Plan B Success

Jeroen Corthout from Belgium is the co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs. After dabbling in several different things, Jeroen came upon Salesflare from a need to have an easier way to follow up on leads. It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top-rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features. In this episode, Jeroen reflects on his entrepreneurial journey and shares valuable nuggets that apply to any entrepreneur on the lone road.

It's believed that the ego is a concept of self, identifying you as an individual. Then, are you and your ego the same? Why is there a negative connotation associated with your ego? Can your ego not be your friend and work with you to help achieve your goals? Why should it be controlled or let go if it helps identify with self? Tune in and find out!

Have you ever had conversations with yourself? Whether you know it or not, you are perhaps the one person in your life you've had the most conversations with! That voice in your head, you may think it's you, or your subconscious, that's where you have most of your inner conversations. Do you think that all these conversations are to your benefit or can your voice in the head lead you astray? Listen to find out!

Brisbane, Australia based Jeremy Streten is a successful entrepreneur and lawyer, founder & CEO of Business Legal Lifecycle. His passion is to help entrepreneurs & small to medium-sized business owners succeed so that they can live the life that they aspire to. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller, "The Business Legal Lifecycle". He has challenged & changed the way that many people look at lawyers. In this episode, learn how Jeremy questions conventional wisdom through his experiences on both sides of the aisle. Learn about your business maturity by taking the quiz @ https://businesslegallifecycle.com/Planb/

Here's wishing you a stupendous new year in 2021! On this New Year's eve, let me leave you with a secret in plain sight to achieve your goals for this upcoming year. It's great to have lofty BHAGs ( Big, Hairy, and Audacious Goals), but the only way to achieve them is to believe, break them into achievable small goals and go after them with a passion! Listen in, and chart your path to your goal achievement for the upcoming year!

Do you make new year's resolutions each year? How steady are you in keeping them? Do they tend to fizzle out after the first few weeks? Do you believe there is a better chance of keeping them if you ensure they are simple to follow and can improve you a little bit with each passing day? What are your 2021 resolutions and how can you keep them, and measure progress? Listen and find out!

Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. From tracking criminals & terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, Mark has spent his career launching & developing new ventures at startups and Fortune 500s and in academia. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT's "career success accelerator", and created a platform used to teach finance at Harvard Business School. In this episode, we discuss the changes in academia and careers in the new world we live in - pre, and post-pandemic. Tune in!

Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!! Happy New Year!!! It's the holiday season and we are at the doorstep of a new year. With a year gone by, probably a nightmare of varying degrees for anyone; it's hard to believe in holiday magic. But, you must for optimism and hope are the only elixirs that heal the wounds of time and prepare you for the exhilarating ride of life ahead! Believe, experience, and share your better tomorrow.

Having a mentor is considered a blessing since you get to learn from someone who's been there and done that, what you aspire to achieve. However, did you know that it's not always about learning from someone else? Good mentorship is also about inspiring you to look within and make changes that put you on your path for success and fulfillment. And, that can come from anyone and any place. Let's tune in to find out how I find such inspiration in my kids!

Craig Lewis works in the community as a dedicated helper guiding young people to avoid wrong diagnoses, which he tragically experienced. In this episode, Craig relates his unbelievable story of suffering, survival, and transformation, his books 'A Mental Health Recovery Workbook', 'You're Crazy' (featuring 25 stories of punk scene participants and their stories about addiction, mental health struggles, and trauma), and his latest book, 'The Craig Lewis Guide to Surviving the Impossible'. Tune in!

There's been a lot of talk about how hard & smart work improves your chances of success. But, did you know that stepping away from work at intervals helps improve your chances of success dramatically? Yes, stepping away helps! You see, we have misconstrued the definition of hard work, determination & resilience to be drowned in work all the time when it's actually detrimental to your creativity, productivity & motivation. You need to be able to totally disconnect to come back better!! Learn how!

Don't we all have a need to feel secure, and happy on the one end while we may also nurture our very own appetite for risk and adventure? There is an innate need to feel good about ourselves, our surroundings, and the environment where we conduct our daily lives. Some may see it as a pursuit of happiness while others may see it as a coping mechanism for what life throws at you. Either way, it's a need we all have in varying degrees, and find ways to satiate it. How? Let's listen and find out!

Evan Samet founded a company in the secondary ticket resale business, grew it, and sold it. Later, he was part of the Key Investment Group where he helped the company grow in both revenue and resource numbers over 2 years until Covid hit! But, with the advent of unprecedented changes as a result of the pandemic, he had to get creative to not just survive, but thrive! Listen to how he did it...

