Ever wonder how to leave your corporate career and make the leap to entrepreneurship and run your own business?

Wonder if it's even the right thing to do if you're killing it in your corporate career but you're just not happy?

Courtney Brand is an Entrepreneur and Founder of Lighthouse who quit her day job, started her own company and then raised money from investors for it. 

Courtney opens up and tells how she thought about it, what she did to prepare and how she's never had a more satisfying feeling then owning and running her own business. It's a tell all how she did it.

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I started podcasting before it was podcasting, that was 1997-98 time frame. A lot has changed in the podcast world since then...

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A podcast can be great for just about any business, regardless if you have a product or service business. You'll love this episode.

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Tony has had an amazing entrepreneur career, sold several companies, raised a record breaking amount in a crowdfunding campaign that went against conventional wisdom of using Kickstarter and shares tons of actionable HPT's (high percentage tips) that are sure to help grow your business.

He's currently the Interm CEO of RescueTime,  and previously was Head of Product and Software at  Glowforge, Head of Product and Design at Trippy.com, Founder and Head of Product at Cubeduel, Director of Product Development at Jobster, and CEO of PangoMedia.

I've known Tony since college when we were both Psychology majors.

We catch up in this fun conversation covering start-ups, building companies, productivity, online marketing, life and lessons he's learned over his twenty plus years an a successful entrepreneur. 

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Jenna and Jeremy Chipps share how they found the courage to sell everything, buy an RV, start a travel blog, and live the digital nomad life.

We talk about what it's been like, how they approach their Quench Your Adventure media business, how they keep up with social media posts, come up with content ideas, how they grew their Instagram followers, how they are building their YouTube channel and how living in an RV has impacted their relationship. 

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Will and Trevor met in college and always wanted to build a welding business together. Through some long conversations on Trevor's way home from working for someone else, they built a plan.

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Wyatt got into the barbecue restaurant business because of his love of cooking outside after spending years in kitchens in San Francisco getting yelled at by talented, but hot headed chefs.

Listen in to learn his journey from working in kitchens, to being a sales representative for a surf board company to buying a grill, some meat and launching his business in Half Moon Bay, California. And...

Wyatt gives us some HPT's on how to be the Pitmaster of our backyard and grill some amazing barbecue. 

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Learn how Sophia turned her artistic talent of turning secondhand clothing into fresh pieces of art and turned into a side hustle business by founding MoonTown Paints based in Half Moon Bay California. 

Sophia shares her entrepreneur journey, how she leverages Instagram and Facebook as her marketing channels and doesn't spend a cent on paid ads, how demand for her product led her to starting her side hustle and how she's used her business to give back to the local community. 

You'll love her story and her clothing artwork ❤️

This is our fourth episode in our Half Moon Bay, CA local business series. 

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Thomas entered a business plan competition in college, won it and used his business plan and $5,000 in prize money to launch VNTR surfing clothing company and later Tommy Tsunami Surfing School with his brother Peter.
 
Thomas shares how he came up with the idea for his companies, how he learned to make and design clothing, a bunch of mistakes he made launching his company and how he has adjusted and fixed those mistakes to grow his business. 

We also talk a little bit about big wave surfing which led him to follow his passion and build his two companies.
 
 You'll be stoked after listening to this episode 🤙

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Julie is a packed with passion and energy entrepreneur who runs three businesses in Half Moon Bay, California: Main Street Hair Design, Main Street Barber and Posh Pumpkins.

She shares her story and drops tons of HTP's for fellow Entrepreneurs who are starting and scaling their companies. A few made me realize some mistakes I've been making!

Her passion for entrepreneurship is natural along with her kind heart to help mentor other entrepreneurs in Half Moon Bay. You're sure to love this episode. 

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A Podcast for entrepreneurs and peak performers

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