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Luke Wren is the founder of The Unbalanced Entrepreneur. Luke helps entrepreneurs find their rhythm and be their best version of themselves through coaching, masterminds and one-on-ones. He is also an international speaker, and has shared stages with the likes of Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi and many more. In today's episode, Luke will share his story, from painting houses for 8 dollars an hour, to becoming a successful entrepreneur, coach, speaker and author. All this and much more, up next.

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(00:39) Intro

(02:50) Hell on the Hill

(08:30) The start as an entrepreneur

(14:13) Getting into coaching

(22:06) Habit formation and overcoming obstacles

(23:52) Selfish vs self-first

(25:41) Being balanced

(28:18) Setting your week up for success and enjoying the journey

(32:39) Sharing your vision and being a great leader

(35:39) Where to find out more

(37:09) Rapid fire question round

(37:31) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(37:56) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(39:10) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(39:49) How do you hire top talent?

(43:43) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(44:10) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(47:36) Audio journaling

(49:09) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(50:00) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(51:43) What advice would you give your younger self?

() What was your biggest challenge starting in business and how did you overcome it?

(53:44) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(54:39) What makes you happiest?

(56:29) Any asks or requests for the audience?

David Hauser is a serial entrepreneur, founder of Repeat Capital, a massive firm that buys SaaS and ecommerce companies. He has bootstrapped the company Grasshopper to $30 M in annual recurring revenue and sold it to Citrix for $175 M. He also built another company, Chargify, which he sold not once, but twice. David has made over 100 angel investments, and most recently purchased the incredible brand, Perfect Keto, housed under Airbag Ventures.

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(00:49) Intro

(03:03) The start as an entrepreneur

(05:26) Buying the first computer and the early projects

(07:27) Making 100 K during high school

(10:17) The next project: Choosing between going to college and building startups

(12:00) Going to college and learning to mature in a safe environment

(16:10) Why you shouldn't be friends with your cofounder going in

(19:13) How to find the right cofounder for you

(20:51) Why you should tell everyone your ideas

(22:18) Aligning core values and having complementary skills

(24:43) Selling Chargify twice

(31:16) Making over 100 angel investments: SaaS, ecommerce and others

(33:58) Switching industries: Making an impact with physical products

(36:10) Combining SaaS and physical products

(40:44) How to choose what to invest in

(43:09) The biggest opportunities for ecommerce brand owners today

(46:40) The problem with Amazon

(52:29) Rapid fire question round

(52:56) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(53:19) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(53:47) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(54:27) What is one of your proudest moments?

(55:12) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(55:52) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(56:31) The newsletter

(56:57) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(58:38) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(01:01:36) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(01:03:38) What makes you happiest?

(01:06:00) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Linzi Boyd is the founder of BoB Earth and Unite on Purpose, author of Brand Famous and global speaker. With over 25-years experience working with brands, Linzi teaches entrepreneurs, business owners and brands how to change their way of thinking from the old school profit and revenue to thinking in terms of impact and making the world a better place. Linzi’s superpower is spotting trends and figuring out where the world is moving and how we can get ahead of the curb and leverage that vision to make our business more impactful.

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(00:53) Intro

(02:49) The start as an entrepreneur

(06:44) Walking away from the industry and starting a fourth business

(00:24) What is BoB Earth?

(14:21) Why is it important to you to make an impact?

(21:24) How to start to pivot

(30:07) Building a foundation and a commercial business model

(31:33) Unite on Purpose

(35:26) Where to find out more and The Race to Impact The World

(38:08) Rapid fire question round

(38:28) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your impact?

(39:04) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(39:36) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(40:18) What is one of your proudest moments?

(41:24) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(43:13) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(44:21) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(46:48) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(50:14) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(51:29) What makes you happiest?

(52:38) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Korey Shaffer is the founder of Til Valhalla Project, an impactful 8-figure brand that brings apparel honoring fallen heroes. His brand donates a minimum of 20% of their proceeds to provide support and therapy to struggling veterans. They also anonymously honor fallen heroes through producing custom, handmade plaques delivered by their VIP customers. Today Korey will share his full story, from serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan, to going back to America and starting his own business. All this and much more, up next.

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(00:43) Intro

(02:26) The start as an entrepreneur

(05:45) The first project: Creating plaques

(11:03) The customers

(17:12) Honoring fallen heroes by delivering plaques

(20:25) Finding the heroes

(21:58) Getting the community involved

(25:40) Where to find out more

(27:26) Rapid fire question round

(28:54) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(28:30) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(29:33) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(30:04) What is one of your proudest moments?

(31:03) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(31:43) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(35:44) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(37:04) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(39.14) What advice would you give your younger self?

(40:42) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(42:08) What makes you happiest?

(44:00) Why do so many veterans take their lives?

