Next Level Mindset

Billy Gene is Marketing helps business owners & entrepreneurs turn clicks on Facebook, Instagram, & YouTube into customers.

Key Points:

• Billy Gene discusses why he thinks so many small business owners are misinformed.
• Learn the importance of asking for help as opposed to just “googling your way through it.”
• Hear the dangers of outsourcing.
• Billy Gene breaks down how you can stand out from the crowd with a good marketing strategy.
• Find out why a fifth grader should be your target demo.
• Discover why you should run ads that scare you.
• Get the formula for creating good content.

Key Quotes:

• "98% of information out there for small business owners is bullshit."

• “The worst thing entrepreneurs do is try to figure things out themselves”

• “Nothing exists in a company except marketing and sales.”

• “The reason people won’t be unique is because they are afraid of being judged.”

• “When you have relevant content, it will be good."

Billy Gene

https://billygeneismarketing.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Doug Winter is the co-founder and CEO of Seismic, a unicorn SaaS company valued at over $1B based out of San Diego, CA. Prior to Seismic, Doug also successfully built and sold his last company, Objectiva Software Solutions, for $90M. 

Key Points:

• How Doug decided that Seismic was an idea worth going "all in" on. 
• How to build a foundation that scales
• How Doug and his co-founders approached built a high performing company culture
• The most important keys to raising capital (and if you should)
• Leadership Do's and Don'ts based on Doug's experience building numerous companies

Key Quotes:

• "At some point, you gotta be a little bit stupid and just go for it."

• “Get customer validation early and often." 

• "You can build an incredible product, but if you don't know how to sell it, don't know how to take it to market, no one is ever going to know about it."
• "If you don't know who your first ten customers could be or should be, then you probably haven't thought through things enough..."

Doug Winter

https://seismic.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

About Cole Hatter:

I am a husband, father, entrepreneur, and car fanatic. I love investing in people and in companies that make me a better person and the world a better place. Thrive: Make Money Matter, is an annual conference I founded that teaches entrepreneurs how to dominate in business and in life, while making the world a better place. Looking to Sponsor an event that’s? ✔ Filled with enthusiastic entrepreneurs who are some of the most serious and success-oriented business owners, entrepreneurs and career professionals in the world? ✔ Meet some of the top business influencers and decision makers in the world? If so, A sponsorship of the Thrive: Make Money Matter conference is for you. The Thrive: Make Money Matter Conference has been noted in Forbes Magazine, Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine. It was ranked the top business conference in both 2015 and 2016 by the majority of attendees in our post-event attendee survey. Super-Charge Your Sales Pipeline and Position Your Brand in Front of our Decision-Making Attendees as a Sponsor! ✔ Our Networking lounge is designed to foster relationships with more booth space and banner visibility than most conferences! ✔ This event is a great venue and the perfect opportunity to educate over three days your captive targeted audience. ✔ With only rich engaging content coming from stage (NO SELLING) as a vendor you have the exclusive opportunity provide your service to our attendees and actualize your ROI at the event. What Attendees Say “I've been to dozens of amazing conferences in the past 7 years, and I've never experienced anything like Thrive. It's truly a special event. The lineup was jam-packed with smart, experienced speakers, but the surprising value came from the incredible like-minded attendees I met daily!” C. Cox NEXT STEP To find out more, schedule a Complimentary 15-Minute Consultation by contacting Brian Bowman, my VP of Marketing at [email protected] or 808-690-2642.

Key Takeaways:

• Hear the origin of the words “Make Money Matter”
• Find out the origin of THRIVE.
• Cole explains the learning he has invested in.
• Find out how Cole started a 6-figure company during COVID-19 and how you can do the same.
• Discover the importance of sales.
• Chris and Cole discuss the value of starting a podcast.
• Cole shares how to pursue money that actually serves you.

Key Takeaways:

• “A good business shouldn’t just make money it should make an impact.” – Cole Hatter

• “Banks only make money when money is moving.” – Cole Hatter

• "Sales cures all.” – Robert Herjavec

Cole Hatter

https://colehatter.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Trevor Moawad is a renowned Mental Conditioning expert and strategic advisor to some of the world’s most elite performers. In 2017, Trevor was named the “Sports World’s Best Brain Trainer” by Sports Illustrated. From Ft. Bragg to Harvard Business School, from elite Quarterbacks to top level CEOs. Moawad’s mission is clear – to motivate the motivated.

Trevor Moawad recently partnered with Russell Wilson to form Limitless Minds whose mission is to both optimize performance and enrich culture within some of the world’s top organizations and elite performers.

Key Takeaways:

• By minimizing negativity your whole culture will change.
• Positivity has value but only in the absence of negativity.
• You’re not being responsible by watching 9 hours of news.
• Focus on behavior not outcomes.

