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Martha Huntley, Founder & CEO - WeGUSH

I am very excited to share this Thanksgiving Day special episode with all of you around the world. In this episode we have the uplifting and inspiring story of Founding CEO, Martha Huntley, who is on a mission to help people expand the expression of gratitude around the world. This innovation platform is the perfect story to help us all think about expressing appreciation more often. However, it's not just for Thanksgiving, Martha's platform continues to expand as users connect and share gratitude 365 days a year. Hear her talk about:

• Why she is so passionate about her company.
• How she found her team members.
• What she learned about sharing her business idea.

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Jamal Motlagh, CEO & Co-founder - Acustom Apparel

 

This is the FIRST time we have had a previous guest on the show for another interview. The reason? Jamal's debut on the show was in March 2015. He gave a revealing interview which led to over 2,500 downloads - our largest downloaded episode yet. Plus, Jamal shares some incredible accomplishments since we last spoke with him about his journey From Founder To CEO. He talks about:

• Opening a new store in LA.
• The process he used to hire a Manager for his LA store.
• The process he is using to onboard his new LA Manager
• What he continues to work on as he matures as a CEO.

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Bryan Miles, CEO & Co-founder - Miles AG

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Chris Ducker, Founder & CEO - Live2Sell / Virtual Staff Finder / Youpreneur

 

The one and only, Chris Ducker,  shares his management and leadership advice in this revealing interview. His journey from Founder to "Virtual CEO" has had some huge successes and a personally challenging time period when he suffered through burnout. Listen as he talks about his journey and these powerful quotes:

• "Nobody has a monopoly on good ideas."
• "A lot of business owners don't have enough self awareness of them."
• "I am a bad manager but I am good at seeing those diamonds in the rough from a hiring perspective."
• "I hire people to do the things that I can't do."
• "I can't manage so I hire people that can manage for me."
• "I hit burnout in late 2009...when I truly became a CEO..."
• "When you hit burnout...it truly is a life changing event...I realized I was micromanaging."
• "Once I started truly acting like a CEO, more and more opportunities have come my way."

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Joseph Kopser, Co-founder & CEO - RideScout

 

• "The three things that I learned most in the military...how to build teams...how to solve problems as quickly as possible...learn not to sweat the small stuff."
• "...it came to...the dark days...the day we only had 729 dollars left in the bank and we had six people who had to pay the rent and make payroll..."
• "...at the end of the day...nobody was shooting at us, nobody was dying, and nobody was getting injured...and so when you put into that kind of perspective it makes the trials and tribulations of startup life a lot easier to tolerate and to weather through."
• "...as an entrepreneur...especially a Founding CEO...you're going to do the moral equivalent of pitching a tent in the dirt in the middle of the desert..."
• "We take our work seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously."
• "You go asking for money and your going to get advice, you go asking for advice and you have a better chance to get money."
• "I truly believe that we can make our communities a better place."
• "I also learned to let go."
• "Just build teams."

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Matthew Miller, CEO & Founder - School Spirit Vending

 

Matt has built an incredible company with a win for schools, communities, and his team members. They sell over 7 million stickers a year while helping schools raise funds. He also talks about how learning personality profiles help him grow as a leader.

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Brian Clark, Founder & CEO - Rainmaker Digital

 

Brian is digital entrepreneur royalty. He has created MASSIVE value for MANY businesses for MANY years and because of that he has earned tremendous success as a Founder and CEO. You may know him for his WILDLY successful copyblogger platform. But, as a leader he has grown that one platform to a multimedia company that contains many brands all under the Rainmaker Digital umbrella - a complete marketing technology platform. As with all our guests, he gets detailed about his personal journey from Founder to CEO and talks about:

• This quote: "Whether you write a word ever, studying copy writing will make you a good business person...because it makes you focus so much on your customers and clients, or prospects..."
• This quote: "I was a great marketer...but, I didn't understand how to manage people..."
• This quote: "I've always had trouble with delegating...back in 2002 to 2005 I was the classic E-Myth case study..."
• This quote: "Letting your team do their job is such a crucial step..."
• This quote: "Every single person in this company, all my partners, all our employees, they came from the audience I created."
• This quote: "Getting talent...that's the whole thing."
• This quote: "Take good care of the people you've got because you don't want them running off."
• This quote: "When you pack your schedule to the brim with meetings and phone calls and and desk work...and don't allow yourself to think, that's when you make bad decisions."

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Steinar Henskes, Founder & CEO - Bird Control Group

He speaks about:

• This quote: "I really took the lean startup approach...I developed a very simple product...sold it to farmers because they were the easiest customers. From the money I earned from that we started to develop more and produce more...so really bootstrapping..."
• This quote: "One trick I discovered....if we had a certain development project...I outsourced to our main contractor..."
• This quote: "I spend my time at hiring, marketing, strategy, and business development...sometimes a little product development."
• This quote: "The sales funnel is not something that I would not want to manage."
• Hiring:
  1. "In the beginning what was very difficult for me was to get the right people on board on the team....I actually learned...that you should aim for the best and do not compromise."
  2. "Just aim for the best."
  3. "I made...some mistakes hiring people who were not very competent..."
  4. "I gave too much responsibility to people who were not up to the job."
  5. "Interns can not be...part of your core team...they should have a project to finish..."
• Granting equity:
  1. "When you are successful as a company...people...want a piece of the pie..."
  2. Use it to "commit people to a longer period of time."
  3. "Do not make the decision too soon."