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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Lane Kawaoka. Lane currently owns 4,500+ units across the US. He lives in Hawaii and recently quit his day job as a Professional Engineer with a MS in Civil Engineering & Construction Management and a BS in Industrial Engineering.

Lane partners with investors who want to build their portfolio, but are too busy to mess with “tenants, toilets, and termites” by curating opportunities in his “Hui Deal Pipeline Club” where his investors have personal access to him and know that Lane is personally putting his money on the line too. The Hui Deal Pipeline Club has acquired over $500 Million dollars of real estate acquired by syndicating over $60 Million Dollars of private equity since 2016.

Lane reverse engineers the wealth-building strategies that the rich use to the middle class via the Top-50 Investing Podcast SimplePassiveCashflow.com. Lane’s mission is to help hardworking professionals out of the rat race, one free strategy call at a time.

In our discussion, Lane talked to me about:

• The importance of creating content to educate
• Producing a podcast by answering common questions
• How to grow a community program by starting with 1:1 coaching and documenting the lessons

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Audrey Holst from Fortitude and Flow. Audrey helps people reform their perfectionism so they can reclaim their agency and put their full energy into what really matters. Her work uses a combination of mindfulness and neuroscience tools and combines over a decade of experience teaching yoga with deep knowledge of the nervous system and extensive training and work as a Certified Professional Coach.

Through her Fortitude & Flow Process, Audrey guides individuals and groups through a holistic experience to shift the way they approach themselves and the things that matter to them – for good.

In our discussion, Audrey talked to me about:

• Common signs that perfectionism is holding us back
• How to balance perfectionism and excellent action
• Being aware of your whole body to get into a flow

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Catherine Morgan, a multi-award-winning qualified financial planner and award-winning financial coach, on a mission to reduce financial anxiety and increase financial empowerment & resilience for 1 million women around the world.

Featured as One of the top 32 female entrepreneurs to look out for in Business Leader, she's also the host of the top 1% global podcast ‘In Her Financial Shoes’ and founder of The Money Panel.

In our discussion, Catherine talked to me about:

• Why financial education is not sufficient to fill the financial knowledge gap
• The physical, practical, and emotional needs to consider around money
• Money mindsets and stretching your financial comfort zone

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Michael Haynes, an SME Business Growth Specialist and the author of Listen Innovate Grow.

Michael spent over 23 years working in a variety of strategy, marketing, and customer insight roles with large corporates across a range of industries in Australia and Canada. During his time working for Australia’s largest telecommunications company as a Customer Research and Strategy Manager, he experienced first-hand how big corporations utilize innovation to increase growth with business customers. Now Michael empowers service-based small and medium companies (SMEs) with buyer-centric strategies to achieve the growth and impact they seek.

In our discussion, Michael talked to me about:

• Leveraging business innovation across multiple sectors
• Road-mapping and sense-making instead of "content vomit"
• Really listening to your customers and industry

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, David Schonthal, an award-winning Clinical Professor and Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses on new venture creation, design thinking, healthcare innovation and creativity. David is also co-author with fellow Kellogg professor Loran Nordgren, of The Human Element, a book about overcoming people's resistance to innovation and change.

Outside of Kellogg, David has been a practitioner of entrepreneurship, design, and innovation for over 20 years. He has spent a decade working at world-renowned design firm, IDEO, and currently serves as an Operating Partner at 7Wire Ventures, a healthcare technology-focused venture capital firm. David is a Global Advisor at Design for Ventures (D4V), a Tokyo-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in design-led Japanese startups, and is the Co-Founder of MATTER, a 25,000 square-foot innovation center in downtown Chicago focused on catalyzing and supporting healthcare entrepreneurship.

In our discussion, David talked to me about:

• Human behaviour that underpins the resistance to change
• Being problem-focused rather than product-focused
• Co-designing solutions by framing changes as an experiment

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Alex Sanfilippo, host of the Creating a Brand Podcast and founder of Podmatch, which automatically matches ideal podcast hosts and guests for interviews

Alex has worked in real estate investing and in aerospace; he started a blog and built that into a multi-author blog with more than 130 writers on it. He also recently launched PodcastSOP.com, a software service for podcasters to manage the workflow of each new episode release.

