• Billy’s entrepreneurial lessons growing two companies over $300M in market value.
• Five key life and leadership principles Billy has relied on to achieve success.
• How Billy is impacting more people through his experience.

Billy D. Prim is the founder and executive chairman of Primo Water Corporation. Primo is a rapidly growing provider of multi-gallon purified bottled water, self-serve filtered drinking water and water dispensers sold through major retailers throughout the United States and Canada. The Company’s products provide an environmentally friendly, economical, convenient and healthy solution for consuming purified water. Primo is listed on NASDAQ under the symbol PRMW.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• Steve’s journey as an entrepreneur
• How to identify the right start-up opportunities to get involved with
• Why many young people should look at the start-up world over the corporate world

About Steve Kahan

Steven Mark Kahan has successfully helped to grow six start-up companies from early-stage development to going public or being sold, resulting in more than $3 billion in shareholder value. He is currently CMO at Thycotic, which will become the seventh.

Steve inspires teams and their organizations to take on the impossible and succeed. He has just written a book published by Wiley and Audible and available on Amazon.com called “Be a Startup Superstar. The book teaches those graduating college and young professionals how to earn a great living doing what they love by igniting their career at a tech startup.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• How James met Gary Vaynerchuk and become his COO (and now President of The Sasha Group).
• What are the latest trends in digital marketing.
• Where The Sasha Group and VaynerMedia are headed next.

About James Orsini:

James Orsini is President of The Sasha Group, a VaynerX company. Working alongside Gary Vaynerchuk, its CEO and serial entrepreneur, Orsini leads the group to help small business reach explosive growth potential. The Sasha Group provides educational, consulting and marketing services for companies from $1 million to $100 million in revenue. Orsini held previous positions as Chief Operating Officer as well as Chief Integration Officer for VaynerMedia, a digital agency with social at its core.

Working alongside founder and CEO Gary Vaynerchuk, James helped manage the agency for success. He was Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Sito Mobile Ltd., (NASDAQ: SITO) A proven leader and author of numerous business articles including Agency of the Future, Guided Exploration, and Let Leaders Lead and Practitioners Practice.

Mr. Orsini has also penned white papers The Authentic Network, Reverse 360 Mentoring, Mastering Procurement and Procurements Evolution for Today’s Marketing Service Companies. He has done numerous podcasts including Second in Command with Cameron Herold and Self-made man with Mike Dillard. James has more than 30 years of finance and operations experience across a broad range of marketing and communications disciplines.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• How Wes transitioned from corporate sales to being an entrepreneur.
  
  
• How Wes manages The Sales Whisperer.
  
  
• How Wes stays so productive by prioritizing his personal time first.

About Wes Schaeffer

Wes Schaeffer is The Sales Whisperer®, a pigheaded entrepreneur who rehabilitates salespeople and trains their managers. He's a reassuringly-expensive copywriter, sought-after speaker, and marketing automation aficionado. He is the author of 2.5 books on sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship, host of The Sales Podcast and The CRM Sushi Podcast. He has helped 5,400 of the world’s top speakers, authors, coaches, and sales professionals achieve nearly miraculous growth by mastering his proven process, which hinges on the idea that to make any sale, you must make every sale.

In This Episode We Discuss:

● Robert’s entrepreneurial journey

● How Robert manages multiple businesses generating $100M

● How fast start entrepreneurs like Robert, start and hand off businesses

About Robert Hartline:

Robert Hartline went from selling cell phones from the trunk of his car in college in Murfreesboro, TN to building a chain of 57 wireless stores called Absolute Wireless along with Callproof (a software company), Dang It Repair (a phone repair business with 8 locations) and Hytch (a carpooling service which launched in September 2017). Robert Hartline is a serial entrepreneur who built his businesses that are currently generating $100+ Million in total revenue.

Robert lives with his wife and two young boys half the year in Nashville and the other in Costa Rica. Robert enjoys traveling, learning new technology, surfing, off-roading, skiing and lots of travel. His newest company, Shift Your Time, coaches entrepreneurs how to move internal communication from email to a mobile app called Marco Polo saving business leaders 40 hours a month.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• Martin’s journey as an entrepreneur and how he got into action working with some of the largest companies in the world.
• The three question process for defining the life you want (what Martin calls Heaven on Earth).
• Examples of others who got past “I can’t do that” and started taking their first steps.