Money has a very important place in our lives. Whether we accept it or not, it's necessary for our survival and to conduct our lives as we see fit. And, there is a mindset that you need to attune, to ensure you welcome the kind of money you seek. You can either live in fear of it or leverage it as a tool to accomplish your goals and dreams. The choice ultimately rests in your hands. Listen to find out more...

If I were to ask you, "What is that one thing, you believe is the most rewarding aspect of us humans and our lives?", what would be your answer? I believe it's the ability to relate to each other, to be human, to act human, and find immense satisfaction in being of service to another. In this episode, let's reflect on emotional intelligence and its applicability in the current workplace and business environment and understand how you and your teams can benefit from it.

Jason Wright, founder of Intentionally Inspirational, a premier digital marketing automation company that offers strategy, design & ongoing management of ActiveCampaign specific services did not get there easily! He checked all the boxes that were supposed to lead to the American dream - higher education, corporate job, entrepreneurship, failures & starting again! Yet, he never gave up for he didn't want to regret not trying hard enough! With a rock-solid mindset, he helps others achieve their dreams!

Did you know that being stubborn can actually be a virtue? Yes, persistence & perseverance are vital aspects of your personality that can mean the difference between being successful or not. While you can attribute a lot to your talents, skills, intelligence & creativity, it's the ability to stay the course without wavering or getting deterred that makes all the difference! Be that dog with a bone that never lets go. Let me assure you that anything you have your sights set on, you will come out tops!

Did curiosity kill the cat or the crow? The reason for all human progress is curiosity. It's the one thing that keeps the zeal for life, learning, and growth constant in us and ensures we evolve. However, without discipline, this same curiosity can take you down a path of no return and regrets. Then, how do you control and manage your curiosity to channel it for positivity and growth? Listen to find out!

Tab Pierce founded Caliber Security Partners in 2010, along with a partner with the belief that the more they helped people, the better their business and community became. However, when the winds turned turbulent, his partner & many employees jumped ship. With two loyal employees by his side, Tab decided that the only way to succeed was not giving up. Tab's philosophy for life – hard work, honesty, and dependability continues to serve Caliber through the pandemic as it embarks on its best days yet!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! While we are in the midst of a pandemic, there are still so many things to be grateful for; your health, family, relationships, job, roof on your head, food on the table, security, and more... Irrespective of the circumstances, it's important to develop an attitude of gratitude, more as a habit to ensure you hold on to a mindset of positivity, inner joy, peace, and fulfillment. Remember, the power lies within you! Listen in...

Evolution doesn't happen without experimentation. The process of trial and error is the key to growth. And, to facilitate that, you need to have a vision; a vision of what the future could be. This comes from an understanding of your present, the direction you'd like to take in the future, but not just purely informed by your past and present. You also need to define the future through creativity and innovation to lead in your market. And, that comes from experimentation. Tune in!

Drew Boyd, a global leader in creativity & innovation, international public speaker, award-winning author & innovation blogger, and university professor teaches teams, businesses & governments how to solve tough problems to create a culture of innovation & a flowing pipeline. Drew reframes the innovation process in a way that makes people more creative. In this episode, we discuss the importance of transitions for career growth, innovation when thinking inside the box, the art of persuasion & more!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that fears exist and the resolve to face them, no matter what. There is not a person on the planet that doesn't have fears. Then, there are those who let themselves be drowned in their fears while their inaction incapacitates them, and also those that learn to use their fears to motivate themselves to take action. Which kind are you and what can you do to come out tops? Listen in!

So you want to climb the corporate ladder, have a great career, start a business, or immerse yourself in a hobby? You want to learn that language, play that instrument, croon that song or shake a leg to that tune? Whose permission are you waiting for? The most impactful changes in your life come from doing what you want to. And, you don't need to wait on anyone's permission but your own.

Jamie Martin, Founder & MD of Correct Careers Coaching, is an award-winning sales professional, co-creator of a B2B sales e-Learning course, as well as an author, podcaster, and speaker. Jamie is passionate about sales strategy and sales training to help entrepreneurs & businesses improve their processes & revenues. In this episode, we discuss sales psychology, streamlined business sales strategy, and resources, developing employees' sales skills & artifacts used during the sales process, and more!

