
Problem Solvers
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S1 Ep 215What It Takes To Be A Superforecaster
When there are many options in front of us, how can we pick the best one? Warren Hatch has the answer. He's the CEO of Good Judgment, a forecasting company that fosters a team of "superforecasters" — people who are exceptionally good at looking at situations and predicting what'll happen next. What are they doing? And how can we do it too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 214Maria Sharapova: "I Hire People I Can Lose With"
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S1 Ep 213Hey Freelancers, Fix Your Portfolio!
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S1 Ep 212A Leader Who Asks, "Should I Still Be CEO?"
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When Internet Connectivity Goes Out
bonusAn internet connection is the lifeblood of any business, so how can you maximize your uptime? In this special episode brought to you by AT&T Business, we hear from entrepreneurs who have struggled with lost connectivity and about how you can solve the problem. This episode is sponsored by AT&T Business. To learn more about how AT&T Business can help keep your business going, visit att.com/solvers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 211You Know Change Is Necessary. What's Next?
When things are going wrong, how do you know what change to make? Wharton professor Katy Milkman, author of the book "How to Change", explains a few simple ways to identify the best path forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 210How Do You Compete Against the Biggest Companies?
Sridhar Ramaswamy is building a search engine called Neeva, because he sees a white space left open by Google (where he used to work). Is he crazy, or does he understand innovation on a deep level? Here, he explains how to see opportunity in even the most crowded spaces. This episode is sponsored by AT&T Business. To learn more about how AT&T Business can help keep your business going, visit att.com/solvers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 209Investing in the Future, Even As the Past Falls Apart
When things go wrong, we often look backwards to fix them. But when Dribble got hit hard by Covid, Michael Sacca and his team started thinking ahead. He explains how to look past the initial panic and start using crisis as an opportunity for improvement. This episode is sponsored by AT&T Business. To learn more about how AT&T Business can help keep your business going, visit att.com/solvers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 208How to Talk To Strangers
Are you uncomfortable talking to strangers? It's time to get comfortable! Talking to strangers has many personal and professional benefits — and it's something you can learn to do better. Joe Keohane, author of the book "The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting In A Suspicious World", explains how. This episode is sponsored by AT&T Business. To learn more about how AT&T Business can help keep your business going, visit att.com/solvers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 207The Surprising Importance of To-Go Cocktails
You can learn a lot from a simple margarita… because when you take one home from a restaurant in America, you’re participating in a change that was hundreds of years in the making. In this episode, we dig deep into how cocktails-to-go became suddenly legal (and why they were once illegal in the first place). It’s a surprisingly complex story that reveals our weird history with alcohol, and how the smallest shifts can lead to unexpectedly massive changes, and how entrepreneurs can take advantage. This episode is from my other podcast, Build For Tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 206How to Live Like Ancient Royalty
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S1 Ep 205What Five Psychics Told Me
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Wondery: One Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis
bonusOne Hundred Percent with Marcus Lemonis is a little bit of a masterclass, a cocktail party and a Sunday drive all wrapped up into 30 minutes with an audience invited to listen in. Marcus values family, community, character and ethics and helps small business owners who need his guidance and investment. His process is very personal and provides valuable insight through his ability to identify both problems and solutions. For years he has transformed the trajectory of businesses and the lives of its founders. Listeners will get to enjoy fun and unfiltered conversations centered around mentoring entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs that Marcus invites onto the show are creating products or services that will impact the world for the better. In each episode, listeners will meet the most exciting generation of business owners, including Charles Barkley, Kathy Ireland, Al Roker and Nicole Miller, and all the innovative ventures coming to and disrupting the market. Marcus talks to CEOs, entrepreneurs, inventors and all kinds of new leaders in the only way he knows how, it gets personal. They also talk about something successful people rarely reveal, what they need to take their success to the next level. Marcus and the guest explore that question in an effort to solve that puzzle.. Listen Here: http://wondery.fm/100PercentSolver Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 204Solving the Top 3 Marketing Mistakes
People.ai CMO Justin Shriber, host of the "Legends of Sales and Marketing" podcast, walks us through the top three marketing mistakes he sees entrepreneurs make — and explains how to fix them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 203How to Raise Entrepreneurial Kids
Amy Morin, author of the book "13 Things That Strong Kids Do", explains how to create the entrepreneurial spark — and how, in the entrepreneurial quest, adults and kids all grapple with the same big issues. Set Your Children Up for Success with Entrepreneur Kids: All About Money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 202Turn Your Passion Into A Career
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S1 Ep 201How to Start Over, with NBA Star Chris Bosh
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S1 Ep 200200th Episode Special! The Change We Resist Is The Change We Need
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S1 Ep 199Don't Ask "Why Now?" Ask "Why NOT Now?" (With Jim McKelvey)
The hardest question in entrepreneurship might be this: "When?" Square cofounder (and author of the book Innovation Stack) Jim McKelvey has thought deeply about this question, and has a helpful way of thinking about timing... both in business, and in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 198Stop Networking and Start Connecting!
