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Kerrie Flanagan is an author, writing consultant, writing instructor for Stanford Continuing Studies and freelance writer with over 20 years’ experience in the publishing industry. She is the author of, The Writer's Digest Guide to Magazine Article Writing along with 17 other books in various genres. Kerrie makes her living through freelance writing, teaching, her books, and consulting with w...

Jason Reminick, MD, MBA, MS is the CEO and Founder of Thalamus, the premier cloud-based, interview management platform for graduate medical education (GME) training programs. He shares a ton of tips for fellow business owners and Founders in this episode. With everything going remote last year, Thalamus played a critical role in ensuring that thousands of medical students were able to schedule and...

Danielle and I talk about how we've been surviving running service businesses during COVID. 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 day.    Danielle and I each run businesses doing millions in revenue each y...

Two-time Emmy winner David Page changed the world of food television by creating, developing, and executive-producing the groundbreaking show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network. Before that, as a network news producer based in London, Frankfurt, and Budapest, he traveled Europe, Africa, and the Middle East doing two things: covering some of the biggest stories in the world and develop...

Nina Barnett is a comedian and Founder. She is CEO of Ninz inc. operating under the DBA, Grooop.    Grooop is a platform designed to make safety more fun, inclusive, intuitive, and non-invasive using service contracts and a mobile app.    Nina is a UNC, Chapel Hill (go Heels!) 2019 graduate with a degree in Physics and Acting with a Mathematics minor. She is a proud member of the Female Founder Co...

Danielle and I lay out what we do and how we do our marketing.  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 day.    Danielle and I each run businesses doing millions in revenue each year. We grab a coffee and pull ba...

An early adopter of LinkedIn, Karen Tisdell recognised the platform’s potential when working as a recruiter. Foreseeing the importance of how business leaders are perceived online, Karen began her LinkedIn profile writing business. A decade later she is ranked as one of the top eight independent LinkedIn trainers across Asia Pacific, and has facilitated training for sales teams in some of the bigg...

As EVP, Global Business Development at Cooley, Carl Grant leads a team of super connectors who are connected to venture capital firms and the technology and life sciences ecosystems.    During Covid, Carl designed Venture Raise to help entrepreneurs find the investors who are the best fit for their companies and get to know connectors who can get them a proper referral to the investor.  Carl Grant...

This week is Part 2 where we talk about what software we use to run our businesses and some of the challenges and solutions we've found.  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.     Danielle and I each run businesses doing millions in revenue each ye...

Cookies were always part of Lauren's life, but she never thought she'd open her own business, bake cookies for a living, much less have three Detroit Cookie Company stores in just a few short years. Lauren shares her story of how she got started and things she's doing to grow her business that's allowed her to expand in a short time period.    Lauren and her team bring the ulti...

Patrick Stewart is CEO of Apricot Lane Boutique – the most popular women's fashion franchise with over 80 locations.    Apricot Lane Boutique first opened its doors in 2007 and in 2008 received the prestigious International Council of Shopping Centers Association (ICSC) as the Hot Retail Concept for Fashion – getting over 70000 votes in favor.    Previous to Apricot Lane, Patrick was Chief Ma...

This week is Part 1 where we talk about what software we use to run our businesses and some of the challenges and solutions we've found.  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.     Danielle and I each run businesses doing millions in revenue each ye...

Alyssa and Melissa are email experts who host the Deliverability Defined Podcast and work at ConvertKit. We talk about about email marketing strategies, the upcoming Apple update and how to approach it, and tons of other tips and tricks about how to level up your email marketing. Links from the show: Get 2 free weeks when you sign up at ConvertKit for being a listener >>>   Deliverability...

Danielle was flat broke, over $50,000 in debt and in a dead end relationship. One day she decided not to let her circumstances define her, took control of her life and turned it around.    Fast forward from the moment of that decision  to twelve months later, she created a company, had a long list of customers, bootstrapped it, and paid off all her debt.  You'll be rooting for her success the...

Adam talks about how he started Ballsy as a side hustle and grew it to over $10 million in revenue in less than 3 years.     About Adam Hendle Adam Hendle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ballsy.  It might be edgy to say this, but it’s no secret that balls are prone to odor, sweat and irritation.    Whether your a guy or gal, we're all effected. Ballsy upgrades a guys balls game with quality long...

Will and Trevor, the owners of Dexter Welding, joined us in episode 48 to talk about how they founded Dexter Welding and how they've grown the company over the years.    In this outake the two of them talk about trusting your business partner, what that means and how to make sure you have a foundation of trust.    Listen to the full episode #48 for their full story and tons of lessons they ha...

Ben and his co-founders of OLark graduated from the famous Y Combinator program in Silicon Valley with the opportunity to raise millions of dollars from investors. They opted not to raise money and bootstrap their company. A decade later OLark is a strong profitable SAAS company.     In this epiosde you get Ben's top tips. For the full story how Ben and the Olark team started the company, dec...

Patrick McKeown is one of the foremost experts on how to breathe correctly. His book, The Oxygen Advantage, was a life changing read for me.  In this episode you get his top 3 tips and in epsisode #31 he lays out a bunch of exercises you can start doing to improve your focus, concentration and even lose weight. This is a must listen to episode for everyone. CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE New...

Joe Mahavuthivanij is the founder of Mythic Markets and is a repeat entrepreneur. In this episode you get his top tips for startup founders. This episode is an outtake from our conversation in episode #26 where Joe shared his story of how his life journey led him to founding Mythic Markets. He met his founders at Comic Con if you can believe that.    Mythic Markets is an investing platform and com...

What is the best legal structure for your business? In this episode you get JJ Childers' top tips on choosing a business structure.  These tips are an outtake from epsiode #7 where J.J , an attorney whose practice focuses on business asset protection, estate planning, and tax reduction, explains the advantages and disadvantages of each type of legal entity.   Check out episode #7 after you li...

Tom McMurray is a retired venture capitalist from Sequoia Capital, angel investor and philanthropist.    In episode #76 we talk about how venture capital works, Tom gives entrepreneurs who are looking to raise money from VC's some things to think about, and shares some great Silicon Valley stories from when he and his partners from Sequoia funded some of the largest companies in the world lik...

Amer is CEO of Celential AI an artificial intelligence platform for recruiting located in Silicon Valley. He formerly was in management at Yahoo and a venture capitalist. In episode #79 Amer and I talk about what it takes to be an entrepreneur, what he calls reluctant entrepreneurs and we talk about the debate of are you born an entrepreneur or can you learn to be an entrepreneur.    Check out epi...

Hall Martin is CEO of TEN Capital and joined us in episode #94 where we had a great conversation about how to raise money from angel investors. If you enjoy these three tips, you'll love the full episode #94. 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 an e...

Steven Dimmitt is an elite level rock climber, entrepreneur, and the host of The Nugget Climbing podcast. Steven had a pivotal moment in his life one day when he felt he was wasting away in his cubicle at work.  He couldn't imagine a lifetime living the way he was...    In this episode he gives his three high percentage tips and in the full episode #121 he shares his whole story, joining us f...

Brian Hahn Co-founded Nomad with his business partner Noah Dentzel nine years ago. They've bootstrapped the company since it's inception. In episode #130 Brian and I talked about how he and Noah have been able to do it and sustain their growth.  In this episode Brian gives his high percentage tips for fellow founders. Check the full episode for a packed discussion about how to bootstrap...