Wayne Breitbarth is the Founder and CEO of Power Formula, a company that helps businesses and individuals maximize their efforts on LinkedIn. Website: www.powerformula.net

Ryan Smith, Principal and Founder of ThinkSBA.com, helps individuals and business owners with financing and understanding SBA funding. Before landing on the banking trajectory, Ryan served a stint as a minor league baseball player, and has since worked his way up the financial chain. He now helps people with SBA financing and aid in their learning how to acquire businesses and commercial real estate. In a field full of misconceptions, Ryan offers some much needed clarity. 

In his interview, Ryan goes over the benefits of SBA lending and funding in great depth. He dispels some myths about credit score necessary for lending and clarifies other common fallacies regarding SBA financing. Ryan also discusses a variety of ways to begin an acquisition even if you previously believed it to be impossible. In dealing with a huge milestone such as an acquisition, it is essential to have an expert in your corner, so be sure to listen to Ryan’s interview for his SBA wisdom.

• 4:04-5:02: Misconceptions about credit score required for SBA lending

Joining us today is Andy Cagnetta, CEO of Transworld Business Advisors, the largest brokerage system in the world. A skilled negotiator and recognized national trainer of negotiation techniques, Andy specializes in mergers and acquisitions, valuations and franchising. He’s the man to talk to when it comes time to buy or sell a business.

Some of the areas we cover in this interview:

House calls are back!  Patricia Ryan, RN, MSN, ANP-BC an Adult Nurse Practitioner based in Palm Springs, CA. Business name is Crossroads to Care, Inc., a nursing corporation.  She is an advanced practice nurse that provides medical house calls in your home--just like back in the day. Nurse practitioners can diagnose, treat and prescribe medications. They are RN first and continue schooling at a Masters' level, Board Certification and are eligible to have their own practice and patients. Patricia has been an RN for 10 years in several practice arenas and now a NP for the past 16. Original training in NYC and continued with Bachelors and Masters degree from University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Here are some of the questions we discussed:

What type of services do you do on a house call? 

Mary Anne Kochut, of Champions For Success, LLC., is an author, motivational speaker, coach, adjunct professor, and management development professional. She specializes in the areas of leadership, communications, executive coaching, change management, and career transition and is also skilled in group dynamics, consultation, and facilitation. After a lengthy stay in the corporate world, she eventually became a “reluctant entrepreneur” and went on her own, rather than continue fitting into someone else's mold. Mary Anne’s passion is inspiring others to be productive and live the life they truly want to, evident in her book “Power vs. Perception: Ten Characteristics of Self-empowerment for Women.”

Mary Anne always encourages the people she coaches to be unstoppable. In her interview, she talks about the limitations we put on ourselves and how they stop us from attaining the success we desire. Mary Anne talks about inherent drives present in everyone, and how understanding these can help reveal your passions. She discusses some of her tried and true methods for reshaping people’s perceptions regarding what they may have previously considered to be impossible. Mary Anne’s inspiring conversation is useful to anyone hoping to shift their perspective and make the impossible possible.

Joining me again is Chris Larsen, the founder and Managing Partner of Next-Level Income. Chris has been investing in and managing real estate for over 20 years. While still a college student, he bought his first rental property at age 21. From there, Chris expanded into development, private-lending, buying distressed debt as well as commercial offices, and ultimately syndicating multifamily properties. He began syndicating deals in 2016 and has been actively involved in over $225 million of real estate acquisitions. Chris is passionate about helping investors become financially independent.

Chris has some interesting perspectives about investing based on today's trends. Be sure to have a notepad and pen handy!

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Do you need tips about preparing to sell your business from a true expert? John Brown, the founder of Business Enterprise Institute (www.exitplanning.com)  discusses how today's economic headwinds increase the difficulty of exiting your business on your terms and conditions.

Questions discussed:

1.how can owners overcome headwinds

2. what needs to be done to overcome headwinds

3. who can help

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Barry Moniak, Vistage Speaker and Organizational Therapist at End in Mind, helps leaders build synergistic, independent teams and systems. Barry’s specialty is helping business leaders break free from the day-to-day and keep their focus on the end goal. His method for achieving this, is to help construct a business model which can run without the leader constantly needing to keep their hands on the wheel, allowing them to build an identity beyond the workplace and more fruitfully retire. By assembling the right team, the results can be far greater and more profitable than individual efforts could be on their own. 

In his interview, Barry dives deep on the value of creating a culture of synergy. When done correctly, the sum of the whole can be far greater than its parts. Barry also talks about how exit planning should be viewed like flipping a house - you are aiming to build the best house on the block. By gradually letting go of the wheel and testing the systems you’ve built, you can ensure your company can keep running without you there and thus be more valuable to potential buyers. This information can help not only your business, but also everything about your well-being in life, you don’t want to miss Barry’s expertise.

• 3:39-4:38: Drawing analogies to business using the example of someone preparing for a backpacking trip, as well as pilots.

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Kerri Salls is in the business of early exit planning for owners of private and family run businesses.