. He performed at the main stage of Grant Cardone’s 10X Growth Conference and other big business co...

Today we are talking about the dreaded S – Word most entrepreneurs don’t want to hear. We are talking about SALES. Mastering the ART of selling is a must-learn skill for every entrepreneur who wants to succeed.  You might have the best ideas and products, but you must sell to someone at the end of the day.  Where a lot of people go wrong is thinking that closing sales is HARD and overbearing.  Our...

Today on the show, we have Aryeh Sheinbein. He is not just your typical serial entrepreneur; he is a wealth genius helping other entrepreneurs invest their money. After finishing school and having an investment job on wall street, Aryeh still continued with his entrepreneurial pursuits on the side. Soon enough, he started receiving requests for financial advice from people around him and fellow en...

Nick Kennedy is a serial entrepreneur with experience building and exiting hugely successful ventures. He won the EY Entrepreneur of the year in 2017. Nick Kennedy's first company that he founded was an Airline. Not the typical first startup. Kennedy learned a lot through the process and shares those lessons in his book The Good Entrepreneur. In this episode, he shares the challenges that are hidd...

The secret to happiness and wealth is to be fulfilled. But many entrepreneurs are neither wealthy nor fulfilled. This is because they spend all their time building their business rather than building wealth through the business. Business is essentially a wealth creation tool, and a means to create the lifestyle you’ve always dreamt about. In this episode, I chat with Portia Jackson. She helps entr...

John Lee Dumas is considered the Godfather of business and entrepreneurship podcasts.  He is the founder and host of the hugely successful and award-winning Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast.  But he is also an author, speaker, business lifestyle leader, and a regular contributor to Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazine. When he was starting out in 2012, podcasting was not as popular as it is today. But he...

If you are a frequent traveler, especially if you take your work with you, you know that having multiple bags can be hectic. Our guest this week found his hands full of bags and quickly realized that he needed a versatile bag that could fit all his business and personal items.   He went to the market and didn’t find one. That’s what inspired Chad Mellen, Founder, and CEO of Knack Inc., to create t...

Ira Gostin is a storyteller. Even before he got into the marketing world, he used to tell stories through his photojournalist career for the Associated Press. He believes that effectively communicating your brand story is the key to success for any entrepreneur.   And telling your story is not as hard as you might think…with some planning, it is possible to pull it off, especially with all the too...

Jeff Rosenblum is the co-founder of the agency Questus and has seen the evolution of advertising. In his most recent book, EXPONENTIAL: Transform Your Brand by Empowering Instead of Interrupting, he reveals the secrets of how iconic brands win new customers and build armies of evangelists. For a long time, advertising has bombarded consumers and interrupted them with 'clever' ads through 30-second...