EDGE with Brandon White

Marty shares why he decided to become a Navy SEAL, what Navy SEAL training is really like and the lessons learned that he's applied to his career after the Navy.  Marty gives tons of things you can use to grow your business and lots to motivate you. About Marty Strong Marty Strong is a decorated retired Navy SEAL officer, and the author of the new business leadership book: Be Nimble: How the...

When Founders are raising money for their company there is a lot of work that goes into getting prepared. From building the pitch deck, five year financial model, practicing the pitch and preparing the team for the fund raising process. In this episode I outline five mistakes I've made and see other entrepreneurs make on their pitch deck and offer suggestions on how to fix them.   CONNECT WIT...

Steffan Dalsgaard Founder of Golden Triangle Ventures(GTV).    GTV is a multifaceted consulting Company pursuing ventures in the Health, Entertainment, and Technology industries, with many additional projects being developed that provide synergistic values to these divisions.  The Company aims to purchase, acquire, and/or joint venture with established entities that management can help assist and...

Building a business is hard, takes a lot of dedication, time and most importantly support from your significant other.  When we talk about our "team" we're often talking about the people who work in our company. Yet, our most important "team" is the one we go home to. In this Friday edition of Having Coffee with Danielle, we talk about our experience and what it takes to h...

I've found that successful Start-up Founders have serveral traits, one is they believe they can do something that sounds impossible to other people. This unwavering optimism allows Founders to take risks that under other circumstances might not seem reasonable.  Unfortunately, this admirable optimism sometimes leads entrepreneurs to take legal risks that they shouldn't take. Listen to th...

Megan Bennett is CEO of national boutique PR agency, Light Years Ahead. They're dedicated to helping businesses, especially small entrepreneurs, build their images, often from scratch. Megan is known in the industry as a fearless and relentless champion of her clients – one who catapulted a small Kansas City company to a quarter million-dollar upswing in sales after getting them featured on F...

Yesterday we published our 200th episode of the EDGE Podcast. We launched the EDGE on Monday July 6, 2020 and we've learned a lot along the way. The name was originally Build a Business Success Secrets. We figured out a few things about using a name that long the hard way, did some introspection, brainstorming and changed it to EDGE. If you're interested in the whole name change decision...

Ian Clifford is CEO and Founder of FuelPositive. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in the fields of technology and marketing and has successfully led FuelPositive to global brand recognition through its unique energy solutions.    From 2006 to today, Ian has raised more than $60 million in equity financing for the Company. Previously, Ian co-founded digIT Interactive, a full-service...

There seems to be a declining work ethic sweeping across North America. Is it a generational thing, a product of COVID, something else? Listen in to Danielle and I talk about it over coffee. About the EDGE's Friday Show Every Friday Danielle Jenkins, founder of Domestic Divas, and I talk show over coffee.   Danielle and I each run businesses doing millions in revenue each year. We grab a coff...

One day 55 days ago I decided I was going to go on a 100 pushups a day streak for as long as possible. Along the way I've learned five lessons about setting a goal, sticking with the goal and achieving your goal. I'm sharing these lessons and offering some high percentage tips (HPT's) for you.     Links from the episode Get the Perfect Pushups here CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly ED...

Murray Hidary is a repeat technology entrepreneur and musician. In his most recent endeavour he has created MindTravel, an immersive, meditative experience that has spanned cities across the world in the form of SilentWalks and “silent” piano concerts In bringing MindTravel to a broad audience through his digital offerings.    Murray’s goal is to create the space for people to have a powerful jour...

As a business owner believing in yourself is one of the most important traits you can have.    What is it about people who believe in themselves? We see it in the way they carry themselves, in the way they converse with others, and in the things they accomplish in their business. You’ll find people who believe in themselves have a lot of traits in common. In this episode we explore those traits. ...

From Deborah's start as a Playboy Centerfold and Covergirl to her life as a Screen Actors’ Guild member and later, achieving the Top 5% in her industry as a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, Deborah Driggs has had to clear many hurdles in life. While it may seem like Deborah’s success came easy to her, nothing could be further from the truth. She has overcome a number of challenges in...

