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Episode 183: Entrepreneur Junaid Ahmed provides tips for upgrading your home studio for more impactful Zoom calls and videos. Guest Biography Junaid Ahmed, inspires others to create great video content as a UX designer turned storyteller. Not only does he tell stories through his podcast Hacks and Hobbies, but he has also created a studio optimized for content creation while motivating and teachin...

Episode 182: Co-Founder of Accountable Equity and CEO of VIVÂMEE Hospitality, Josh McCallen talks about free school lunches, using money for good, and investing in resorts. Guest Biography Business turnaround expert and resort rehab specialist, Josh McCallen is a multi-faceted leader in the luxury, residential, hospitality, and real estate project leadership. In the past 20 years, Mr. McCallen has...

Episode 181: Author, speaker, and sales mastery coach, Everold Reid talks about auto sales, salesmanship, and launching an ecommerce company to help local vendors in Jamaica.  Guest Biography Everold Reid is a veteran sales professional and consistent top 1% performer, who continues to redefine achievement in sales mastery in the competitive world of sales and marketing. As a passionate and award-...

Episode 180: Brendan Hsu shares how he's grown his current company Aerial Canvas from $10k/month to $4.7m/annually in a two year span. Guest Biography Brendan Hsu is an entrepreneur with a track record in developing startups into successful cash-flowing businesses. His business ventures include FYXIT, Market U, Aerial Canvas, and Outsource Plug. Currently, his focus is on scaling Aerial Canvas in...

Episode 179: Author Carole Robin shares the lessons behind Stanford Business School's legendary course Interpersonal Dynamics and her new book "Connect: Building exceptional relationships with family, friends, and colleagues." Guest Biography Carole Robin Ph. D. was the Dorothy J. King Lecturer in Leadership, Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows Program and teacher in Stanford University's...

Episode 178: Mark Victor Hansen and Crystal Dwyer Hansen talk about the power of asking questions, money, and finding your purpose to make a bigger impact. Guest Biography Mark Victor Hansen is probably best known as the co-author for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series and brand, setting world records in book sales, with over 500 million books sold. He is also a prolific writer with 307 boo...

Episode 177: High performance coach, David Wood talks magic money, why he became a coach, and tips for setting lasting goals for the new year.  Guest Biography A former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies - including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon - David left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world's largest coaching business. He became #1 on Google for "life coaching", s...

Episode 176: Founder of Tiller Money, Peter Polson shares tips for better tracking your finances in the new year.  Guest Biography Peter Polson has been thinking about better ways to help people with their personal finances for most of his life. He partially paid for college by teaching personal finance software classes for adults, and later by working as an intern program manager at Microsoft on...

Episode 175: An entrepreneur since age 15, Alex Hodara tells us why he created Rocket Club to teach 7 to 14-year old students robotics, coding, and entrepreneurship.  Guest Biography Entrepreneur Alex Hodara is the owner of Hodara Real Estate Group, an investment and development company he founded as a brokerage in 2008. Hodara launched the venture during his junior year at Boston University, hiri...

Episode 174: Entrepreneur John Miles tells us how iWorker, a social enterprise, helps business owners hire talented remote workers and transform workers' lives. Guest Biography John has over 12 years of experience as an entrepreneur running both online and brick-and-mortar businesses. He is the co-founder of iWorker -- a socially focused virtual assistant agency that provides work to hundreds of t...

Bonus episode: This is a rebroadcast of Episode 132, my story about how doing a favor for a friend from Maui has benefited my community many times over. Guest Biography Long-time Chatham resident Andy Wang has brought The Masters of Hawaiian Music Tour featuring Grammy award-winning musicians to New Jersey on multiple occasions. These one-night only performances showcase Hawaii's unique acoustic g...

Episode 173: We reflect on the most downloaded episodes of 2020 to see what we learned. Episodes mentioned: Money, Happiness, and Your Best Self with Coach Mike Bayer From Side Hustle to VC-Backed Startup with Podchaser's Bradley Davis Pursuing a Career that Sparks Joy with The Sasha Group's Maribel Lara How to Be Wealthy Starting at Just $500 per Month with Derek Sivers How Crisis Changed These E...

