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Guest Bio
Dr. Rick Eigenbrod has spent years exploring what happens when we get what we want and why success, along with gain, acquisition, and achievement, can also bring loss and disruption to our lives.
In addition to a greater understanding of the profound emotional, psychological, and social impact that “success” has on our lives, Rick provides an alternative to the Grand Narrative of success as life’s supreme organizing principle. He offers a framework for choice-making, giving a reliable and enduring source of structure, meaning, and identity as we navigate the uncharted waters of ‘What next?’ and ‘Is this all there is?.’
DescriptionHave you ever achieved a long-awaited goal, only to find yourself feeling unfulfilled or directionless? If so, this episode is for you.
In this thought-provoking conversation, Anthony sits down with Rick Eigenbrod, author of the book "What Happens When You Get What You Want?" to discuss common challenges people face after achieving success.
From discussing the importance of finding enjoyment in everyday life to reframing your mindset from destination-focused to direction-focused, Rick provides actionable advice and insights to help listeners navigate the complex world of success and personal fulfillment.
Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:3:01 Navigating success and purpose: Insights from the speaker’s personal experience.
11:14 Finding purpose beyond money and fame: A personal journey of self-discovery and reflection.
19:54 Why the journey matters more than the destination.
24:38 The importance of introspection and discernment in life choices.
30:30 Success addiction and the cost associated with it.
39:15 The uncomfortable space of spaciousness.
42:47 The importance of rest, finding fulfillment, and declaring “enough” rather than striving for abundance.
50:10 Insights on direction, fulfillment, and self-discovery.
Key TakeawaysInstead of setting a new destination, set a direction in life that focuses on enjoyment and fun.
Ask yourself, "Who am I now?" and "What matters to me now?" to get a contemporary sense of self and what's important.
When running a business, focus on moving in a direction rather than achieving a specific outcome or destination.
Success can sometimes screw up a business, so it's important to stay focused on the direction rather than the outcome.
Have an accountability partner to help you stay focused and motivated.
Quotes20:10 “It's about the journey, not the destination”
14:45 “Fulfilment is an art and I think a lot of people when they transition to different things in life, not just selling a business, that they have to navigate.”
31:49 “That blank sheet of paper is a part of the gift. It's part of the invitation to be reflective, to be aware, to lead a more considered intentional life, to redesign where necessary.”
43:06 “People think that restlessness is a sign that they are ready. And the truth is, according to me, restlessness comes on the other side of readiness not before.”
47:15 “The opposite of scarcity is enough.”
ResourcesWhat Happens When You Get What You Want?: Success and the Challenge of Choice (book)
"Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets
What’s Next The Entrepreneur’s Epilogue and the Paradox of Success Connect with Rick EigenbrodWebsite
Podcast
Connect with the host:Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Finances can be overwhelming when there are so many options and numbers to consider. Should you invest in stocks or bonds? Should you prioritize saving for a down payment on a house or focus on paying off student loans? The list goes on.
However, what often gets overlooked in these discussions is the importance of paying attention to the details. In a recent conversation, we learned just how crucial it is to do your due diligence before making any financial decisions. From the costs of maintenance and insurance when buying a car or a house, to automating savings and preparing for economic downturns, there are countless factors to consider.
In this episode, we'll break down the key issues in financial management and explore how you can maximize your financial potential while avoiding potential pitfalls. So, buckle up and get ready to take charge of your financial future!
Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
2:59 Poor psychological habits are often found in young people between 18 and 35: Ignoring alternatives when paying for college.
5:58 The psychology behind financial decision making and the long-term effects of small decisions
8:51 The importance of paying attention to details in financial decisions
15:13 Why you should start investing early
22:06 The importance of financial responsibility and planning for the future
25:25 Working with a financial advisor to determine how much to invest and how much to withdraw based on one's expenses.
34:39 Tips and apps for budgeting.
37:59 Maximizing contributions and automating savings for financial security and opportunity
41:04 Creating passive income through investment.
52:26 Debt management strategies
55:26 Unlocking the secret to building wealth: Why earning more is just as important as cutting expenses
58:12 How to get your credit card debt to zero
Key TakeawaysPrioritize paying off high-interest debt, such as credit card debt, before considering investments.
Consider getting a second job or delivering pizzas to pay off debt faster.
Aim to have at least six months of savings before investing.
Regularly check your credit score and aim to keep it high to improve your chances of getting approved for loans or rentals.
Focus on improving your financial psychology to avoid getting trapped in a perpetual debt cycle.
Learn from history and prepare for possible downturns or financial emergencies.
Seek advice and consultation when necessary.
Quotes3:26 “The first misstep we take is just kind of blindly going and taking out debt for college tuition.”
21:38 “I think when you really do look at things, honestly, it's gonna naturally impact your spending.”
