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Matt Miller spent the first 9 years of his career as an Air Force pilot, before entering the private sector to work in both the medical device and advertising industries. While a top performer in the corporate world, his long-term desire was to be his own boss. 

A good friend one day mentioned the gumball machines he and his young daughters owned, and that conversation began a 10-year business quest that has brought Matt’s company, School Spirit Vending, to the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries.

Today, School Spirit Vending’s franchising program provides a proven and pro table business system for busy professionals and their families looking to develop secondary income streams with a limited time commitment.
 

Guest Recommendations:

• Books:
  • Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • Four Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris
    
    
  
  
• App: Streak CRM 

Connecting with Matt:

• Website: www.ssvbusiness.com
• Twitter: @ssvbusiness
• Facebook: SSVBusiness
• LinkedIn: mattmillertx

Karim Bishay helps companies become insanely efficient. His purpose at Living Orgs is to empower organizations towards a clear, agile structure and stronger purpose. He is an industry leading consultant in the areas of Holacracy and building Adaptive Organizations.

Karim blends a variety of approaches such as Holacracy, GTD, OKR’s, and Emotional Intelligence to help companies find a system that works well for them. 

Over the past few years, Karim has helped over 20 companies restructure how they organize their teams. While most companies rely on the standard top-down style of management, Karim introduces new organization styles that create more clarity and accountability among the organization.

The end result of Karim’s work with a company is that they become more efficient, have a stronger culture and they can adapt quicker to the changing marketplace.

Guest Recommendations:

• Training in Compassion by Norman Fischer
• Asana - Task & Project Management Tool

Connect with Karim:

• Website: www.Livingorgs.com

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. To helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and soloprenuers get featured on leading podcasts their prospects are already listening to. Then he shows them how to turn listeners into customers.

• Author of PODCAST GUEST PROFITS: Grow your business with a targeted interview strategy
•  Founder of Interview Valet, the concierge level booking service

Guest Recommendations

• Book: 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran
• App: Rev Transcription Service

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Rosie is an award-winning entrepreneur, bestselling author, speaker, and founder of ClearVista Consulting International, Rosie Aiello champions entrepreneurs and professionals from all over the world to realise their dreams and vision with clarity and focus. She loves defeating productivity black holes and small business overwhelm. With her proven programs, Rosie empowers her clients to organise and value their time, resulting in higher profits, less stress, and more freedom to enjoy fulfilling lives.

She is a co-author with other experts in Entrepreneur Extraordinaire; a must have book for all entrepreneurs and has written three eBooks, 12 Essential Success Habits That Create More Time, Money & Fun, and the series The One Minute Productivity Tip.

Rosie is also co-author of the bestselling book Conversations that Make a Difference—Shifting Your Beliefs to Get What You Want. 

From over a membership of 40,000, Rosie won the eWomen Network International Business Matchmaker of the Year after only three years in her business

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: Start with Why - Simon Sinek
• App: Zoom Video & Conference  

You can get some great resources from Rosie's site http://clearvistaconsulting.com/gift 

You can follow her on Twitter 

Pamela Gold grew up on her family’s apple farm in upstate New York, graduated from Yale University, and then entered the business world in NYC where she was the point person on an IPO at the age of 24. Leaving the workforce to start a family, she co-founded West Village Parents and went on to pursue her passion for fitness and wellness. It was through this pursuit that she discovered yoga, which connected her love of philosophy, science, psychology, and wellness and eventually led her to discover her life’s work: teaching inner peace as the key to our greatest evolution and ultimately, world peace. Her book, Find More Strength: 5 Pillars to Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness is full of tragedy to triumph personal stories, along with actionable tools to help increase power and happiness in life.

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
• App: Spotify

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Pascal Fintoni is a professional trainer and speaker specialising in helping business owners get more enquiries from the Web. He started his career in 1994 in London working for a well known holiday company creating campaigns for TV, radio, newspapers and of course the Internet. Pascal quickly developed a passion and unrivalled knowledge for digital content leading to his appointment as the Chief Executive Officer at The Centre for eBusiness in 2009.   Pascal now runs his own agency - ArcLight Marketing and Media Ltd - offering digital marketing training and consultancy services with a clear focus on creating new leads for his clients.   His time is shared between speaking at conferences and delivering interactive and practical programmes on website experience, reputation management SEO, social media and content marketing with a particular focus on video marketing.   Pascal is also a video producer and director and he has successfully introduced many of the storytelling techniques used by filmmakers into his coaching to help his clients create better online content faster.   Guest Recommendation:

