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Are you ready to ignite an idea, fire up your business and transform your life!? If so, you will love soaking up today's episode with entrepreneur expert Shane Melaugh. Shane Melaugh has founded multiple seven-figure companies, including Thrive Themes, and is currently building his cultivating personal development community, ikario.

Shane's personal story is fascinating. His mission via ikario is to share his life experiences with as many people as possible to help them break free and transform their lives into beautiful success stories. In this episode, Shane openly shares how his life transitioned from constraints, struggles, and an overwhelming sense of failure to finding freedom, wonderful success, and ultimately, unlocking a better life. Throughout the discussion, Shane explores the importance of building on what already exists, reveals a brilliant tool for filtering through business ideas, and highlights why we shouldn't overlook self-care and personal development. Key points within this episode include:

• How to organically grow a loyal customer base.
• Understanding marketing techniques to reach new audiences.   
• The power of personal interaction when building a business. 
• How to identify and meet your customers needs. 
• Sell before you make it! The benefits of testing your existing audience. 
• A brilliant tool for filtering new business ideas.
• Napkin Maths – how to determine the feasibility of a business plan.
• Becoming comfortable with saying no.
• The ikario story: unlocking potential through self-development. 
• Why self-care should never be overlooked. 
• A book recommendation for becoming a better entrepreneur. 
• Shane's advice on obtaining your first 10 customers.

"Hustle and grind 24/7 till you make it is the worst way to try and make it. If you don't have rest in your life and you're not strategic about having high-intensity focus and then deep rest, you're just basically cutting yourself off at the knees because you're hampering your own ability to learn and make progress." – Shane Melaugh. 

Connect with Shane Melaugh:

https://activegrowth.com/about/ 

https://activegrowth.com/podcast/

https://ikario.com/about/  

https://twitter.com/actigrow 

https://www.youtube.com/user/imimpact 

https://www.linkedin.com/shane-melaugh 

Connect with First 10 Podcast host Conor McCarthy: 

https://www.first10podcast.com

https://twitter.com/TheFirst10Pod

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

Resources:

Book: So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport. 

https://www.calnewport.com/books/so-good/ 

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This podcast was produced in partnership with podlad.com