24:06 “For that delayed gratification to happen, I think what you just said is to find your why.”
39:26 “Start early, start with what you can, and automate it.”
ResourcesRocket Money
Mint
Connect with Noaz Miller
LinkedIn
Connect with the host:Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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David Emerald is the author of the best-selling books, The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) and 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama. He is also Creator-in-Chief of the Center for The Empowerment Dynamic.
David specializes in personal development, leadership education, executive and organizational development, and is an expert at translating his frameworks into simple language for practical application in work and life.
When faced with adversity, we evidently see the roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer, not only in personal relationships but also in leadership, which results in drama. Drama is defined as any thought or interaction that takes our attention away from the desired outcomes.
The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) illustrates the toxic nature of these roles which roots in a problem-oriented approach. Understand that all three roles can be reasonable and appropriate at times, so they aren't necessarily bad; they just limit your potential.
The truth is that we will never be able to completely eliminate organizational drama. Victimization and drama are natural parts of the human experience, but recognizing it earlier and making conscious choices can make a big difference.
In this episode, David takes us on a deeper understanding of the negative impact of DDT in our lives and how we can find our way out using The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) approach and ultimately bring forward the best version of ourselves. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
Understand The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) and how it’s limiting your potential. A leadership perspective on organizational drama. The three dimensions of work. Some daily practices that you can do to start rewriting the rules. Three vital questions you need to ask yourself. How to manage dynamic tensions in 5 quick steps. What the two basic aspects of current reality are. How The Empowerment Dynamic can help you shift to a more positive, constructive, empowering, resilient, and outcome-based.Find The Anthony Sarandrea Show useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode!
Resources:
The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) (book) 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama (book) Creating Your Life by Robert Fritz Where Focus Goes, Energy FlowsConnecting with David Emerald:
Website LinkedIn YoutubeConnecting with the host:
Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedInQuotes:
1:57 "I have a foundational belief, if you will, that all leadership starts with self-leadership, that the way we lead our own lives has everything to do with how we lead in organizations, our families, our communities, etc." 7:25 "Drama is frankly, any thought, any interaction that gets us off the focus on outcomes and what we're trying to create." 13:16 "If we can upgrade our operating system, so to speak, to the outcome-focused, passion-based creative behavior, then that creates the conditions for the antidote to the toxic DDT." 19:44 "I don't want people to hear that the problem orientation is necessarily bad. It's just limiting." 22:47 "This notion that victimization and being in drama is part of the human experience but if we can recognize it sooner, make conscious choices, that's what this journey is all about." 26:03 "Just like in organizations, to say no drama is not realistic thinking that we can always be in those empowered roles is not realistic, but it's about progress. And you can't make the shift without some sort of a pause, practice." 31:18 "See problems as they are, but not worse than they are." 33:49 "Part of the discipline of being a creator is being able to hold this tension and to not react to it." 38:01 "The tongue is the most powerful weapon on the entire planet." 39:38 "All three of the drama roles victim persecutor rescuer, they're not bad. There are times where they may be reasonable or appropriate. It's just that they're limiting."How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and New York Times bestseller Dr. Anna Lembke joins me to discuss how people get addicted to different behaviors, the dangers of social media addiction, and how we can beat our addictions. Dr. Anna Lembke has always been interested in psychology and how the brain works, and as the professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, she knows a thing or two. A clinician scholar, Dr. Lembke has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries where she dives into what makes us tick.
Dr. Lembke also sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, she has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
The Social Dilemma rocked many of our beliefs around social media and addiction and you may recognize Dr. Lembke for her appearances in the Netflix documentary, discussing how social media was affecting our lives and the vast dangers of social media addictions.
She is also the author of Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop and New York Times Bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
What makes social media addictive. How dopamine works and the ways it can hijack your brain. The drugification of everyday life and our increased vulnerability to addiction. The need for government intervention in social media. How governments can limit damaging internet behavior. The science of the ‘lizard brain’ and what causes compulsive repetitive behavior. The similarities between drug addiction and internet addiction. How to detox from social media and quit addictions. The dangers of being addicted to social media. How long do you need to abstain from addictive behaviors for your brain chemistry to reset.Find The Anthony Sarandrea Show useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode!
