Entrepreneurs on Fire

Jake is the CEO and Founder of ONEHOPE, a company that has a number of beautifully crafted experiences that make a difference. They are one of the fastest growing wine brands in the nation and are now moving into gourmet coffee, chocolate and a number of other products. They are also helping other companies integrate a good cause into their everyday business models.

Nathan is the 24-year-old Founder and CEO of Heyo. Heyo is the most effective social marketing platform for small businesses looking to drive engagement, capture emails, and generate sales on Facebook. Heyo did six figures its first year in business and grew revenues 147% in its second year while raising $2.5 million in funding. Heyo's goal is to serve 500,000 customers by 2017.

Willem is a serial entrepreneur, marketing innovator and speaker. In 2005, he founded Buzzer, Europe's first word of mouth marketing platform. Pioneering social marketing, the company has mastered the art of engaging consumers with brands. He recently launched Buzzable, an innovation accelerator that helps products win by making them truly remarkable; or as Willem would say, buzzable.

Delatorro Mcneal II is a Peak Performance Expert and Best-selling Author of Caught Between a Dream and a Job. He helps people do what they LOVE and get paid for it! He has delivered over 3,000 paid presentations to major corporations, associations, sports teams, small businesses, top-ranked colleges and universities worldwide.

Art is a die-hard entrepreneur and Renaissance man. He founded a software company, which today has its software on most computers. Now, he is widely recognized as being one of the foremost chocolate makers in the world. His company Amano Artisan Chocolate is quite likely the world's most highly awarded chocolate company, with over 150 first place awards since 2007.

Wesley has been an Entrepreneur since the age of 8 and was self-sufficient by the age of 16. Wesley started consulting CEO's of fortune 500 companies at the age of 19. Wesley has now changed his direction in life and has founded A HUMAN PROJECT. His mission: to create a community of empowered youth.

For twenty years, Seth has been a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He recently wrote the definitive guide to raising money at TheSecretOfRaisingMoney.com

In 2012, at the age of 25, Quinn & Jonathon left California to start a social venture in Central America called Life Out of the Box. With Life Out of the Box they work with local artisans in developing countries to create handmade products, and for every product sold they give a child in need school supplies. The customers even get to see the exact child they've helped after a purchase has been made through the Life Out of the Box website.

Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Tom is a West Point grad and Iraq war veteran turned entrepreneur, publisher, and pricing consultant. He's the Author of three books, the Founder of Insurgent Publishing, and you can get inside his brain at TomMorkes.com, where he helps entrepreneurs and artists start, finish, and ship creative projects.

Kevin spent years traveling the country as a dead-broke stand-up comedian - until he discovered how a simple joke formula could be used as a powerful marketing hook and began teaching it to marketers. His new book, The 60-Second Sales Hook, teaches you how to use the power of story to grow your business.

Phil is a developer of disruptive business models, focusing at the intersection of emerging information technologies and consumer lifestyles. He is also an expert business startup builder in the consumer goods channel. He primary focus on lifestyle, health and fashion products.

Misa is a veteran entrepreneur with a passion for customer service. She decided to establish Fosubo based on her experience with her previous business, Nom Nom Truck. Misa is excited to help other businesses improve their customer experience and sales, especially in the telecom industry, where customer satisfaction is key to success.

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With her casual grace and quiet confidence, Jennifer seems the type person who can take virtually any excitement in stride. But when her single, Crush, climbed to No. 1 in 16 countries, selling more than 11 million copies worldwide and going 5x-platinum, even Jennifer admits that the speed of the song's success caught her by surprise. Jennifer's arrival at the top of the charts may have been sudden, but her life in music had been years in the making.

Vernon is the Chief Podcast Officer at Pod Parrot, a highly sought after podcast educator, speaker and trainer. He oversees a small army of audio engineers, designers and transcriptionists under the Pod Parrot brand. Notable podcast clients include ForeverJobless, The Performance Enhancing Podcast and The Startup Jungle Podcast.

