SuccessQuest

Shelomo Solson is the founder of Teenage Impact. When you look or talk to him, he seems motivated and confident. He wasn’t always like this. Below is his condensed story – the story of an underdog.

Shelomo was bullied starting in 3rd grade. He dreaded going to school for ten years because of it. He was bullied for his accent, ethnicity, religion, athleticism, weight, height, the clothes he wore, not having a girlfriend, the list can goes on.

Sometimes he would come home with bruises crying. He didn’t want to defend himself or tell an adult because he was afraid of being known as a “snitch” or getting beat up harder. He made his parents not say anything.

Now, Shelomo runs Teenage Impact, where he helps teenagers overcome their challenges.

Episode highlights:

• How to make money as a youth speaker
• How to help teenagers with the unique problems that they face
• What to do about bullies.
• How to support a loved one dealing with suicide ideation
• Encourage young people to dream and set goals
• Plan backwards. Decide where you want to be, then make an actionable plan on how to get there step by step. 
• Everyone experiences setbacks and roadblocks. Instead of letting them get you down, acknowledge them and make simple adjustments to overcome them. 
• The best way to become good at public speaking is public speaking. 

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• Website
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Book: Never Fight Alone

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• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

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• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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Today, we’re taking a break from our usual 40 minute interviews. Instead, I invite you to spend the extra time you have to sit down and gain some clarity into the steps you need to take to reach your goals. You got this! 

Adam Mendler is the Chief Executive Officer of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, a leading office furniture e-tailer; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind cigar customization e-commerce platform; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. Adam remains active in each portfolio company, providing strategic guidance and support. Adam also provides business thought leadership as a speaker to businesses, universities and non-profit organizations; as the host of the leadership and personal / professional development podcast Thirty Minute Mentors; as an expert regularly cited in national media outlets; and as an advisor, consultant, coach and board member.

Episode highlights:

• Specialization is important. It’s really hard to run a lot of businesses at once. Find 1 thing that you’re really good at and double down on that. 
• Becoming a thought leader - become an expert in your desired subject matter. Say something unique and be authentic. Put content out there. 
• Don’t be the best version of someone else. Be the best version of yourself.
• Become a good listener. Listen more than you speak. 
• Is it a good idea to work with family?
• You need to be clearly focused on the right priorities and vision in order to move your business forward. 
• Don’t forget to focus on cashflow and revenue. 
• You can’t do everything on your own. In order to scale a business you need to hire good people. 
• Work on your business. Not just in your business. 
• When you’re starting out, take your lumps early and learn as much as you can.

Follow Adam

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Instagram
• Twitter
• 30 Minute Mentors Podcast
• Custom tobacco
• Beverly Hills Chairs

Follow Jacob:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

• Website
• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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After graduating with an engineering degree and then an MBA from Ohio State, Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm five years later. After a brief “retirement”, Paul began investing in real estate in 2000 to protect and grow his own wealth.

He completed over 85 real estate investments and exits, appeared on HGTV’s House Hunters, rehabbed and managed dozens of rental properties, built a number of new homes, and developed a subdivision. Three successful real estate developments, including assisting with the development of a Hyatt hotel and a very successful multifamily project in 2010, convinced him of the power of commercial real estate. Paul is married with 4 children and lives in Central Virginia.

Episode highlights:

• The best way to succeed is to fail and learn from failure. 
• Commercial vs residential real estate investing.
• True wealth = assets that produce income.
• Investing vs. speculating. Investing is math. Investing is boring. But investing is predictable.
• Everything has a learning curve. Take time to learn. Start small.
• Look for experienced mentors and coaches. NOT “gurus”
• Wealth doesn’t bring happiness. 
• Success is finding out why you are on the planet and then doing it.

Follow Paul

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Bigger Pockets

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• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

• Website
• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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Maeva is the founder of a content marketing agency that focuses on creating user-focused and SEO-driven content. They get to know target customers and their real pain points instead of guessing based on a marketer's hunch. With empathy and educational content, they help businesses become a trusted authority in their niche.

Episode highlights:

• Cultural exposure is important! If you can, visit another country or learn another language. It will change the way you see the world. 
• With PPC ads, you have to pay to get traffic. With content, you don’t. 
• Talk to your customer support and sales departments! They talk to the customer every day and can tell you what pain points they have. Then, create content to solve their problems. 
• Content isn’t about promoting your products. Instead, it’s about solving problems.
• If you do content marketing correctly, it’s not guesswork.
• Good marketing and good sales go hand in hand. If you provide value then sales will be easy.
• Start a podcast! A podcast is an amazing tool that provides so many benefits. It lets you network with people, and it creates incredible content. 
• Create systems in your business and document these systems. This will help you outsource and get help.
• The value of creating a personal brand. Build relationships! 