About Martin Rutte:

Martin Rutte, an international speaker and management consultant, is President of Livelihood.

Martin has worked with such organizations as The World Bank, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Southern California Edison and Virgin Records, helping them expand their outlook and position themselves for the future.

Martin’s newest book is: Project Heaven on Earth: The 3 simple questions that will help you change the world…easily.

He helps people discover what Heaven on Earth is for them and what simple, easy, and concrete action they can take in the next 24 hours to begin making that real.

In This Episode We Discuss: 

• How David became a top coach to leaders around the world.
• David’s four-part framework for artfully managing tough conversations.
• How business leaders can have tough conversations with their teams.

About David Wood:

David Wood is a former consultant to Fortune 100 companies including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon. David left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world’s largest coaching business. He became #1 on Google for “life coaching”, serving an audience of 150,000 coaches, and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. He is also the author of "Get Paid For Who You Are," with a foreword by Jack Canfield. He coaches high performing entrepreneurs, executives and teams to create amazing results and deep connection — one tough conversation at a time.

In This Episode We Discuss: 

• A three-part mental framework to get clear and get into action when creating your second half life plan.
• Why focusing on the solutions to your life plan too early leads to confusion and what to do instead.
• How to create a clear plan that gives you more fulfillment during the second half of your life.

About Lloyd Reeb: 

Lloyd Reeb, a successful real estate developer, made a midlife transition, looking for greater meaning, joy and impact in his second half.  

For over 20 years, Lloyd has helped leaders make their second half their best half. He is the founding partner of the Halftime Institute, a global team that teach, coach and connect successful men and women in pursuit of significance. He’s taken this message around the world.

Lloyd is the author of From Success to Significance: When the Pursuit of Success Isn’t Enough; with his wife, Linda, co-wrote Halftime for Couples.

In This Episode We Discuss:

• Examples of how to use your company for good in your community
• Ideas for employee personal development inside your company
• Why napping, stretching, and walking contests are great for company productivity and morale

About Adam Goodman:

Adam Goodman, president and CEO of Goodmans Interior Structures, is the third generation to lead the family business. 

Under Adam’s leadership, Goodmans has developed many innovative programs to give back to the community. These programs include Office Chair Hockey, Goodmans Eye for the Good Guy, AIM to Make a Difference, Rooted in Good, GoodInc, GoodART, GoodTHREADS and more. In 2009, Goodmans won the first-ever ACE Award for Community Impact and in 2011, Goodmans became the third certified B Corp in Arizona. In 2012, Goodmans won the overall Impact Company of the Year Award from the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce. In 2013, Goodmans was the Better Business Bureau’s Ethics Award winner for Arizona and then Goodmans was honored with the BBB’s International Torch Award for Ethics. In 2014, Goodmans was named to the Game Changers 500 list as one of the top 500 companies in the world using business as a force for social change. In 2015, Goodmans became the first Benefit Corporation (B Corp) registered in the State of Arizona and in 2018, Goodmans was recognized as the Top Social Responsibility Company among the Arizona Republic’s Top Companies awardees.

In This Episode We Discuss: 

• How company leaders can create more compassion for their people
• Why company culture is the key to compassion
• Shifts that need to occur to create a more compassionate capitalist system

 About Blaine Bartlett:

Blaine Bartlett is CEO and President of Avatar Resources, a global leadership development and consulting firm he founded in 1987. He has coached and consulted worldwide with executives, companies, and governments and has personally delivered programs to more than a quarter of a million individuals and has directly impacted more than one million people worldwide.

Blaine is an Adjunct Professor at Beijing University, Managing Director of the Global Coaching Alliance, Founder of the Institute for Compassionate Capitalism, and a longtime member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Unstoppable Foundation and the World Business Academy where he also serves as Director of Education. In 2012, he was formally invested as a Knight of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem Knights of Malta, the world’s oldest humanitarian organization. 

Blaine is the author of four books – the #1 international best-seller Compassionate Capitalism: A Journey to the Soul of Business, Discover Your Inner Strength written in collaboration with Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard and Brian Tracy, and the best-selling Three-Dimensional Coaching: Moving Passion into Performance. His latest book is Tapping into the Soul of Business: The Key to Employee Engagement.