Starting from Nothing - The Foundation Podcast | Building your business ENTIRELY from scratch.

Ben Krueger is the founder of ‘Authority Engine’ – a company who helps small businesses conceptualize, create and maintain their own podcasts. After working in a small media company, he figured out what he really wanted out of life set about learning the skills he needed and quit his day job. Ben now runs his ‘Authority Engine’ company from wherever he wants to be in the world, and is trying to strategically grow his company while maintaining the high quality that he always offered.

Brandon Nolte has published over 50 books in the last year. Having decided that he wanted to take the leap into entrepreneurship he found his particular niche in looking for pain points in niche products. He went on to publish mainly audio and eBooks via Amazon to help people in their pain points and has now created systems and procedures to help him to build his business in creating content to help with niche products.

Jaime Tardy is a self-confessed geek. She is a business coach and hosts her own “Eventual Millionaire” podcast. Having seen her business go from strength to strength she has released her own “Eventual Millionaire” book. Jaime spends her days talking to successful business millionaires, building beautiful relationships and helping others in the process.

Dane and Andy have formed a great, successful partnership in their work and formation of The Foundation. Having both started out as budding entrepreneurs, they learnt some of the lessons of entrepreneurship which they now teach others through The Foundation. Having met through a mutual friend and mentor, they formed the perfect partnership, which has built The Foundation to what it is today and helps it go from strength to strength.

Dan Norris is the co-founder of WP Curve, a 24 hour WordPress support company. He left his job in corporate Australia to start working freelance. After a series of failed business ideas, Dan dreamt up the idea of WP Curve and hasn’t looked back. He now runs a success business while supporting and spending time with his family.

Chris Chidgey is the founder of bgbisland.com, a mobile app company. He quit his corporate America job after ten years in the pursuit of becoming a location independent entrepreneur, and began his career designing and building mobile apps — without knowing anything about design or writing code! He now spends his life traveling the world and is about to launch his new app diagnostic software product.

Roger Sholanki is the founder of Book4Time, a company which develops and supplies management software for spa, health and well-being companies. Roger has more than 20 years experience in developing niche software for the retail, health and well-being, and hospitality industries, and is an expert pitcher to big corporations. From starting up his own business in 1992, Roger has managed to maximize his potential and now, as well as running `Book4Time’, also advises other entrepreneurs starting out in the business world.

Charlie Hoehn, author of “Play It Away — A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety” talks about a subject that most entrepreneurs never talk about — stress and anxiety. Having built up his career to be very successful in his field, Charlie was becoming increasingly sick. Suddenly one day the realization hit him that he had a problem with anxiety. His cure? To play, to enjoy life, and to spend time looking after himself. 

Stu McLaren graduated from university in business and was all set for a life of working in the corporate world.  Before starting his graduate job, Stu attended a creativity conference which changed his life and made him realize that this wasn’t the path for him.  Stu has built his career from finding solutions to his own software needs and then making these solutions available to others.  As founder of WishList, Stu explains how he has built and developed his product and is now launching a new one – Rhino Support.

When Julie Busha walked onto the set of ABC's Shark Tank, she was confident and knew her numbers. Her product, Slawsa, was on the shelves of 4,200 grocery stores and she was negotiating with more stores. Oh and she was doing this by herself with no debt. So when all five sharks went out she was stunned. If you watch her episode, you will be too. In this interview we talk about how she's been so successful negotiating deals with mega stores and what's next after the tank.