Strap on your Boots

In this episode I speak to successful business owner Edgar Sierra about being creative and turning a concept into a business. We talk about how he bootstrapped his thriving video production studio and entrepreneurship shop. Edgar discusses the rule of doing versus learning, especially with photography. Finding something you love and having fun is the best part of being creative, without worrying a...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to creative agency founder and entrepreneur, David Feldman. David’s first book, “Small By Design: The Entrepreneur’s Guide for Growing Big While Staying Small,” has been named a bestseller by the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He will share valuable insights and advice on how to successfully build and scale a business. In particular how to grow your busin...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to multi-passionate entrepreneur R.T. Custer about the journey to the American dream. R.T. built his American-made watch company from the ground up with his partner, Tyler, and he learned a lot while starting Vortic Watches. We discuss some of those lessons, as well as how he preserves American history along the way. We also cover how to attract customers to...

In this episode, I want to give you my top four reasons why you shouldn't listen to gurus. These self proclaimed experts in business or entrepreneurship claim they can help you succeed and help you become a millionaire. All for the low low price of a $3,000 to $5,000 masterclass. Don’t fall for it, and I’m here to tell you why. So tune in! This episode is sponsored by the world’s first productivit...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak with CEO & Tech Entrepreneur Gil Mayron about how to use automation to scale your business. Gil is the founder and CEO of Cobot Nation , a global seller of Collaborative Robots (Cobots) specializing in automation for manufacturing and custom engineering. Gil dives into the impact of automation, the exponential potential of Cobots, and more. We discuss the...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak with Author, speaker, executive coach Fred Joyal about boldness and how it's the ultimate life hack. Boldness is a superpower, and most people don't believe you can learn it. But you can, quickly, and it will effect every aspect of your life and your business. Fred is a successful entrepreneur who went from very shy to superbold, and now teaches you how you c...

In this episode I speak to high-ticket mastermind launch advisor Chris Williams from Group Coach Nation about how to sell your expertise to clients. Chris talks about how most people don't want to go through the pain of starting something new and making mistakes, which is why they would pay you to do it right the first time. We also discuss how people think their ideas are amazing, but they don't...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Web3 Infrastructure Builder James Bayly of subquery.network about the fundamentals of building a Web3 SaaS business. We delve into the topics of building a sustainable business in blockchain, and how driving community growth is critical to your success. We discuss the difference between token versus equity projects, Tokenomics, community growth strategies...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Co-founder of Windscribe , Yegor Sak about how to crush your competition in tech with a small team. Yegor is the co-founder of Windscribe, a free VPN and Ad Block that has over 43 million active users. Yegor started and grew Windscribe with zero outside capital and made the business profitable by month two and currently are doing around $3M in annual reven...

In this episode of Future Tech, I talk about why the James Webb Space Telescope images from NASA are just so amazing and incredible. Scientists have compared one of the images that have been released to holding a grain of sand in your hand. This cluster of galaxies known as SMACS0723 is the result of that "grain of sand". That It's over 13 billion years old, and shows us what happened right after...

In this episode I talk with Swire Ho from Garuda Promo about how to create more work life balance. Swire has loved fitness and wellness since his days in high school, and talks about how important it has been to focus on staying active during the pandemic. Swire offers tips such as taking a walk when on a long phone call. He also uses a stand up desk, as do I, so he encourages others to stand up m...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to private wealth advisor Rocco Carriero . For the last 20-years, Rocco has been advising business owners and entrepreneurs with wealth management. His practice currently has over $750M in assets under management. He has been featured on NBC, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes. Check out his book "Three Cords Approach to Life and Wealth Management for Busines...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I talk to Anthony Milewski who is an investing veteran and Chairman of Nickel 28 – a battery metals focused investment company with a focus on metal streaming and royalty agreements. Anthony has been active in the battery metals industry including investing in cobalt and actively trading physical cobalt. Previously, he was a member of the investment team at Pala Inve...

In this episode I want to talk about light speed travel. Not only how exciting it is, but how fast it is, and how it's kind of like time travel. I will also cover NASA's theoretical helical engine which supposedly can travel at 99% the speed of light. For those of you who aren't familiar with light speed travel, of course, we can’t travel 186,000 miles per second yet. But you’re seen it in Star Wa...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Rob Braiman, a veteran who served in the US Special Operations Command and founder and CEO of Cogent Analytics , a consulting firm that helps businesses scale up improving organizational structuring and getting rid of operational efficiencies which are often costing companies millions of dollars a year. Every business owner wants to grow their company. How...

In this episode I speak with Ahmie Baum, who is the founder and CEO of Interchange Capital Partners - a family business that has honed a comprehensive and collaborative process over its 40 years of practice in financial services and is dedicated to helping clients and their families build financial safety nets. He has been named to the Barron’s Top 1,000 Financial Advisor List. In this episode we...

In this episode I speak to Product & Industry Agnostic Entrepreneur Paul Baron who has helped startups market to their customers for years. His main tip is to identify who your customer is and validate your product. Once you do so, engaging with social media is much easier since you are targeting a niche audience. Paul says another important piece of social media marketing is to put together a...

In today's episode I speak to Ioannis Gratsinopoulos , who is an award-winning, Fortune 200 trainer and business coach, an ordained pastor, and a 20-year veteran ministry coach. In fact, he has over 10,000 hours of consulting, training, and coaching within the church and business worlds, with a focus on successfully assisting organizational and leadership transformations. We discuss getting unstuc...

In today's episode of Future Tech, I'm going to talk about what it's going to be like to travel through space on a generational spaceship. If you're not sure what that means, we're talking about the ones you see in scifi movies or shows where there are extremely large ships with 1000s of people. And inside of these ships, it's literally like apartments and kitchens and bathrooms and a gym. Basical...

In this episode of Zero to CEO I speak to Co-Founder of Local , Neil Bedwell. We will explore what change marketing means, how it works, and mostly what it can do for your business. Misery and unhappiness at work is costly, and Neil will help you learn more about using change marketing to help your company culture transform and reduce those turnover rates. 

In today's episode I speak with a former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies – including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon – David Wood. He 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”, serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours across 12 countries. David believes that the tou...

In this episode I talk about the process of getting feedback for your idea, your business, your product, or your app. The reason why I did this episode today is because I'm currently in the process of getting feedback for one of my businesses. The first thing you think of when it comes t feedback, is people coming up to you on the street and asking you to fill out a survey, right? And that's not f...

As a teenager, Seattle native Billy Price suffered a spinal cord injury and became paralyzed from the chest down, losing the ability to move his fingers. Daily tasks became difficult, but using his creative mind and unyielding spirit, he never gave up. He continued on, facing life's challenges with tenacity and determination. Born out of a need, Billy Footwear was founded on the principle of inclu...

In this episode I talk to Charlotte Dunford, who is the Managing Partner of Johns Creek Capital – an investment managing company that focuses on mobile home park investments, with a total investor subscription amount over $4.2M. Numbers wise, they currently have 20 park investments, and Charlotte herself has also created over $500k in asset value in the past 12 months. Charlotte really comes from...

On this episode of Future Tech, I want to talk about what life would really be like on Mars. We keep seeing it in the news. People keep talking about traveling to the Red Planet. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been talking about forming a base station on Mars as a place for us to be able to continue traveling through interstellar space. Mars would be a nice rest stop in space since it does take us about s...