Resources:
The Social Dilemma Dopamine NationConnecting with Dr. Anna Lembke:
WebsiteConnecting with the host:
Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedInQuotes
02:05 - “Human connection is good, and it also feels good, and the reason it feels good is because it releases dopamine, which is our rewarding neurotransmitter, so then what happens with social media?.” 03:14 - “Social media has essentially drugified human interaction.” 10:12 - “The reason that the platforms are created to keep us engaged is because the longer we’re engaged the more likely we are to interact with the ads. So if there were regulations on advertising that could potentially mean that the makers of these products would be willing to make them less engaging.” 13:48 - “Anything that’s pleasurable will release dopamine, the more pleasure the faster and more dopamine it releases, our brains will immediately try to compensate for that increased dopamine by downregulating our dopamine production and transmission, not just to baseline levels, but actually to below baseline levels so we go into this dopamine deficit state before we go back to equilibrium.” 16:38 - “Understand the neuroscience, and be honest, what is that behavior that we’re overconsuming that is contrary to our goals and values.” 17:23 - “What people, in my experience, are mostly looking for is just to not be for a while they just want to escape and that's a very natural human urge and we've lost the art of finding more adaptive ways of doing that.” 18:46 - “The universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addictive substance are anxiety, irritability, insomnia, depression, and craving but if you can just get through the first two weeks usually people feel like the sun comes out in weeks three and four.” 22:02 - “The smartphone itself has become the equivalent of the hypodermic syringe, it delivers this portable 24/7 hits of dopamine, and quantity and frequency really matter, the more that we’re pinging our brains the more likely we are to get into this addicted brain.” 29:09 - “You really need to do the full 30 days to get to the place where you restore baseline reward pathways and dopamine firing and feel better, and short of that people usually don't see it.” 30:35 - “We live in a very narcissistic culture where we’re preoccupied with the individual, we’re encouraged to be preoccupied with ourselves and I don't really think that’s how we are happy or healthy.”How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Serial entrepreneur Ryan Blair started his first company at the ripe age of 21. By 24, he’d sold it in a $25 million transaction. Not long after, he bought a company on the verge of bankruptcy, with more than $6 million in debt. Within 16 months, he was selling it as a $792 million business. Just 10 years before selling his first multi-million dollar business, though, Ryan was a teen gang member in L.A.
His father, formerly a worker in the aerospace industry, had gotten addicted to drugs, and multiple of Ryan’s siblings followed suit. By the time he was 14, he’d been pushed into a gang to retaliate the murder of his sister’s best friend, and things were moving in a dark direction, fast. That’s when he met his first entrepreneur — the man who would become his mentor and, later, his stepfather.
Having an entrepreneur as a mentor changed Ryan’s mindset and helped (literally) reverse his fortunes. But later on, following the death of his mother, he’d come to determine he’d attributed too much power to new Ferraris and mansions. Ryan was still, essentially, a walking wound of childhood trauma. That’s when the real shift started.
“Through the process of learning forgiveness and learning meditation and breathwork, along with various other modalities, I started to change,” he recalls. “I started to have a different heart and a different energy about me. And people noticed that.”
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On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Ryan talk about how those changes became the foundation for his new company, AlterCall, how he helps others to gain self-mastery, and what it means to be the architect of your own business and life.
What You’ll Learn:
Which MLM myths deserve to be debunked, and what good Ryan has seen come out of direct selling models (11:55) How he created procedures and processes out of his own healing work, and how others use that as a template today (38:03) Why, as a business owner, your emotional state will filter into your business operations, and how to ensure it’s a positive alignment (38:17) And much more!Favorite Quote:
“If you master your emotions and you master yourself, your business is going to be a reflection of that because your business is a reflection of you.”
— Ryan Blair
(38:25)
Connect With Ryan:
LinkedIn
Facebook
AlterCall
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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The Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing, David Meltzer’s mission in life is a simple and also, at first encounter, extremely grand one: to empower over one billion people to be happy.
Recognized by Variety Magazine as Sports Humanitarian of the Year, formerly the CEO of real-life “Jerry Maguire” Leigh Steinberg’s sports and entertainment agency, and the producer of the world’s first late-night entrepreneur show, David is used to having a wide reach. And he’s also, throughout his life, been a believer in owning his mindset, heartset and happiness, and teaching others how to do the same. Growing up as one of six kids with a single mom who worked two jobs, learning to cultivate his happiness was something he learned early on.
“If you find the light, the love, and the lessons of being poor, you have a superpower that other people don’t have,” he says.
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That’s part of the reason why, in 2008, having lost the hundreds of millions of dollars earned in his earlier Silicon Valley career and with his back against the wall, David knew he’d find a way out. Finding ways out of seemingly insurmountable situations is something he coaches others on today, in his No. 1 rated show “The Playbook Podcast,” in the books he’s written, and in one-on-one coaching sessions.
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and David talk about how, exactly, he plans to help a billion people find happiness, the biggest lessons of his multi-chaptered career, and how he learned to control his mindset.
What You’ll Learn:
David’s five daily practices for gaining mastery of your thoughts and emotions (16:39) Why David “starts every day at 9 p.m.” (and what he means by that) (23:09) Why he works with a sleep coach and what impact that’s had on his life And much more!Favorite Quote:
“There is nothing like having nothing to lose. There's no greater freedom in the world.”
