Fail Fast Podcast

Ceo of the World’s most trusted Apple trade-in company – Brian Burke

Brian Burke is currently President and CEO of SellYourMac.com (SYM), the world’s most trusted and highest independently rated Apple trade-in company.

Tags:  #Apple, #Mac, #Macbook, #Macbookpro, #selliPhone, #selliPad #sellmac

Brian Burke is the President of SellYourMac.com.

At the age of 6, he started his first business selling jewelry on the street. At 13, he graduated to trading stocks.

For the past decade, Brian’s company has been helping people earn extra cash by making it fast, safe, and easy to buy, sell, and service their Apple products.

SYM has paid out $20M and has helped over 100,000 customers.

Brian is a dynamic and ultra personable individual who strives to help his community through business and service.

He is always on the cutting edge of technology and loves helping other individuals and organizations stay up to date on their Apple products with his company SellYourMac.com.

Brian is striving to reach new heights and educate himself on topics he finds interesting. Brian has become a Sommelier, an Apple Certified Mac Technician, a Notary Public, an Ordained Minister, a Certified Scuba Diver, and has received his Boating license.

Brian truly loves learning and sharing his knowledge with others! Brian volunteers his time to the Professional Leadership Network, Adopt a Class, and Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, three local non-profits.

Some Questions for Brian Burke:

– Why did you decide to start SellYourMac?

– How does the trade-in process at SYM work?

– What are the top 1-3 actionable steps you have used to achieve the revenue model you have described in this episode?

– What can we look forward to, in the near future, from you?

– What do you do to help the community?

– Was there a challenging time or situation that could have devastated or even ruined your business but, you overcame it?

 

Brian Burk’s Book recommendations:

Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold

Scaling Up – Book by Verne Harnish

CEO Tools 2.0: Book by Jim Canfield and Kraig Kramers

Where to find Brian:

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianburke4/

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

Thanks for reading and listening

Quin Amorim

While in the US Marines Corp, at 21 Patrick Schepeler started drinking at work with his boss. This led to his boss getting fired and Patrick nearly losing everything, including his family.

Listen to the whole story in the Fail Fast Podcast

Today, Patrick consults with companies on leadership development and changing company cultures.

He refined my leadership style by serving 14 years in the Marine Corps.

Patrick Schepeler has experience in the non-profit sector as a Director of Human Resources and in the for-profit sector as a General Manager of a manufacturing facility.

He is the founder/author of The Leadership Minute. This is a video and text series that gives daily leadership and self-development advice.

Patrick Schepeler has taken this series and is transforming it into a series of books that focus on leadership development for individuals with varying degrees of leadership training.

Patrick is an executive coach and corporate training consultant.

Patrick analyzes the company culture and turnover rates to develop a management plan using the EPIC leadership method.

This method allows him to help companies reduce employee turnover, increase employee engagement and productivity, and save money on yearly turnover.

Questions to Patrick Schepeler:

* What got you into executive coaching?

* What is The Leadership Minute?

* What is the EPIC method and how does it relate to executive coaching?

* Why is evaluating companies cultures and developing company training important to you?

* What are some of the common myths about being a good leader?

 

Hashtags:

#Leadership, #Leadership Training, #Professional Development, #Executive Coaching, #Corporate Training, #Business Training

 

Patrick’s favorite books:

Who moved my cheese – Book by Spencer Johnson

The one minute manager meets the monkey – Book by Hal Burrows, Kenneth H. Blanchard, and William Oncken

 

Patrick Schepeler’s books you can have:

* Setting goals 

* The art and science to epic leadership

Get them here: https://schepelerconsulting.com/

How to get your product to store shelves

Today’s guest came from nothing, at the age of 14 she was left by her mother who thought that being a mom was too hard!

Well… Some people break, Others bend. Our guest is the one who bends.

Instead of going off the rails, she worked hard to do the best she could with what she had been dealt.

Today she is a multi-award winning business woman who has built a hugely successful chain of retail stores, a far cry from being homeless at 14.

Ladies and gentleman here with us, today is:

Salena Knight

-Wow, Salena at the age of 14 your mom left how does a kid ever heal from that?

-Your dad was gay, but he wasn’t open about it. I’m guessing it was just fear of others opinions?

-You moved house over 10 times by the time you were 14, was it due to your parent’s work or business?

-You became a The Retail Strategist, can you explain to our audience what that is?

-What should I have ready before I approach a retailer?

