Jon Nastor's Hack the Entrepreneur

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My guest on the show today started his career as a lawyer, where he spent 4 years before becoming an entrepreneur â€" this transition happened over 40 years ago.

He's what I would call a serial entrepreneur, having started 11 companies of varying degrees success. This conversation takes a couple fascinating turns as Ken discusses $100+ million dollar exits and business ideas that have continued to pay him every year for 10+ years.

In addition to his own ventures, he's been investing in companies for the past 18 years.

Through all of this, he began to notice a thread that ran through successful entrepreneurs -- an entrepreneurial mindset -- so he put pen to paper and wrote a new book called The Dream Toolbox: Building an Entrepreneurial Mind and Financial Abundance.

In this conversation, Ken Aldrich and Jonny discuss:

• Friction points: why you must find them if you are going to succeed in business
• Business partners: good ones are worth seeking out, but they must complement your strengths and weaknesses
• There is a solution to every problem you will encounter in your life and business

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Kenneth Aldrich.

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My guest today is one of the most influential photographers of the past decade, is a diehard creative, and an entrepreneur.

Chase has spent over two decades mastering the craft of photography. In 2009, this led him to creating the world's first photo app called Best Camera, and it went onto becoming Apple's 2009 App of the Year.

Then in 2010, Chase founded CreativeLive -- now the world's leading platform for creators and entrepreneurs. In the past 9 years, a staggering 10 million students have consumed more than 3 billion minutes of video via CreativeLive's online platform.

After spending tens of thousands of hours honing his photography skills and years working with 1,000s of creatives via CreativeLive, Chase decided it was time to share his understanding and insights into creativity. This led to him publishing his latest book, Creative Calling now a bestseller and highly recommended for anyone looking step-up their ability to consistently create and build on their ideas.

In this conversation, Chase and Jonny discuss:

• Trusting yourself: As we get older, we tend to give up this natural ability that we all once had. Our goal as creative entrepreneurs, is rediscovering this ability and running with it.
• Start anywhere: The only lasting mistake that you can make is to not start.
• Creativity: Everything you see around you has been created from an idea and lots of hard work. Your creativity is a muscle that you need to exercise every day.

Now, let's hack...

Chase Jarvis.

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My guest today is a bestselling author, award-winning advertiser, and entrepreneur.

Jason Harris is the CEO of the creative agency Mekanism and the cofounder of the Creative Alliance.

At Mekanism, Jason has helped the agency produce campaigns for such companies as HBO, Muscle Milk, The North Face, PepsiCo, MillerCoors and Ben and Jerry's.

In 2014, Mekanism led the White House's "It's on Us" campaign to raise awareness of campus sexual assault. The campaign is currently in its third year.

This past summer Jason published his first book The Soulful Art of Persuasion, already a Wallstreet Journal Bestseller.

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Jason Harris.

Dave Munson of Saddleback Leather Co. spent several years journeying across North America with his dog to create bags and other products made to outlast their owners. Their slogan is: They'll fight over it when you're dead.

His founding story is one of legend. He spent three years living in a $100 a month apartment in Mexico with his dog Blue, and dodged a crooked Mexican federale who was sent to kill him, all while trying to start his business.

Saddleback Leather Co. currently has over 250 employees in the US and Mexico, where they have built their own leather factories.

In this conversation we discuss the importance of being principled in life and business, hiring business coaches, and sticking with it long enough to succeed.

Now, let's hack!

Dave Munson.

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My guest today is a triple Pisces, marketing and growth coach, and a smart entrepreneur.

She is the founder of IttyBiz, where her and her team turn smart, quirky people into smart, quirky entrepreneurs.

She has been coaching and teaching online marketing since 2006 and has been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, Cosmopolitan and USA Today.

Plus, her newsletter has attracted over 50,000 subscribers from across the globe.

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Naomi Dunford.

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At the age of 39, my guest, Weldon Long, found himself walking out of prison after seven years and living in a homeless shelter -- this was 15 years ago.

He spent the next six months knocking on door after door trying to land a job, with zero experience. Finally, a small HVAC company in Colorado gave him a shot and it changed the course of his life -- he stayed with this company for 18 months learning the art of sales and running a small business.

Then he made his move and started his own HVAC company. Over the next five years, he grew this business to $20 million in sales before selling the business.

He is now a NY Times bestselling author, speaker, and sales trainer.

During this fast-moving conversation, we discuss:

• How to determine what you really want out of life and business
• Why the biggest mistake you can make is not focussing on the right things
• Why all businesses are sales companies

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Weldon Long.

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The bestselling author of Pitch Anything is back to flip your entire approach or persuasion and selling.

In his decades of pitching, presenting, and closing high-stakes deals, Oren Klaff has learned that people are sick of being sold to. What people love is coming up with their own great idea, even if it's the same idea you were guiding them towards.

That's why Oren is throwing out the old antiquated playbook on selling and bringing you a new approach with his brilliant new book Flip the Script

He'll show you a new approach that works on this simple insight: everyone trusts their own ideas.

That might sound easier said than done, but Oren has taught thousands of people how to do just that with a series of simple steps that makes it simple for anyone to follow.

Now, let's talk to Oren Klaff and learn how to flip the script.

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Today's guest is all about passion, people, and perseverance.

Eight years ago he began building businesses in the video space. Today, after a self-proclaimed spectacular failure and two other products that didn't work out, he is the proud founder of Bonjoro.

Founded in 2017, Bonjoro enables business owners and customer success teams convert and retain more customers through personal video. Through a lot of hard work, process creation, and personal growth, Bonjoro has grown to now have locations across three countries -- England, the U.S., and Australia.

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Matthew Barnett.

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My guest on the show today is a speaker, coach, and facilitator of career reinvention. She has the unique ability to guide others through the difficult transition of changing careers or moving from employee to entrepreneur.

This ability is why she is here today. In this conversation, we work through the mindset struggles so many of us have had to deal with while making leaps of faith and jumping into new careers â€" whether those are into new industries or into entrepreneurship.

She has coached stay-at-home moms to become successful entrepreneurs, and to keep their home life thriving and energized. As well as guiding countless others with the science behind changing our mindset and learning new skills.

Over the years, she has been invited across the globe to coach team leaders seeking better solutions to their unique challenges, and teams to maximize their personal and professional potential.

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Lyn Christian.

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My guest today is a WordPress Developer, podcaster, and a business coach.

He started like a lot of us do, with lots of dreaming, thinking, and talking about working for himself and running his own online business. But also like many of us, it wasn't an easy transition.

In fact, he made the first leap into freelancing and a couple years later he had to go back to working for someone else. But he thought about what had gone wrong the first time, created a plan, and headed out on his own once again.

He's now been in business since 2010, and even though it hasn't always been unicorns and rainbows, he's persevered through the hard times and come out on the better end of business success.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Always keeping your 'why' front and center when making decisions
• Why and how to create micro-experiments for your freelancing clients
• How to keep a steady flow of clients rolling through your business

Now, let's hack...

Jason Resnick