Bits of Gold

What You Will Learn:

• The importance of showing your human side in business
• What it's like working in business with family
• The importance of committing to your dreams
• Why taking a pause can help you find your best ideas
• Why change can be freeing
• How to define your success
• Why you must look within to fulfill your own happiness

Bio: Ryan Maltbie is the founder of BBQGrills.com who has a fascinating story. He and his dad built a successful business… but after 10 years grinding in this business, it abruptly closed down. This unexpectedly changed the course of his life. 

With 3 young children at the time, he had two choices:

• Take a conventional route 
• Or risk it all and take a chance on himself and his new dream.

He chose the latter and has now been building BBQGrills.com. They’ve since served over 5k customers and have hit over $5M in sales. 

They continue to grow and be a dominant player in this space.

One of my favorite bits of gold from Ryan is how he redefined his definition of success. How he chose to live life on his terms and rebuild his life exactly how he wanted optimizing time on his terms. 

Important Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmaltbie/

https://www.bbqgrills.com/

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What You Will Learn:

• The importance of unrealistic goal setting
• How to use social media to stand out in your career
• Why followers matter on your social media
• Where to start to grow on any social media platform

In this mini episode, Dennis also shares a few tips and ticks on where to start in building a meaningful social media profile

Bio:

Dennis Koutoudis is a #1 International Bestselling Author, widely recognized as one of the world’s leading LinkedIn experts. Dennis has already achieved much during his career as an entrepreneur, certified social media specialist, speaker, and in his position as a LinkedIn & Personal Branding Strategist. Dennis’s skillset has allowed him to work with numerous executives from powerhouse companies like Nike, Microsoft, Pfizer, Amazon, and more. He has over 4 million followers and his work has been featured in Forces, Fortune, CNN, Nasdaq, Entrepreneur, Huffpost, CBS, and many more.

Important Links:

Website: www.LinkedSuperPowers.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dskoutoudis/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/denniskoutoudis/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DennisKoutoudis

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/denniskoutoudis/

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What You Will Learn:

• The importance of just starting
• Why you shouldn't stay at a job that drains you
• The power of soul searching before you job search
• How to learn about a career path before diving in
• How to define the career that you want
• How to parkour your way forward

Bio:

Madeline Mann is an HR & Recruiting leader who is known for her award-winning job search YouTube and TikTok Channels, Self Made Millennial, garnering an audience of millions of people. Mann’s job search coaching programs have led to thousands of success stories, and her work has been featured on ABC, Bloomberg, New York Times, and more.

Important Links:

YouTube: www.youtube.com/selfmademillennial

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/madelinemann/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@selfmademillennial

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/self.made.millennial/

Website: www.madelinemann.com

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What You Will Learn:

• The importance of focusing on micro-moments as opposed to the big-picture 
• How to find your super power 
• The power of perspective
• Why listening is the key to being great in any sale
• Why you should have more than one income source

Bio:

Scott Leese is an entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker. Scott started his career in sales and became a 6x Sales Leader. Eventually, he made the jump from employee to entrepreneur and has not looked back since. He took his expertise in sales that he developed as an employee and has built a suite of companies helping companies improve their ability to sell. Today he helps companies with a focus on scaling from $0 - $25M in ARR. He also founded Surf and Sales in 2017 which is a small group learning environment for surfing and learning. 

Important Links

scottleeseconsulting.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottleese/

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What You Will Learn:

• How to maximize your time
• How to think about your personal time
• The importance of keeping your personal overhead low
• How to create a mindset shift in prioritizing happiness today
• The power of the here and now
• The benefit of trying many things to create opportunity

Bio:

Ben is the founder of Chronifi. ChroniFI provides personal finance software that helps users simplify their finances by understanding them in terms of time instead of money. Chronifi is unlike any other personal finance tool. While most of the other tools help with budgeting or investing, ChroniFi meets you in the here and now and helps you understand how what you are doing right now impacts your overall financial health so that you can make informed decisions that align with your personal goals.

Ben has a fascinating story. He spent most of his life in pursuit of conventional success and was making more money than what he needed at Goldman Sachs, but realized he was not happy. He realized that his money was simply ownership of his time and he decided to build Chronifi to help others spend intentionally, have more time with their family, and take back their time. He is on a mission to help people seek fulfillment over money and we cover it all on this episode! 

Important Links:

https://www.chronifi.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-miller-chronifi/

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What You Will Learn:

• The #1 strategy you can use to land interviews at companies and get your foot in the door?
• How to land your dream job with a non-traditional background
• The #1 resume mistake that you may be making
• How to increase your network
• The power and importance of exploring and trying many things

Bio:

Austin Belcak, is the founder of CultivatedCulture where he teaches people how to land jobs they love in todays market without traditional experience and without even applying online. In 2013, Austin graduated from college with a biology degree, terrible grades, and a job in healthcare that paid him next to nothing. Two years later, he scored interviews at Google, Microsoft, and Twitter and accepted a job from Microsoft with a $70,000 raise. And he did all of that without “traditional” experience and without applying online. 

