Startup Dad Revolution Podcast: Father | Entrepreneur | Family | Leader | Coach

"When I seek advice from people on how to launch a business, I go to people who've already done it." Geoff Woods

Geoff (Jeff) Woods is the host of the Mentee Podcast. After hearing the Jim Rohn's quote that "you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with"

Geoff set out on a mission to surround himself with high level CEOs and entrepreneurs. Fast forward, he is a now being mentored by many of these heavy hitters and he publishes the real conversations he has with his mentors on in his top business podcast The Mentee.

Geoff has been featured in Entrepreneur.com and is considered the authority on building meaningful relationships with high level influencers and mentors.

"Create a vision of what you want your life to be like once you're successful, and then break it down to steps." Mark Echdahl

Husband to lovely Natalie Eckdahl, Dad to Aurora (13), Tahoe (3) and Jett (9 mo). Co-Founder of ScheduleMax Online Scheduling, Podcast Producer, and now Podcast Host for Wisdom From Dads - a new perspective on creating memorable wisdom moments with your family.

#lean, #validation, #leanstartup

"It doesn't matter if it's one person and they're making $10,000 a year or if it's five people and they're making $5 Billion a year. The law still applies." Susan Burns

Susan Burns is an attorney and professional speaker who believes that a business worth building is worth protecting.

She also believes that small businesses make the world go round and continuously moves the needle of the legal field in helping entrepreneurs protect what matters most – their business. Susan’s focus is on providing practical legal advice to small businesses.

To make that advice easily accessible, she founded Small Business Legal School. She regularly advises small businesses on expanding to Mexico and loves the creativity of small business owners.

"I'd rather be poor with a healthy family, then rich, successful and all alone." Ryan Battles

Ryan went from being a private school computer teacher at the age of 30, to a stay at home dad, to a web developer, and to a lead engineer for a venture backed startup in San Francisco over the course of 4 years. After 2 years there he decided to leave to build his own products, and share his experiences with others.

Ryan has since built a small arsenal of online properties that combine to provide for a full-time income.

Wes Schaeffer is a proud father of 7 and a loving husband to his wife, Shannon.

Wes is an open-mic comedy performer, keynote speaker, Air Force vet, T e d X p r e s e n t e r , a u t h o r , salesman, business owner, and copywriter, Wes is one of the most in-demand and top-rated speakers in his field.

He has influenced the lives of millions through his keynote speeches, podcast, books, training programs, CDs and videos, many of which have been utilized by Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, government agencies, churches, school districts and nonprofits

Paul Angone is one of the leading experts in the nation on the unique challenges facing the Millennial generation and how they overcome them. He’s the author of All Groan Up: Searching For Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job! and 101 Secrets For Your Twenties.

He is also the creator of AllGroanUp.com, which has received millions of views from 190 countries, a sought-after national speaker, and is the dad of two girls under four years old.

Author, Startup Dad, Entrepreneur, National Speaker

Startup Dad HQ 2.0 is a podcast focused on the importance of fatherhood and entrepreneurship. Our mission is to help extraordinary fathers figure out how to purse their dreams of entrepreneurship and build a legacy for their children.

So if you're a dad trying to figure it all out and an Entrepreneur, Solopreneur, Small Business Owner or Wantreprenur looking for inspiration + motivation + step by step how to + ACTIONABLE advice then Startup Dad Headquarters is the podcast for you.

Startup Dad HQ hosted by Joel Louis delivers a consistent 5-days per week interview program. Each episode, Mon-Fri takes us through the journey of our guest as he shares his failures, bumps and bruises, and eventual rise to success as he navigates through the complexities of Fatherhood, Entrepreneurship and Life.

Each week we cover 3 stages of the Startup Dad Journey, which are:

Side Hustle Monday’s – Dads who are working a 9-5 and building their business on the side. |

Leaper Tuesday’s and Thursday’s – Dads who have taken the LEAP (1 – 5yrs) and earning between $50,000 - $250,000 per year. |

Elite Wednesday’s – Dads who are crushing it in their business, earning $250,000 plus per year and most importantly they have obtained their definition of Freedom and on Friday’s we bring in the Experts (Expert Friday’s) to discuss Entrepreneur and/or Fatherhood.