Renee is a brain tumor survivor, spirited Author and award winning international speaker of Flip your Flaws ~ Turn Your Greatest Vulnerabilities Into Your Biggest Victories. She Founded 10Carat Goddess Mastermind, a group she took to Necker Island to mastermind with Sir Richard Branson in 2013.

Larry is a CEO, Author, speaker, and former Army Green Beret. As the CEO of Broughton Hotels and Broughton Advisory, Larry has been awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year and has had multiple TV appearances that include CNBC, CNN and MSNBC.

After selling his first business by 23 and then going on to build a 7-figure lifestyle business with his best friend, Nick had all of the markings of a successful entrepreneur. After a dramatic brush with his own mortality, Nick is now shifting focus from simply maximizing profit to maximizing impact.

Tracy is an eco-luxury jewelry designer specializing in bespoke engagement rings, wedding bands and heirloom redesign. Her passion for making the business of jewelry fun led her to found Flourish & Thrive Academy, an online resource and community for jewelry designers. Her mission is to help designers get more of their DREAM clients and raving fans.

Clint is the only mentor in the world who helps Authors, Speakers, Coaches & Entrepreneurs create Celebrity and Unique Positioning using Local TV News & Talk Show interviews. His students -- he calls them Magic Messengers -- have booked more than 1,000 appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates across America, and on major TV shows including the Daily Buzz, Good Morning America, and the Today Show.

Ana runs a no-nonsense Traffic Generation Cafe, where she freely shares advice on getting more web traffic by all free means possible: SEO traffic, social media traffic, and blog promotion, as well as converting that traffic into email subscribers and paying customers.

Akshay is a Marine Corps veteran, adventurer and Author of the upcoming book The Other Side of Fear. While on his mission to run across every country in the world, he runs a location independent business at Existing2Living.com, where he teaches the neuroscience and psychology of how to design your ideal lifestyle.

Cory is the Founder and Chief Monster Hunter at TheAbundantArtist.com, where he teaches artists how to dispel the myth of the starving artist by learning to sell their art online.

Stephen is a Best-selling author and digital marketing expert who helps entrepreneurs eliminate the guesswork behind building an audience, generating leads, and converting sales in a complex digital world.

Dave is the Co-founder of NextDoor Design & Manufacturing, a sourcing company that focuses on supporting small businesses manufacturing in China. NextDoor provides product development and manufacturing resources to design-driven brands so they can focus on what they do best - marketing and selling.

Phil is the Founder of WorldClassEntrepreneur.com, a platform designed to help entrepreneurs build world-class businesses AND have world-class lives. He's spoken at Stanford, is a contributing writer for Entrepreneur.com, and a former national team swimmer. His mission is to actualize human potential and create profound societal change through entrepreneurship.

Chris is a partner in the technology group Atlas Ventures. Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, he was CEO of Vertica Systems, where he led the company to the #1 ranked big data company in the market, and its acquisition by HP in March of 2011. Before that he was an executive at four successful early-stage startups that were acquired by public companies. Quite the track record!

Matthew is the Co-founder of AccountingCoach, a website that helps over one million people learn accounting every month. His new venture, TopAlternatives, helps entrepreneurs find the software they need to scale their business and become more automated.

Nicole is a new media expert who combines the power of social media with savvy online marketing to create socially smashing results for her clients. Having discovered the potential of the Internet to deliver messaging and branding that makes an impact, she helps businesses of all sizes create Facebook advertisements, marketing campaigns and a social media presence that delivers.

Bryan is the Founder of BreakthroughEmail.com, the cold emailing system used by thousands of businesses all over the world. Over the last 18 months, his clients have used his cold emailing system to generate thousands of meetings and close $11 Million in new business.

Julie is the Author of the edgy non-fiction travel memoir Travel, Sex, & Train Wrecks, as well as a Travel Coach with her business A Life More Traveled. She has spent the last seven years teaching and traveling in over 60 countries.

Dave brings out the best in his clients, many of which are the elite and professional athletes you watch on TV every day. He is a highly sought-after mental performance coach who has worked not only at the professional sports level, but also at every other level along the way.