-How can I stand out from other brands and get my products in front of the buyer?

-How do I choose which stores to approach?

-What do I do if a retailer says no?

-How does pricing work, will the retailer want to decide the price?

-What are certain mandatory things in packaging?

How to get your product to retail

After many years working as an arborist, Salena looked 20 years into the future and realized she did not want what she saw.

Despite being the only female managing teams of men, she knew she wanted to take charge of her life.

Having come from nothing, she knew she had nothing to lose.

This is a woman who grew up in a home without a lot of love, with a mother with a panache for drama, a father who was gay (but was unable to express himself) and moving house over 10 times by the time she was 14.

One of the biggest moves of her life was when, at 14, her mother unceremoniously dumped her with other family members because she did not want to “mother” anymore. It was “too hard”.

Shipped off the interstate with just a suitcase of clothes, to live with her elderly grandparents.

She successfully completed high school early, at 15. But when they could no longer care for her, she was truly on her own. She was 16 and having to not only find somewhere to live but also how to support herself…

But tenacity is Salena’s middle name and instead of wallowing in self-pity, she began her career as a horticulturist. During the next decade and a half, Salena discovered that she was great at growing businesses.

So, she set out to grow her own. In just 7 years, Salena built a hugely successful chain of retail stores, a far cry from being homeless at 14.

Now, with a decade of retail experience under her belt, Salena is a multi-award winning business woman, who has been shaped by adversity but always turning these obstacles into profitable and useful ventures.

With her straight-talking advice and training, Salena has helped hundreds of retailers around the world, to increase their sales and profits.

Book:

The Dip – Seth Godin

The Book in Three Sentences

* Winners quit the right stuff at the right time.

* People settle for good enough instead of best in the world.

* Being well rounded is not the secret to success.

 

Links:

https://facebook.com/thesalenaknight

Https://instagram.com/thesalenaknight

Home

 

Salena Knight’s free products download: https://salenaknight.com/product

#18 Bestselling Author with 11 books specializing in psychological leadership – Arthur Carmazzi

Today’s guest is a Bestselling Author of 11 books specializing in psychological approaches to leadership.

He’s one of the world’s top 10 thought leaders in organizational culture and leadership.

He’s the founder of the Directive Communication Psychology, a Ted X speaker, and He’s the Co-Founder of The Kingsley Leadership Academy

Arthur Carmazzi

Tags: #companyculture #leadership #ArthurCarmazzi #Bestsellingauthor #organizationalculture

Arthur Carmazzi, Bestselling Author you have 11 books, founder of several businesses and organizations, Be but it all starts with an extraordinary half a million dollar in Dept FAILURE.

Questions:

1 -How does one get into 500K in dept, and more importantly, how does one get out?

2 – how did failure support your success?

3 – Artur you have a game that helps organizations gamify work processes, tell me about it

4- how do you create a high-performance culture?

5- how do you develop leaders with the Gen Z?

6- How can you have a leadership high school with no teachers?

7- You are the developer of the CBCI (Colored Brain Communication Inventory) What is this

8- HDMA what does it stand for and what is it?

9- Why 97% of family businesses fail beyond the 3rd generation

10- How brain science support learning and clarity?

11(- How do you set up teams for success and predict their success accurately? )

12- What are some psychology hacks parents can leverage to optimize child development?

13 – Why Bali Province, Indonesia

The Kingsley Leadership Academy

Books:

"The 6 Dimensions of Top Achievers"

"Identity Intelligence"

"The Psychology of Selecting the RIGHT Employee"

"Lessons from the Monkey King"

"Architects of extraordinary team culture"

 

Links:

www.coloredbrain.com

www.carmazzi.net

DC Psychology: https://www.directivecommunication.net/directive-communication-psychology/

www.kingsleyleadership.academy

Arthur Carmazzi’s retreat center in Bali: www.corporateretreats.asia

books:

https://www.amazon.com/Architects-Extraordinary-Team-Culture-Pyramids/dp/1545331952

Growth hacking with Vin Clancy

What is growth hacking with Vin Clancy?

Today’s guest is one of the most infamous marketers in the world, known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas.

He has been featured in publications like Fortune, Buzzfeed, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Wired, Vice, Inc. and many more.

He founded the online magazines Planetivy.com & screenrobot.com, which received nearly 20 million page views with zero marketing spend in their first two years

His growth hacking book raised over $100,000 in pre-orders alone

Vin CLANCY

Here are some of the questions for Vin Clancy:

* What is growth hacking?

