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

One Dad's journey to become a successful children's book author. 

"… I will go through a dip and that dip is the voice in my head saying that, you know what? You’re bluffing your way through life! Your not good enough and you really need to get a grip on reality and conform and go get a job!” by Darren O’Connor via Startup Dad Headquarters Episode 40 

Originally from Dublin, Darren currently resides in Ennis Co. Clare. Darren is a fresh-out-of-the-box dad to one screaming little boy. He’s on a mission to become the best dad he can be. 

His blogs and podcasts at askdad.ie are mostly about the positive things associated with becoming a Dad, while his hilarious tweets document his parent fails as a newbie.

“You’re never really going to succeed unless you are working for yourself… In the sense that, the skies the limit if you’re working for yourself. If you’re working for another business, no matter how hard you work you may just arrive at a certain level and not be able to go any further.” Patrick Conlon

Patrick lives in Northern Ireland. He is married and has 2 young children age 3 & 6 months. He owns a women’s brick & mortar retail shoe store called shuphoric.com (shoe-for-ric). But get this, Patrick also sells all the shoes online on his web store. BAM! I love that because every business has to have an online presence. 

Patrick has a small team that manages the day to day operations of the shoe business while he spends most of his time consulting for other businesses as a multichannel e-commerce specialist. Patrick helps these companies setup their Amazon, E-bay and website selling to maximize sales.

"If you're someone who is facing a lot of frustration in your job and really considering the entrepreneur path... Instead of just quitting your job because you're frustrated, what if you actually considered... running towards something you're really truly excited about doing." Ben Fanning

Ben is Chief Burnout Officer and the world’s leading authority on creating the job you love. While continuing to work in a Fortune 50 company, keeping his finger on the pulse of the challenges within organizations. Ben helps professionals create the job they love without quitting,

Ben is also author of “The Quit Alternative: The Blueprint for Creating the Job You Love…without quitting”. 

"At the end of your feelings is nothing, but behind every principle is a promise… Find a man who is diligent at what he does and he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men... Everyday you say ‘no’ to your dreams, You might be pushing your dreams back a whole six months, a whole year! That one single day, that one day you didn’t get up could have pushed your stuff back I don’t know how long" -Eric Thomas

My Motivational YouTube Playlist: http://bit.ly/sudadyoutubemotivation

Video/Audio Clip Credits: 

- Motivational Grid - http://motivationgrid.com

“The Greatness Within” featuring Jim Carey

- Motivation and More

"Best Motivational Video- Speeches Compilation Long Part 4” featuring Eric Thomas, Les Brown 

"As an entrepreneur I’ve really come to appreciate the journey. You know we have this destination addiction, right? If I get this house I will be good, if I get this car, if I get this relationship. But it really is… in entrepreneurship you have to enjoy the journey." by Devon Bandison

Devon “The Connector” Bandison was born and raised in NYC and is a high performance coach and speaker who’s committed to individuals and organizations that want to maximize their potential in areas of leadership, productivity, fatherhood, and work-life satisfaction. His highly sought after seminars and workshops help organizations, individuals, and teams increase employee performance, motivation, engagement, and retention.

As the founder of The Devon Bandison Company, Devon’s work has helped professionals discover effective ways to create value, be present, and find meaning at work and home.

Devon believes that “Fatherhood is one of the highest forms of leadership.” He often says, “Like leadership, fatherhood is not about a position or a title, but rather the opportunity to model for others effective leadership and create a living legacy.”

Devon currently lives in NYC and is a loving father to his three children. His children inspire him daily to create and live his own legacy of greatness.

“Just decide what it’s going to be, who you’re going to be, how you’re going to do it. Just decide and then, from that point, the universe is going to get out of your way.” Will Smith

In this episode of the journey I discuss making the decision to purse your dreams and how fear can cause you to doubt that decision. 

The Journey Episodes: 

“Whatever your career is, your family is intricately connected to that. Your family serves as your inspiration for everything.” Jackie Bledsoe

Jackie Bledsoe is an author, blogger, and speaker, but first and foremost a husband and father, who encourages men to better lead and love their families. He's the creator and author of The 7 Rings of Marriage™, which shares the lessons learned from his marriage and family thriving through being homeless (twice!), through job loss and financial despair, loneliness, communication and intimacy issues, and just plain ignorance of what it takes to lead a family and make a marriage work. 

He's a regular contributor to All Pro Dad, USA Football, and Disney's Babble.com, and has been featured on GoodMenProject.com, HuffPost Live, MichaelHyatt.com, Yahoo! Shine, CoachUp.com, and BlackandMarriedWithChildren.com.

"There’s a verse that speaks to me and it is Ephesians 2:10 and it says, - For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago - What that scripture says to me is:

Byron is a former American record holder, Ironman, career coach & founder of the epic life project, Byron has a gift for helping people get unstuck and transform their passions into lives and careers they love. He does this through online

resources, group coaching bootcamps, & private live, one-on-one 2-day LifePlan Immersions called CALIBRATE!

He’s the author of Re:Purposed (The art of winning through letting your obstacles lead the way), and creator of the 8 part peak performance audio program Unleash The Unstoppable YOU!

A sought after conference speaker, Byron is entertaining to watch and easy to understand. He helps audiences reverse limiting beliefs on the spot and teaches them to use the simple power of personal narratives to quickly establish new habits and activate their God gifted potential. Byron received his BA from UCLA and Masters from Biola University.

Byron lives in Los Angeles California with his wonderful wife Annett, awesome son Mya , & incredible daughter Victoria.

"Most people fail in business not because they have a bad idea, they just don’t have enough time. They run out of runway! They run out of money so they have to go back, they have to get a job." Ryan Levesque

In 2008, armed with nothing but a $450 laptop, an Ivy-League background in neuroscience, and an insatiable curiosity to understand why people buy…

Ryan Levesque left a lucrative career on Wall Street and later in Shanghai, China to launch a multimillion dollar online publishing business selling information and software using what’s now become the “Ask Formula” as taught in this book.

Since then, Ryan has used the Ask formula to help build multi-million dollar businesses in 17 different industries, generating over $100 million dollars in sales in the process.  Today, he and his team offer training, consulting, and implementation services for entrepreneurs and businesses at all levels.

"I don’t think you should take risk for risk sake. But I do think that if you look at a situation and you have an opportunity in front of you and you think it has a reasonable success of being good then you should go for it and you should not be fearful. Because I think one of the biggest mistakes you can make especially when you’re starting a business on the side, like if you have a full time job and you’re just getting started, is watching those pennies to carefully. I know everyone says be careful and don’t waste money and things like that but at the same time every business is going to waste some money and I think you need to be trying a lot of things and investing in different areas to make things happen a bit faster. Otherwise, you’ll just grow to slowly by not trying enough stuff and refusing to invest in anything." 

Robert Coorey, is a #1 best-selling author, a Reality TV Pilot Host and a wildly successful marketer. Recently listed by Startup Australia as one of Australia's Top 50 Entrepreneurs. Robert has built a super-responsive global online community of serious business owners and nearly broke the world record for the most number of people in a webinar. Robert has filled up dozens of live events, been featured extensively in the media and launched three best-selling books.

Robert I’m super excited to have you on the show and to learn your ninja tactics for balancing being a husband, father of two young boys and everything of course everything else you have going on.