Entrepreneur Weekly

As the world turns, entrepreneurs are flourishing.  Joining Alan this week is Jason Brown, founder and CEO of Family Central.  Jason started building chains of retail stores until 1999 when he dove into the digital world and started building digitally native businesses.  Though he was successful in building new companies, he also experienced failure.  As the world was changing with so were the con...

Alan welcomes Liam Martin - Co-Founder and CMO of Time Doctor, Co-organizer of Running Remote Conference and Co-author of Running Remote Book.  Alan starts the show by sharing how as an entrepreneur the need to control everything comes with the territory, yet at the same time he believes the best work comes from an employee that is able to be motivated and inspired with no time stamp.  Lian says t...

Alan welcomes long time friend and muse Pam Golden - President of GLA Communications.  Alan asks Pam if she can explain her long run of success.  Pam summed it up in 8 key points as follows:  #1 -   Never stop learning.  If you don't keep learning and evolving with times you can't help your clients.  Don't stay still.  Keep changing and try new things, move forward with the time and analyze what w...

Entrepreneurs are gonna take over the world!  Alan welcomes Rohan Sheth - Founder of GrowRev.com   Rohan shares how he came into this world with a Golden spoon only to have it gone in a blink of an eye.  Having to move to Canada as a young lad with his parents to start over, he quickly adapted and advanced in the assembly of a fast food chain.  Rohan was offered the keys to the kingdom and denied...

Alan welcomes his first guest Evan Goldberg - Founder and EVP of Oracle NetSuite.  It's a company designed by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.  From 11,000 companies to over 27,000 companies use NetSuite to help with their hypergrowth.  Evan says during this time of dislocation and disruption there is a lot of opportunity.  Companies are being built in the "new normal".  One of the biggest changes...

Alan welcomes James Lawrence, Guinness Book of World Record Breaker and family man.  Author of "Redefined Impossible".  In 2015 he did 50 triathlons, in 50 days, through 50 states.  Why?  He wanted to know his personal limits.  When you reach on mountain top and you see another you want to conquer that one.  Alan asked how he got the name, "Iron Cowboy".  James explained that everything he did was...

Alan welcomes Karen Chupka - Executive Vice President of Consumer Technology Association.  They talk about the Consumer Electronic Show that is coming January 5th thru the 8th in Las Vegas.  Over 1900 exhibitors.  Karen explains that Eureka Park is an area dedicated to start ups.  Entrepreneurs from all over the world, over 34 countries will be represented.  University innovations will be represen...

Alan is joined by Amanda Holmes - CEO of Chet Holmes International.  She is a second-generation business owner.  Her father wrote a bestselling book titled, “The Ultimate Sales Machine. Immediately Alan dives into wanting to know how to increase one’s sales for the upcoming year.  Amanda gracefully turns it around and offers, 3 things holding you back? First, it’s people! Because of COVID, people...

Alan welcomes Roy Sharples  - President, CEO & Founder of Unknown Origins.  Alan inquires about the statement “Philosophy starts in the Bedroom”.  Roy explains in the bedroom is where you as a child dealt with imagination and wonder.  The more you go through life and are able to retain the childlike wonder, helps keep you creative.  Power of creativity.  Picasso always believed that children a...

Alan welcomes actress, author, and producer Mariel Hemingway.  Mariel discusses her doctors.  Dr. Sun, Air, Water, Exercise, Nutrition, Earth, and Rest.  She explains finding your balance and slowing things down so you're able to stay in the moment is the key to discovering who you are.  Mariel believes everything you need to help you can be found in nature.  She reminds everyone that nobody knows...

Alan welcomes long time friend and entrepreneur, Marcus Lemonis - CEO of Camping World, Television Personality, and Philanthropist.  Marcus begins with evolution.  The twist and turns through the journey of life.  From good to bad, we change.  We change our logic to our looks.  Without change and or if you don't acknowledge change, you end up on a dead end street.  Alan shares that the best websit...

Joining Alan on the “steppingstone of wisdom”, is Glenn Stearns, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Podcaster, Philanthropist, and star of “Undercover Billionaire”. Glenn shares his journey as to how he got to be where he is today. Growing up with humble roots, he wanted more and so he and his friend packed it up and traveled to California. It was there he started his mortgage business. From a mortgage busines...

