Know Pain, Know Gain

“Don’t do things that you’re not good at, and don’t do things that you don’t like doing.”

In this episode, Jay brings on author and burn-out prevention expert, Michael Levitt.  Michael's work focuses on helping entrepreneurs and business owners both avoid burnout, and heal from it.  In this podcast, Jay and Michael talk about some business strategies to avoid burnout, structuring your business around your strengths, avoiding energy vampires, work life harmony (not balance!), how to increase your "opportunity awareness" and so much more....

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Episode Highlights:

02:41 What is Breakfast Leadership

13:57 Fear and Pace

26:02 Structuring One’s Business

42:32 Recognizing Burn-Out

“Be easy on yourself.” ~ Holly Chantal

In this episode, Jay talks with Holly Chantal, a Business Integrator and Brand Strategist that helps business owners gain clarity around their brand and offerings, and then bring those visions to life through proper implementation.  Some of the topics covered in this podcast include "business experiments," recognizing when a strategy needs to be abandoned, being mindful about your business, being an entrepreneur when you're also an overachiever and much more!

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Episode Highlights:

00:51 Holly Chantal a Business Integrator and a Business Strategist

05:16 When To Hire a Business Strategist

12:00 How Holy became a Business Strategist

20:17 Being Mindful and Adaptive About Your Business

33:20 Being an Entrepreneur and Overachiever

41:28  Working on Business Offers

“Self care can be going out dive - deciding your going on in an adventure.”

In this episode, Jay talks with Holly Kulak, co-founder of Weekend Sherpa, an outdoors-focused brand that helps folks in the Bay Area and LA find cool weekend excursions.  Holly's co-founder is her husband Brad, so Jay and Holly spent some time talking about how working with your spouse can actually be a force-multiplier (under the right conditions!), launching a company from a plan drafted on the back of a napkin, how to delegate, adapt and innovate, and so much more....

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Episode Highlights:

01:13 Weekend Sherpa

07:17 Weekend Sherpa + Earning Money

13:18 Adaptation and Innovation

21:03 Building Business with Significant Other

41:40 Stress Reliever Meditating Chicken :D

“Awareness is the most important thing.”

Anxiety can bring an entrepreneur's business to a halt and make every step of the growth process harder.  In this episode, Jay brings on Brian Sachetta, author of Get Out of Your Head--A Toolkit for Living with and Overcoming Anxiety.  As they explore the book and Brian's personal battle with anxiety, Jay and Brian discuss vulnerability, entrepreneurial anxiety, how our brain can trick us, and some techniques to manage and more effectively navigate anxiety when it crops up.

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Episode Highlights:

01:51 Writing Get Out of Your Head

11:41 Self Therapy

14:30 Awareness

25:51 Different Kinds of Anxiety

39:03 Managing Anxiety

In this episode, Jay talks with Cody Burch, founder of One Hour Funnel.  Cody runs a digital agency where he helps business owners increase their exposure and convert more leads.  Jay and Cody discuss what it's like to walk away from corporate to launch your first business, taking one's own advice, increasing the authenticity of one's marketing and breaking the employee mentality in order to embrace value-based pricing.  

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Episode Highlights:

01:47 Entrepreneurship + 3 Kids

09:37 Helping People with Funnels

13:33 Money is a Time Coupon

21:11 How One Hour Funnel Started

38:51 Being Authentic

“You have to do what other people don’t like to do, and once you do that you can separate yourself.” ~Todd Courtney

In this episode, Jay chats with Todd Courtney, co-creator of Max Rhymes, a children's book and educational series that serves as the first-ever self-help books for toddlers.  Some of the topics covered include: personal development as a business growth vehicle, why teaching emotional intelligence to our toddlers is critical, how to monetize a business idea, and the value of changing our brain wave patterns so that we can stop playing out the limiting beliefs of our youth.

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Episode Highlights:

01:03 The Story of Max Rhymes

04:35 Business Partnership with a Wife

20:33 Keeping Dreams Intact

34:40 Supporting Max Rhyme

37:06 Belief System

“The way that we use language actually says a lot about us in a deeper level.”  ~ Lisa Dennen-Young

In this episode, Jay chats with Lisa Dennen-Young, a former forensic linguist that speaks multiple languages and was  trained by the FBI agent who broke the Unabomber case. Lisa now works with high-achieving women, helping them hone their communication skills to create healthy relationships.  Jay and Lisa explore topics that relate to entrepreneurs and small business owners such as: how to change our relationship with ourselves and our work, identifying co-dependency, navigating romance as an entrepreneur and so much more.

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Episode Highlights:

01:14 Empower True Love’s Mission

03:19 The Power of Language

09:38 Relationship with Ourselves

20:00 Healthy Business Relationship

42:38 True Love

In this episode, Jay connects with fellow attorney Alex King, founder of Archetype Legal, who helps businesses solve their legal challenges.  Alex recently launched his own law firm, and so Jay and Alex dive into some of the challenges of growing a professional services business, while still delivering white-glove service.  Other topics include: how to retain your first attorney, common legal challenges that small business owners face, and how to self-critique effectively without denying one's self the happiness of work well done.

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Episode Highlights:

00:50 Alex King, founder of Archetype Legal

07:17 Alex’s Story Before Becoming a Lawyer

18:50 Launching Archetype Legal

33:33 How Lawyers/Business Owners Find Happiness

38:30 Managing Stress

47:43 Common Mistakes Lawyers/Business Owners Do

“Life is calling you to get out of your own way.” ~ Robert McGuinness

In this episode, Jay talks with Robert McGuinness, founder of Soul Venturer, and they explore what it looks like to integrate your life's calling with your pursuit of entrepreneurship. Along the way, they touch on topics such as: leading with spirituality, spirituality as strategy, how life presents lessons in a particular queue and what the symptoms look like if you're not running your business from the seat of your soul. If you're tired of the uphill battle, and think your business goals are tied to a higher calling, this is your episode.    

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Episode Highlights:

02:17 Robert the Soul Venturer

08:20 Lessons on queue

17:05 Spirituality as a strategy

26:46 TRUST

41:06 The most dangerous wolf

“It’s not just the passion and talent, the third arm is - can you make money out of it?”

In this episode, Jay talks with Karen Rowe, ghost writer and author. Karen helps entrepreneurs and thought leaders to write their first book. Jay and Karen explore how to leverage writing a book and being an author as a marketing tool, how to connect writing a book to a larger marketing strategy, and how to repurpose your content.  Karen also provides some helpful tips on how entrepreneurs and business owners can work with ghostwriters to get out of their own way and amplify their message and double their impact.

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Episode Highlights:

01:25  Writing a Book With Karen Rowe

11:30 GhostWriters and CopyWriters

17:07 Karen’s Writing Strategies

26:45 Reading Helps

42:02 Karen as a Teacher