Entrepreneurs on Fire

Chris began his career in the sales and marketing industry back in his hometown of London, England. In 2000 he up-rooted himself and moved to the Philippines, where he has resided ever since. In 2010 he started an outsourcing-based company, Virtual Staff Finder, which focuses on match-making busy Entrepreneurs with high-quality, home-based Virtual Assistants in the Philippines.

Forbes is one of today's most accomplished Entrepreneurs, a highly sought-after spokesperson, motivational key note speaker, and life coach to celebrities and CEOs.

Pam is the CEO of Batchbook social CRM, which she co-founded in 2006. She is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company. As a businesswoman and mother, she is committed to running a company that can adapt to the unique needs of both its employees and its customers in order to foster better organization, increased productivity and more balanced lifestyles.

Ryan is the Founder and CEO of OBCIDIO. He is on a mission to disrupt how professionals solve problems, share content, and forge stronger relationships through social communities.

Nichole is the President of SME Digital, the digital marketing division of Social Media Explorer. Her team helps companies figure out where social media fits, and then, helps execute the recommended strategy across the right mix of social media channels.

James lives in Sydney and runs a business called SuperFastBusiness. Lifestyle is very important to James, and he focuses on having fun with his family, looking after his health, visiting new places and growing his business.

Ameena Gorton is a serial Entrepreneur who has started businesses in the Middle East and France. Five years ago, she ditched her corporate suit to share her straight up business and marketing style with the world.

Our guest today might have the most controversial and thought-provoking book of the year. There is huge buzz around Risky Is the New Safe. Its author, Randy Gage, joins us for a talk about how the rules have changed and what it takes to succeed as an Entrepreneur in the new economy.

Entrepreneurship has been Danielle's backdoor approach to having conversations about consciousness. All that fire starting and hustling brought her to a place where she is simply more interested in love and how to apply it in any given situation.

Gabriel Machuret is a SEO expert, Internet Marketer, and full-time Entrepreneur. He believes in people, in dreams, and in passion. He worked as a SEO consultant for over 4 years, helping over 200 clients each year with coaching, link building, and ranking strategies

Ana never thought Internet marketing would be her career of choice, but when she got her head around SEO, she knew she had found her passion. That passion became the centerpiece of her newly popular blog, Traffic Generation Cafe. She is also proud to offer her very special and very thorough blog audits. They don't call her Mad Russian and Tzarina of SEO for no reason, you know.

Barbara's credentials include straight D's in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful Entrepreneurs in the country: she took a $1,000 loan to start The Corcoran Group. She parlayed that loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business which she sold in 2001 for $66 million.

After graduating medical school at age 22, Rosh Khan decided he wanted to be an Entrepreneur and founded SocialRank Media from his bedroom in January 2011. Over the past two years, his bedroom business has grown into a global social media agency. His passionate team at SocialRank Media now works with small and large brands, including some of Fortune 500's. When he's not busy with his agency, he spearheads humanitarian projects in Guyana, South America.

Patrick is the Founder of Think Tank, Portland Maine's telecommuting hub. Think Tank is part of a new wave of shared office space that is cropping up in cities all over the world. Think Tank offers a variety of private offices, dedicated desks, conference rooms, and shared workstations. In addition to founding Think Tank, Patrick also sits on the board of Mensk, a stellar non-profit arts council that generates public arts programming for the city of Portland.

Andrea is a Social Media Coach, Strategist, and Speaker. She helps Entrepreneurs leverage the power of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn to grow their community and increase their revenue. She facilitates Social Media workshops, Facebook Bootcamps, and Facebook webinars, as well as one-on-one coaching and speaking.

Joe Pulizzi is an author, speaker, and evangelist. He is a content marketing expert dedicated to helping companies grow profits by creating better content. In fact, he is one of the Founders of the content marketing ovement.

Hey, Fire Nation! I have a special announcement. I was just asked to speak at New Media Expo in Las Vegas on January 6th, 7th and 8th, hosted by BlogWorld at the Rio. I couldn't be more excited. When some of Fire Nation found out about this, they contacted me and they said, John, we want to do a Fire Nation meetup in Vegas. I think it's a great idea. I'm going to hand the mic over to Chris and Jared, two Fire Nation Igniters and let them tell you more.

Hey, Fire Nation! I have a special announcement. I was just asked to speak at New Media Expo in Las Vegas on January 6th, 7th and 8th, hosted by BlogWorld at the Rio. I couldn't be more excited. When some of Fire Nation found out about this, they contacted me and they said, "John, we want to do a Fire Nation meetup in Vegas. I think it's a great idea. I'm going to hand the mic over to Chris and Jared, two Fire Nation Igniters and let them tell you more.