— David Meltzer
(9:50)
Connect With David:
LinkedIn
Facebook
Podcast
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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You can’t get good at something unless you’re willing to be bad.
Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, remembers when actor-turned-entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds told him during a cover story interview. Of course, Jason’s heard many a memorable adage from many an entrepreneur in his line of work, some of them famous and others not known at all. But that line from Reynolds hit on something that he, as someone who’s spent much of his career studying them, finds integral to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
“Especially for the kinds of people who are programmed to be entrepreneurs, they have a vision, they’re willing to push themselves into uncomfortable places, they’re students of the things that they’ve experienced — and they know what good looks like,” Jason says. “It’s hard to know what good looks like and know that you are not producing that good. And I also think it’s really, really valuable for that reason.”
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On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Jason talk about harnessing and applying that value. They also talk about where Jason sees the business and ethics of journalism headed, the importance of utilizing local press sources as a new entrepreneur, and how business owners can grow their brands.
What You’ll Learn:
Why adaptability is the No. 1 most important quality Jason has seen in the entrepreneurs he’s studied over the years (7:20) The importance of finding your “wouldn’t go back” moments (12:17) Why it’s crucial to choose team members based on who you want to lose — and not just win — with, according to the advice he got from Maria Sharapova (4:38) And much more!Favorite Quote:
“Failure is data. And as long as you're willing to see failure as data, then every experience has some value.”
— Jason Feifer
(7:05)
Connect With Jason:
LinkedIn
Twitter
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Learning to control and harness brain waves is something yogis and Zen masters have been doing for centuries, with transformative results.
Not only does it make things like healing and stress reduction more accessible — undergoing brainwave “training” can help with personality dysfunctions, reverse critical aspects of the brain’s aging process, increase creativity by 50%, and boost your IQ by nearly 12 points.
That’s all according to one of the preeminent experts in the field, Dr. Jim Hardt. With a degree in physics and a PhD in psychology, Dr. Hardt was one of the first people to, back in the 1960s, start studying the electro-psychological basis of advanced spiritual states. Today, as president and founder of the Biocybernaut Institute, he’s developed a neurofeedback technology that helps individuals cultivate these states while powering their creativity and advancing IQ and EQ. And he does it all by using your brain’s natural alpha waves.
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Dr. Hardt talk about the scientific basis for reaching transcendent states of awareness and how harnessing the power of your alpha waves will make you more successful.
What You’ll Learn:
Why people with high anxiety have lower alpha waves, and where alpha sits on the brainwave spectrum The quantifiable connection between advanced alpha waves and income What Anthony got from a week of alpha wave training and meditation with Dr. Hardt And much more!Favorite Quote:
“Alpha is there in your brain all the time… there are pacemaker cells in the thalamus that run 24/7, urging your brain to be an alpha. And to the extent that you can stop worrying, stressing, doing, and trying, you can respond to that subtle voice from within your brain urging you to be an alpha. You have to quiet the noise.”
— Dr. Jim Hardt
(10:20)
Connect With Dr. Hardt:
LinkedIn
Biocybernaut Institute
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Few people are as formative in our lives as our mothers, and the moms of successful entrepreneurs are often due far more credit than they’re given.
That’s why, for this special episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony wanted to feature “the most important guest” (0:29) he’s ever brought onto the show — his mother. From finding the “teachable moments” in raising four sons to help instill in them a sense of resilience, Mrs. Sarandrea played a crucial role in shaping Anthony and his brothers.
In this episode, Anthony and Colleen Sarandrea talk about the lessons they remember the most from each of their childhoods, why she was a “just strict enough” mother (8:46), and how she taught Anthony to overcome adversity.
What You’ll Learn:
Where Anthony’s “sick excitement around being the underdog” (18:09) comes from, and how he brings that into entrepreneurship today How Mrs. Sarandrea taught Anthony to view his close friends as family Why Anthony didn’t get an allowance growing up (it has to do with the “privilege of being part of a family” And much more!Favorite Quote:
“You can't control what's going to happen to you, and you can't control the responsibilities you have in the world. But you can control your attitude and how you handle it and how you're going to choose to rise above it.”
— Colleen Sarandrea
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Some years back, serial entrepreneur and author Mike Michalowicz was on his third business. And it, like the two businesses before it, wasn’t going well.
“I had two exits early on, both in the tech services space… they were never profitable, and so that meant the valuations got pushed down,” he says. “The third business I started as an angel investor. I sucked. I call myself now, in retrospect, the Angel of Death. I was so bad. Every business I destroyed. But it woke me up to the fact that I was waiting for profit to happen.”
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Mike was making a mistake that he believes most entrepreneurs make.
“I thought one day the switch would flip. If I got that next big client, that was the moment I’d be fine and be profitable. But as I looked at those businesses, I realized that profit isn't an event as I destroyed my third business. It's a habit, and it needs to be baked into every transaction every day.”
