Today's interview is with Joe Kashurba. Joe grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies. Joe now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and digital agency owners on how to develop and scale their businesses.We discuss the following:How he went from growing his freelance business into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the country? The biggest mistakes that freelance web designers and digital agency owners make when it comes to growing their businesses?How web designers can compete with do-it-yourself website builders like Squarespace?Tips for generating a return on investment with Google AdWords?Tips for building and working with a virtual team?Advice do you have for young people who are...

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You have a big idea and you want to shock the world. But,you’ve tried to get yourself going and constantly get sidetracked. Or, you’re trying to expand your business to go global, but you can’t seem to break through the barriers to entry .Or, you’re a business leader, but you don’t seem to command the level of respect that you need in order to make the kind of impact that you want. In State of Mind 2.0: 11 Lessons of the Most Productive People on the Planet, Executive Leadership & Critical Thinking Coach Chris Pinckley explains the secret formula that creates the type of individual who can achieve any goal, command the utmost respect as a leader, and has the ability to create a global impact.We discuss all this in today's episode with Chris Pinckley. Chris is the author of over 20 books on self-development, mindset, and consciousness expansion. He has also produced 3 talk shows, written over 400 articles, been published innumerous magazines, and built two successful training businesses. His latest book...

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Did you know that there are currently about 3 billion people under 30 right now? That equates to roughly 52% of the world's population. These are the next global leaders so it is important to ensure that they are influenced the right way. Today's guest Jared Kleinert believes this and did something about it. He believes that by sharing our stories, we can solve society's most pressing problems. Jared's new book 3 Billion Under 30 assembles seventy-five “world-class” Millennials who've leveraged the experiences and ideas they've shared in to:Create companies worth billions of dollars.Win the CrossFit Games (twice).Found and operate media platforms like Levo, Elite Daily, Mogul, Odyssey, Futurism, Addicted2Success, UploadVR, and others with hundreds of millions of monthly readers.Write, advise, or otherwise support the publication and promotion of over forty New York Times bestselling books, including titles that have sold millions of copies apiece.Grow a collective following of over 50,000,000 people...

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Today's interview is with Leon Logothetis. Leon is a global adventurer, motivational speaker & philanthropist. It wasn’t always that way. He used to be a broker in the city of London where he felt uninspired and chronically depressed. He gave it all up for a life on the road. This radical life change was inspired by the inspirational movie The Motorcycle Diaries.Leon has visited more than 90 countries and traveled to every continent. He is the host of the TV series Amazing Adventures Of A Nobody, which is broadcast across the world by National Geographic International and, over the course of three seasons, sees Leon cross America, the United Kingdom and Europe on just 5 dollars, 5 pounds, and 5 euros a day, respectively.In today's episode, we talk about the following:What the “Way of the Traveler” is and how you can achieve this state of beingHow traveling can help you connect with others and learn more about yourselfHow being bullied as a child has inspired him to spread kindness across the...

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Today's episode is with Nate Menninger. He is an American explorer, athlete and writer who is addicted to traveling and whether he is back-country skiing in Patagonia or running with the bulls in Spain, he wants to prove to the world that everything is possible, no matter how difficult or dangerous something seems. As he travels, he continuously meets exceptional individuals who have achieved amazing feats: I.E. hitchhiking from New York to Argentina, running marathons in the arctic and throwing shot-put in the Olympics. Using their stories and his, he hopes to unite and inspire everyone to embark on the world's most extreme cultural, athletic and artistic adventures.We talk about all these experiences and much more in our episode. To connect with Nate, check out his Instagram at thepathfinder.mag and his website at www.ThePathfinder.co.

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Happy New Year! Today's episode is with the amazing Jules Schroeder. Jules is an entrepreneur, marketing consultant, writer, speaker, millennial expert and musician who helps today's generation on their unconventional paths and shows them how to profit from their passions. At the age of eighteen, Jules Schroeder ran her first six-figure business teaching other college students how to run their own businesses. Four years later, at age 22, she co-founded a publishing company that made seven figures its first year in business, specializing in making books #1 Best Sellers on the Amazon Kindle platform.In addition to all this, Jules is on a mission to help others find alignment within themselves by connecting to their purpose and passion. Jules has an ability to show people how to support themselves by profiting from the work they are meant to be doing in the world. She does this through example in her own life, pursuing her music, teaching yoga, snowboarding, playing pool, and spending time with her family...

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Today's interview is with Johannes Koeppel, the CEO of WeTravel. He has a pretty inspirational story around travel, entrepreneurship, and changing his life. Out of college, he moved from his native Switzerland to Central Asia to work for the Red Cross first in a prison facility in Uzbekistan, then as head of the Tajikistan office. He leveraged these experiences to earn money by leading groups of Europeans hoping to explore Central Asia off the beaten path. This became the seed of an idea for a startup, and now WeTravel is an 11 person team speaking 22 languages and representing 8 different nationalities. Anyone can sign up on the site and earn a living or extra side hustle doing similar things across the globe. WeTravel’s growth has been phenomenal, within a year and a half it has organized more than one million in tours just this month.In this episode we discuss:Johannes’ background as a nomadHow Johannes learned how to be a businessmanHow Johannes found his co-founderHow he manages a...

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SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT! Today's episode is with Lina Abisoghomyan! Remember her from episode 208? Yup! Well she's being gracious enough to do a special mini episode with us today. Today, she breaks down what the benefits are of being multilingual!If you're thinking of a New Year's resolution, definitely consider picking up a language or two. The benefits are tremendous!To catch Lina's last episode, take a listen here: http://www.uydmedia.com/lina-abisoghomyan-the-diplomat-of-the-future/To find out more about Lina's company, click here: www.policypear.comI did a Use Your Difference episode on how to learn a language without moving abroad here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbuJ4l6rJIEnjoy the holidays! I think I might drop another episode this week so stay tuned!

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Are you ready to take your firm to the next level? How would it feel to be able to say you've become a Huffington Post contributor, be regularly interviewed by your dream media outlets or be "Featured On" CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, or FOX Television News? Can you imagine how that publicity could grow your business? Mary Simms, a media savvy PR professional, US Army Vet, Huffington Post & Entrepreneur Mag Contributor let's us in on how to do all that. She helps high-powered entrepreneurs and attorneys embrace their influencer status and reduce what they spend on paid advertising while increasing revenue. Her expertise is helping you embrace your expertise and achieve industry icon status through top-tier media placements.According to Mary, the best way to elevate your brand and increase media generated revenue is by adding value to your pitch, pitching the right contacts within a newsroom, and providing them with an excellent segment idea that’s easy to produce.Mary is on Twitter at @marysimms and her...

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Whether you are a university professor, researcher at a think tank, graduate student, or analyst at a private firm, chances are that at some point you have presented your work in front of an audience. Most of us approach this task by converting a written document into slides, but the result is often a text-heavy presentation saddled with bullet points, stock images, and graphs too complex for an audience to decipher―much less understand. Presenting is fundamentally different from writing, and with only a little more time, a little more effort, and a little more planning, you can communicate your work with force and clarity.I talk about all this with today's guest, Dr. Jonathan Schwabish. We discuss how to create effective data rich presentations that make a meaningful impact. Dr. Schwabish is considered a leader in the data visualization field and is a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in research. He has written on various aspects of how to best visualize data including technical aspects of...

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