(47:47) Any asks or requests for the audience?

David Stellato is the Chief Growth Officer at DFO Global, a 9-figure revenue global performance marketing agency. With over 400 employees and spanning 10 offices on 5 continents, DFO Global is a massive player in the online performance marketing world. They drive sales through their network of over 3000 publishers as well as their own massive internal team of media buyers, creatives, fulfillment and legal. They have customers in over 180 countries and have driven the sales of over a 100 patented products and thousands of unpatented ones. Today, David will share with us how to get to know your customers, the importance of culturalization when selling abroad and how to tweak your marketing strategy in 2021. All this and much more, up next.

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(00:31) Intro

(02:52) The start as an entrepreneur

(05:51) Becoming Chief Growth Officer at DFO

(07:43) What does CPA mean and how DFO is different

(13:31) &BAM

(15:17) Some ways to tweak your marketing strategy in 2021: Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Snapchat and TikTok

(19:24) Translation and culturalization

(23:39) What opportunities are often missed out?

(26:41) Building products for the funnel

(28:45) Three go-to tweaks

(29:31) First: Testing price points

(30:12) Second: Checking out formats

(30:43) Third: Offering different payment methods

(31:27) How to get to know your customers better

(33:10) Where to find out more

(33:31) Rapid fire question round

(33:52) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(34:12) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(34:35) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(35:14) How do you hire top talent?

(36:33) How do you evaluate a good business deal?

(37:11) How do you identify a good business partner?

(38:01) What is one of your proudest moments?

(38:10) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(39:21) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(41:26) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(42:21) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(44:46) What advice would you give your younger self?

(44:00) What was your biggest challenge starting in business and how did you overcome it?

(44:29) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(47:08) What makes you happiest?

(47:51) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Nichelle Hubley is the founder and CEO of &BAM, a rapidly growing email agency working with ecommerce brands. Last year &BAM generated 8 figures in tracked revenue from email alone for their clients, and at Noobru, more than 20% of our revenue comes from email, thanks to Nichelle and her team. Today Nichelle will tell us all about email: What we can do, how we can do it better and how to talk to your customers with the right message at the right time. All this and much more, up next.

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(00:48) Intro

(03:05) The start as an entrepreneur

(06:41) The story behind the name

(08:22) &BAM

(10:03) What makes &BAM different from other options

(12:31) What type of emails perform well

(14:37) How to increase the amount of revenue we get from email

(17:29) Looking at the data

(19:03) The two types of emails: Campaigns vs Flows

(20:02) The most underrated Flow

(23:02) Taking advantage of the expected date of next order

(25:31) Checking out Benchmarks

(27:54)) How to increase open rates

(31:34) The FAQ flow

(34:31) Where to find out more

(36:53) Rapid fire question round

(37:15) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(38:53) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(39:07) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(39:33) How do you hire top talent?

(40:32) How do you evaluate a good business deal?

(40:50) How do you identify a good business partner?

(41:10) What is one of your proudest moments?

(41:55) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(42:33) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(43:12) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(44:40) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(45:13) What advice would you give your younger self?

(45:46) What was your biggest challenge starting in business and how did you overcome it?

(46:33) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(48:00) What makes you happiest?

(50:06) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Fiona Macintyre is the founder and CEO at Forming Impact and a thought leader in sustainable development. She leads a network of CEOs, entrepreneurs, creatives and investors, together driving solutions to the challenges of our lifetimes. With flagship initiatives and events such as Necker Island and the United Nations SDG Week, Fiona is an expert in bringing global players from the private sector to the impact world. She is also a respected investor focusing on ventures in the sustainable impact sector.

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(00:30) Intro

(03:00) The start as an entrepreneur

(05:01) The importance of being sustainable

(09:55) Ending up on Necker Island with a forward-thinking idea: How can we deliver our message in a bigger way?

(13:40) Starting a passion project to bring people together: Forming Impact

(16:03) The early stages of the project

(17:57) The loneliness of being an entrepreneur

(23:34) &BAM

(25:21) The Forming Impact community

(30:40) Where to find out more

(32:12) Rapid fire question round

(32:39) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(33:40) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(34:17) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(35:06) What is one of your proudest moments?

(36:31) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(37:32) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(39:21) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(41:27) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(43:27) What advice would you give your younger self?

(44:22) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(47:39) What makes you happiest?

(48:54) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Kevin Kelly is an author and Senior Maverick at Wired, a magazine he helped co-found 28 years ago. His most recent book is The Inevitable, which is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Some of his other books include the best-selling New Rules for the New Economy, the classic Out of Control, and his summary theory of technology in What Technology Wants. After spending 40 years photographing the disappearing traditions of Asia, Kevin is compiling his best pictures in his newest book Vanishing Asia, a set of three volumes containing a 1,000-page celebration of old Asia in one book set.