Erik does a lot of great stuff online. Something that I'm excited about is his new podcast, Beyond the To Do List, which is all about perspectives on personal productivity. He talks with his guests about how they manage their time, prioritize their tasks, and take steps to avoid burnout.

Ric created his dream job: learning and sharing knowledge. He authored the book Social Marketology, a deep-dive on social media and process in marketing. Ric is the Co-founder and CEO of DragonSearch, a full-service digital marketing agency providing service to wonderful businesses throughout the US.

Stephanie Sammons is Founder and CEO of WiredAdvisor.com, a digital leadership platform that is primarily focused on the financial services industry and professional services. Stephanie also consults on how to excel at digital leadership, building online influence and trust, and growing digital equity in the age of social media.

Gary is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Selling author who is also a self-trained wine and social media expert. From a young age, it was clear that Gary was a businessman. At 8-years-old he was operating seven lemonade stands in his neighborhood and by 10 he had moved onto selling baseball cards at local malls.

Woody Woodward dropped out of high school at 16, was a millionaire at 26, and was broke by 27. Within five years of being nearly bankrupt, he built a $30 million company. Listen as he tells you his story.

Alright, Fire Nation! Welcome to another Weekend Jam Session where you ask, I answer to the best of my abilities, and where I can't, I bring in experts from the outside to answer your questions. We're going to start this show off a little different. I'm going to call it The Best Review Segment. Now, if you really enjoy EntrepreneurOnFire, it warms my heart when you go and you leave a 5 star rating and review in iTunes. It really helps with the exposure of the show. It helps EntrepreneurOnFire continue to climb the rankings in iTunes. So it really means a lot to me, Fire Nation. Every now and then, I just get an insanely fun or different review, so I'm going to start sharing those on the Weekend Jam Session.

Fire Nation, welcome to another Weekend Jam Session. I hope you're gearing up or gearing down for the holidays, whichever you prefer, and that you're just really excited to wind down 2012 and then just ignite into 2013. I sent out an email to my treasured Fire Nation subscribers the other day with this question – what do you think is keeping you from starting/stopping/finishing and/or scrapping? And I just left it at that. I really just wanted people to hit the reply button and come back with the first sentence that came to mind. I asked for one sentence, and Fire Nation, you replied in droves. I have a ton of great responses, and I've picked out some of my favorites to run through right now.

Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez & Nikhil Arora. They came across the idea during a class lecture of being able to potentially grow gourmet mushrooms entirely on recycled coffee grounds. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages & fresh, local food, they became full-time urban mushroom farmers and Back to the Roots was born!

PJ Jonas is married and homeschools her eight kids. In 2008 she began a goat milk soap business with her family. That business, Goat Milk Stuff, now distributes soap world wide and has been featured on the TODAY show and in the Oprah Magazine. PJ has a passion for helping busy moms and reaches out with her podcast, facebook page, blog, and tweets. Running her business and taking care of her family keeps her very, very busy. And she loves it.

Dan Miller is the President of 48 Days LLC, which specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He believes that meaningful work blends our natural skills and abilities, our unique personality traits and our dreams and passions.

Jim loves design, user experience, Facebook development, and problem solving. He uses those skills everyday as the CEO for ShortStack.com. With ShortStack you can create custom Facebook Pages, easily add contests, sweepstakes, video, custom forms, and more. ShortStack is used in over 184 countries worldwide and serves more than 450 million fans on Facebook.

Nathalie Lussier found success as the Raw Foods Witch, where she teaches people about the benefits of raw foods. She has since used her tech, design, and marketing skills to create Natalie Lussier Media where she helps small online businesses get off the ground.

VITAband was created by David Waxman and Jason Brown in 2007 and was launched in September 2009. The idea was conceived from a medical ID bracelet, but the designers had targeted athletes. So, they set out to design a medical ID bracelet that was comfortable to wear while running, cycling, hiking, along with being versatile enough to use during exercise.

Sean is the Co-founder of Inspired Marketing, the #1 company that creates digital online training with a focus on social media. Inspired Marketing was just named on the Impact 100 list, which represents the top 100 companies in America that are run by young people. This award includes an invitation to the White House.

Ingrid Elfver is Founder and CEO of Born Celebrity, which has more than 100,000 raving fans from around the world. Over the last 20+ years, Ingrid has worked with thousands of people around the world - from celebrities to startups - in virtually every industry.Ingrid Elfver is Founder and CEO of Born Celebrity, which has more than 100,000 raving fans from around the world. Over the last 20+ years, Ingrid has worked with thousands of people around the world - from celebrities to startups - in virtually every industry.

Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own businesses. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. A quote I pulled from her site that is a Pam Slim original I have to repeat here is, Entrepreneurship at its heart is aligning your purpose for being on earth with a business idea so compelling that you simply must do it, despite the fears that hold you back.