Episode 172: Beerud Sheth co-founder and CEO of Gupshup and founder of Elance (now Upwork) talks about building businesses, money, and the positive power of entrepreneurship.  Guest Biography Beerud Sheth Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Beerud is the cofounder and CEO of Gupshup, the world's leading platform for cloud messaging and conversational experiences. It is used by over 30K+ develop...

Episode 171: Author, Evangelist, and Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist, Guy Kawasaki talks about growing up in Hawaii, money, cars, and working for Steve Jobs. Guest Biography Guy Kawasaki is the chief evangelist of Canva and the creator of Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People podcast. He is an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), and adjunct professor of the University of Ne...

Episode 170: Wanda He and Eric Yu both work in big tech; but after a weekend life-planning retreat, they set a goal of making $30k per month quasi-passively by 2030. Guest Biography Wanda is currently an Associate Product Marketing Manager at Google & Eric is an Android Engineer on the Instagram Stories team. As a couple, they're working together to generate $30k per month by 2030 in alternate inc...

Episode 169: Godfather of LinkedIn Video, Brian Schulman shares how Linkedin transformed his life and tips for becoming a top LinkedIn video creator. Guest Biography Known as the Godfather of LinkedIn Video and one of the world's top video marketing experts, Brian has been on the Internet since it was green screen and chat rooms, and has 21 years of proven Digital Marketing experience strategizing...

Episode 168: Wil Glavin discusses why the pandemic provided the best time to publish his debut novel "The Venerable Vincent Beattie," side hustles, and investing. Guest Biography Wil Glavin was born in Philadelphia, raised in Manhattan, and graduated Tufts University in 2016, where he majored in English with a concentration in fiction writing and journalism. During his time at Tufts, he wrote nine...

Episode 167: Conrad Edwards, COO at The Basement talks about giving, money, and navigating an advertising agency through the pandemic. Guest Biography Conrad Edwards, COO at The Basement, holds a degree in Architecture from the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He has leveraged that background to craft a career as a big-picture thinker that can tran...

Episode 166: Toronto-based technology and media venture capitalist, G. Scott Paterson talks about money, giving, and information management company FutureVault. Guest Biography Gordon Scott Paterson, better known as G. Scott Paterson, is a Toronto-based technology and media venture capitalist and the Executive Chairman of FutureVault. In the 1990s, Paterson gained notoriety in the Canadian investm...

Episode 165: Medicare expert, Danielle Roberts explains how Medicare works, mistakes to avoid, and how to plan for healthcare costs in retirement. Guest Biography Danielle Roberts is a Medicare expert and the co-founder of Boomer Benefits, a licensed insurance agency that helps baby boomers navigate their entry into Medicare in 48 states. She is the author of the best-selling book 10 Costly Medica...

Episode 164: Mindset performance coach Jarrod Haning says we can think at a higher level to achieve more while working less. Guest Biography You know how when you're in the corn maze and you're not sure if you should go left or right? But, when you step on a ladder suddenly the maze is no longer a mystery? That's what Jarrod Haning does for business owners. By teaching them how to think at a highe...

Episode 163: Best-Selling Author and Career Coach Dan Miller shares his entrepreneurial successes and failures and how he guided his children who also entrepreneurs. Guest Biography Dan is author of the New York Times best-selling 48 Days To The Work You Love   Over 140,000 people have subscribed to his weekly newsletter , his 48 Days Podcast consistently ranks in the top 3 under Careers on iTunes...

Episode 162: Top 100 pop recording artist, SCHARA talks about working four jobs, finding a music label, and pursuing her childhood dream of global pop stardom.  Guest Biography Schara is a pop recording artist from Vancouver, Canada. Born to an East Indian mother and a Portuguese/ Scottish father, Schara was raised solely by her mother, a writer in Film and TV. As a young girl, her home was filled...

Episode 161: Money coach Shell Tain says untangling your money knots are key to improving your relationship with money. Guest Biography Shell Tain, the Untangler, is a money coach who knows how to help people make changes. She knows that improving the way you are with money isn't just about number crunching. Her coaching focuses on how your feelings, beliefs and attitudes about money affect your p...

Episode 160: Joe DiSanto seemingly had it all but chose to walk away from his lucrative business and critical acclaim in order to work less, save money, and spend more time with family. Guest Biography Joe DiSanto has built multi-million dollar businesses, produced critically acclaimed documentaries and an Emmy-winning TV show, invested millions in real estate, and semi-retired at age 43. Now he's...