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(00:41) Intro

(03:47) The start as an entrepreneur

(08:51) Photography as a blend of tech and art: Documenting traditions in Taiwan

(12:48) Kevin’s superpowers: The happening nose and discerning early trends

(16:38) Improv, playing along and crypto

(21:37) The future of NFTs

(24:21) &BAM

(26:06) The inevitable trends in technology

(34:06) The Internet, communication and collaboration

(37:321) Observing a trend: Moving away from owning things in favor of having access to things

(42:49) Thinking laterally and “the unthinkables”

(53:44) Could money disappear?

(45:37) Using writing to figure out what you think

(47:10) Writing for yourself

(49:08) Kevin’s pieces of advice

(50:14) Vanishing Asia

(55:45) Rapid fire question round

(56:00) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(56:35) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(57:11) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(57:47) How do you hire top talent?

(58:51) Do you or have you ever responded to the people in the early days who declared the Internet was a fad?

(01:01:57) How do you identify a good business partner?

(01:02:41) What is one of your proudest moments?

(01:05:30) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(01:06:47) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(01:10:31) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(01:13:04) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(01:16:06) What advice would you give your younger self?

(01:16:52) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(01:17:26) What makes you happiest?

(01:18:45) Any asks or requests for the audience?

Chris Kneeland is the co-founder of Cult Collective, a marketing service firm that teaches how to build a cult following, a fanbase of raving fans that absolutely love your brand, purpose and mission —and that will buy anything you put out. Chris is on a mission to rid brand leaders of archaic beliefs and practices regarding internal and external audience engagement. He wants to stop the insanity of wasting obscene amounts of money on mass media and markdowns, since he knows that money is best used making products, programs and people more remarkable. Chris is also the author of FIX: A new prescription to cure disengaged customers, prospects or staff and the co-founder at The Gathering, a Forbes top rated virtual summit for business owners.

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(00:35) Intro

(03:28) The start as an entrepreneur

(05:40) The client concentration problem

(07:10) How Chris rebuilt his agency into something better

(08:10) First: Eliminating media commissions

(09:04) Second: Scaling back the production team

(09:46) Third: RFP

(10:35) The problem in the media industry

(13:06) The Domino’s Pizza turnaround

(14:38) &BAM

(16:27) What does building a cult and attracting raving fans mean, and how does a brand start down that path?

(18:19) The four ways to get people to interact with you brand

(20:02) What are cult brands doing that others aren't?

(27:22) The problem with markdows

(30:36) Should you do flash sales?

(34:12) Where to find out more

(35:41) Rapid fire question round

(35:57) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your money?

(36:12) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(36:23) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(36:50) How do you hire top talent?

(37:26) How do you identify a good business partner?

(37:50) What is one of your proudest moments?

(38:18) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(39:02) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(39:37) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(40:34) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(41:46) What advice would you give your younger self?

(42:04) What was your biggest challenge starting in business and how did you overcome it?

(43:11) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(43:51) What makes you happiest?

(44:44) Any asks or requests of the audience?

Maya Comerota is the founder of 528HzInc, a personal and organizational transformation company specializing in leadership development and organizational culture strategy. Maya has 15 years of experience building successful global brands and has to date served over 1.5 million people, built 3 multi-billion dollar initiatives as well as several multi-million dollar companies in the health space. She now helps influencers, athletes, new entrepreneurs as well as corporations to transform their lives, live their culture and build a business and life that they love.

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(00:37) Intro

(02:47) The start as an entrepreneur

(08:42) Making changes after the wake-up call

(12:08) Science and spirituality

(16:00) Facing death: What is the one message you want to share?

(18:55) The framework, A Living Legacy: From purpose to passion, and three steps to get there

(23:22) What lights you up?

(25:40) &BAM

(27:28) How Maya helps entrepreneurs

(33:15) Where to find out more

(34:04) Rapid fire question round

(24:23) If you ever had to start again, how would you make your impact?

(35:15) What is the most common or biggest mistake that leaders make?

(38:49) Who is a great leader (alive or dead) and why?

(40:00) What is one of your proudest moments?

(42:03) What is one interesting fact about you that not many people would know?

(43:27) What daily routines do you have (morning or evening) that have helped make you successful?

(45:28) Qigong breathing.

(54:07) Another biohack: Connecting to authentic emotions

(57:24) Binaural beats and neurofeedback

(01:03:16) What book (or books) changed your mindset or life?

(01:04:23) What is the most exciting question you spend your time thinking about?

(01:05:49) What advice would you give your younger self?

(01:07:04) What unusual or underrated food or drink should more people try out?

(01:07:46) What makes you happiest?

(01:08:54) Any asks or requests for the audience?

(01:11:02) Learning from everyone and the importance of taking notes