Problems and Solutions; isn't that what opportunities and our world revolve around? While we are simple beings who think simply, we are also good at surrounding ourselves with complexity. And, in this complexity; we get lost seeking complex solutions while every complex problem finds its key in simplicity. DIve in now to find out how simplicity can be your friend on your journey through your career or life!

GRIT is not just about sandpaper, it's about you and what defines your character and probability of success in reaching your goals. If you have a purpose and are passionate about realizing it, knowing that it will take much perseverance and resilience on your part to make it a reality, then rest assured you have the grit to make it happen. Let me take you on a journey showing you how to ensure clarity of purpose and evolution of your grit through this journey.

Cassandra Rosa, an intuitive life coach & clarity creator helps millennials find the clarity they need to create their dream life and business. In this episode, she shares her story and how she helps her clients unchain from what's holding them back from making their dreams a reality. Cassandra is also a Reiki Master, an award-winning speaker, a member of Toastmasters International, and the author of Now What: Create the Clarity to Achieve Your Dreams.

Innovation and Discovery have often been confused. What you might perceive as path-breaking innovation may just be a discovery or morphing of a previous one with a new use case! In this episode, we discuss the same related to healthcare and its distribution in the US, pre and post the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Listen in!

You can work hard and you can work smart! You can toil away in search of your success, and yet it evades you! So, where and how can you find success? The answer doesn't lie in your search for success but in changing your direction to pursue something else. Listen to find out!

How do you ride the wave of upheaval caused by the pandemic? What strategies can you follow to continue to earn & save enough, while securing your family's future? How do you maximize return on your finances and lay the road to a rewarding life & financial success? These questions and more are answered in this power-packed episode with Derick Van Ness, Founder @ Big Life Financial whose mission is to help you maximize your return on investments so you can have a better return on your emotions!

When was the last time you felt a surge of creative abandon flowing through your veins; longed to pick up that laptop & start typing, get that instrument out & start playing or seize that brush & start painting on the canvas? Everyone has some level of creativity; the rest is learned through experiences. What's required is an open mind & a free spirit to not be judgmental and let it flow! Innovation, more than a gift is the application of what you know & have learned throughout your life. Agree?

What differentiates you from the crowd? Your imagination and what you do with it! Your potential is only limited by what you can imagine and how much you strive to make it real. You can either let your imagination run wild, unbridled where you hardly harness anything out of it except for perhaps, daydream or you can rein in those horses to make your imagination work for you. How? Tune in to find out!

Tim Fitzpatrick, with 20+ years experience in marketing & business development leads Rialto Marketing, an organization that focuses on helping clients take the guesswork out of marketing so they can grow their business. In this episode, we discuss the need for clarity on the fundamentals of marketing for a growing business, and how to get the best ROI when generating higher quality leads, increasing conversions, increasing profits and creating repeat customers. Tune in now! If you are a Plan B Success listener, go here for some free goodies!

Where does the key to your happiness lie? Right there, in finding balance in your body, mind and spirit. Being wealthy and living wealthy are two different things. Yet, many end up chasing wealth when they always had it within themselves to live wealthy! Listen to find out how!

Consistency is the key to success! It's the elixir that gets you through the tough times when the vision is still unclear and unrealized, and all you know is that it will get clearer over time. It keeps you going when the going gets tough. If you stick through your endeavor despite the challenges, the ups and downs, you will surely come out tops. On this 200th episode, I share my podcasting journey with you. Listen in to hear my story!

Serial entrepreneur, advertising & digital media expert, podcaster and YouTube host, Christian Lovrecich is a digital renaissance man. On a mission to help businesses scale from 6 to 7, 8 figures or higher, harnessing the full power of Facebook ads, he helps his clients cut through the noise fast & simple, leaving the competition wondering, "Boy, what just happened?" Every week, he shares his latest marketing & advertising insights through his YouTube channel Pixlfeed and his podcast. Listen in!

No amount of planning can guarantee results! You know that. But, to ensure you get the best results possible, you need to be planned and prepared. The true test of how you will fare will only be known when you take action and execute. Then, the rubber meets the road and you will know whether you will fare smoothly as planned or face challenges that you have to creatively tackle to stay on course. Execution is the deciding factor in outcomes, though planning and preparing help to get it there! Agree?

Don't we all look for a return on anything we invest our time, money or energy into? Well, the right thing to do is to work on maximizing your return on the input, no doubt! But, when it comes to return on investment (ROI) vs. return on emotions (ROE), what would you rather invest in and expect to maximize? Would you rather make more money or have a better quality of life, relationships and long term prospects of a fulfilled existence? Let's find out!