• Book: The Road Less Travelled by M Scott Peck
• App: Flipboard

  For more information:   W www.pascalfintoni.com   E [email protected]   T @pascalfintoni   LI www.linkedin.com/in/pascalfintoni/   If your interested in being part of a like-minded person you might be interested in joining the success instigators facebook group  

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Richard Tubb is probably the most well-known face within the British IT Managed Service Provider (MSP) community. His track record speaks for itself, as he launched and sold his own IT P business before creating a leading blog and consultancy practice.   Richard understands the challenges business owners face every day and helps them to regain control and make more money.   The author of the book "The IT Business Owner’s Survival Guide" and writer of the award-winning blog www.tubblog.co.uk aimed at putting IT Consultants back in control, you can find Richard on Twitter @tubblog   Guest Recommendations:

• Book:
  • Really Productive by Grace Marshall
  • Getting Things Done - David Allen
  • Emyth Revisted - Michael E Gerber
  
  
• Apps:
  • Headspace
  • Google Apps
  • Last Pass 
  • Feedly
  • Evernote
  
  

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Alasdair McGill has been in business for over 25 years, running design-led, customer focused businesses in a variety of sectors. From the initial setup to the running and growing of these businesses, he has gained a wealth of experience and uses this insight to help business owners create better organisations.

Through his consultancy, Ashton McGill, he shares his wisdom in areas such as customer experience, service design and employee experience, offering practical tips and strategies to businesses to help improve their relationship with clients.

“For many of my clients, I'm their sounding board - an experienced entrepreneur that they can bounce things off.”

Starting his career as a trainee accountant with Ernst & Young back in 1989, he followed on from this as Director for a group of companies operating in Construction, IT and Leisure for eight years. Between 2001 and 2012 he held Director roles in various companies providing interim management solutions; quality and environmental services; and accounting, tax and payroll services to self-employed professionals.  He also held the position of Head of Enterprise & Entrepreneurial Strategy at the University of Dundee between 2014-2016 as well as being a Board Member for Scottish Cycling within the same period.

Apart from running Ashton McGill, Alasdair is also Director of several businesses such as Family Golf & Leisure Ltd, GS-Group, Tinto Architecture Ltd and co-founder of LowerYourScores.com. He is the Entrepreneur in Residence for the University of Dundee and a Board Member of Circle Scotland CIC. 

As an ‘in-demand’ speaker, he regularly presents at events and conferences around Europe. He hosted TEDx at the University of Dundee in 2015 and was co-organiser of the 2016 TEDx Dundee event.

Alistair takes a modern approach to running his businesses, instilling his values and beliefs and ensuring that they do not fall into industry stereotypes. He injects a positive energy and vibrancy into creating a fun environment for both his clients and staff and uses the principles of Service Design to help generate ideas and solutions that solve business problems.

“Service Design is still a very new discipline, which means that very few people know what it is or the benefits that it can bring to an organisation.”

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: Start with Why by Simon Sineck
• App: Spotify

Websites and Social Links:

Personal

• Website - http://www.alasdairmcgill.com/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/ali_mcgill
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/alimcgill69/
• LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alasdairmcgill
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyw3ve8ZyARNIbQjiUlZxXA

Business

• Website - http://www.ashtonmcgill.com/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/ashtonmcgilluk
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ashtonmcgilluk/

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Mike Morrison is one-half of The Membership Guys, and along with his partner, Callie Willows has spent years guiding the growth of memberships, e-learning businesses and online communities. Now they run the Member Site Academy, where they teach small business owners and entrepreneurs the skills and strategies they need to build and grow their own successful membership website.   Guest Recommendation:

• Book: Go it Alone by Geoff Birch
• App: Instagram & Slack

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Stephen Hobbs, EdD guides start-up and established entrepreneurs in making a movement using the Extraordinary Experiences (EX2) Platform. He offers workshops, consultative services, courses, facilitative mentoring, and books on topics like live your life legacy, create well-living workplaces, co-create the well-living world, encourage heartfelt people connections, and navigate workplace culture. Also, he’s a master experience-based educator, a phenomenal thought-note speaker, and philanthropist for children and trees. 

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: The Aquarian Conspiracy, Web of Life
• Apps: Suduko

Find out more about Stephen

• Website: www.wellthmovement.com
• Twitter: @wellthlearning

If you have found anything useful on this episode, then please leave a comment and rate the show.  If you would like to ask Geoff a question or suggest a topic to cover on the show, please email him at [email protected]

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