EDGE with Brandon White

John Lee Dumas is an Entrepreneur, Founder and host of the award winning podcast, Entrepreneurs On Fire.    In a rare sixty minute interview in episode #73 John shares his journey from joining the army, leading a team of tanks in the Iraq war, working in commercial real estate, to starting and turning his podcast into a full time business.     In this episode he shares his tip high percentage tips...

Steve Brown is an author and entrepreneur and in episode 40 explains why Entrepreneurs should write a book, how it has helped him grow his sales and how to do it.   In this short episode he drops his 3 HPT's (high percentage tips) for fellow entrepreneurs. Check out episode #40 for these three HPT's and tons of other how to information about writing a book.   Please support our Sponsors....

Helen Sewart is owner of Coastal Wood Designs in Half Moon Bay, California.    In episode #43 Helen tells her inspiring story of how entrepreneurship found her right out of high school because she didn't having enough money to buy gifts for friends and family. In this episode she gives fellow business owners some advice from her lessons learned starting a business.    Check out the full episo...

 Alan Payne says becoming an Entrepreneur found him when he was working for a grocery store chain that spun off a video rental business in 1985.   As an operator he cracked the code on the business model that allowed them to effectively print cash with 30% plus net margins running the video store rental business. Alan took that business plan, applied it, and starting buying Blockbuster franchises....

Becca Jordan Wright is the Founder of Piedmont Pennies, North Carolina's #1 handcrafted cheese snack.    With a background in management consulting and technology, Becca's love for hospitality and food was finally realized when she launched Piedmont Pennies in September 2020 during the global COVID-19 pandemic.    In this episode she shares her top tips for startup founders.    Check out...

Back from episode #49 where Jenna and Jeremy Chipps shared how they found the courage to sell everything, buy an RV, start a travel blog, and live the digital nomad life.    In this episode they share their top tips for people who want to become digital nomads.    Check out our full conversation in episode 49.  CONNECT WITH US Get Your Weekly EDGE Newsletter. It's FREE. Bottom Line Up Front (...

Tony has had an amazing entrepreneur career. He's sold several companies, raised a record breaking amount in a crowdfunding campaign that went against conventual wisdom of using Kickstarter and offers his top three pieces of advice for fellow founders and business owners starting and growing a company. Find Tony at: RescueTime - Take Back Control of Your Time Tony Wright's Homepage CONNE...

Travis offers his advice for fellow business founders in this short episode. In episode # 97 Travis joined us and shared his incredible entrepreneur journey from being a private pilot, to a dive instructor to smuggling a boat out of a country in South America. If you haven't listened to our conversation about all this, go back to episode #97 after listening to these tips he offers you from hi...

Nancy Connor had a successful career in sales in corporate America and one day decided she had enough and walked out, dropped the mic. The next day she founded Smart Adaptive Clothing to follow her calling. I've known Nancy over three years and she's built a real business. Hear her how I built this story and listen to her Top 3 Pieces of Advice for Fellow Business Owners starting a compa...

Dr. Shannon appeared on episode 106 and shared tons of information about working out, how to do it without destroying your joints and other great workout trips.  Dr. Shannon is an Entrepreneur, Doctor of Physical Therapy, wife and transitioned from owning a cash-pay physical therapy practice to exclusively focusing on creating safe exercise programs for those suffering like she was at an early age...

Kadin has several successful online businesses from selling on eBay to building a YouTube channel, to building an app and using YouTube to promote it, to selling on Amazon. He lays out exactly how he did all if it in episode 9. In this episode he lays out his top three tips for you.   You'll want to listen to the full episode because it's packed with how to information that you can use t...

In Episode# 5 Karla shared her entrepreneurial story of how she used a continual customer feedback loop with a sprinkle of street smarts to build a super successful flower shop and then use that business' cash flow to fund and build other businesses. In this episode Karla drops her top three business tips for fellow business owners.    If you like these, you'll love the full episode! Go...

Jessica has been successful in Direct Marketing not once, not twice, but three times. That's not luck, that's skill!   She was a guest on episode #4 back in July 2020 and lays out exactly how she does all her selling through social media and other online channels. Some of her tips will surprise you how simple they are and how you can put them into practice for your business regardless of...

Whitney was in episode #3 of Build a Business Success Secrets Podcast where she shared her story how she quit a career as a corproate attorney and become a digital nomad.  You'll want to go back to episode #3 and listen to her story and what's she's learned about building a business. In the mean time... Here's her three HPT's (high percentage tips) for you. We love all her...

Kelly McGannon is a sought-after leadership and body language coach with deep expertise in self-awareness/mind-body connection, energy management, strategy, and culture change.  We're hitting rewind while we get ready for the new season with our new name, EDGE, and going back to episode #2 where Kelly explains how to write our own story and how to program our mind to live out the story we all...

Amelia Lin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Saga. The app that records family memories for you and future generations to come. While we're getting ready for the new season with our new name, EDGE, we're hitting rewind and going back to July 10, 2021 with our first espisode where Amelia joined us to share how she went from working with laser diffraction in a lab to getting a marketing job at...

Your health is one of the biggest assest you have when building a business. Take care of your health and you can do things you never throught possible. Neglect your health and your business will pay a price and you will likely not make as much money as you could.   This happens for a lot of reasons, not just because of your own health, but because as a leader you set the example for your whole tea...

Seven sales statistics will help adjust your expectations about selling and help you build a playbook with your sales team to sell more.  In this episode: How how many follow ups it takes on average to get a sale.   How many attempts it takes to to reach a prospective customer.   How many follow up calls it takes to make a sale and then this one thing happens.   35-50% of sales goes to the sales p...

We're changing the name of this podcast to...    Listen to this episode to learn what our new name will be, why we're changing it and all the lessons we learned that can help you when coming up with a name for your business or your new product. And...    How we got our slogan wrong, why it's wrong, what we're changing it to and what you can learn from these mistakes to make you...

The 7 benefits from the experiment I did on myself from quitting caffeine.  The benefits from quitting will inform and inspire you to quit drinking caffeine.  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 edge to achieve their best selves in business and life....

Having a business partner can range from the most amazing experience to the worst ever. The difference between the two outcomes heavily depends on open communication and understanding one another. Getting to this place is hard because it can be really uncomfortable. But... The uncomfortable feeling you have up front asking questions and getting to know one another better far outweighs the pain you...

Jim Hemerling is a leader in Boston Consulting Group’s (BSG) People & Organization and Transformation practices, as well as the firm's behavior and culture topic.  With over 25 years of experience as a senior advisor, Jim has widespread experience leading large-scale transformation programs and cultivating high performing cultures. His work goes beyond short-term results to bring holistic...

One of the top reasons businesses fail isn't because they don't have a great product, service, a big market, or even a product distribution problem. It's because of co-founders disputes. Said another way, the co-founders don't get along and the company goes to hell in a handbasket.     Don't let that happen to you and your co-founder(s). Understand and follow the three dyn...

Becoming a better listener will surly make you a better business owner, boss and more likable. That all translates into more sales and profits for your business. In this episode Brandon breaks down five skills with tips on how you can get started becoming a better listener today. Please support our sponsors that make this podcast possible. The Build a Business Success Secrets Monthly Print Newslet...

Becca shares how she went from management consulting, to getting her MBA, doing an internship at Facebook, getting an offer, turning it down and going all in on Piedmont Pennies.  We talk about if spending the money on an MBA is worth it and do you need it to be an entrepreneur.  She also shares her lessons learned along with some other insights about business.  You'll come away with lessons...