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Do you ever wonder why you can't seem to shake your bad habits? What if you could easily drop all your bad habits and adopt all good habits? Wouldn't that make a huge difference in your life? James Clear is fascinated by the science of habit formation. Throughout his diverse career, he has studied ways to drop bad habits and form better ones, and he came on the podcast to talk about how you can de...

Derek Halpern is a blunt, straight-talking New Yorker who tells it like it is. While still in college, he decided to start a celebrity gossip website, but in typical Halpern fashion, he did not do any part of the project half-way. He did a thorough analysis of the market and found a way to stand out in an already crowded niche. As a result, he created a phenomenally successful site which at one po...

A little over a year ago, John Lee Dumas was an unknown podcaster, hustling to get good guests for his new podcast. He barely even knew how to start a podcast, much less run a good one. Today, he has a thriving business based off that same podcast,  Entrepreneur on Fire , and he's interviewed an incredible array of guests, from Tim Ferriss to Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran to Seth Godin. He even  i...

LinkedIn is one of the most powerful social networks available today. But a lot of people find it very confusing. Many people sign up, set up a profile, and then don't know what to do next. They end up abandoning it or wasting a lot of time because they don't know how to use LinkedIn and to make it work for them. That's where my guests Lori Ruff and Mike O'Neil come in. Lori and Mike are known as...

Imagine starting a new professional sports team... from scratch. That's what my latest guest did. Mike Shapiro is the founding partner and current managing partner of the San Rafael Pacifics , an independent league professional baseball team in San Rafael, California. Many years ago, Mike had the idea for starting a professional baseball team to play at a local ballpark where his kids played baseb...

When I first went to work for myself a couple of years ago, one of the first books I read was  Book Yourself Solid  by Michael Port. I don't think I could have picked a better book to read upon embarking on the journey of entrepreneurship. Out of all the various business books presenting different coaching models available on the market today, Michael's book was perfect. It covers how service prof...

Like so many in his generation, Srinivas "Srini" Rao graduated into a horrible job market. Except unlike many, he did it  twice . The first time was after college. Rao graduated from UC Berkeley, finishing up school in 2000 just as the dot-com-fueled Bay Area economy was crumbling. The second time Rao graduated into a recession was after business school, which he graduated from in 2009. Not surpri...

Five years ago, Sean Malarkey was working in real estate in Columbus, Ohio. Today, he presides over a 7-figure online marketing training company and spends his days playing with his kids, surfing, and hanging out around Santa Barbara, California. Not a bad life, eh? In between was a lot of hard work, some ups and some downs, and a lot of success. In this interview, Sean shares it all: what he lear...

When you look up the word "innovation" in the dictionary, there should be a picture of this week's guest. Brian Goodell went from a career in commercial real estate to founding a very successful invention business . That's right - he was an inventor. How often do you meet someone who's business card says "inventor"? And I thought my career history had a lot of variety. Brian actually invented nume...

Caleb Wojcik is one of the three co-founders of  Fizzle  (along with Corbett Barr and Chase Reeves), an online business training program that I've participated in and talked about a little bit on this blog and on  Twitter . Before working on Fizzle and embracing a life of entrepreneurship, Caleb lived amongst the cubicles… working for a large aerospace company. During that time, he actually had th...

If you have a services-based business, you probably know the challenges of running a small business. On the one hand, you have to bring in business . At the same time, you need to serve those existing clients or customers . And while you're doing that, you have to be thinking about bringing in new business . It's a difficult juggling act. Darlene Hildebrandt is a working photographer, teacher and...

Andy Drish had his dream job in his early 20s, working for a Fortune 250 company in marketing. Then a midlife crisis hit, and he threw it all away. He quit his job, broke up with his girlfriend... and even abandoned his puppy (don't worry; the girlfriend took the puppy). Andy then embarked on an entrepreneurial journey, eventually founding Referral Squirrel, a website designed to help Realtors get...

How do you create customers who will rave about your business -- and tell all their friends to check you out? Most small business owners will say it's easier said than done. While there's no secret formula, Marie Forleo comes as close as any entrepreneur to having a magic recipe for creating passionate and engaged fans. Seriously, if she could bottle and sell a potion that creates raving customers...

How do you create customers who will rave about your business -- and tell all their friends to check you out? Most small business owners will say it's easier said than done. While there's no secret formula, Marie Forleo comes as close as any entrepreneur to having a magic recipe for creating passionate and engaged fans. Seriously, if she could bottle and sell a potion that creates raving customers...