(4:30)
That was when Mike started transforming his approach to profit through small, everyday actions. Those actions ultimately laddered into the behavioral management system that’s the basis of his book, “Profit First.” In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Mike talk about the fundamental flaws that most entrepreneurs make in their understanding of profit and the health of their businesses — and how these fundamental flaws can be replaced with Mike’s Foundational Five approach.
What You’ll Learn:
Why the narrative around revenue for entrepreneurs is such a toxic, flawed one Why the psychological key to change, rather than a cold-turkey transformation, lies instead in “continuing to behave in the certain way we’ve always behaved, but now channeling that to drive results” (5:45) What Mike calls the “momentum effect” and the difference it can make in your day-to-day And much more!Favorite Quote:
“Top-line thinking is basically ‘how big is it?’ It’s dick-waving content, to be honest… The new question we’ve got to ask ourselves is ‘how healthy is the business? That’s the big question. And the next time someone asks you, ‘Oh, tell me your revenue’ or ‘how many employees do you have,’ actually say, ‘You know what the better conversation is? Let’s talk about how healthy our business is.’ You’ll see some people pop their eyes open.”
— Mike Michalowicz
(10:50)
Connect With Mike:
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Instagram
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How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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For most brands that have reached household-name status, there’s a perception their origin story must’ve involved a robust line of investors from day one, or close to it. Take the UGG Australia brand. Perhaps most famously associated with early-aughts fashion, there’s little doubt these iconic sheepskin boots, after being cooked up in a boardroom, landed in Macy’s shoe aisles overnight. Right?
The truth, as founder Brian Smith will tell you, couldn’t be further from that.
It was the 1970s, and Brian was an accountant — briefly. The day he graduated with his accounting degree was the day he quit accounting, a field he’d decided he hated. A native Australian and dedicated surfer, he determined that California — with its surf brands and Levi’s jeans and waterbeds — was the mecca for Big New Things, and he wanted to be behind the next one.
“I landed in LAX with my surfboard and my suitcase and rented a little house in Santa Monica,” he recalls. “I spent about a month surfing up at Malibu. I made a lot of friends, but I kept looking and couldn’t find the next big thing. The next two to three months I spent still surfing and making a lot more friends, and it was now October or November, and the water was chilly.”
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Reaching for his sheepskin boots that he’d brought with him from Australia, he realized something: “I just got covered in goosebumps and I thought, ‘Oh s***. There are no sheepskin boots in America.”
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That may have been the moment the idea for UGGs was born. But, as Brian would later go onto write about in his book “The Birth of a Brand,” there was a lot more in store for his business before it’d mature into something that could stand on its own. On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Brian talk about the three years that Brian and his business partner spent selling UGGs out of a van up and down the Californian coast, what changed his mind about quitting the whole project, and the guerilla marketing tactics that would ultimately turn UGGs into a billion-dollar brand.
What You’ll Learn:
How the first six UGG sample boots turned into 500 — and what Brian and his partner did when that 500 produced just 28 orders (~7:15) What led Brian to realize that “in advertising, you have to have emotion and you have to have relevance” — and that the early UGGs ads lacked both (~13:30) How he pivoted and kept UGG from going under just four years after it was founded when the company’s primary investor died in a motorbike accident And much more!Favorite Quote:
“You can't give birth to adults… If you look at the stock exchange page of the Wall Street Journal, every single one of those companies had to start with $1,000. And so with every company, you have the idea, that conception, the birth; buying six pairs of samples was the birth of UGG. And then every business just lies there and lies there and it's really frustrating. And there’s no amount of feeding the baby or jiggling the cradle — it can't get up and go to college. It has to be an infant. But eventually, it starts toddling. And that's when the first true believers are buying your product.”
— Brian Smith
(8:15)
Connect With Brian:
LinkedIn
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Known today as one of the world’s foremost motivational speakers himself, Les Brown came to know about the power of motivational speech early on in life. Living in Miami Beach with his adoptive mom (formerly his foster mom), Les would shine shoes for extra money. One of the men whose shoes he shined would often play recordings of motivational speakers while he worked.
“He listened to motivational material all the time,” Les recalled. “Zig Ziglar. ‘If you give enough people what they want, they’ll give you what you want.’ Jim Rohn. ‘When the end comes for you, let it find you conquering a new mountain, not sliding down an old one’... By listening while shining (this man’s) shoes, it began to expand my vision beyond my mental conditioning.”
Ultimately, this helped Les tap into the realm of what was possible for him in life. Despite being labeled uneducable and mentally retarded as a child in foster care, he’d serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, marry the singer Gladys Knight, overcome stage-four cancer, and become internationally known as a speaker and purveyor of motivation. Language and positive affirmations genuinely have the potential, he says, to change a life’s direction.