Today, he teaches people the system he used to secure a job and helps thousands of people land jobs at Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Uber, and more! If you are ready to land your dream job, this episode is for you! 

My Biggest Bit of Gold:

When there is a will, there is a way... Austin dives deep sharing the alternative methods that you can use to land a dream job!

Important Links:

Austin's Website: https://cultivatedculture.com/

Austin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abelcak/

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What You Will Learn:

• How to become more self-reflective
• How to do the introspective work to become the best version of yourself
• How to ditch the drama in your life and turn excuses into results
• How to live in the messiness of life and still live happy
• How to stop comparing yourself to others
• How to accept that our circumstances rarely can be controlled and how to choose happiness

Bio:

Cy Wakeman is a drama researcher, global thought-leader, and New York Times best-selling author who is recognized for cultivating a counter-intuitive, reality-based approach to leadership. Backed by over 25 years of unparalleled experience, Wakeman’s philosophy offers a new lens through which employees and executives alike, can shift their attention inward, sharpen their focus on personal accountability, and uncover their natural state of innovation simply by ditching the drama.

My Biggest Bit of Gold:

Suffering in life truly is optional. You can't control your circumstances... however, you can choose the narrative you tell yourself.

Important Links:

Instagram: @CyWakeman

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cywakeman/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5G_jUiSFkWlLIXBOmmTjgg

No Ego Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/no-ego/id1253461828?mt=2

Cy's Website: http://www.realitybasedleadership.com/

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What You Will Learn:

• How to be intentional with your choices
• How to turn obstacles into opportunity
• How to set a compelling vision
• How to navigate challenging circumstances
• How giving back can propel you forward
• The power of networking

Bio:

Today my guest is Ben Kander. When Ben turned 22, his mom Ellen passed away after a courageous battle with liver cancer. His mom was known for her altruism, social responsibility, health consciousness, and helping others find a sense of purpose. It is upon those principles in which he decided to establish Welly - a company that offers highly functional and fashionable drinkware that helps the environment and gives clean water to people in need. With Welly, there is purpose in every sip.  

My Biggest Bit of Gold: The power of dreaming big, going for it, and doing the things you are called too. For Ben that was to create Welly in memory of his mom and in an effort to make the world a better place. 

Important Links:

https://www.wellybottle.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-kander-52480537/

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What You Will Learn:

• How to build your life with intention
• How to come up with ideas worth pursuing
• How to think about delivering value to people
• The power of pursuing an idea with purpose
• How to be grateful for all of life

Bio:

Garrett Ozar is the father to Everly (3), who survived grade IV (Glioblastoma) brain cancer at birth.

Garrett is the Co-Founder of Eterneva: a company that brings brightness and meaning to loss by delivering an experience that unlocks a positive way forward. Eterneva turns the carbon in someone’s ashes or hair into a diamond as a memorial for the family.

Garrett is also the Co-Founder of Foreverly Fulfillment: a 3PL that provides job opportunities for parents of patients at St Jude Children’s Hospital- where Everly was treated.

Prior to these ventures, Garrett founded Ampcaddy: a bluetooth speaker designed to bring music to the golf course.

Important Links:

garrettozar.com

https://www.facebook.com/garrett.ozar

https://www.instagram.com/garrettozar

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrettozar/

twitter: @garrettozar

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What You Will Learn:

• How to breakthrough in a service driven business
• How to know if the hospitality industry is for you
• The power of just starting
• Building an iconic restaurant and lessons along the way
• The power of time and experience and rebuilding on your own terms

Bio:

Mark Strausman is a classically-European-trained chef who recently opened his new restaurant, Mark's Off Madison, at 41 Madison Avenue in New York City.

Strausman is known for creating the legendary restaurant Freds at Barneys New York at Barneys' Madison Avenue flagship store. He subsequently developed satellite Freds in Chicago, Los Angeles, and in Barneys Downtown New York location. 

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In addition, he owned the ground-breaking Italian restaurant, Campagna, and Agriturismo in New York's Hudson Valley, and partnered to create and manage Coco Pazzo in NYC and Sapore di Mare in East Hampton.

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Mark's passion project in recent years is to bring back the traditional handmade New York bagel. His Straussie's bagels, which Serious Eats dubbed "New York's Best Bagel," is featured at Mark's Off Madison. And let me tell you, it’s amazingly delicious! 

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He is the author of The Freds at Barneys New York Cookbook, which Publishers Weekly calls "a wonderful peek inside the popular restaurant." In addition, Mark is author of the James Beard Award nominated Two Meatballs in the Italian Kitchen and The Campagna Table. He has written for Yahoo and The Huffington Post, and consults widely within the food and beverage industry.  

Important Links:

www.marksoffmadison.com

www.markstrausman.com

Mark's cook book!

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