Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

My guest today is a product creator and software entrepreneur who is pushing his way to full-time entrepreneurship.

His day job is in software management, but he has spent the past three years working morning, nights, and weekends to build his own business.

About 12 months ago, he pulled his work week back to four days per week, to give him a full day to focus on growing his business.

He is the founder of Simple Press Plugins, a suite of premium WordPress plugins built to automate content publishing for podcasters and small businesses.

Now, let’s hack…

Hani Mourra.

My guest today is a lifestyle entrepreneur and the other half of the co-founding team behind Proofread Anywhere and The Work Anywhere Life.

Several episodes ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Caitlyn Pyle and we had a deep conversation into her views of entrepreneurship and product creation.

Today, we are speaking to her husband and co-founder, a super smart entrepreneur himself, yet as we will hear in this conversation, he takes an almost directly opposite approach to business.

Now, let’s hack…

Benjamin Pyle.

My guest today is a tech-loving entrepreneur based in Amsterdam.

He spent four years as the co-founder of GeoRun, a mobile activation software company for iOs and Android games.

Today he is the co-founder of Recruitee, a SaaS recruiting platform. With offices in The Netherlands and Poland, they have spent the past two years taking over the European hiring market and are gearing up to take over North America.

Now, let’s hack…

Perry Oostdam.

My guest has moved from franchise owner, to Chief Marketing Officer, to entrepreneur.

After spending nearly a decade in the cleaning business, my guest made the move into digital marketing with his venture Self-Employed King, a digital marketing agency for small businesses.

Today, he has successfully exited two businesses and is now building a great new company as founder and CEO of Social Quant, a Twitter marketing service.

Now, let’s hack…

Mike Kawula.

My guest today is an investor, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. If there is such a thing as being born an entrepreneur, then my guest today fits this description.

Starting his first mini-venture when he was just eight years old and continuing on throughout his teens.

He jumped headfirst into the real estate business, buying and selling real estate at a furious pace — then the crash hit and he was forced to reassess his business and life.

He is not the founder at Thrive: Make Money Matter, an annual conference designed to teach entrepreneurs how to dominate in business and in life, while making the world a better place.

Now, let’s hack…

Cole Hatter.

My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author, international speaker, and obsessive entrepreneur.

He currently owns five massively successful companies, including a real estate company with over $400 million in real estate. He is also the founder of Cardone Acquisitions and Cardone Enterprises.

He is the author of seven books. His current, very-soon-to-be-released book called Be Obsessed or Be Average is a call to action for you to become obsessed with your life and business, or simply live an average life.

Now, let’s hack…

Grant Cardone.

My guest today is recognized as an unquestionable authority in the content strategy space, after having written her seminal article, The Discipline of Content Strategy.

She is also one of the coolest, most passionate and friendly people that you could ever hope to meet.

Although we don’t avoid content strategy explicitly in this conversation, we are here to talk about her as an entrepreneur.

My guest is currently the CEO at Brain Traffic, and Founder of the Confab Content Strategy Conferences.

Her agency Brain Traffic is home to a team of renowned content strategists, serving clients like Hewlett-Packard, Coca-Cola, Merck and Best Buy.

She currently lives south of me in the northern city of St. Paul, Minnesota with her two kids.

Let’s hack…

Kristina Halvorson.

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.

My guest today is a digital nomad — spending most of his time between Los Angeles, Manila, Bangkok, and Saigon — plus, he is a very smart entrepreneur.

After starting, growing, and selling several businesses since 2010, my guest co-founded Empire Flippers in March 2013. Empire Flippers has helped people buy and sell over $10 million dollars worth of online businesses.

In 2016, they placed #161 on the Inc. 5000 list, with 2015 revenues of $4.7 million.

Now, let’s hack…

Justin Cooke.