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Todays guest joining us on the Steve Jobs motivation packed podcast Join Up Dots is a man who can answer a lot of the bug questions that we have when building an online career. He believes that entrepreneurship should be easier than most of us make it, which is why so many people go looking for the get rich quick scheme. So, have you ever realized that there was a way of life on offer that meant you could link up some buttons on a webpage, target some traffic and wait for money to roll in? I'm sure you have, but getting it to work is a totally different matter altogether. Well todays guest is one of those men that doesn't just make it work, he can share the knowledge that he has built up since around 2004, with companies, organisations and individuals that are looking to harness the power of the worldwide web. He started playing around with online courses, and information products at first and after a modest start to milking the cash cow, studied in earnest the practices and psychology that had made the guys he worshipped very rich indeed. He had found his passion in life, which has continued to grow stronger after every success he has experienced. But our guest wasn't just fascinated with the cash, but also had a deep interest gained from his father to the words of Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and Naploean Hill. to name just three. He bathed in the words of these men, and was fasinacted with the deep insight they all shared as to what made us tick, and do the things that we do. Our guest knew that if he could bring together both interests into a workable, manageable platform then he would be rocking and rolling, and he could make money literally as he sleeped. And that is what he has done, and now with his online show "The Tropical Entrepreneur" show, running alongside his online ventures, he has created a life that is location independent. He can literally up stick from his home in Thailand and take his job with him. But what was it about the world of online marketing that so excited him as a youngster? And where does he feel that so many people make mistakes when they start to build a business online? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show, to start joining up dots with the one and only freedom loving expert Mr Josh Denning.

Todays guest entrepreneur joining us on the inspirational Steve jobs inspired Join Up Dots, was kind enough to have me as a guest on his amazing new online show "You Leading You" awhile back, and it was clear in the conversation that we are almost the same person. We have such similar backgrounds, inspirations, talents, that we are almost brothers separated by a vast expanse of water called the Atlantic. He has been a corporate guy for many years, and has worked at climbing up the ladder of career success, rung by rung, and like so many got to a position when he realised that he didn't like the climb. He didn't like the fact that he was climbing a ladder, which at anytime could be pushed over, and leave him plummeting downwards. So he took action, imperfect action which is always the best, and started taking control of his life. This is a great tale of persistence, with many dots that show how he went from being homeless to an inspirational coach, speaker and host of a super popular podcast....with a heartattack being thrown into the mix too. So how did he take the decision that was required to start building a life under his own terms? And why did one conversation with a boss, that he didn't see eye to eye with, literally throw paraffin onto the passions that were simmering deep within him. Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only brother from another mother....Mr Sean Ackerman To Find Out More About Sean Ackerman Go To: Podcast: You Leading You: Conversations of Leadership and success with Business Pros, Entrepreneurs and Just Plain Folks! Description Overcoming adversity has been a skill I've had since pre-conception. As my parents were told they would never have children, I fought my way into this world and have persevered, bringing success in whatever I put my mind to. After 30 years in business management, from small privately-owned companies to large corporate organizations, and I've had some amazing accomplishments. In 2011, it all came crashing down as my family and I found ourselves homeless after Hurricane Irene. Losing most everything we owned, we came back and persevered to put our lives back together. This was the catalyst for You Leading You, my mission, to share my experience and knowledge to help other leaders learn and grow. To find their own success and happiness. To lead themselves to their dreams. Today I share the message through the show, You Leading You, with insightful lessons from amazing leaders sharing their stories of success.

We all say that we want freedom to travel, but how many of us truly have the motivation to do just that? Perhaps you wanted to travel the world, see amazing sights and experience new cultures but thought "Man what would I do with the kids?" Well I know that I have, and I guess mentally I have set my stall out for when they all grow up and leave home, and then straight on a airplane I'll go. But does it have to be that way? Do you have to wait until everything seems perfect in your life, or do you just need to show a passion and a commitment to the task? Well todays guest entrepreneur is a lady who decided in 2007 that she would visit every country on earth, and has currently visited 36 and five continents. Planning her work carefully to allow for months of travel each year, as soon as the kids are in school, she leaves them with her beloved nanny, packs her bags and sets off alone to start conversations with total strangers, and the collection of unforgettable memories. As she says "I am a dreamer and a doer. I am passionate about living life to the full and empowering others to do the same. I wear many hats; i am a writer, mother, entrepreneur, philanthropist and a ‘modern Marco Polo’. And now as the 230th guest on Join Up Dots she can add interviewee to her titles too. So without further a do, its with great delight that I bring onto the show to start joining up dots, the lady with the longest name I have ever seen, Princess Umul Hatiyya Ibrahim Mahama.