“Listening to those motivational messages allowed me to hold a vision of myself outside of my circumstances, outside of the culture that had denied me and demonized me and worked tenaciously to destroy my sense of self. It empowered me to believe that it's possible that, if other people had goals and dreams they wanted to achieve, that I can have them, too.”
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Les talk about the irrepressible power of the human imagination and how nourishing yours through motivational language can help you unlock your most authentic self.
What You’ll Learn:
The affirmations Les starts his day with, and his morning routine Why, after accomplishing one goal, it’s so crucial to find your “next why” (and how to do that) Why Les believes that “once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over” And much more!Favorite Quote:
“Hell to me is what you experience when you die, and you meet the person that you were supposed to become. The work that you were supposed to do as part of your assignment, but you didn’t take the time of self-discovery to find out what the greater work for you was.”
— Les Brown
Connect With Les:
LinkedIn
Facebook
Instagram
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
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We’re in an inflationary environment. Twenty-five percent of all money ever printed in the U.S. was published within the past 12 months. And if you’re able to make the right kind of real estate investment, now’s the time to do it.
That’s according to Chris Hanson, Principal at Hanson Capital Group. Chris got into the mortgage banking business after college, starting first with wholesale mortgages. Then, in 2008, he transitioned toward foreclosures, getting his start in Phoenix. The first property he bought was for $36,000 from the courthouse’s auction steps. He next started working with institutions as an institutional service provider and later lent money across the country on fix-and-flip commercial projects. Today, he feels he’s “run the spectrum opportunistically” of real estate, buying up over 3,000 apartment units and a couple of thousand houses — not to mention his commercial development investments — across the country.
All this is to say: Chris knows his way around the world of real estate. And right now, given the impending recession that’s predicted, he believes now is a perfect time to get in on certain kinds of real estate investments. In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Chris talk about why things like commercial real estate and multi-family developments make particularly secure investments, especially today.
What You’ll Learn:
Why Chris believes the “buying power of cash is going down every day” (~9:30) How he describes his “macro-economic approach” to real estate investing (~12:30) Which markets across the country are currently his favorite And much more!Favorite Quote:
“A house is an investment. A home is where I live. And there's a cost to living somewhere, yes. If I want to make money, I will invest in multi-family assets, industrial assets, or build something. That's how I make money. I don't buy a house to live in to make money.”
— Chris Hanson
(~14:00)
Connect With Chris:
LinkedIn
Hanson Capital Group
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Gary Vaynerchuk knows the importance of brand. Today, as an entrepreneur and internet personality, his take on branding is constantly sought — except, he says with a laugh, by one man in recent memory.
“He shows up to our meeting with the biggest cross on his chest that you’ve ever seen in jewelry form… and he goes, ‘Gary, the problem is I believe in things I can touch,’” Gary recalls. “He was talking about math. And he goes, ‘What you talk about, I can’t touch. I can’t believe in it.’”
(~8:45)
After calmly listening to his critic — “the guy was all mad, thinks that I was full of s***” — Gary broke in: “Do you believe in God?... You’re not touching God. That’s brand. I believe in brand more than any math that anybody here shows me because I know that’s how the world actually works.”
(~9:15)
But building a personal brand — and not just sales funnels — isn’t something that happens overnight. And if it’s going to be a successful one, your brand can’t pull any punches. On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Gary talk about taking a “guns blazing” approach to forging your brand and becoming people’s default.
What You’ll Learn:
How, under Gary’s advice, Anthony made $120K in three hours via a text message Why Gary thinks that 99% of NFT products are going to fail What you need to know about building a personal brand as an arbitrage And much more!Favorite Quote:
“You’ll never trick the market. So when I see something tricking the market, I don’t try to trick the market and make a quick buck. I try to f***ing expose it and have the long-term legacy.”
— Gary Vaynerchuk
(~5:15)
Connect With Gary:
LinkedIn
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Dan Price has, by most people’s standards, a dream job. He travels the world doing what he loves — tattooing people — and has inked more than one celebrity, including the likes of Justin Bieber and Future. (Those wings on the back of Bieber’s neck? That’s Dan’s handiwork.)
The experience of tattooing Bieber, in particular, still feels pretty surreal. He recalls: “I got a call at like midnight that night… I was to meet him at the Versace mansion around 4 or 4:30 in the morning. We got something like a 6 a.m. start and he had to be out at, I don’t know, 10:30 or 11 a.m. to go to L.A. to hit the Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
(~11:30)
As an artist and entrepreneur, taking his career to this level was a conscious choice for Dan that started with him moving to Miami from his native Delaware, thereby immersing himself in a larger market. But even as the requests for tattoos from high-profile clients rolled in, it took him some time to feel like the all-caps Celebrity Tattoo Artist he now is.