Joining Alan today is his new friend, Sam Malouf -  Co-Founder of Malouf Co. and The Malouf Foundation.  Sam shares that the real engine of his company is the people.  You can't do it all nor do you know it all.  Getting the right people to work for you and with you makes a big difference in the success of your company.  His mantra is, "We Invest in People".  Sam and his wife then moved onto creat...

Welcome back Entrepreneurs!  This show we have a special guest interviewer,  Jennifer Gottlieb, who will be taking the place of  Alan Taylor as he is at the Barrett-Jackson Car Show in Houston, Texas.  Jennifer is at the Venture Fuel Summit in Utah, taking interviews with successful entrepreneurs asking them, "What is your advice for new upcoming entrepreneurs?" First up is Founder and CEO of Grow...

Alan welcomes James Burton, Chief Growth Officer at Personal Capital.  Turning a crisis into an opportunity is the question of the hour.  Alan asks James how do you define a crisis?  James says it's a time of great potential change, coming out of a situation of stress or problems.  James has spent about 30 years in the industry like Schwab and Fidelity.  He loves working close to consumers.  To he...

Listen up Entrepreneurs!  Alan welcomes Lindsay Teague Moreno - Author of WAKE UP! The Powerful Guide to Changing Your Mind About What It Means to Really Live.”  She is also the author of Boss Up! It’s about the idea that there is a replicable set of things that people can do that work across any kind of business.  What do I need to do to start up a successful business? How and where do I even sta...

Alan welcomes Dr. Sanjeev Khagram - Dean and director general of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU Foundation Professor of Global Leadership, and a member of ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability's board of directors.  Khagram discuss the need for a master’s Program in Space Policy. 12 key technologies that are changing this world A.I., MACHINE LEARNING, AR VR XR, BLOCKCHAIN, QUANTUM...

Welcoming Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT:  The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids.  Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives.  She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's because she could...

Joining Alan today is Daisy Dowling - Author of the book WORKPARENT:  The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids.  Daisy is also the founder and CEO of Workparent, an executive coaching and training firm dedicated to helping working parents lead more successful and satisfying lives.  She shares with us about why she wrote the book and that's becau...

Joining Alan this week is David Radlo - Author and business leadership & growth expert for RB Markets-Achieve most. David talks about his book: Principles of Cartel Disruption : Accelerate and Maximize Performance. He talks about how his book is a guide for entrepreneurs on how to negotiate deals. He talks about what it was like negotiating agreements with Fidel Castro. David goes on to talk a...

Joining Alan this week is Scott Duffy - Best Selling Author of Breakthrough. How to Harness the Aha! Moments That Spark Success.  They duo discuss the confusion business owners are having with the new guidelines regarding the use of masks.  At the end of the day, they just want to comply.  Scott talks about the event he is having at the Sundance Resort in Utah.  It's called the Breakthrough Master...

This week Alan welcomes Will Ahmed - Founder & CEO of WHOOP.  It is a high performance wearable device that measures everything about your body and acts as a 24/7 life coach.  It tells you what good and bad behaviors it has.  Will shares how he came about this idea and did a lot of physiological research to find out exactly how to measure and predict what amounts of exercise, sleep and recover...

Mike McDerment - FreshBooks Founder, shares what sparked his business and how returning home to work from his parents basement is where the magic began.  Mike goes on to say that building your team and having them share your values is really important as well as staying focus on your business so it doesn't go the wrong direction. Ryan Alard - VP of Marketing for Digistore24, talks about how he pro...

Keri Ford - CEO of Elevate with Keri & Holistic Life Coach joins Alan today as they discuss the journey of healing oneself.  Alan talks about how he is taking care of business but no his body.  They discuss his keto diet, and Alan shares how he is constantly counting carbs and is afraid of eating things now.  This is a no no, says Keri, this will make you want to eat everything if you put your...

Joann Lublin - Longtime Wall Street Journal career columnist and author of Power Moms joins Alan as they discuss the journey women have taken to become successful business women.  Joann talks about her book and how she interviewed women who are in places of power and are mothers.  From mothers to entrepreneurs, women are making a rise in the business world.  Kristin lee - Entertainment Business Ma...