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

When John Lee Dumas left his job in corporate finance to start the daily podcast Entrepreneur on Fire, people told him he was crazy. There were even nights before launching when John woke up in a sweat, afraid he would fail. Still he pushed forward a little everyday and now Entrepreneur on Fire is one of the most popular shows in iTunes. In this interview John shares how he built his business so quickly and how he's now generating six figures a month - all in less than 18 months.

How does a single mom go from freelance technical writer to having a business doing more than half a million dollars? Alicia Dunams is on the show today and she is one of the most driven people you'll meet. As a single mom she had to set her priorities early and focus on the life she wanted for her and her daughter. This interview will remind you that you can achieve the life you want.

You don't have to be a visionary to be an entrepreneur. In fact, today's guest says that the idea of the visionary entrepreneur is a myth that we created to explain the success of people like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs and others. Brant Cooper is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and on today's show he shares why you have everything you need right now to start your business. 

Each year, I (Andy) go through a planning process to review the lessons learned from my last 12 months and plan the next 12 moving forward. This audio guides you, step by step, through the same process I do each year. When you complete it, you'll have certainty on where your life is headed, what your goals are and you'll be able to focus each morning on the vision for your life 12 months out.

Having built a successful electrical business, Paul Blais decided that it was time to follow his childhood dream.  His plans to expand and sell his business were abandoned when he received a wake-up call following a trip to the doctors, and he set about re-evaluating his life.  In this interview, Paul Blais offers his fresh perspective on life and explains how there are 7 days in the week, and ‘someday’ isn’t one of them.

How does an introvert build relationships with some of the biggest influencers around and become a networking pro in the process? Today's guest is Selena Soo and in this interview you'll learn how to get important people to notice you, even if you don't know the first thing about networking. 

If sales calls makes you nervous, listen to this interview. Imagine being so good at persuasion that people actually pay you to pitch their ideas for them. Today's guest is Oren Klaff and that's exactly what he does. Oren is a master pitchman and in this interview he shows you step by step how to build and deliver your pitch to potential customers or investors. He pulls from his personal experience pitching hundreds of deals as well lessons from his book Pitch Anything.

Jake Hower runs a travel agency and needed a better way to segment the people on his list based on their video and webinar viewing habits. But he couldn't find anything that would solve his problem and he knew that others had this problem too. So he hired a developer, built FuzedApp and started offering free trials. Today FuzedApp is doing over $2k/mo and profitable. Not bad for being only 6 months old. Jake walks you through the entire story on today's show.

Esther De Boer was a student in last year's Foundation. When she joined, she had no idea how to code and had never built software in her life. She was just trying to make it as a photographer. Today, she still doesn't know how to code BUT she is the proud owner of ShootZilla, a software product that helps wedding photographers save time and make money. Now she doesn't have to trade her time for money and loves what she does. On today's show Esther will tell you how she was able to validate her idea and generate $10k in pre-sales using Facebook. 

Want to know what it's like inside the Foundation? Earlier this week you heard our interview with Carl Mattiola - one of our most successful students from last year's class. Today we're going to share a limiting belief reversal call between Dane and Carl that took place a couple months into last year's Foundation class - before Carl's business had grown to what it is today. If you want to experience the type of work that goes on inside the Foundation, look no further.