Young and Profiting with Hala Taha (Entrepreneurship, Sales, Marketing)

Condition yourself to make decisions without hesitation! Because sometimes you need to stop overthinking and planning, and JUST DO IT. This week on YAP, Hala chats with Jordan Paris, a 21-year-old author, Linkedin influencer and podcast host of the popular show, Growth Mindset University. Tune in to discover how Jordan overcame depression and social awkwardness as a teenager, and how he's accompli...

Lead with your heart, not just your head! This week on YAP, Hala speaks with Claude Silver, the world’s first “Chief Heart Officer” and Gary Vaynerchuk’s right-hand woman at VaynerMedia. Claude owns the onboarding, recruitment, retention, and graduation of all the employees at the digital media agency. She is known for leading with her heart and emotional optimism. In this episode, we’ll dive into...

Master your habits and become indistractable! This week, Hala interviews Nir Eyal, a leading export in behavioral design and popular author of “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products," and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life." Tune in to learn about Nir's 4-step hook model to build habit-forming products and strategies to become indistractable to lead more prod...

Shoot your loonshot and nurture your next crazy big idea! In #33, Hala yaps with Safi Bahcall, a trained physicist who has transformed his career every 5 years or so. He’s done everything from business consulting to co-founding a pharmaceutical company to now becoming a best-selling author. In this episode we’ll find out how Safi is able to reinvent himself so often and his tips for getting into a...

Want to become 500x more productive? In episode #32, Hala interviews Steven Kotler, a New York Times bestselling author and leading expert on peak performance and flow. They discuss what flow is, how it impacts our brain and body, and triggers that can hack you into a flow state. Additionally, they cover Steven's new book “Last Tango in CyberSpace, which imagines the future we may be living just 5...

Ready. Set. GOYA!!! Learn how action and attraction brings abundance in this inspiring episode with David Meltzer. David Meltzer is the CEO of Sports 1, a sport marketing firm which he co-founded with hall of fame quarterback, Warren Moon. Additionally, David is an award-winning humanitarian, international keynote speaker and best-selling author. His life's mission is to “make a lot of money, help...

Started from the bottom, now he's here! JT McCormick had an insanely tough upbringing. He grew up dirt poor, raised by a single mother and was the son of a pimp. He started out becoming a product of his environment, barely finishing high school and landing in juvie multiple times. But after high school JT turned things around. Through relentless hard work JT beat the odds and applied his knowledge...

Declutter your way to happiness! This week on YAP we speak with happiness expert and 4x best-selling author, Gretchen Rubin. Her latest book, "Outer Order, Inner Calmer," uncovers how decluttering and organizing your life can make more room for happiness. Tune into this episode to find out Gretchen's secrets to a happy life including decluttering to positively impact your thoughts and emotions, an...

Did you know that video is the best performing content type on most mainstream social media platforms right now? Video is super compelling and connects you to others in a way that words or images can't--- so if you're trying to build a following or grow your personal brand, it's in your best interest to master visual storytelling! Joining us this week is Quentin "Q" Allums, one of the first video...

Dare to disrupt yourself! This week, Hala yaps with Jay Samit, best-selling author of “Disrupt Yourself!” and serial entrepreneur who has been at the forefront of global trends for decades and recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on disruption and innovation. Jay has helped build billion dollar startups, transformed entire industries, and has held executive roles at Deloitte, Sony, Uni...

Get ready to amp up your sales skills! In this episode of YAP, Hala uncovers the laws of selling with Richard Moore, a sales guru and consultant with over 16 years of experience in online, in-person and phone-based selling. Tune in to learn his #RichTips on selling--- like how to create a winning pitch, when to switch from relationship building to selling, how to turn engagement on social into lea...

Ready to get superhuman? In this episode Hala yaps with Peter Jansen, a radio personality and leadership coach who is an expert in biohacking the mind and body. Stay tuned to learn how biohacking trends like nootropics, nutrigenetics and re-wilding can help to optimize your life.   Want to connect with other YAP listeners? Join the YAP Society on Slack: bit.ly/yapsociety Earn rewards for inviting...