Todays guest entrepreneur joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired business podcast is a man who looks like he is having a great time earning an income, building a business and helping start-ups across the globe to become successful. And he seems to be playing to his authentic self, which really is when things start coming together at a rate of knots too. As he says on his blog" I ams the author of the #18 Amazon best-selling book, Design for Hackers: Reverse-Engineering Beauty. And prior to writing Design for Hackers, I founded the Design departments at two Silicon Valley startups, and freelanced for clients such as oDesk, PBworks, and UserVoice. I also launched numerous other careers and projects on my own, none of which failed hard enough to be worthy of mention in this bio." But although an amusingly self-depreciating summary of his adult working-life, he has found the career success that so many people are searching for travelling the world, speaking about design and entrepreneurship, and mentoring startups, including those at 500 Startups. And if that doesn't sound good enough he also has the ability to choose to pop down to South America for a couple of months, when it gets too cold in his home in Chicago. Which sounds great if you can do it. So how has he managed to find the motivation and inspiration to have the fun in a life which for so many is just hard slog? And what it is about startups that excites him so much? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, the one and only super entrepreneur himself Mr David Kadavy

Todays guest is a lady working in the northern town of Harrogate in the UK, who is the founder of "The Career Farm", where she inspires people across the globe to not look for a career, but instead grow one. You see career farm, growing...yep it all makes sense. She doesn't believe that people are proactive enough in the way they go about earning a living, with the standard response to most people being the "Well it's a job isn't it" kind of response. She feels that we should be planning our development in the same way as a farmer plans what crops they will sow for maximum yield. We should be sowing the seeds that will help us reap bountiful rewards later on in our careers. She started her career as a Chartered Surveyor before re-training as a career coach, but in 1999 found her entrepreneurial spirit when she founded her first company, focusing on the supply of careers services and information products to Business Schools across the UK and Europe. But in June 2012 as her business grew more successful, her belief that there was more to offer the world, and of course more to come from herself led her to selling her stake in the company and creating the "Career Farm." And it looks like she was right to do so, as with her well received book "If not now, when? How to take charge of your career", her top ranked podcast "Mission Driven Entrepreneurs" , and myriad of other things helping people to feel fulfilled in their careers, she is certainly busier than ever. But when did she realise that people needed to grow their careers, and being true to herself was she always growing her own? And where does she see the biggest challenegs facing the working population nowadays? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show, to start joining up dots, the one and only Jane Barrett

Todays guest is a man who has an amazing story from a farm in South Africa to Scotland before settling in the United Kingdom. And it seems like so many people who appear on the show, his journey began on a path that was closely linked to family responsibilities and the childhood that he came to feel was normal. His Father ran a sugar cane farm in South Africa, and upon passing away when our guest was just 14 lead to the first dot in our guests Join Up Dots timeline. Should he allow the farm to be handed over to a new buyer, or run the farm himself to keep it in the family? But was running a sugar cane farm the true passion in his life or simply the right thing to do. Well whatever the case he made the decision to go to an agricultural college for his last three years of school as part of his preparation for farming, and after fulfilling his compulsory military duties, five years later became a farmer. But that is just the start of his journey, and with further stops via the windy and cold city of Aberdeen in Scotland, and a tennis club in the South of England he found something that he loves doing and is very good at. Building online businesses he has helped thousands of people increase their online profits from a few hundred to thousands of pounds a month using a number of time tested internet business models. He is the go to resource for passive income that works whilst you are asleep. So does he look back at his time as a sugar cane farmer as a lucky escape, or does he regret making the decision to move on? And what is it about entrepreneurial ventures that excites him on a daily basis? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show, to start joining up dots, the one and only Mr Anthony Robert.

