Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

Today’s guest is an inspiring entrepreneur who defies the odds in a male-driven industry and has many thoughts on changing this status quo. Rather than focusing on issues, she collaborates with organizations to provide a gateway for young people to develop an interest in technology and entrepreneurship.

 When she was 8 years old she submitted her first marketing plan, managed a non-profit event at 12, led a team of marketers in one of Canada’s best managed companies at 24 and was a Director at a Publicly traded company at 25.

She co-founded her first company with her sister and then leading to a global market share of non-profit customers for communication and membership management.

Today, she is working on a new company, realSociable, focused on social insight for deeper engagement with customers. RealSociable is making a lot of noise and growing rapidly. so far, customers have included such companies as HP, Vodafone, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com.

Now, let’s hack…

Dalia Asterbadi.

• Why you need to build your own true inner circle
• The first two years in business is all about figuring it out
• Don’t anticipate being wrong, but be ready to accept that you are
• Why you need to be the person that takes the blame for failure

My guest today is an author, strength and conditioning coach, and an entrepreneur.

He is the author of The perfect Day Formula and a Men's Health magazine contributor.

He is also the creator of the popular workout program, Turbulence Training.

You can read his daily wisdom at EarlyToRise.com

Now, let’s hack…

Craig Ballantyne.

My guest today is a battle hardened investor, seasoned trader, advisor to top brands, and an entrepreneur.

After spending a couple years as a real estate agent, my guest founded Hartwood Capital, a private investment fund focused on high risk, high profitability options trading.

He is currently the founder of Make More Marbles, a productivity, personal development, and finance hub.

Taking what he's learned from starting a and managing a successful private investment fund, my guest now helps train entrepreneurs to become more focused and effective.

Now, let’s hack…

Brad Hart.

My guest today is a writer, networking expert, and an entrepreneur.

Her career started in corporate law, and eventually transitioned to the management side of Big Law.

A chance opportunity in 2009 to work with a visionary leader sparked her transition from earning a paycheck to seeking equity.My guest co-founded a startup accelerator, Women Innovate Mobile.

She is also the author of the recently released book Build Your Dream Network. It was written to help you cut through the networking noise and start building the powerful, real relationships needed to succeed in our digital world.

Now, let’s hack…

Kelly Hoey.

My guest today is blogger, food enthusiast, and entrepreneur. Along with her husband and business partner, they have created the Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro.

My guest spent the last five years teaching elementary school by day and blogging about food by night.

She always went back and forth about becoming a full-time blogger, but in June 2014, she officially made the jump to living this crazy full-time-food-blogging dream.

Now, let’s hack…

Lindsay Ostrom.

In this 28-minute episode Lindsay Ostrom and I discuss:

• Letting go of the scarcity mentality
• Accepting the tension of being an online entrepreneur
• The importance of setting timelines and goals in your business
• Taking actions on your ideas

My guest today is a marketing expert, sports fan, and entrepreneur.

Just over seven years ago, he started a web development company called Loud Rumour. The business has since evolved into a marketing and lead generation company.

During this conversation, we will hear the story of why during the past year they have niched down to become a marketing company exclusively for fitness studios to get more clients.

Now, let’s hack…

Mike Arce.

My guest today is a writer, connector, and an entrepreneur.

My guest spent the past 8 years following his passions, honing his marketing skills, and building businesses for himself and others.

After countless different positions at numerous companies, my he finally settled upon his latest company, Due, a global online payments company.

Now, let’s hack…

John Rampton.

My guest today is a former strategy consultant, parallel parking expert, and entrepreneur.

After graduating from university, my best went to work as a senior consultant. While working across a variety of industries he could see a number of challenges and opportunities taking place within the traditional design industry. So he had an idea to solve these challenges.

Once his co-founder had built the first prototype for the website, he quit his job, moved back in with his parents, and started working full time on DesignCrowd. This was September 2007, before officially launching the site in early 2008.

In 2009, DesignCrowd received $300,000 from Angel Investors and have since raised a further $12 million in venture capital.

Today, DesignCrowd has 50 staff across offices in Sydney, Manila and San Francisco, has over half a million registered designers and almost $20 million in annual revenue.

Now, let’s hack…

Alec Lynch.

My guest today is the founder of Mirasee (formerly Firepole Marketing), host of the Business Reimagined podcast, best-selling author of multiple books including Engagement from Scratch!, The Audience Revolution, and Teach and Grow Rich.

In just a few short years, he’s grown the business to multiple seven figures in revenue and a team of 30+ people spread all over the world (on a mission to support special global community of 50,000+ loyal and inspired entrepreneurs.

In early 2016, my guest wrote Teach and Grow Rich as a sort of manifesto for educator entrepreneurs — entrepreneurs who want use their knowledge to grow their businesses.

The book resonated with so many people (myself included) that my guest decided to revisit his ideas to expand and revise his vision.

Today, we are going deep in the educator entrepreneur with my good friend Danny Iny.

My guest today is an ethical search engine optimizer, digital marketer, and an entrepreneur.

He has launched two startups, had two successful exits, and is now working on startup number three, Checkli.

Chuckle is a web and mobile app that helps people make and share private or public checklists. With over 275,000 checklists made and 490,000 tasks completed, Checkli is gaining traction fast due to my guests impressive SEO skills, which we get into in this conversation.

Now, let’s hack…

Marvin Russell.