Be fearlessly authentic! This week we’re yappin’ with Dov Baron, world renowned leadership speaker and host of the popular podcast "Leadership and Loyalty." In this episode, Hala chats with Dov on a handful of topics related to authentic leadership including vulnerability, emotional intelligence, the stages of individuation, the science behind building a tribe, purpose-driven leadership and more!...

Negotiate like a BO$$! This week on YAP, we’re talking to Christopher Voss, a former leading FBI international hostage and kidnapping negotiator. Now Chris spends his time as an author, professor and coach, teaching others how to apply his learnings from international crisis and high-stakes negotiations to the business world. Chris is regarded as one of the most influential negotiators of our time...

Shoot for the moon! In this episode we’re yappin’ with billionaire entrepreneur Naveen Jain about moonshots or astronomically ambitious projects that address a huge problem, propose a radical solution and use breakthrough technology to achieve the goal. Moonshots like Google’s self-driving car or SpaceX’s goal of humans becoming an multi-planetary species live in the gray area between audacious pr...

The GOAT of productivity returns! This week Hala interviews famed author David Allen for the second time. You may remember him from episode #5, where he covered the five steps of The Getting Things Done (GTD) system in great detail. If you want a refresher or never listened to that episode yet, feel free to go back and check it out. This time time around Hala is yappin’ with David about his genera...

Sell it with a story! We ‘ve told stories for as long as we’ve been human, since ancient times people have used stories to communicate, learn, and connect with one other. Today, storytelling has become a prominent trend in the business as organizations look to enhance brand awareness and loyalty by telling compelling stories about their products and services. Helping us uncover the value of storyt...

Let’s get demotivated! Taking a turn from the usual this week, we’re yappin’ with comedian Mike Winnet, who describes himself as the UK’s #1 Demotivational Speaker. Mike is a successful entrepreneur who sold his last business for multiple millions. He now spends his free time on a parody LinkedIn account making people laugh through his hard-hitting advice and unconventional wisdom. Tune in to hear...

Ever noticed how the best students in school don’t always succeed later on in life? Let’s face it. IQ is important, but it doesn’t always guarantee success. The ability to understand and express emotions also plays a pivotal role in whether make it or break it. In fact, EQ has been cited as the most important factor when it comes to job performance, and a top quality that hiring managers look for....

In 2019, coffee has some major competition —> enter matcha, a green tea that offers caffeine without the crash. Not to be mistaken as just another trendy drink sipped by instagram models, the green tea is jam-packed with vitamins, anti-oxidants and good-for-you-stuff that can prevent cancer, improve focus, make your skin glow, promote relaxation and more! No wonder people love matcha so matcha   I...

Do you even SEO? Still playing by rules you heard 5 years ago? Well, ya better step it up because all the #youngandprofiters are doing it! In this episode, we chat with Deepak Shukla, career coach and founder of the award-winning SEO agency, Pearl Lemon. Deepak has lived a lot of life in his short 33-years. He was an up-and-coming rapper, started several businesses, he was trained as a British sol...

Everything you know about leadership is wrong! Well, not everything, but there are many popular leadership practices that science has proven is not the best approach. Tune into this episode to become a better leader with Kevin Kruse, the Founder & CEO of LEADx.org, a AI-powered leadership development platform with a mission to spark 100 million leaders over the next 10 years. Kevin is serial entre...

Ahoy, Young and Profiters! In this episode we’re yappin’ with Caspar Craven, a man who is famous for sailing around the world with his wife and 3 small children. Caspar is a British entrepreneur, adventurer and motivational speaker who has built several million dollar companies from scratch. He currently spends his time speaking with businesses and leaders from around the world, and helps them bec...

The internet and evolution of traditional products has given rise to a new discipline in marketing called 'growth hacking' or "growth hacker marketing." Products are no longer just physical things, they are software products like apps, platforms and podcasts that have the potential of spreading themselves and playing a role in their own adoption. Growth hackers understand this power of virality, a...

Millennials are known to be the "always tired" generation. Everyone under the age of 40 seems to be exhausted. And for good reason— we're working longer hours, taking on second jobs and side hustles, dealing with more competitive environments, glued to screens and phones that zap our mental energy, caring for small children and the list of stressful triggers goes on and on. In fact, we millennials...