Trevor Moawad

https://moawadconsultinggroup.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

For over 15 years, Craig Clemens has been an eCommerce innovator, brand storyteller, and visionary builder of category-leading brands. As a copywriter, he has written many of the biggest digital ad campaigns in history, generating hundreds of millions of video views and upwards of 1 billion dollars in sales. Presently, Craig is Co-founder of Golden Hippo, America’s largest digitally native brand incubator, which under his leadership has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the USA, scaling to 800 team members across 5 offices with no outside investor capital. Prior to Golden Hippo, Craig founded Breakthrough Media, a digital advertising company that reached 3 million dollars in annual revenues with just 3 employees. Craig began in online commerce in 2003 as a copywriter at Hot Topic Media, which he helped grow to 20 million in annual sales of relationship advice courses. Craig and his wife Sarah are long-time Well Members of charity: water, have funded over 1,200 cleft lip surgeries through a partnership with The Smile Train and Beverly Hills MD, and have built education centers in Guatemala and Kenya through partnerships with The Unstoppable Foundation and Pencils Of Promise. 

Key Takeaways:

• The more unique skill you have, the more you’ll make at it.
• You have to have an immersion period if you’re going to be good at anything.
• If you’re going to hustle, make sure it’s not blind hustle.
• If you get the learning you have not failed.
• You can make some money selling a copywriting course but you cannot make nearly as much money and create nearly as much impact as you can using copy.

Craig Clemens

https://www.linkedin.com/in/craigclemens/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Over the past decade, Joe has privately coached over 300 sales teams in person. His primary industries in order of highest activity include Mortgage/Loan Officers, business lending, consumer debt assistance, law firms, medical/cosmetic surgery centers, insurance, marketing firms, and several others. This includes keynotes for giants like Microsoft, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Equinox, and dozens of other leaders in the financial, professional service verticals. During this time, he has built a reputation for boosting company profits, as the result of his modern sales and leadership training. Joe has helped double and triple sales conversion for hundreds of sales agents, and drastically improve overall company performance while reducing a sales floors CPA to record lows.

Key Takeaways:

• Customers are memorizing the words salespeople use.
• Communication needs to adapt at the same rate technology is changing.
• Become a communication expert not a product expert
• The one thing that builds trust in the new economy is respect
• You don’t ask the customer to make a decision. You make the decision and explain to them why it’s the right decision.
• You’re not doing your company a favor by saving money on training.

 

Joe Coach:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-semaan-200b283/

instagram.com/joecoach

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Michael’s TEDx Nashville YouTube video “Great Leaders Do What Drug Addicts Do” is the number one talk in the history of TEDx Nashville. It has been seen by over one million people in over twenty-five countries and provides insight into his seventeen-year journey from addiction and near homelessness to CEO and co-founder of an Inc. 500 startup that he sold to a publicly-traded company. This talk sparked the #MaskFreeMovement and brought awareness to Michael’s Mask-Free Program, built on three principles inspired by his recovery, showing leaders how to achieve balance, reclaim energy, and thrive in work and life. Michael is an acclaimed speaker, entrepreneur, award-winning three-time CEO, leadership coach, and author. His accomplishments include being named a Most Admired CEO, named to the Top 40 Under 40, and being recognized by the Nashville Chamber of Commerce as Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year. Today, Michael is on a mission to teach individuals, organizations, and communities how to lead themselves by living mask-free. In his personal time, he is focused on being the best husband, father, and recovering addict he can be. For more information, please visit www.MichaelBrodyWaite.com to learn how the Mask-Free Program can help you or your organization thrive.

Key Takeaways:

• We talk a lot about authentic leadership but nobody is doing it.

• Leaders are addicted to their mask.

• Practice rigorous authenticity, surrender the outcome, and do uncomfortable work.

• When you shine a light on the darkness you become limitless.

• Pain is the greatest motivator.

• God gave you a unique perspective, how many people are you hurting by not presenting it.

Michael Brody-Waite

https://www.michaelbrodywaite.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Jordan Harbinger, often referred to as “The Larry King of podcasting,” is a Wall Street lawyer turned interview talk show host, and a communications and social dynamics expert.

Jordan has hosted a top 50 iTunes podcast for over 12 years and receives over six million downloads per month, making The Jordan Harbinger Show one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show was awarded Apple’s “Best of 2018” and is one of the most downloaded shows of the year. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and practical insights with the rest of us. 

Key Takeaways:

• One of the keys to a great interview is great preparation.
• You can’t connect with people that you idealize.
• My listeners are going to be with me for as long as I have their trust and attention, Shaq is going to leave after we’re done with the interview.
• A lot of people who are really charismatic – or charming – are people who listen really well and think about what’s in it for the person their talking to and not just what’s in it for themselves.
• First impressions are made nonverbally.