* What are the best growth hacks of 2018?

* How can an entrepreneur make money with growth hacking?

* Tell us about your new growth hacking book, Ace The Game

* How would an entrepreneur use your new book to make money?

* What growth hacks have you used in the past Vin Clancy?

* How Vin Growth hacked a Facebook group to 11,000 members

* How to earn 6 figures without a book publisher

* How Vin spoke at 100 events in 1 year without an agent

* How he earned the same US visa as Justin Bieber for extraordinary skills

Vin is on a mission to speak truth to the many lies some internet marketers tell. He’s ready to debunk myths and share growth hacks for any industry related to your audience.

Growth hacking’s “enfant terrible”, Vin Clancy is one of the most infamous marketers in the world, known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas. 

Growth hacking with Vin Clancy

His growth hacking book raised over $100,000 in pre-orders, which he supported with a 100-date speaking tour in ten countries around the world. He has spoken in over 40 different cities in ten different countries. He has been featured in publications like Fortune, Buzzfeed, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Wired, Vice, Inc., and many more, and coaches founders to growth hack their own businesses. (He hates boring people in business, which is, frankly, most people in his field. But he is very polite as he is English).

His talks at conferences and events around the world focus on marketing, sales, social media, and writing. (But they aren’t a “sit down and daydream” affair like most talks, people have legit called them life-changing. He has a wall of tweets and private messages saying this)

His “growth hacking in real time” talk was voted best talk at SXSW V2V in Las Vegas. (The more experienced speakers hated him for this, he was the punk kid in tight pants and great hair who made a mockery of their “serious” presentations, completely by accident).

He founded the online magazines Planetivy.com & screenrobot.com, which received nearly 20 million page views with zero marketing spend in their first two years, while content he has overseen for other clients has received over 150 million page views so far.

His current online magazine is a Facebook group, “Traffic and Copy”, which has over 10,000 members, close to 90% active engagement, and contributions from thousands of entrepreneurs.

Right now Vincent teaches company founders, influencers, and marketing managers how to grow their companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, and guerrilla community management tactics, in his private coaching groups, and through consulting with Marketing executives.

Growth hacking with Vin Clancy

He speaks truth to the many lies internet marketers tell, and is the most entertaining marketer in the world right now 😉

He can be found at http://vinclancy.com

Book: “Ace The Game: The 100 best growth hacks in the world right now”

It’s going to be the most important marketing and business book of 20...

Veteran addiction

Retired Us Army Veteran who has gone from drug addiction and homelessness to running a million dollar business.

Veteran addiction

Experienced General Manager with strong sales professional with a Sports nutrition focused in Foods, Nutrition

Richard Kaufman joined the military at a very young age, but by the age of 20 he was addicted to alcohol and drugs and had to get out.

After cleaning up, Richard re’joined the military where he stayed for the next 23 years!

Richard Kaufman ended up becoming a tank commander by the end of his career, but it didn’t end there for him.

Richard Build a beautiful family and now besides running a million dollar store, he helps other veterans with addictions.

About 6 years ago Richard Kaufman lost vision in one of his eyes due to an accident, but instead of stopping him, it didn’t even slow him down.

Richard sees only positive things in everything, and it was a huge pleasure talking to him.

Richard has read over 6000 books so, he can be fluent and able to speak to anyone about anything.

If you want to find Richard Kaufman search for his own hashtag that was personally recommended to him by Gary Vaynerchuk

#supplementGuyNJ 

Veteran addiction and depression is something very serious as the number of Veteran deaths by suicide to be 22 per day

22 veterans a day!!!

I wish Richard Kaufman all the best, and I hope he can help or save as many people as possible

 

Richards favorite books:

Jab Jab Jab right hook – By Gary Vaynerchuck

Daymond John  – Rise and grind

 

Social Media:

Kaufman’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/rickkaufman07?lang=en

Kaufman’s Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-kaufman-989757139/

Kaufman’s Instagram profile: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/supplementguynj/

Kaufman’s hashtags:

#comeback #redemeption #miracle #clean #sober #veteran #drug addiction #homeless #supplementguynj #richardKaufman

CONTACT RICHARD IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDICTION, HEALTH, FITNESS RELATED QUESTIONS.

Thanks for listening, watching or reading the Fail Fast Podcast

Quin Amorim

 

How do you fail fast, and what is the meaning of failing fast?

