Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

Diana Dyer is an independent financial advisor and founder of Triumph Capital. Diana has been in the financial services industry for nearly twelve years and she have been recognized as one of the top 30 financial advisors in Canada for five consecutive years.

Triumph Capital is a financial planning and advisory firm created to give young professionals access to unbiased, independent, and accessible resources when it comes to financial literacy and planning. Their mission is simple: they aim to democratize finance.

Most recently Diana was featured as one FLARE Magazine's Top 100 Women to Watch.

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Diana Dyer.

Warren Hogarth started out with a PhD in chemical engineering and moved onto receiving his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Then in 2008, he became a partner at the #1 VC firm in the world, Sequoia Capital, where he spent the next eight years as lead investor and a board member for billion dollar companies. And then he walked away from it.

He is now the co-founder and CEO of Empower, an app that helps entrepreneurs and side hustlers stay on top of their finances.

This is a fascinating conversation about keeping an open mind about the future, how chance favors the prepared mind, and maniacally prioritizing your days.

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Warren Hogarth.

Suuchi Ramesh is a former engineer and analytics consultant turned brilliant entrepreneur building an innovative company in a traditionally slow-moving industry.

Suuchi is the founder of Suuchi Inc, a design & manufacturing partner for the most innovative, forward-thinking American fashion and apparel brands and Fortune 1000 companies. In addition to this, Suuchi Inc is proudly makes everything in USA and is women owned & the fast-growing team of over 100 is 70% women-operated.

This is a fascinating conversation from the factory floor about why business is a team effort, using the software sales process to sell manufacturing, and how to hire a team of scrappers.

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Suuchi Ramesh.

Kevin Kelly has been writing on the Internet since 1982 and Tim Ferris calls him the Most Interesting Man in the World.

He has spent the past 40+ years living project to project, accomplishing some truly impressive feats in the process without ever attending college or university. From 1984 to 1990, Kevin Kelly was the publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review.

In 1993 he co-founded Wired magazine and served as its Executive Editor for the first seven years. He is now Senior Maverick for Wired. He is a co-founder and editor of the popular Cool Tools website. Kevin Kelly is also a world-renowned bestselling author of countless books, with his latest called The Inevitable. He is also the author of the viral Internet piece called 1,000 True Fans. Now, let's hack…

In this 46-minute episode Kevin Kelly and I discuss:

• The importance of asking the dumb questions and critiquing your own thoughts in writing
• Recognizing knowledge and information as a commodity
• Establishing your voice on the Internet and finding a niche audience
• Honoring the middle-ground between brick & mortar and Amazon.com
• Saying yes to the right ideas and learning to say no to the others
• The catch-22 of being successful and embracing failure

• KK.org
• 1,000 True Fans
• Books by Kevin Kelly
• Kevin on Twitter
• Jon on Twitter

• How The Pitch Podcast was Acquired by Gimlet Media | Josh Muccio
• Working Between Your Comfort and Panic Zones | Chris Altchek | Mic
• [Going Deep] on Scaling a Media Company | Nathan Chan | Foundr

Cavan Klinsky is an entrepreneur who loves programming, sports, business, and music. When he's not working on his business, he is dreaming up project ideas, picking up heavy things, and eating sushi.

When he was 14 years old he started CJK Web Design where he spent almost seven years building sites for local businesses and did pro bono work for charities. He accomplished all this while in high school and then college.

He is now the co-founder and CTO of Healthie Inc, a software company making it easy for nutrition and wellness professionals to run their businesses.

In this conversation, Jon and Cavan discuss doing things that don't scale, breaking large problems into smaller tasks, and asking the question: how did they build this?

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Cavan Klinsky.

Stephynie Malik is an active listener, strategist, and entrepreneur.

For the past 16 years, she has been the founder of Malik Co, a management consulting firm working with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.

During a 16 year tenure building her company many things have changed, including herself and her goals.

So this past November, my guest stepped down as leader Malik Co, and started a brand new company called Chique Speak.

In this conversation, Stephynie Malik and Jon discuss the power of being a good listener, following your gut, and being honourable.

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Stephynie Malik.

Michelle Green is a chef, cake decorator, super connector, and relentless entrepreneur.

She began decorating cakes at 16 years old and spent countless years honing her skills. Then in 2004, she started her own bakery called Three Sweeties.

During the next 10 years, she grew her business, began teaching and mentoring others, and eventually sold her bakery to move full-time into teaching and blogging.

She now runs the popular blog, The Business of Baking, and I absolutely love how she sum's up the blog's philosophy so well with:

Love yourself. Love your clients. Love your craft. Be grateful. Kick ass. (and do ALL of that with gratitude.)

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Michelle Green.

Tara Gentile is a writer, community builder, and a brilliant entrepreneur.

Back in 2008, an aggravating incident at work pushed her to decide to leave the job market and start building her own vision and business.

Tara got her start with founding the premier website for promoting arts & crafts in Pennsylvania before moving on to creating an online publication called Scoutie Girl.

For the past five years, my guest has been growing her now main business called CoCommercial a fluff-free social network for small business owners on a mission.

In this episode we discuss, community building, content marketing for customer acquisition, and the journey from freelancer to entrepreneur.

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Tara Gentile.

Aviv Shahar is an author, former air force pilot, and an entrepreneur.

He has spent the past 17 years building his consulting business by helping senior executives at some of the world's largest companies.

The most impressive thing about his business is that 98% of his new client acquisition is based on referrals from previous clients — and yes, we dive into how he accomplishes this.

He is also the author of a new book called Create New Futures.

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Aviv Shahar.

Dave Asprey is a biohacker, author, nutritionist, Bulletproof Executive, and entrepreneur.

He had some early adventures in internet commerce going way back to 1994. But he is most known as the founder of Bulletproof Executive, as well as the creator of Bulletproof Coffee and the Bulletproof Diet.

He began blogging at BulletproofExec.com in early 2010 while holding an executive position at Trend Micro. In 2013, he left the corporate world and went all-in on becoming Bulletproof.

The company bootstrapped itself into a global leader. In July 2015, they opened their first Bulletproof Cafe and raised $9 million in funding to the expand the Bulletproof Nutrition coffeeshops.

He is also the host of the enormously successful Bulletproof Radio podcast.

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Dave Asprey.