Leslie Burby is a Boss Mom.

Eric Kades is the Founder and CEO of JetSense, the leader in AI-driven digital communication and customer support solutions, and TextChat, a highly personalized live chat tool that brings the timeless touch of human connection to the sophistication of AI technology. Join Eric and me as we dive into a conversation about Chatbots, AI, and how they relate to conversational interfaces -- whether it be customer support, service, or sales.

01:00 – Starting Young on the Road to Entrepreneurship

https://titans.titanology.world

Wendy Glavin is the Founder and CEO of Wendy Glavin Agency. Established in 2016, the agency offers full-service communications programs across the spectrum of marketing, public relations, and social media. Wendy is a 30-year veteran of corporate and agency marketing and consulting, having worked across a wide variety of industry sectors. She has a monthly column for Equities.com and is a featured contributor at CommPRO.biz, writing articles that focus on technology, FinTech, Blockchain, and Cryptocurrency. Known for amplifying brand voice through unique storytelling, Wendy gets to the heart of your competitive advantage to decode your value and reveal your true potential.

01:37 – Leaving New York City

https://www.wendyglavin.com/

Andre Wright, founder and CEO of The Wright Consult (TWC), graces S2E4 of the Titan Business Builders podcast. Launched in 2015, TWC is a full-service digital marketing solutions provider located in Atlanta, Georgia. Andre holds an MBA in Marketing from the University of Sunderland and a passion for digital marketing. Growing up with an enterprising family and relatives in Jamaica equipped him with the drive to have his own business. After migrating to the US twenty years ago, he did trailblazing digital marketing work during the early days of Google Ads. He is the author of Visibility: Digital Marketing Secrets to Growing your Business the Wright Way. Andre also does public speaking engagements and hosts the Your Company Health podcast where business professionals share success stories that inspire other entrepreneurs.

Our guest, Dancho Dimcov, is the founder and CEO of BizzBee Solutions, a full-stack digital marketing consultancy. The bootstrap company initially had him running all departments out of sheer necessity. In just six years, his dynamic leadership and devotion to developing young professionals have grown BizzBee into a twenty-plus-person organization with over 400 clients served. A desire to start a family and a love for travel inspired his pursuit of digital entrepreneurship more than a decade ago. With BizzBee buzzing with activity, swarming with talent, and running on autopilot–the Chief Executive Bee is still constantly flying off to somewhere, with his beloved wife and son in tow.

00:01 – Introduction

RESOURCES:

https://www.bizzbeesolutions.com/

Having started his first online business at 17, Abul Hussain quickly learned the importance of offering value to customers. He honed his marketing expertise while working for a boutique digital marketing agency, growing startups into 7-figure businesses. Still, even after all his successes, genuine fulfillment eluded him. As Abul puts it: “I felt that something was missing. I was being paid very well but I felt a void...” In 2015, with a renewed sense of purpose, he decided to venture on his own to use his skills to help not just businesses–but also non-profit and humanitarian organizations. Abul also founded SMMA Mastermind, a Facebook community for digital agencies dedicated to fostering growth through dialogue, legit expert advice, and exclusive podcasts.

TOPICS

00:44 – Why He Started the SMMA Mastermind Community

03:36 – On the Perils of Uninformed Advice

06:10 – Building an Agency isn’t as Simple as Some People Think

07:39 – Cutting Through the BS: The Need for Expertise

09:18 – Structures and Processes

11:28 – Optimization and Scaling

13:09 – Enhancing your Prospecting and Delivery Systems

14:01 – It's all About Your Macro-Objective

19:00 – Supply the Framework, Everything Else will Follow

20:53 – Nurturing an Agile Culture

21:38 – Agile as a Way of Life

24:06 – Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset

25:24 – Not All Consultants are Created Equal

29:14 – On His Idea of Growth

RESOURCES:

https://www.facebook.com/meetabulhussain

https://www.facebook.com/smmamastermind

https://www.facebook.com/groups/smmaowners

Courtney Riley’s genetic entrepreneurial zeal caught up to her on the way to a promising career in the criminal justice system. She has never looked back. She is the owner of Proximo Marketing Strategies, a global digital marketing firm based out of Yorktown, Virginia, USA.  Her company provides marketing solutions for beleaguered business owners overwhelmed with so many tasks from wearing too many hats. With its full range of services funneled through a ‘Leading with Love’ philosophy, Proximo aims to provide owners with vision and insight that thrives businesses. She was named one of Hampton Roads’ “Top 40 Under 40” and “Hampton Roads’ 2016 Woman of Excellence.” Truly, the legal field’s loss is the business world’s gain.

The 11th episode of the Titan Business Builders podcast features Bryan Mills, founder of Marketing Mastery and Bryan James Coaching. Early on, he was determined to kick the ‘birth-school-work-death' cycle to the curb. He hated the notion of going about the daily grind for 30 years only to retire with small change to his name then buried with the word “sucker” inscribed on his headstone. Bryan decided to map his own destiny by living life on his own terms. Today, he helps businesses scale and grow through his very own ‘Step Back System.’ Hear the consummate non-conformist's views on life, work, and everything else in between in this revealing interview.

TOPICS

01:24 – Doing Business During a Pandemic

02:10 – Becoming a Soccer Coach at Thirteen

02:57 – Realizing He’s Not cut out for Corporate Life

03:44 – Starting an Event Management Company and the Origins of the Step Back System

04:26 – The Next Logical Step: A Marketing Agency

05:09 – Going Back to Coaching

08:13 – Building a Business Around a Lifestyle

08:58 – Priorities: Being a dad to his Kids

13:26 – Creating Systems

17:17 – Mapping out Multiple Processes

20:52 – His Views on Scaling

24:54 – The Importance of a Competent Team and Communication

26:38 – What He Looks for when Hiring Team Members

28:21 – Setting Boundaries for Teams

30:34 – On His Leadership Style

34:03 – On His Future Plans

HIGHLIGHTS

— After a decade of coaching soccer, Bryan realized he had to quit and find a better paying job to support his newborn child.