Ryan Mason, one of Yahoo's Top 12 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2020, is the Founder & CEO of Luxe Brand, a luxury shoelace provider featured on Good Morning America, NFL Network, Foot Locker, and on over 30 athletes & celebrities. He also leads BizBuzz Digital, a provider of integrated marketing automation services to over 250 small and medium-sized businesses. An erstwhile NFL player, Larry Mason's son; Ryan shifted focus from a prospective football career to business. Let's tune in to hear his story...

Have you ever been passed over for a promotion or not chosen for a job despite your impeccable credentials? Have you ever felt that you're doing your very best but, not going anywhere? That could be the glass ceiling you're hitting where you can see the other side, just can't seem to reach in no matter how hard you try. And yes, it hurts and is not right! There's progress being made to improve the situation, but just not fast enough. And, despite which side of the glass you are on, you should care! Agree?

How do you excel at school and come out tops in your studies? How do you launch and grow an exemplary career? How do you kickstart and evolve a business exponentially? All of these have one thing in common - creating and providing value first! When you aspire to excel at anything you do, do not stress over what and how; just focus on being able to create and provide value in everything you do. Create a compelling vision and value, the rest will fall into line to lay the road to your success!

Salimu spent his high school years homeless & living in shelters. Yet, he stuck to getting an education, attended the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Preparatory School and the Academy, majored in Geospatial Science, and served as a commissioned officer in the Air Force. Now, Salimu is a public speaker, and the CEO of a nonprofit scientific research organization, Geospatial Q & A Inc., that bolsters economic & social growth in small communities utilizing applied research. Listen to his story...

Are Leaders Born or Made? This has been an age-old question that has had a myriad of answers. While some believe that leaders come into this world with a natural ability to lead, others believe that a subset, do not have the innate capacity to lead at all. And, then there are those in the middle with some innate abilities which can be honed and refined further, for them to evolve as not just good, but great leaders. Self-awareness is the first step of this evolution process. Tune in to discover...

Have you ever had this queasy feeling in your stomach prodding you to either go with a certain decision or not despite zero reasoning? It's what we know as a gut feeling or a gut instinct, something we cannot rationally explain but, know that's what our being wants done! Intuition or gut feelings are the result of a lot of processing that happens in our brain, kind of predictive analytics based on our past experiences and to date knowledge. What do you do when your head, heart & gut do not align?

Andrea Albright, a serial entrepreneur, prolific author, publishing mogul, and CEO @ Beverly Hills Publishing helps turn others into star authorities through writing & publishing. An author of over 26 books; her latest, Visionary Boss is a guiding light for those who seek tools to recognize, articulate and implement their own unique vision and create lasting change on a global level! Listen in to learn how to elevate your brand, create value & take your vision from dream to reality.

Clarity of communication is about saying what you mean and meaning what you say! And, in its way come various biases such as the listener's state of mind, experiences, culture, ideology, and environment, etc. Yet, it's up to the communicator to ensure that their message is construed for what it is and that it triggers the call to action its meant to. Though not an easy task, how do you ensure that you always say what you mean and back it up to mean what you say? Let's find out...

Have you ever had an idea that got you so excited that you just couldn't sleep! The more you thought about it, the more it evolved in your head but, you just didn't know where to start on the path of turning it into reality. Bringing an idea to life isn't easy. It requires a strong alignment with your purpose, and passion to make it happen no matter what, patience to see it through, and the ability to execute despite the challenges you cannot foresee. Let's find out how to start and succeed as well.

Stu Minshew, Founder & CEO of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur equips entrepreneurs with tools & strategies to accelerate their business growth and balance their lives by reducing fear, managing change, and preventing burnout. He facilitates CO.STARTERS, a program that equips aspiring entrepreneurs to turn their passions into a sustainable & thriving endeavor. Stu has three businesses, two located in East Africa and one in the United States. Here, we discuss what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur in the current times. Tune in now!

There's an old saying in India that translates to "Unless asked, even a mother doesn't feed her child!" Asking for what you seek is the most basic way to get it. Not just in terms of knowledge, but anything you seek. The process of questioning is how we seek answers, and along the way, it leads to insightful questions and interesting, beneficial answers. And, creativity, innovation, and productivity thrive in such environments. How do you ask without fear of perception or self-doubt? Let's find out!