This Friday Danielle and I pick up our conversation from Ep. 189 where we started talking about how and where we invest the money we make from our businesses. Today Danielle lays out her real estate investing strategy. How she got started, alternative financing products, how she manages her properties, what she looks for and more real estate investing high percentage tips.     We want to help you...

You've worked your butt off all year in your business to hit your goals, you're a little excited for the holidays and at the same time a little worn out from a long year. You put the tiredness behind you and start out with an energized holiday spirit. The mere idea of the holidayís sparks joy.    Knowing anything is possible during the season creates a sense of wonder and delight right a...

Setti Coscarella is the CEO of TAAT Global Alternatives. He is building a disruptive alternative to the nearly 1 trillion dollar tobacco market and we're excited to have him on the show. He shaes his lessons learned from growing TAAT as well as lessons learned from his extensive business experience ranging from banking, to entrepreneurship, big tobacco and now TAAT.  Listen in to see how Sett...

Burnout is a real thing that can happen to Business Owners, Entrepreneurs and/or Founders. It creeps up slowely and before you know it you're burning out.  This episode provides three signs that you are burning out. See if you have any of them.    There is a download mentioned in this episode, email Brandon at B @ BrandonCWhite.com with "download 191" in subject line. CONNECT WITH U...

Forrest Dombrow is a serial entrepreneur, author, and a sales consultant with seventeen years of experience in the online marketing industry.    He has worked with hundreds of small- and medium-sized businesses, and has sold millions of dollars in digital marketing services to some of the largest brands in the world including SEO to Amazon and Conversion Rate Optimization to Costco.    This is a f...

Today Danielle and I discuss where I invest my money outside my business. We cover my approach to stock market investing, crypto investing, my Bitcoin bet that I made in 2014 that has paid off big (and the lesson I learned from it), my real estate investing strategy and some alternative investing I do to add some diversity. You can check out Part 2 of this series in Episode 194 where Danielle lays...

Patrick is the Boss man and founder of  KC Cattle Company. He served in the Army in the 75th Ranger Regiment. His favorite Wagyu cut is KC Cattle Company's Wagyu Hanger Steak!     Listen how Patrick transitioned from an Army Ranger to rancher, the challenges of building a cattle company and the unexpected product that changed the company overnight. Forget the Pursuit of Happiness it is All Ab...

ML Moseley is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter out of Valdosta, Georgia. Based in Atlanta, Moseley has written and co-written over 100 songs and currently has a few released. Following the success of her second single, El Dorado, she is currently working on an upcoming EP to be released this year. We talk about how she got into singing and what it's like being an independent music artist. L...

Self limiting beliefs can hold you back. The crazy thing is that some of these beliefs while they seem real, are made up in your head.  In today's epsiode we offer 5 tips on how to overcome self limiting beliefs.  CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF) Brandon writes a weekly email newsletter called EDGE that over 22,000 people rely on for...

Troy and Patrick share how they are coordinating a community of data scientists, climate entrepreneurs, investors, and domain experts to develop open-source data tools for regenerative land-use. By leveraging ecological machine learning models and field observation data they're enabling landowners to participate in carbon markets regardless of their size.   Listen in to hear how they are doin...

We talk about venture capital and angel investor deal terms entrepreneurs and startups can expect when raising money. If you are, or are considering, raising money for your startup this epsiode will give you an overview on what terms to expect and lessons learned. Mital Makadia and David Siegel are Partners at Grellas Shah Law Firm in Silicon Valley. About Mital Makadia  Mital's practice is f...

In Part 1 (epsiode 177) Danielle laid out what she does for her marketing at Domestic Divas Cleaning Co. In part two I lay out what we do for marketing here at the EDGE.   Every Friday Danielle Jenkins, founder of Domestic Divas, and I do a live show called Coffee with Danielle at 8am PST, 11am EST on YouTube and talk all things about running a business. The episode is published here later in the...