The Entrepreneur Evolution

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip in 5 minutes or less! Today we are sharing some inspiration about focusing on the good! When you focus on the good, the good turns to great, but when you focus on the bad, the bad turns to worse. This is such a simple reminder about mindset, positive energy, self-awareness, and mindfulness that relates back to focusing on the good. Good turns to grea...

On today’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Donna Leyens – Presidnet and co-founder of Pumpkin Plan your Biz. Donna is on a mission to save small businesses from extinction, by providing business tools, strategy, training and support to business professionals who want to make a big impact as small business growth strategists. Most business coaches and consultants fin...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip in 5 minutes or less! Today we are going to do some visualization and I want you to dream bigger than your fears by painting a picture of your dream company. The best way to do this is to map out your dream organizational chart – what does your dream team look like? Put everything on your dream organizational chart that you can think of – map out the...

For today’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are joined by Nani Ferreira-Mathews – Owner and Sales and Marketing Director of Thread Coffee Roasters. Nani has been working in specialty coffee since 2012. She started as a barista in a small Brooklyn coffee shop that featured Crop to Cup coffees. There she learned to pour latte art and how to properly brew coffee. She went onto roast...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip! Today’s topic is around setting a process. Here’s the biggest reminder that I want you to think about: you will always be outgrowing your process in your company. That’s what happens when you are scaling your company. Today I want to share with you the four stages in really perfecting your process. Number one, you form. Number two, it storms. Number...

For today’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are revisiting an introduction and story about me, Annette Walter! We have a lot of new listeners and have been getting requests to learn more about my myself and my story so now is a perfect time to reintroduce myself to you all! We would love to hear from you, and it would be awesome if you left us a 5-star review. Your feedback means...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip! I want you to think about what you need to outgrow right now. What are you holding onto that no longer serves you and you are no longer serving? What do you need to outgrow right now? It is okay to outgrow things and as entrepreneurs we outgrow vendors, associations, coaches, team members and many more things. Outgrowing things happens and that is o...

For today’s interview on the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast we talk to Peter Burstein, president and owner of UNITS Portable Storage in Maryland. Peter’s path to owning his own business is a true testament to his entrepreneurial mindset. As a previous real estate attorney, the idea of our possessions and spaces has always been in the forefront of his surroundings. Over two years ago, Peter opened...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip! In today’s tip we are talking about seven common business owner problems. Number one is lack of cash flow. This is a big challenge with business owners and I'm sure you’ve been there - and if you haven’t been there, you will be there one day. You’re always going to go through different growth stages of cash flow management and it’s important to have...

For today’s Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, I am excited to be introducing my newest program, The Team Maker Formula. I want to talk about your team – what’s working and what’s not working - and how we can make small tweaks to grow and scale your business with a stronger foundation. If you have ever had hiring challenges, I am here for you with this program. This podcast will give you more insight...

Welcome to this week’s Express Tip on the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. Here is a question I want you to ask yourself the next time you are at your desk and feeling overwhelmed or stuck in your business. The question is “who’s job am I doing now?” The next time you go to do a task or something in your business, you have to ask yourself, “who’s job am I doing now?” If it’s your job and you’re doi...

For today’s interview on the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, we are taking a detour as we approach the fourth quarter of 2021 and I am addressing an important topic: “Six Questions, One Big Problem.” This will be six questions to ask yourself as you look to reset as you enter the fourth quarter. I also want to share with you a top struggle happening with business owners today and offer you a big t...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip! This tip is about entrepreneur patterns. As I am coaching business owners, I see patterns and it’s interesting how the patterns unfold and how they are uniquely similar with various different business owners - whether you are male or female, have a newer or existing company, or have a small team or large team. No matter the business I see trends and...

Stephynie Malik, founder and CEO of SMALIK Enterprises, is with us for today’s interview on the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. Stephynie is a Crisis Expert and Business Strategist and after starting her first company with just $1,500 and a cellphone, Stephynie is now one of the most sought-after crisis and business consultants for companies like American Express, Nike, and LinkedIn. She has 25+ y...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip - we are happy you are here! Today we are talking about happiness and happiness is the difference between our expectations and reality. Oftentimes we set huge expectations and reality oftentimes will not live up to those expectations in our head and that’s where disappointment comes in and where people’s level of happiness can really differ. I want y...

Today on the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast we are joined by Susie Tomenchok, certified coach who you can find at www.susietomenchok.com . Susie is all about empowering people to speak up for themselves, negotiate, and to find their own power and edge. Having grown up in a large family, she quickly learned the importance of negotiation to get what you want, which eventually translated into a power...

Welcome to this week’s Entrepreneur Express Tip. Today we are talking about conquering the overwhelm. Overwhelm sounds like an overwhelming word - it’s a big word and many people process at different speeds, in different ways and go about things with different strategies. Sometimes when the overwhelm is happening we are swirling in our own thoughts and the best advice I can give to help conquer th...

In February of 2021, we were joined by the owner of Peachtree Versatile Assistants, Raquel Wilson. She shared with us her evolution into the growth of her booming business as it is today, and talked about remote work as an industry. Today we are joined again to get an update from Raquel about how business has been and evolved as the world started to open back up, and what that means for her busine...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. Today we are talking about the small tweaks. It is really important - especially during these seasonal changes - to make sure we are taking a closer look at everything in our business. Sometimes to grow and scale we need to get back in the weeds a little bit. I’m not saying to stay there, but do go back in and re-examine certain...

Camille Burns, CEO of the Women Presidents’ Organization, joined us in October 2020 on episode 29 to talk about her story and growth into the role of CEO, as well as her passion for women-owned businesses. For this episode, we caught up with Camille and talked all about the evolution of the organization since the first interview, and the changes with the business owners that take part in it. We ho...

Hi there, Entrepreneur. Welcome to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. Today is our Express Tip in 5 minutes or less, and today we are talking about growth. We talk about this often, and today I want to specifically call out a quote I got from my attorney on our team, “addition via subtraction.” Sometimes, the way to grow is to subtract. The way to add, is to takeaway. Somet...

In January 2021 we hosted Andrew Buerger for Episode 58 of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. Andrew shared his story as the founder of Climb For Hope, and here we are joined over half a year later (and a re-opening of the world) to get an update on business, life, and industry changes. Listen to learn about his new projects, how his book Carrying a Flag From Pain to Passion relates to finding pu...

Welcome to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast. This is the Express Tip in 5 minutes or less to regroup from your week and prepare to launch into next week. Today’s tip is about identity crisis. Chances are you have had some sort of identity crisis in your business. If you havent had one yet, you may feel like you are going to have one. And you know what this is all surrounde...

We hosted Rebecca Taeff, owner of Redstart Creative on the LIVE show to follow up from our initial interview in episode 35, November of 2020. In this episode, we catch up on her year of business as an entrepreneur and in the creative field. She shares with us many great insights as to what she has noticed has changed or pivoted, and successes the Redstart Team has won over the last year. Tune in t...

Express Welcome to this week’s episode of the Entrepreneur Evolution Podcast, and today we are talking about your hiring process. I’m your host Annette Walter, business growth coach, operational strategist, and growth-minded entrepreneur just like you, growing and scaling my two businesses on the national level. I’m so happy you are here. So question for you: do you have a set hiring process in yo...