Quin Amorim explains the meaning of Failing Fast

In systems design, a fail-fast system is one which immediately reports at its interface any condition that is likely to indicate a failure. Fail-fast systems are usually designed to stop normal operation rather than attempt to continue a possibly flawed process

The goal of the fail fast idea is avoiding spending time, money and resources pursuing something that isn’t working.

People tend to keep investing in things that clearly aren’t working because it’s part of human nature to try to avoid failure.

If you are an entrepreneur you probably watch the show Dragon’s Den or Shark Tank and often see people that have sunk all their life savings into a failed product or company.

These people followed an idea that they thought was great, but didn’t look for the quick or small failures, that would have helped them realize they needed to pivot and change their product or even the whole strategy behind the business.

The Fail Fast Podcast is here to try to create some awareness about Fail-Fast ideas and techniques, and help people embrace the small failures in order to avoid the big ones.

Fail Fast, but never fail on purpose. Fail Fast and act on what triggered that small failure.

If you have a great failure story or know someone how has the best failure story you hear, make sure to check our website on how to be a guest on the Fail Fast Podcast.

All you have to do is fill a sheet with your info and a couple questions, and then book a date and time that works for you.

 

If you want to hear some great interviews on the Podcast make sure subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher or any other app you use to listen.

Or you can check it out here:  Podcast

Thanks

Quin Amorim (The Fail Fast Master)

 

Canadian government worker and entrepreneur James Semple on the Fail Fast Podcast with Quin Amorim.

James Semple shares a failure story from his early career.

Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, James Semple moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta to raise a family.

Currently, James Semple works for the Canadian Government at the RMWB (Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo).

James Semple is also a successful entrepreneur who co-owns one of the biggest kitchen cabinet companies in the municipality.

The City of Fort McMurray where James Semple currently lives was devastated by the biggest wildfire in Canadian history, back in 2016.

James loves the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta and will do anything to help bring it back to its full glory.

James’s podcast is “The Partnership Podcast” and you can find it at PartnershipPodcast.com soon!

 

Isabel Hundt speaker, coach, and author of The Power of Faith-Driven Success.

Isabel Hundt is a certified  Transformation Coach, Speaker, Global Presence Ambassador, Empath-Warrior™, World-Visionary, Author of the book The Power of Faith-Driven Success – A Journey toward Living Your Dream by 30 (www.faithdrivensuccess.com) and Emotions Clearing Practitioner.

What a great interview with Isabel! She is an amazing person and an excellent coach.

We talked about her very unique gift of being able to read people’s hearts through the language of color, her book, her failures and even the great family she has.

We have lots in common, and we’ll stay in touch for sure.

 

Education:

* Bachelors Degree in Social Science (Sociology/ Psychology/ Political Science) from the University of Siegen, Germany

* ICF certified Ontological Life Coach

* Certified Reiki Master

* Emotions Clearing Practitioner

 

Isabel’s website – https://www.isabelhundt.com

Isabel on Twitter – https://twitter.com/IsabelKHundt

Isabel Hundt on Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelhundt/

Training – Theempoweredwarrior.com

#12 Top 2 Military Entrepreneur Influencer in The World Steven Kuhn

What could be more interesting than a decorated combat veteran who turns failing businesses into success across Europe and the USA, and has been hand-picked to consult some of the most influential people in the world?

Best selling author Steven Eugene Kuhn wrote a book that became the best seller in 6 countries.

Steven Kuhn was the mastermind behind the Lay Bag marketing campaigns that lead them to sell many millions of dollars per month.

HIT man: Steven has deep-rooted beliefs that building trust and rapport through a process he calls H.I.T. (Honesty, Integrity & Transparency). H.I.T. is the method in which Steven lives his life both professionally and personally.

Steven is a decorated United States Army combat veteran, speaker, author, and consultant who helps individuals dramatically improve their quality life through the consistent, conscious application of Honesty, Integrity, and Transparency.

 

Some of the books that have influenced Steven Kuhn:

* The richest man of Babylon – George Samuel Clason

* Think and grow rich – Napoleon Hill

* Super quotes book – Marcus Aurelius

* The Hathor material – Tom Kenyon

Where to find Steven Eugene Kuhn:

– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StevenKuhnOfficial

– Twitter: https://twitter.com/stevenekuhn

– Website: https://steven-kuhn.com/