On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Dan talk — while Dan is getting a tattoo, no less! — about aligning your self image with your ambitions.
What You’ll Learn:
How Dan got his start in tattooing and why he feels he benefited from old-school training What he’s come to understand about the psychology of imposter syndrome, and how he stopped it from getting the best of him Why he sees the value in “staying awake as long as possible” each night And much more!Favorite Quote:
“Why is the Lamborghini dealership (in Miami) slammed and the Camry dealership and Toyota dealership dead... how do I get my mentality to be so focused and so sharpened that I have the wherewithal to get there? Because it’s possible, obviously. Everybody’s doing it. It’s not all celebrities driving Lamborghinis and living in dope houses. It’s in fact people that do shit you probably think has no lucrative point to it. And people are really making money off of this stuff, just off the focus and just off the passion.”
— Dan Price
(~9:20)
Connect With Dan:
Instagram
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Dr. Jack Allocca’s life has always seen him on the fringe of things, pushing and testing limits.
Today a Neuroscience Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Jack was born and raised in Italy, spending his childhood climbing trees and getting lost in fields (usually while naked) on his grandparents’ farm.
(2:54)
“I was a child that, in some ways, had a lot of free time to experiment with the world, get into adventures, get injured, get infected, smash things and rebuild things, and get electrocuted,” he said. “All these things just turned into a never-ending adventure. And I just kept finding more and more avenues for wonder in the world.”
Ultimately, that thirst and capacity for wonder led him to pursue a PhD in neuroscience — the formal cumulation of years of off-the-beaten track studies. While his background is also in electronic engineering, artificial intelligence and information technology, originally he enrolled in a pharmacology program in England at London’s King’s College, eager to learn about how the body and the “biology of the mind.” That eventually spiraled into Jack getting lost around the world, doing “strange jobs and meeting people” — and doing, in short, a lot of drugs.
For over 15 years, he’s used his own body and mind as a personal laboratory of sorts, investigating the modern use of psychedelic substances in over 80 countries across South America, Polynesia, Africa and Papua New Guinea. On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Jack talk about his adventures, his studies, and how hallucinogens have helped him soak up new knowledge, experiences and wisdom.
What You’ll Learn:
How Jack prioritizes being a “generalist of experience,” having done everything from driving school buses to working as a chef to trying out the adult industry Why he abides by the “80/20 rule” when using psychedelics How the substances he’s done, places he’s been and people he’s met intersect with his academic research And much more!Favorite Quote:
(~29:45)
“The research work I do is like a sport for me — a really extreme sport for the mind and the body, and an art form at the same time. So that you are basically dancing through your own neurobiology.”
— Dr. Jack Allocca
Connect With Jack:
Instagram
LinkedIn
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Josh “Snow” Elizetxe has what some people would call an “open wallet” policy in both life and business.
As the founder of a multi-million dollar teeth whitening business that saw significant growth during lockdown especially, one could make the argument he can afford this kind of lease on life. But it was just a few years ago that Snow Teeth Whitening was just an idea Josh had put $20 behind. Before that, the late-20s founder recalls the days when he was doing everything he could “to make 100 bucks a day.” (~5:15) The youngest kid in his family was “happy being poor,” but he can also remember wanting to help his parents out by buying his school supplies.
Fast forward a few years, and by his late teens, the entrepreneur was already able to buy himself six-figure cars. Buttressed by a “what’s there to lose?” mentality, he makes big bets in business with ease. But it wasn’t until later that he felt secure enough to attain the biggest luxury of all — being 100% himself all day, every day.
On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Josh talk about overcoming scarcity mindset, approaching business like a Rubik's cube, and life as the “cool version of a geek.” (~24:24)
What You’ll Learn:
Why Josh considers himself an “expert generalist” (and how that’s paid off) (11:43) Why he thinks it takes 5-15 years to “build anything worth talking about,” and what he did to speed up that timeline Why trying to will an idea into existence using passion alone won’t work And much more!Favorite Quote:
(~14:45)
“I always tell entrepreneurs, think two years out — who do you dream of being like two years from now? What does he talk like? What is he dressed like? What does he act like? Be that leader today, and you'll have a higher chance of reaching that.”
— Josh “Snow” Elizetxe
Connect With Josh:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator worldwide.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Joe Ducey, aged at just 22, already possesses some valuable insight into what it takes to grow a family alongside a Big Career. With a U.S. governor for a father, those are lessons he learned early, up-close, and at home.
Formerly the CEO of Coldstone Creamery, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey sold the company and left his corporate career when Joe was in middle school. As Joe remembers it, his dad had “never missed a sports game,” despite having such a high-stakes career — and all the free ice cream wasn’t such a bad perk either. Still, Coldstone was expanding into Asia at the time, and Doug had to travel often for work. And, as an ethos that Joe says both he and his dad share, he recognized that “you don’t need a title to lead.” So, Doug left his C-Suite title behind — but not long after, he had the opportunity to lead in a new way by running for State Treasury.
