Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

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Victoria Montgomery-Brown is the author of a brand new book called Digital Goddess, and CEO, and an entrepreneur who uses her anxiety to her advantage.

Since 2007, Victoria has been the cofounder and CEO of Big Think, a media and education company focused on short-form, digital, and immediately actionable content.

Most recently, she has written her first book called Digital Goddess: Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur.

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Victoria Montgomery-Brown.

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My guest today is a driven and strategic leader, creator, and mentor.

Ross Kimbarovsky immigrated to the United States from the Ukraine in 1979. Following a 13 year career as a successful trial attorney, and then about 14 years ago Ross founded Crowdspring.

He began his career as a trial attorney, where he successfully spent 13 years representing clients in intellectual property disputes.

But back in 2006, he stumbled across an opportunity and turned his idea into a reality. For the past 14 years, he's been the founder and CEO of Crowdspring. Crowdspring has helped to democratize design around the world. Over 220,000 creatives from 195 countries have helped more than 60,000 of the world's best entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, with logo, web, and graphic design.

What began as an idea to scratch his own itch has turned into a pioneer and forerunner in the world of online design.

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Ross Kimbarovsky.

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Michael Lennox is the Founder and CEO of Electric Hospitality and ATLFAMILYMEAL.

Electric Hospitality consists of three successful restaurant brands in Atlanta, Georgia. With a staff of 125, and two new restaurants ready to launch in two new and exciting markets, Covid and March 16, 2020 -- or what the restaurant industry in Atlanta calls black Monday -- hit. And everything changed. With the temporary closure of his restaurants, he took action the very next day, and founded ATLFAMILYMEAL with the mission to feed, nourish, and support hospitality workers experiencing food insecurity and joblessness.

The initiative brings together a community of local chefs, restaurant owners, hospitality workers, and business/non-profit leaders to purchase, prepare, and deliver free meals to hospitality workers in need across the metro Atlanta area. Since launching, the organization has delivered nearly 100,000 meals to unemployed hospitality workers.

With no one being paid and money running out, in August ATLFAMILYMEAL received a donation of $2 million from a local donor in honor of two Atlanta restaurant servers. This generous donation will enable them to continue supporting hospitality workers in Atlanta, grow its team, and adding new initiatives in the months and years ahead.

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Michael Lennox.

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Tim Chatfield is an advocate for the sharing economy, savvy executive, and an entrepreneur.

He was born in Australia, spent several years starting his career, before spending almost five years in Singapore as CEO of Viocorp.

In mid-2016, with his 3-year-old daughter and wife â€" who was seven months pregnant at the time â€" moved to New York City to launch his company Jitjatjo. Now four years later, JitJatJo is a marketplace and platform leveraging artificial intelligence to instantly and accurately match hospitality businesses with vetted industry workers on demand.

2020 and all that has thrown at us has caused all businesses to adapt and change to the new normals as they come, and JitJatJo's place within the hospitality industry exacerbated their need to adapt and change quickly.

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Tim Chatfield.

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A couple of years ago, my guest decided that she was through with working for digital agencies that didn't have their clients best interests in mind. But she had developed some serious marketing skills and loved helping clients succeed, so she decided to go out on her own.

For the past two years, she has been working as an independent consultant and social media educator. She has done all of this while also taking care of her children -- which gives her only three to four hours a day to work on the business.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How to prioritize your time to maximize your results
• Why marketing yourself can be the hardest marketing to do well
• Why social media is not about ROI

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Danielle Welch.

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About three years ago, my guest was working in his family-run ecommerce business, when a thought struck him, why isn't there a simple service to hire writers to write articles?

Using what he likes to call "decision velocity", he jumped on the idea and took action.

Today he is a co-founder and head of marketing at Content Cucumber, where they simplify content creation and enable companies to get content on demand.

In this interview, we discuss:

• The true value of having cofounders in business
• Covid: And sudden shift from in-person event marketing to driving leads with paid ads
• How to use shiny object syndrome to your advantage

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Chris Chasteen.

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My guest today is an advisor, board member to nonprofits, and a purpose-driven entrepreneur.

Grant is CEO and Founder of OnlineDegree.com. He founded the company in 2016 with a purpose-driven mission to make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone, and six years later they are well on their way.

Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience.

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Grant Aldrich.

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My guest today is a serial entrepreneur and innovator, who has followed her passion and her heart while building several successful businesses.

She began her journey in the herbs and herbal tea industry in the early 1970s and has designed award-winning herbal beverages for top tea companies including The Republic of Tea, Yogi Tea Company, Uncle Lee’s Tea, and Organic India.

25 years ago, she started a company and set out to create a caffeine-free herbal cappuccino, and in this she created Teeccino, now America’s top selling coffee alternative.

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Caroline MacDougall.

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My guest today is a growth engineer, investor, advisor, author, and serial entrepreneur who has had seven successful exits.

Travis currently serves as the CEO of GrowFlow â€" an industry-leading, venture-backed suite of software products for companies in the cannabis industry. As CEO, he leads the vision and strategy of this fast-growing team of 60.

Although he's been building, scaling, and successfully exiting businesses for the past 12 years, he started his career in 2008 as a professional online poker in 2008. Using some of the same skills that made him successful at the poker table have translated well for him in his entrepreneurial journey.

He is also the author of Viral Hero, where he not only dispels the myths of viral marketing but also provides you with a proven playbook for creating explosive growth through marketing.

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Travis Steffen.

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My guest today had a dream to change the way consumers shop. A dream to build a brand that would help people make buying decisions based on peer endorsements, not just advertising.

In 2007, that dream became Parent Tested Parent Approved, a seal of approval used by thousands of brands across North America and one of the most respected in the industry.

Sharon has used the power of network television to grow her business, and has been featured on more than 200 shows.

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Sharon Vinderine.