— Businesses should have more than just monetary goals.

— Entrepreneurs should step back more often to see the bigger picture.

— As a business owner, you have the luxury to plan your work schedule around your lifestyle. This arrangement ensures that you’ll never neglect your fitness and well-being, parental duties or other personal obligations.

— Always be aware of your strengths and weaknesses.

— Retain clients by constantly refining your fulfillment process.

— Encourage feedback from your team.

— With systems and processes in place, teams run on autopilot.

RESOURCES

https://www.facebook.com/bryan.mills.779

https://www.facebook.com/Bryanjameslife

go.oncehub.com/getout

Paul Cleghorn has spent nearly four decades at the forefront of cutting-edge tech. He’s been around the block a few times, shaking up the neighborhood at every turn. He’s a veteran of the Wild West internet boom in 1990s San Francisco, its epicenter. From coding and designing during the pre-Adobe days, to digital marketing, consultancy, blue sky products and e-services, he has done it all. His wealth of expertise has taken him all over the world.  And Paul is still at it, with as much enthusiasm and gusto as when he first started. His latest venture, Fit Expert, aims to reinvent personal health and fitness for a post-Covid world. In this candid, animated interview, Paul recounts his hardships and how he defied the odds, along with other stories we can all gain inspiration from.

TOPICS

01:09 – It Started with a Commodore 64

02:48 – A (Really) Difficult Teen Life

03:27 – His First Real Gig: Designing an Educational Software for Tenon Joints

04:48 – Ambidexterity and the Devil

05:32 – Health Issues

06:31 – An Inquisitive Mind: A Love for Art and Science in Defiance of Dyslexia

10:40 – Luck vs Destiny

13:52 – A Scholarship Grant and A Career Doing 3D Design

16:09 – Growing Up Multiracial: His Experiences with Racism and Bullying

21:20 – Going to San Francisco

22:40 – Building a Reputation

33:45 – His Fit Expert Team

41:50 – On His Beliefs and Philosophy

51:21 – Learning from Failures

HIGHLIGHTS

— Paul had wayward parents, grew up poor and spent a lot of time in foster homes, which speaks exceedingly of his determination to rise above adversity.

— Another obstacle he had to overcome, is the ugliness of racism.

— He’s ambidextrous, meaning he has the ability to use his left and right hand with equal agility. His father believed that making someone left-handed is the work of the devil. He punished the young by poking his left hand with a fork whenever he’d do something with his left hand that most people would do with their right hand.

— Find your passion and pursue it.

— There are so-called “experts” who don’t know what they’re doing.

— Regard competition as a motivating factor in devising a better product or service.

— On failure: “Even if you fail, you've learned. So, you haven’t lost anything.”

RESOURCES

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-cleghorn-168b394/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fit-expert/

https://fit.expert/

Self-development coach and business optimization consultant Andrew Tansil graces the 9th episode of the Business Growth Titans podcast. Andrew helps 7-figure agency owners solve seemingly unsolvable business problems through a three-step method he himself developed. His proprietary system addresses core issues and overhauls mindsets within minutes of its implementation. He lives by his method and offers his life experiences as a testament to its effectiveness. After hearing his inspiring story, you’ll have no reason to doubt him. To say that Andrew has had a long and arduous journey toward enlightenment is an understatement. Through darkness, desperation and near-death, he has battled his way to his own personal and professional growth.

TOPICS

01:20 – Losing a Business and a Failed Search for Spirituality

02:56 – Depression, Anxiety, Fear and on the Brink of Death

03:39 – A Futile Quest: Turning to Self-Help Books for Answers

04:23 – Self-Enhancement and Illumination by Developing his own Method

06:06 – Explaining ‘The Method’

07:29 – Helping Others with his Method

08:12 – His Method’s Efficiency can be Backed by Metrics and Data

11:22 – Not Just Owners: How his Method can help Teams

13:18 – On Core Values, Past Businesses and Utilizing all Areas of Expertise

16:28 – EOS: Entrepreneurial Operating System

17:12 – Following the Framework as the Key to Success

22:55 – Stacked-Up and Stockpiled: Targeting the Central Problem that Produced Other Issues

24:16 – Awareness of Actions and Desired Outcomes

26:42 – His Definition of Growth: The Unlimited Potential in All of Us

29:58 – Delving Deeper by Evaluating the Growth Data

31:36 – His Plans for the Next Six Months

HIGHLIGHTS

— The saying, “What doesn’t kill you will make you stronger” certainly holds true for Andrew.

— His past businesses failed because of bad business partners and his own shortcomings.

— An ill-advised fasting regimen nearly cost him his life.

— Advice from self-help books authored by so-called “experts” is typically generic in nature, and therefore, is of little help for specific struggles.

— Mindset is everything.

— Andrew devised his method with simplicity in mind so that it can be taught and absorbed easily.

— His business tagline, “I solve mindset problems in 12 minutes instead of 12 years” is derived from the words of his clients as they observed that his method never took longer than twelve minutes to remedy a particular problem.

— Most business problems arise from unresolved personal issues.

— Always make decisions based on data and formulate solutions with a specific framework.

— Identify your strengths and weaknesses and take stock of your skillsets.

RESOURCES

https://www.facebook.com/andrewtansil333

https://andrewtansil.com/

http://facebook.com/groups/makeitrainmethod