“Before any of this started… he sat us down at the dinner table and put forth a proposal that he’d already talked through with my mom,” Joe says. “I have two brothers, one older and one younger, and he’s like, ‘Are you guys all on board? Here’s the good, bad and ugly of what’s to come.’”
Joe says that, in his family, making joint decisions and having difficult conversations together has always been the norm. The reason, of course, is because they’ve pinpointed their goals, gone after new ones, and managed life’s curveballs (as well as their impact on mental health). And it’s also held even when Joe has disagreed with his Dad politically. The tough dinner table conversations, Joe said, have always brought them closer and cemented that family always comes first.
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Joe talk about what it was like to grow up with a CEO-turned-politician dad, the values Doug instilled in him, and how his experience can serve as a blueprint to other Big Career families.
What You’ll Learn:
How Stoicism has helped Joe cope with the pressures of being a politician’s son Why his two biggest passions are teaching young people financial literacy and promoting honest conversations around mental health (and how his family shares in those passions) How he’s learned to turn fear into gratitude And much more!Favorite Quote:
“The people on Twitter are always talking about my family and me — I had to realize that’s out of my control. And if you stress about things that are out of your control, then you’re going to have an anxiety-filled life. What this person is saying about me, I can’t control that. So I want to focus on, ‘What’s my mission? What are my goals? What can I do about them?’”
— Joe Ducey
Connect With Joe:
LinkedIn
Facebook
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator worldwide.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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As founder and chairman of Insight Enterprises, Tim Crown has built a business that generates $7 billion in annual revenue and employs 7,000 people. And the Fortune 500 company is still growing. Last year, despite the havoc Covid-19 wrought on markets worldwide, Insight’s stocks tripled.
It’s been a 34-year-long journey for Tim at Insight’s helm, one with plenty of learnings. Among these? That anyone can achieve what he has, so long as they’re equipped with four key tools in their belt: “In my opinion, everybody's capable of almost anything with enough practice, dedication, persistence and time,” he says.
But being capable of almost anything doesn’t mean you’ll never fail. Over the years, having been a part of growing more than 100 startups, Tim has seen his share of failure, too. But it’s his attitude toward these failures that, he believes, has ultimately steered him toward his biggest successes. As an entrepreneur, probably the “single greatest thing you can learn,” in Tim’s mind, is not to confuse learning from the past with dwelling on it.
On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Tim talk about “expecting to be excited by failure,” as well as what it takes to be world-class at whatever you put your mind toward.
What You’ll Learn:
Why Tim doesn’t believe in balance Why, if working out isn’t a part of your regimen, you’re missing “that last 10-20% of what you could give the world” Why you can’t excel in all areas of what Time calls the “Big Four” at once, and how he prioritizes And much more!Favorite Quote:
“One of my theories is that if you haven't pushed yourself to failure, you don't know what you're really capable of. How could you? Whether it's athletics, academics, business or relationships, if you're not living on the edge at least a little bit and saying, ‘Hey, I'm out of control and I did fail,’ then how could you possibly know what you're capable of?”
— Tim Crown
Connect With Tim:
LinkedIn
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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Marketers curate their image to death. Their brands overflow with flashy cars, unrealistic promises, and purely superficial imagery. It's tempting to follow their example - but how much more might you stand out if you based your branding, and your style of business in general, on awareness, transparency, and humanity?
Dan Fleyshman is a serial entrepreneur with multiple eight-figure companies to his name ranging from apparel to energy drinks and beyond, and he holds the distinction of being the youngest-ever founder of a publicly-traded company. Dan is also one of the founders of 100 Million Academy, as well as a legendary coach and philanthropist.
On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Dan dig into creating an honest and effective personal brand, the lasting, vital life changes that come when you turn your focus outward and onto helping people who need it, and what a strong, high-level mastermind can do for you personally and for the future of your business. Listen in for an interview that goes deeper than surface-level marketing to give you a refreshing and very necessary reality check.
What You’ll Learn:
How to shift your mindset to remove embarrassment or insecurity about the un-pretty aspects of real-life (because even Michael Jordan has haters) What awoke in Dan when he visited India and saw the number of impoverished people there, and the one statistic that will change your worldview completely Why Dan started his programs on a completely free model, and how that model has translated into more nuanced membership layers And much more!
Favorite Quote:
“I create my brand so that people can pick and choose what they remember... so people when they go share my story, they say, "youngest founder of a public company," or they say "Oh, he throws really fun events. He does a lot for charity." I'm out there telling my story so that people don't make assumptions and guesses about me."
Dan Fleyshman
Connect with Dan:
100 Million Academy
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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