In our discussion, Alex talked to me about:

• How to focus your podcast on your dream listener (and that's a model for focusing your business on your dream client)
• The importance of a media pack or podcast one-sheet for landing speaking or podcast guest spots
• Seek to be a person of value first

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Sarah Santacroce, the Founder of the Humane Business Revolution. She’s also an internationally recognized LinkedIn Consultant, entrepreneur, podcaster, “Hippie turned Business Coach”, and author of “The Gentle Marketing Revolution”, and upcoming “Selling Like We’re Human” books.

Sarah has over a decade of experience in the fields of marketing, entrepreneurship, coaching, online business creation, and strategy. She has been facilitating, training, and holding space with in-person and online groups since 2010 and is trained in the “Art of Holding Space” as well as “The Art of Participatory Leadership”. Her approach is grounded in these pragmatic experiences, based on research and best practice. Bundled with her extensive inner work, knowledge about mindfulness, meditation, and alternative ways of healing, this creates a unique perspective on business that is holistic, humane, and gentle.

In recent years, Sarah’s upbringing and life’s experiences inspired a yearning to create a global movement that encourages people to bring more empathy and kindness to the business world, live a more meaningful life and take care of our mother earth and each other. She lives in beautiful Switzerland where she was born and raised but considers herself an alternative thinking citizen of this world. When she’s not working she loves adventure and traveling, yoga and nature walks or hanging out with her 3 boys (a husband and two teenage sons).

In our discussion, Sarah talked to me about:

• Starting your marketing journey with self-awareness and personal power
• Building long term sustainable relationships
• The concept of maximum sustainable generosity (Jonathan Fields)

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Lynn Howard, from the Coaching Consulting Resource Center. Lynn has started and sold many businesses across the globe for over 20+ years, leading global organizations as a COO, in 26 countries, and on leadership boards of NGOs with a global footprint & impact. She's driven to be a change agent, a thought leader, and to move the world forward.

As a natural leader, Lynn has always seemed to take charge, create an impact and support the growth of those around her. Yet, that didn't always come easy to her; she didn’t always have the tools, or at least understand and apply them. Now, she understands the world differently, has empathy and an inner drive to create a culture and mindset shift, to get people out of their everyday complacency, or what the “norm” is, and step into a better version of themselves, in their life and business; leading companies into higher levels of success, more streamlined processes and healthier company culture. Her motto is “No excuses, only solutions.”, with a little tough love, intuitiveness, and perseverance mixed in, she's the catalyst to the next level of what her clients are working on.

In our discussion, Lynn talked to me about:

• Getting really clear on our values, vision and purpose, to focus our energy
• Connection and meaningful conversation for effective "networking"
• Building a community around her services and resources.

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Stormie Andrews, President, Yokel Local, Co-host, PowerHouse Experts Podcast and the Finances the Other "F" Word Podcast as well as Author of The World's Best Buyer Persona System.

Yokel Local is an online inbound marketing agency partnering with overwhelmed marketing departments and executives to take the burden of the inbound marketing maze off your shoulders.

Stormie has a unique marketing mindset having transitioned from a successful sales career. He bridges the gap between marketing and sales eliminating the blame game with his knowledge, expertise, and understanding of both sales and marketing. He's developed the World’s Best Buyer Persona ingratiating their Six Step Inbound System to achieve measurable results as described by his clients.

In our discussion, Stormie talked to me about:

• His Marketing Wheel Audit and seeing the world through the eyes of your best customers
• Having a WOW system for your clients
• That Trust is way more important than the sale

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In this episode, I’m really excited to have as my guest, Mike James of Smartphone Photography Training. Mike has combined over 20 years of experience in photography and mentoring to become a sought-after smartphone photography training specialist – delivering extraordinary value, in an engaged and intelligent way. His passion comes from being on a mission to help you become more photography literate in your personal and business photography – priding himself on delivering practical, jargon-free techniques and tips.

In our discussion, Mike talked to me about:

• Always remembering why you are in business and Mike's personal, powerful why
• His two rules - will it transform his customers and will it bring him joy
• And of course, a bunch of photography tips

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