Links

• Apple Podcast Statistics LinkedIn Post
• Loom - Video and screen recording software

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• Website
• Instagram
• Twitter

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• Website
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• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

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• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

Support SuccessQuest

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Terry Boyle McDougall is an executive coach, speaker and author of Winning the Game of Work: Achieving Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She specializes in working with high- achieving leaders who are successful but not satisfied. Terry relies on both formal training as a coach and firsthand experience as a corporate leader to support her clients as they work towards their goals.

Prior to launching her coaching practice in 2017, Terry was a marketing leader within the financial services industry for 21 years. During her corporate career she led high-performing teams, developed and executed on marketing strategies and advised senior leaders. She leverages her understanding of large, complex organizations to help her clients effectively navigate the interpersonal and political dynamics that exist in business. 

Episode highlights:

• When what you like to do is aligned with what you’re expected to do, there’s a lot more flow and less resistance.
• Look at your skills and learn how you can repackage them in a way that aligns better with your interests and passions. 
• FIRST: Define what happiness looks like. Define what you want. 
• SECOND: Look at where you are and where you’d like to be and create a plan to close that gap.
• It’s not the things that happen to you, but what you think about the things that happen to you. 
• You always have a choice. You have power over your own life. 
• “There IS a sweet spot where career success and personal happiness intersect.”
• “What other people think of you is none of your business.”

Follow Terry

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Book: Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms

Follow Jacob:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

• Website
• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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Our guest today is Nicholas Hinrichsen, a Stanford MBA who built a digital platform for used car sales in 2013. He raised $2M in seed funding from angel investors and the startup accelerator YCombinator by 2015. After doing a pivot in the business model, sales took off and Nicholas and his co-founder Chris Coleman raised a $8M venture capital round.

In 2017, the two founders sold their business to Carvana, which was growing at a rapid pace. Nicholas and Chris stayed at Carvana for three years to see their vision come to fruition and left June of this year to start a new company. WithClutch.com is a FinTech platform to refinance your auto loan. With just a few clicks you can save thousands of dollars, 100% online.

In this episode we talked about his incredible journey building companies and raising capital. We also talk about business partnerships, credit and more. Enjoy! 

Follow Nicholas

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• WithClutch.com

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Sam is the founder and owner of Blank Slate Media and the host of the Starting Blank Podcast. He is only 20 years old, and has found incredible business success. Sam is one of my favorite content creators on LinkedIn. In this episode, we talk about

• Pivoting shouldn't be a new thing. Businesses should pivot all the time. 
• TEST. Sam has tested so many different things in order to find success. 
• The power of networking and how to network correctly. 
• The quickest way to fail and hate your life is to live for the money. 
• Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
• Document your journey! Start as early as you can.
• How do you feel about yourself when you’re by yourself? 
• Be authentic!
• You are in control of your own life. Take ownership of everything.
• The value and importance of mediation. 
• Build a team and system to support you. Trust other people to help you. Surround yourself with people that are better at what they do than you are. 

Follow Sam

• LinkedIn
• Blank Slate Media
• Instagram @samxlister
• Facebook
• Twitter
• TikTok: @samxlister 

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• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

• Website
• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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About Shawn:

Shawn is a #1 ranked motivational author, unlimited thinker, and lifetime entrepreneur with a history of inspiring others. A seven-time author, Shawn is also the creator of Extra Mile Day...a day recognizing the power we each have to create positive change when we "go the extra mile." (On 11/1/19, 533 cities made the declaration and recognized local extra-mile heroes.)

Shawn walks his talk. Besides having inspired tens of thousands through his speaking and writing (including an inspirational speaking tour in the Philippines attended by 20,000 attendees), Shawn’s built a million dollar company, pedaled a bike solo across the U.S. (twice), and created adventures in 45+ countries including having walked over 3,000 miles across seven countries since 2014 (England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France and 750 miles around Shikoku, Japan.) He will be walking across Scotland in May 2020.

Follow Shawn

• Website
• Extra Mile America
• Twitter
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Book titles include:

The Four Fibs, SOAR to the Top!, Amicus 101: A Story About the Pursuit of Purpose and Overcoming Life’s Chaos, Extra Mile America: Stories of Inspiration, Possibility and Purpose, Lessons From A. Friend, A Better Life: An Inspiring Story About Starting Over

Follow Jacob:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

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• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

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About Sam:

Sam is the Co-founder and CEO of ProductDone. Since graduating in Computer Science, he has worked in three continents and before starting ProductDone he was working with startups in New Zealand and USA.

H frequently speaks at business events about Startups, Entrepreneurship, Gaming/eSports, Growth, Scaling, Digital Marketing and Customer Acquisition. He is also Co-author of the Amazon Bestselling book “The 30 Day Startup”.

Follow Sam

• Personal Website
• LinkedIn
• ProductDone Website
• 30 Day Startup Book
• Business in The Time of Corona: How to pivot your career or startup and succeed in disruption

Follow Jacob:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @jacob_m_harmon

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• LinkedIn

Follow SuccessQuest:

• Website
• Blog
• Facebook Page
• Community (Facebook Group)
• LinkedIn
• Twitter: @MySuccessQuest
• Instagram @MySuccessQuest

Support SuccessQuest

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