Jordan Harbinger

https://www.jordanharbinger.com/

https://jordanharbinger.com/course 

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

Ed struggled through challenges and pain. After two decades of drug addiction—including 11 devastating years of addiction to methamphetamine—Ed had thrown away his life savings, biotech career, home…even his dog. He’d spent months in jail, and four years in meth psychosis. He heard disembodied voices, believed vast conspiracies targeted him, and estranged himself from everyone who’d tried to help him.

After getting clean in 2008, Ed discovered: Just because you’re done with drugs, doesn’t mean drugs are done with you. He continued to battle severe mental health challenges.

Ed triumphed over adversity, and found his strength through struggle. Amazing people inspired him to pursue a spiritual path of self-improvement and serving his communities.

Ed Kressy may be the only person who was once arrested by the FBI, yet went on to turn his life around and receive a community service award from the director of the FBI. He transformed his past from a liability, into an asset.

You will be inspired by his message, which is pointed, positive, and powerful: Redemption is possible, despite the most hopeless-seeming circumstances. Never give up on a human being…kindness is never wasted. Second chances benefit the giver (society), as well as the receiver. 

He became a volunteer first responder, and currently volunteers for nonprofits that deliver entrepreneur training to currently and formerly incarcerated men and women. He overcame his paranoid fear of the FBI by volunteering for the FBI, and now assists their outreach to communities affected by addiction and incarceration.

He pursued his lifelong dream of being a writer, using his story as a way to help others. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Vox, and the San Francisco Chronicle. His book, My Addiction & Recovery, is being published in April 2020, by Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press. It is for readers seeking a greater understanding of the possibilities for power through adversity, via a personal, poignant, triumphant story.

He has delivered talks for MIT, Google, LinkedIn, Cisco, and others. He has twice been a storyteller for The Moth.

In the future, Ed will continue to leverage his partnerships, platforms, and message to bring hope for transformation to as wide an audience as possible.

Key Takeaways:

• Just because you’re done with drugs, doesn’t mean drugs are done with you. - Ed Kressy

• Everything can wait except the search for spiritual meaning. - George Harrison

• To speak of a person searching for god is like speaking of the mouse searching for the cat. - CS Lewis

• It is better to conquer one’s self than to win a thousand battles. - Unknown

• The more I give the more I get. - Ed Kressy

Ed Kressy

https://edkressy.com/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com

 

About Akshay: After moving to Austin, Texas from Bombay, Bangalore and Singapore, I overcame a lifestyle of drug addiction that killed two of my friends in high school. When I then decided to join the United States Marine Corps, two doctors told me that boot camp would kill me, thanks to a blood disorder I was born with. But I wasn’t about to let that stop me. Not only did I complete boot camp (with a twisted ankle, no less), but I was chosen as the honor graduate in Infantry school and went on to spend 7 months in Iraq where my job was to walk in front of our vehicle convoys to find explosives before they could destroy our vehicles. That was just the beginning of my understanding of the positive power of fear and struggle. In 2012, I left a comfortable corporate job to drag a 190-pound sled 350-miles across the world’s second largest polar ice cap for a month. I’ve swam through underwater caves, almost been killed by a falling boulder while glacier caving, experienced severe altitude sickness while climbing in the Himalayas, and suffered through heat exhaustion while running across countries. But my greatest struggle came many years after the war. I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and consequently struggled with depression and alcohol addiction that drove me to the brink of suicide. I then spent years studying neuroscience, psychology and spirituality to not only heal my own brain, but figure out what does it take to live a happy, succesful and meaningful life. That is when I rejected the label of PTSD assigned to me and created a new one – Fearvana. I define Fearvana as the bliss that results from engaging our fears to pursue our own worthy struggle. I then wrote a book about the concept called “Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness.” I was blessed and truly humbled to receive a foreword for my book from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who said “Fearvana inspires us to look beyond our own agonizing experiences and find the positive side of our lives.” Beyond these adventures into the depths of my soul and in some of the most hostile environments on the planet, I have also:

• Completed a Masters in Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Publications, on a full scholarship.
• Been trained as a coach from an ICF-accredited institution
• Graduated from Jack Canfield’s Train the Trainer program

• Started a non-profit organization called The Fearvana Foundation. 100% of the profits from the book Fearvana are being donated to the foundation.
• Built a business that allows me to work from where I want, when I want.
• Used speaking engagements, coaching, seminars, and consulting to help countless people like you smash through their obstacles and find bliss through struggle.

Key Takeaways:

• The single greatest thing standing in the way of our well-being is our relationship to struggle

• We are not our thoughts, our feelings, and our experiences.

• All growth is really two things, find the problem and fix the problem and find what works and do more of it.

• Happiness is the ability to find the gift in sadness.

• Fear propels you to prepare.

Akshay Nanavati:

- https://www.facebook.com/AkshayNanavatiFan/

- https://twitter.com/fearvanalife

- https://www.youtube.com/c/fearvana

- https://www.instagram.com/fearvana/

For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset:

http://chrisjvasquez.com