Everyone hates networking, but everyone knows that they need to build their network. What to do? Jon Levy, author of the new book "You're Invited", explains how to build meaningful connections in a totally different way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 197When Your Big Plans Change, with Taboola's Adam Singolda
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S1 Ep 196How to Switch Jobs and Succeed, with James Altucher
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S1 Ep 195Embracing Life's Transitions, with Stacy London
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S1 Ep 194A Better Way to Describe What You Do
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S1 Ep 193How Ryan Reynolds Makes Ads Go Viral
How do you poke fun at something in a way that excites everyone and upsets no one? It's a skill that actor Ryan Reynolds has mastered—as his marketing company, Maximum Effort, churns out one viral hit after another. In this conversation with Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer, he shares how he does it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 192Reconsider the Impossible
The pandemic taught us an important lesson: The things we once thought were impossible might actually be our greatest opportunities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 191Chip Gaines on Building A Powerful Network
Chip Gaines (of Fixer Upper) loves people who say yes. “People who say yes to life, yes to hard work, and yes to risk, but who aren’t yes-people,” he writes in his new memoir, called No Pain, No Gaines. In this conversation, we talk about the power of building a network, imposter syndrome, getting through hard times, and so, so much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 190The Equity Crowdfunding Rules Just Changed
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S1 Ep 189What It Really Takes To Build A Community
Entrepreneurs know that it's important to build a community—but how do you really do it? In this episode, Smart Passive Income community experience director Jay Clouse explains how he developed a premium community from a small slice of the site's overall user base. Jay is also the host of the podcast Creative Elements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 188Do Great Things Without Destroying Yourself
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S1 Ep 187Build A Mindset That Prepares You For Anything
Most people say "I can't do that." Entrepreneurs say, "Let's figure out what I CAN do." How do you develop that kind of mindset? I talk with educator Charlene Walters, author of the new book "Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur: 10 Mindset Shifts for Women to Take Action, Unleash Creativity and Achieve Financial Success". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 186How to Recognize and Destroy Your Boundaries
The pandemic offered us a gift: It forced us to blow past the boundaries we'd set up for ourselves. Now let's keep doing it. How? I share my own thoughts, then talk with Mario Armstrong, host of the Never Settle Show and the Wake Up and Level Up podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 185Did You Really Set Yourself Up For Success?
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S1 Ep 184Do We Lose Skills Because of Technology?
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S1 Ep 183How to Scale Yourself
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S1 Ep 182What Will 2021 Bring? Here's What They Predicted In 1921
People in 1921 made big, bold predictions for what would happen in 2021... and many of them were surprisingly accurate. We explore what they said, what it all means, and how it can inspire us to build even greater things tomorrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wondery: Business Movers
bonusIn Wondery’s newest series, Business Movers, host Lindsay Graham dives deep into the inner workings of some of the most successful companies of all time. From the origin stories of their famed leaders to the million dollar idea that catapulted them to success, how exactly did these companies grow from an idea and a dream to multi- billion dollar corporations? Hear the landmark decisions, the scandals, and the stunning triumphs that made them who they are. First up: Walt Disney. Listen at http://wondery.fm/solvers_movers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 181Building Human Trust In A Digital World
How can you provide a great digital product or service, while still providing the human contact that consumers want? The mortgage company Own Up originally got that balance wrong... and fixing it transformed their business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 180How Parenthood Can Help Your Work (Even In A Pandemic!)
These stressed-out parents discovered new ways to expand their businesses. Business consultant Terry Rice explains how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 179What We Learned About Change In 2020
This was a hard year, but also a good year. Why? Because we were forced to make change. Here are the lessons we should take into 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 178What Makes You Memorable?
It may not be what you think! In this episode, Jason Feifer explains why "quality isn't enough." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 177Treat Your Brand Like It's A Mission
How do you create passionate customers? Little Spoon's Lisa Barnett has an answer: Treat your brand like it's a mission—identifying an enemy, releasing a manifesto, and offering many ways to onboard your audience. In this episode, she explains how to do it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 176The Pandemic Can't Change Your Purpose
Baked goods company Foodstirs had big plans for 2020, but had to reinvent everything when the pandemic came. This is a story about the importance of knowing your mission, and how it can keep you focused even when times get tough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 175"What The Hell Am I Doing?" with Hint Water's Kara Goldin
Ever feel like you're up against the impossible? Hint Water's Kara Goldin did. In this conversation about her new book "Undaunted," she describes how she got through her doubts (hint: focus on customers!), how she's expanded her company's mission and wrestled with the challenges of lobbying in Washington, and how anyone can empower themselves to be a leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 174Closing A Huge Deal During A Pandemic
How do you pull off the biggest business deal of your life... while a pandemic changes all the rules? That's what John Berkowitz of OJO Labs pulled off, raising $68.1 million in the process. And here's the craziest part: The pandemic may have been the thing that made it all possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A Podcast About the People Behind Yelp Reviews
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S1 Ep 175How Dunkin' Went From A Family Business to a Powerhouse
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S1 Ep 172Gary Vaynerchuk Solves His Multi-Million-Dollar Problem
Gary Vaynerchuk just entered the consulting industry. Why? In this conversation, Gary tells Entrepreneur editor in chief Jason Feifer about how the new business solves a problem inside his company VaynerMedia, how he developed the products, and what big brands do wrong as they try reaching younger consumers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
S1 Ep 171The Only Time We Have Is Now
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S1 Ep 70Cutting Back Helped Me Grow
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