Marcus Sheridan is an author, public speaker and online marketing consultant. He is the author of 3 Self-Help books, Co-owner of one of the largest inground fiberglass swimming pool companies on the East Coast, Professional Blogger, and Founder of The Sales Lion.

Alright, Fire Nation. I've got something a little different for us today. I was interviewed by Rebecca Livermore, who has the podcast, the Professional Content Creation podcast, which actually doesn't air till January. She's currently building her platform, but she wanted to interview me as one of her first interviews. I asked if I could share it with my audience and she said, Absolutely! So here we go!

When Andrew graduated from college, he founded Bradford & Reed, a company that ran a collection of start-ups. After he sold the last big chuck of that start-up, he took a long vacation, spending his days cycling and traveling. Now, Andrew runs Mixergy.com, where he invites proven Entrepreneurs to teach how they built their startups. On Mixergy, he has had the founders of Wikipedia, Groupon, LivingSocial, LinkedIn, and over 600 other fascinating start-ups.

Liz loves fitness. Early on, she realized what works for her works really well for a lot of busy women: quick and efficient workouts, healthy food that tastes amazing, and booty shakin'. Liz provides her clients with tons of workouts they can do from home with little to no equipment, healthy and easy recipes, and plenty of tips and tricks for fitting it all in around their busy schedule.

Guy Kawasaki is the Co-founder of Alltop.com, an online magazine rack of popular topics on the web. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Guy is the author of many best selling books such as Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, and most recently, What the Plus,which is all about Google+.

In 1994, Tammy Levent lost her business and savings in a violent robbery. To keep her home and feed her family, she took a job as a telemarketer until her children, ages nine and two, were involved in a fatal car accident with her grandmother. Tammy saw everything she built her life around disappear within a few weeks. Her story will inspire you, her energy will motivate you, but most importantly, her tactics will show you how to accomplish your biggest goals and your bravest dreams.

Victoria is a Facebook Marketing Specialist who helps businesses and Entrepreneurs use Facebook to connect with more of their ideal clients. Her new site is Marveo.com, and the key services she offers are Facebook Marketing Campaign Management, Facebook Page Production, Online Coaching, and training for people who want to learn how to attract more customers with Facebook Ads and Pages.

Steve Cherubino is the creator and host of Podnutz.com: a podcast network of computer-centric shows. He is also the producer of some downloadable products on the web such as the Laptop Repair Video Collection, Tech Site Builder, and How to Podcast Package. He believes these are of some value to society, but again, Steve is sometimes delusional.

Pam was the Executive Vice President of Content Development for Tony Robbins, where she created and delivered dozens of high-end products, live events and coaching programs. Today, Pam works with both beginners and established experts to create a portfolio of information products and programs that brings in raving customers and serves as a support for their overall business strategy and lifestyle goals.

Every day, Pace will help someone make a difference. She will help someone find their life's purpose. She will help someone connect with themself, connect with others, and connect with Spirit. And through this, Pace will be changed. She rests peacefully at night, because she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is living an authentic and meaningful life.

Ryan Lee is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, speaker, success coach and the founder of ryanlee.com. He started his first web site back in 1999. He grew that one fitness site into a multi-million dollar empire. Ryan is the author of 2 books The Millionaire Workout and Turn Your Passion to Profits. There is simply so much more, but I will now turn it over to the man, the myth, the legend, Ryan Lee.

Jenny Blake is an author, blogger, life coach and sought-after speaker who helps others Wake up, live big, and love the journey. She has been featured on Forbes.com, US News and World Report, CNN.com and was recognized by Suze Orman as a leader among Gen Y. Jenny has spoken at Google, Best Buy, Carnegie Melon (TEDxCMU) and Columbia University — always with rave reviews.

Alright, Fire Nation! We are kicking off another Weekend Jam Session. I am so glad you're joining us today. Let's get right into these great questions that we have.

Stu McLaren is a recognized marketing expert helping business owners sell more by building an online community around their product, service, or expertise. His flagship product, WishList Member, now powers over 42,000+ membership sites and serves to simplify the process of building, managing and monetizing an online community or membership site.

Tommy Walker is the Host of Inside The Mind, a show that fuses internet generation humor with online marketing strategy. Currently he is doing an experiment with crowd-funding on indiegogo.com to get Season 2 off the ground. Also, he is publishing 20+ Guest Posts in 30 days.

American Way Magazine calls Seth America's Greatest Marketer, and his blog is one of the most popular in the world written by a single individual. As an entrepreneur, he has founded dozens of companies, most of which have failed. His latest company, Squidoo.com, is ranked #36 in the US by Quantcast for traffic. It allows anyone (even you) to build a page about any topic you're passionate about. The site raises money for charity and pays royalties to its million plus members.