Shawn is a Best-selling Author and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Nutrition and Fitness podcast on iTunes. Shawn Founded Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, a successful company that provides Wellness Services for both individuals and organizations worldwide. Shawn is also a dynamic keynote speaker who has spoken for TEDx, at universities, and for numerous organizations with outstanding reviews.

John networked his way to his dream job at the age of 23: a Writer in the Clinton White House. He has also worked for DreamWorks in the heart of the Silicon Valley and founded his own successful boutique law firm. He has written for Huffington Post and Forbes and is the creator of SmartBusinessRevolution.com, where he shows entrepreneurs and small business owners how to leverage relationships to attract more clients and customers and increase revenues.

Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Mary Beth is shaking up traditional views of financial planning by leveraging technology to work with GenY-ers across the country. Her goal? To help them make smart choices with their money. She is a Certified Financial Planner and the Founder of Workable Wealth. Her expertise has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Forbes and more.

Bobby is a lifelong entrepreneur, investor and student of life. He is a believer in privacy and freedom and fights this fight through words and actions around the world. As a renowned speaker on free-market economics and offshore business, Bobby travels the globe working with like-minded clients helping them properly structure their businesses and their lives to minimize risk and maximize reward.

Kristin is a straight-talkin', super-rockin', wise-crackin' speaker & coach, the Founder of speakSERVEgrow.com, and the Creator of popular programs like Command Any Room, Event Profit Machine, and The Rise Live Event. Using her own 5-step Speak-to-Sell Strategy, she went from unknown and broke baby-mama with a limping business, to being the go-to girl generating over $500K in sales last year - working only 3 days a week.

Bryan has started more businesses than he can count. Recently, he stumbled upon the world of video editing and fell in love with it. Over the last 12 months he's worked with KISSmetrics, Hubspot and Appsumo. His blog is a place where he teaches step-by-step formulas on how to grow your business with video.

Melvin is the founder of The Asian Entrepreneur Magazine, the world's first business magazine that facilitates the Asian startup scene. Having achieved major readership figures throughout Asia, The Asian Entrepreneur has become the leading Asian startup magazine by interviewing hundreds of diverse and influential entrepreneurs and startups based in Asia.

Matt was the 3rd team member at Forward Internet Group, helping take it from a startup to a portfolio spending $100 million a year on Google Adwords. As an expert technical marketer, he helped develop software that gave his clients an unfair edge over the competition. His latest startup, DriftRock, helps brands reach more customers using the power of data.

Jeremy is a sales funnel specialist and the host of the Sales Funnel Mastery podcast. He's worked with some of the Internet's leading entrepreneurs to drive more consistent sales and exponentially grow their businesses by uncovering key leverage points and implementing advanced strategies into their businesses… mostly through automation.

Alex joined Pak Mail's corporate management team in 1994 as Director of Store Operations, and he advanced to VP of Store Operations and International Development, to Executive VP to his current role now as CEO.

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Dr. Stephenson has inspired millions through his YouTube videos, books, and speeches. His book, Get Off Your But, has been released in over ten languages. He holds a doctorate degree and is a practicing Psychotherapist. The Biography Channel did a feature on his life called, Three Foot Giant.

Dave is an author, blogger, speaker, coach, advocate for immigrants and the displaced, and a husband and father. He writes and speaks about how we can find our purpose in the alley: the hard and challenging places of life, and live out our calling.

Felicia is a direct-response copywriter and sales strategy consultant who believes that selling and asking for what we want is more than a transaction--it's about relationships, understanding people, and inspiring action that changes lives.

Despite being completely paralyzed from the neck down, Jon has helped build three of the most popular blogs in the world, collectively receiving over 5 million page views per month. You can get more of his advice for building your own popular blog at BoostBlogTraffic.com.

Natasha is an award-winning artist that has built a successful Art empire in a decade. She now shares her expertise and experience with creative entrepreneurs through her brand Art Career Academy.

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Jonathan is an author, blogger, speaker and career coach. He has spent the last decade counseling, guiding, and directing career professionals on how to pursue meaningful work. Since 2009, Jonathan has been building a portable, lifestyle business through blogging. His 2 primary blogs are: JonathanMilligan.com and BloggingYourPassion.com