Todays guest is a professional speaker and author who helps introverts lead with quiet confidence. She shows the no shouter, quiet types that they can hold their own in the business world and lead by example Her bestselling books, The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength, Quiet Influence and the Introvert’s Guide to Making a Difference have sold over 60,000 copies and been translated into eleven languages. Her 35-year journey to become an expert on introverts included jobs as an elementary school counselor, university administrator, federal government program director, and career coach. She has deepened her knowledge and appreciation for introverts through her work as a learning and development professional working inside leading organizations such as GE, AT&T, NASA , the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam, and the CDC, where she became committed to championing quieter people, by helping organizations recognize and value them, and by helping them step confidently into leadership roles. She is a Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), granted to only 8% of the National Speaker’s Association even though she attended her first National Speakers Association convention in San Diego just seven years ago. She has been hooked on NSA ever since. But that isn't all as also being a wife, and mother of two daughters she will have al the same issues and time restraints that family places on us all. So how does she manage to deliver such high quality work, for such varied organisations? And if she had to choose what element of her work gives her most satisfaction and enjoyment, speaking, writing, or seeing an introvert blossom into a leader of note which would she go for? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Jennifer Kahnweiler.

If you are an entrepreneur, businessman or just someone who is looking to impress then todays guest is the go to lady if you are a guy who likes to look good, but hasn't got the first idea how to pull it off. Or perhaps you are the kind of guy that has a style thing going on, but you are looking for a bit of quick inspiration instead of traipsing around the shops on a weekend. Combining the best of fashion, food, travel and fitness, all from the perspective of a female, guys across the world have at their fingertips the perfect guide to help them have it all. As she says "I want my readers to have it all. The swagger, the girl, the great meal, the adventure. All of it." But although the platform is going from strength to strength, her journey started about as far as possible away from the heady world of online fashion advice as possible. Starting her career back in 2001 in a customer relations position for Bumble and bumble a fast-growing, luxury hair care brand located in NYC, she then went into Government affairs for three years, before doing a myriad of positions that filled time more than exploded her passions. In fact it wasn't until performing a favour to a friend by starting Style Girlfriend, did it then turn into a syndicated national newspaper column, and later as a men’s style blog, and as they say the rest is history. So what does she think is the number one mistake that men make when throwing on something each morning? Picking it off the floor where they left it the night before, or something far more serious? And what is her fascination with 70's movie star Steve McQueen? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, the one and only Style girlfriend herself, Megan Collins

Todays guest is the founder and CEO of the Piper's Dojo, the number one place to go for all your bagpipe needs. He learned the pipes at age 8 from his father, Bruce, who sent his interested son on to the great Donald Lindsay for lessons by the time he was 9. Through Donald, our guest had the opportunity to meet and study with amazing world famous piping greats. Though only in his early 30's, he is already known as perhaps one of the top bagpipers in North America. But its not just playing these iconic instruments where he has come into his own as his compositions were featured on more than one World-Championship-Winning performance. He is the author of the "Bagpipe as an Extension of your Self tutor", which has inspired countless pipers to learn and re-learn the pipes. He has a passion for developing true expression in players, based on their own thoughts and ideas. But what was it about these instruments that so ignited his passions as a small child, away from the standard piano and guitars that most children pick up. And what does his neighbours think when he gets the urge to practice during the wee small hours? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Mr Andrew Douglas.

Todays guest is a lady that for many years was part of the education system. She has spent her time working as a high school library teacher in Massachusetts, before making the leap to go the entrepreneurial route. And of course throughout that time would have seen literally hundreds of children come and go. Some that their peer group would have said would have been destined for greatness, and others that would have been classed as a lost cause. Others that struggled and batted to gain an education, whilst others just drifted through the system and still came out with best grades. Is it down to the system, the kids, or the home life that brings about such different results? Well she has a combined approach of improving how we teach people. Finding the methods that will allow children to learn difficult stuff that their brains are not just suited for. And also helping to bring about order and calm in the home, when everyday seems exactly the same as the day before, and most of it is a whirlwind of running from one practice or rehearsal or meeting to another, with no real communication or connection among family members. But is this not just how life is? Do we not all simply have to go through the period of having our life spiral out of control due to the requirements of our children? And now with appearances on TV, Radio and the online word she is the go to expert to help us reclaim our lives and improve the lives of our children So lets find out what made her step out on her own and be such a success so quickly, as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Deborah Owen