The Startup Dad episodes are divided into 4 Segments | Segment 1: Family First - We make a connection between you and our guest | Segment 2: E! True Startup Dad Story - We dive deep into the early stages/behind the scenes of our guests entrepreneur journey | Segment 3: Real Dads Real talk - We asked the tough question (i.e. failure/fear/quitting, private health insurance, etc...) | Segment 4: Handy Man Toolbox - We ask our guest to provide you with tools to help you along your journey. Lastly we end with our most powerful question designed to "Inspire You Beyond" the episode.

- Monday's: StartupDad, Side Hustlers (30 minutes):Short chats (10-15 minutes) with Dads who have started building a business on the side, very early stages, while still working a full time job. I will wrap up these episodes by answering 1 or 2 questions (Q&A’s) submitted by Dad’s online through: Social Media, Directly on website, Email, Phone calls. etc… And you can access all the different ways to ask a question on the show notes page for this episode at startupdadhq.com/version2

- Tuesday's & Thursday's: StartupDad, Leapers (45 minutes): Dad’s who have fully taken the leap (1-5yrs), and generating an income ($50,000 - $250,000/ year).

- Wednesday’s: StartupDad Elite (30 minutes):Highly successful Dad’s who have been crushing it for (3+ yrs),generating over $250,000/year and most importantly they have obtained their definition of Freedom.

- Expert Friday’s (1 hour) :Workshop/Webinar style conversation with EXPERTS in all subjects related to building an awesome business and being an awesome dad.

• Business examples include: Legal, Accounting, Private Health Insurance, Website Design, Branding, Social Media, Marketing, Virtual Assistance, etc…
• Fatherhood examples: Daddy bloggers, Authors, Dads with high performing/successful children, etc...

Today’s Startup Dad Episode "From Leap To Success In 6 Months!” with David Thompson husband and father of 4 (2 foster).

A little bit about David and his WHY: "I was brought up to walk up the corporate ladder to achieve SUCCESS. So, of course, I did. I spent 10 years working very closely with one successful entrepreneur within his company, and I did climb the corporate ladder, and did achieve much SUCCESS. But I realized that I didn't want to commute 2 hours a day to make an above average wage. I believed that I could do that myself, by living out my God-given purpose and passion, which is Financial Advising.

So, after putting it off for two years, I took pen to paper 2 years ago, wrote out what SUCCESS was to me, took a class to help me understand my purpose, and how to attain it, and then made a plan to make it happen. And last October, I left a VERY stable career in Human Resources to help people attain financial happiness. And today, my business is beginning to take-off, and I'm excited to see where God takes us, but one of the greatest assets to this lifestyle has been the ability to take and pickup my kids from daycare, instead of dropping them off at daycare at 7am, and not seeing them until 6pm.

To me, I am already 'living the good life'. And, 6 months from now, a year from now, 3 years from now, life gets better...the wife quits her full-time job, etc."

"…I was once 22 I didn’t do it. After graduate school I was 28, I didn’t do it. I got married, I didn’t do it. But now my son is about to be born and I thought to myself this is it! I lost my chance because I was too comfortable. And if I couldn’t do it as a young guy out of college, someone who just finished graduate school, how could I do it as a father.” by Jia Jiang Jia is the founder of the popular blog and video series 100 Days of Rejection. A native of Beijing, China, Jia came to the U.S. as a teenager to pursue his dream of becoming the next Bill Gates. But despite early success in the corporate world, his first attempt to pursue his entrepreneurial dream ended in rejection. Jia was crushed, and spiraled into a period of deep self doubt. Thus was born his "100 days of rejection" experiment, during which he willfully sought rejection on a daily basis --from requesting a lesson in sales from a car salesman which resulted in a no, to his famous request to get Krispy Kreme doughnuts in the shape of Olympic rings which resulted in a yes, with a viral video - over 5 Million to prove it. Jia’s story has been covered by dozens of news outlets, including Bloomberg Businessweek, Yahoo News, the Huffington Post, Forbes, Inc.com, MTV, and many more… Jiang holds an MBA from Duke University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from Brigham Young University.