Embracing Uncertainty

Farhad Mehraban moved to the U.S. in the 5th grade when his father took a teaching assignment at Northwestern University. While the cultures were very different from Iran, his real shock came when he went back to Iran after living in the U.S.

It took him almost 10 years to gain his green card to return to the U.S. which he described as a dream come true for him and his family. Despite starting from nothing, he embraced and loved the 18 hour days. Farhad discusses the importance of mentorship from virtual mentors like Tony Robbins and Brian Tracy.

As he continues into management, he shares that his goal as a manager is to entice employees to assume and grow into his position. Farhad credits his management success to continually learning and surrounding yourself with those who challenge you. At the end, he shares how helping others, helps himself.

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Camila Santo background is in b2b consulting, specifically, building corporate partnerships! She is passionate about building female minority owned businesses. She tells us that immigrants have a strong will to succeed and entrepreneurship offers the opportunity to climb the ladder.

Listen as she explains how the current climate is pushing people into entrepreneurship and how 1/3 of workers are self employed. 

She also highlights that 90% of businesses are small businesses, but only a fraction are femalminority owned. Listen as she explains those challenges, mainly startup capital.

Listen as she explains how we can break down the bias barrier and listen to hear perspective on living a life of significance.

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Danielle Teresa is in the start up process of launching her new company. Danielles background is in education. After 16 years, Danielle opens up about her nervous breakdown that would change her career and life forever.

Around this time, she discovered that she doesn't need to be defined by her circumstances and decided to become the Phoenix rising in her own life.

Her new company helps other companies recognizes the champions in their employees. Listen as Danielle explains the employees biggest fear, which is not being heard by senior management. She explains to us how her company helps bridge that gap between management and employee to create successful relationships.

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Todd Robinson is an attorney, business owner, and entrepreneur. His career started as a social worker where he began to take interest in the law. Post law school Todd joined a law firm as an associate. However, he always knew that if he wanted to be in charge of his own future, he needed to build his own clients.

He began to chase business when he discovered the opportunity in closing commercial real estate loans. His book began to flourish, but what comes next came as a surprise. An outreach at a social event caused friction in his company, which led to him being fired.

Todd said this was his moment of truth and decided to start his own firm. Listen as he shares his story and how he has diversified his career now.

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Christine Hueber is a consultant and known as the Jedi master of LinkedIn. Christine adopted LinkedIn as a consultant in 2006 and views LinkedIn as a magical conference in the sky filled with your ideal clients.

14 years later, she is ranked in the top 1% of the most viewed profiles (out of 700 Million accounts).

Christine's journey started out in traditional employment. Through her interactions with mentors and entrepreneurs, she was called to replicate their lives.

As she jumped into entrepreneurship, Christine explains the importance of adopting change and staying relevant. She tells us that this is the major difference between employment and entrepreneurship.

She also shares her LinkedIn content strategy and her perspective on thought leadership!

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Noah Koff is the founder of Redwood partners. An industry leader in building digital growth strategies. Originally, Noah wanted to work for a magazine. However, due to a recession, his first opportunity was with a startup.

Noah embraced the speed of a startup and decided it was the best route for him. As his experience grew, he began to recognize the importance of culture in business. Today, Noah practices that, by helping his own clients craft their corporate culture in the marketing strategies.

At the end, Noah talks about the importance of having a tangible impact. This means serving his community as a leader and mentor.

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Brad Blazar's journey began as founder & CEO of an oil company he started at the age of 23. At a young age, he successfully scaled his company and raised millions of dollars. However, as the oil & gas industry collapsed in the 1980's, Brad recognized it was time to wind down the company for its investors.

Brad tells us he took a year off from working and went back to school. As he began to interview for new jobs, he was humbled by the salary offers he was receiving.

Instead, he threw himself into the financial services industry, where something magical happened. He found an old disk for a book he had written years ago, which would serve as his next pivot for his coaching career.

He trademarked his program "The Art of Beliefology"—By relentlessly pursuing your goals, surrounding yourself with high performing people, and learning how to manage your self-doubt, you can become hugely successful.

Plan for success and execute on your plans!

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Bryan Rutberg is the founder of 3C Communications. He didn't start out as a founder. He started out in a sales role, which set the foundation for a lot of his great relationships.

Listen as Bryan discusses the importance of good management, and how his superiors helped him grow into the role. Here is where we learn the importance of taking an active interest in others' success.

Listen later as he discusses the importance of goal setting and how to align them with your customers, as well as your partners. Bryan later took on the role as a coach. He tells us that coaching is the most important gift you can give, as well as receive.

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Gary Ohara is the CEO of High Impact Technologies, outsourced IT solutions for small and middle-market companies. Gary tells us that he didn't intend on starting a business, but the company he worked for was sold 4 times and he was tired of it.

Gary stepped out on his own and found that his skillset was working on the business, instead of in the business. Listen as Gary discusses his philosophy on hiring slow and firing fast. This is where we learn his theory on balcony people vs basement people. It's important to surround yourself with balcony people.

In the end, Gary shares with us the value of listening, what makes him tick, and what keeps him motivated.

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Adam Bricker is the Executive Director at Carolina Cyber Center. Adam's career has been a journey from corporate security IT, consulting, education, and entrepreneurship. Throughout the journey, Adam learned the power of mentorship.

The lessons he learned from mentorship allowed him to start a new company and business career. Today, Adam has applied those same lessons to his business, teaching cybersecurity to students in western North Carolina.

At the end, Adam shares the hard lessons he learned when he first started his business. Also, listen to Adam's advice on cybersecurity, along with what both employers and employees should be doing to keep themselves safe online.

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