The Black Diamond Podcast

Tim Southwell is a husband, father, farmer and entrepreneur in the mountains of Montana focusing on permaculture principles resulting in healthy soils and nutrient-dense food option, he is the founder of Yonder booking platform which specializes in connecting people to life-enriching experiences in nature. All in a day's work on the farm. He is working to promote the benefits of connecting with nature and supporting farm to table endeavors while championing social and environmental causes directed towards building a brighter and healthier tomorrow. In this episode, his love for nature, Tim shared the idea of how he'd come up with Yonder, a new tool for discovering outdoor experiences, where you can discover and book a variety of overnight stays, farm activities, ranches, vineyards, and other nature immersive properties. Quotes:

• "That vineyard, log house in the woods, beachfront property, when you open up that door and you step outside, you are in nature, it is upfront and personal."
• "Your mind is blown in understanding how Mother Nature, how this planet is designed to work in harmony, free and clear of man's meddling."
• "The magic that it cannot only bring the guest but the financial wherewithal that it can bring the local farmer and we as a society, I hope we continue to support our local farmers through our farmer's markets and through farm stay and farm visits."

Resources and Links: Facebook: findyouryonder Twitter: @findyouryonder Instagram: findyouryonder Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/tim-southwell-502432a/

Paul Higgins is a Business Mentor, podcaster, and published author who helps Coaches & Consultants to Build Online Businesses to Fund Lifestyles. He has 26 years of experience in Sales & Marketing, finishing up an 18-year gig at The Coca-Cola Company leading the Marketing strategy for a $700m+ Business Unit. In 2011 he left to manage his inherited kidney condition. He has founded and sold two businesses and had a successful transplant from his best mate in February 2019. With his newfound energy, he loves to mentor, spend time with my teenage children, and play golf. He has a book called Build Live Give and 100% of the proceeds go to the Purple House. In this episode, Paul shared how he founded Build Live Give, a mentoring company to help coaches and consultants build new revenue streams to fund their business, he also Paul shared his inspiring story how he started as an entrepreneur, how he dealt with a health problem, how he wrote his book, Build Live Give while he was in the hospital and what it's all about, his mission to mentoring coaches and consultants to build online businesses and lifestyles, and most importantly to give back. Quotes: · "I really saw the value of technology that they just hadn't implemented in their business, and now are high performing" · "I really like to have a simple business model that works in your favor to fund your lifestyle. So I love subscription or retainer-based business models. And I really look at how we can simplify this model." · "You want to post organically and you want to get some people, you've got to do it as a group, you can't do it as an individual, it just doesn't work." Resources and Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulhiggins555/ https://twitter.com/PaulHiggins555 https://www.facebook.com/Paulhiggins555 https://www.instagram.com/paulhiggins555/

As a successful entrepreneur who built multimillion-dollar businesses across several sectors, Ken Andrukow shared his insights on how to help clients feel safe and key factors on how business can still run despite the pandemic, and how important communication, convenience and consistency are. Quotes: · "Be honest so that people trust you too." · "Ensure that people understand that you're taking all the precautions to keep them safe, including keeping your business healthy and safe." · "Well, I think it's important to set context of what safe means. I think in today's day and age, everyone thinks safety is all about, procedures that you should have in place to make sure that the brick and mortar facility that you have or clients are attending is clean and then you've got all of the proper stuff going on." · "It's ensuring that your clients understand that you are a safe company to deal with that you have plans in place, manage your cash flow appropriately for the times, and you're not going anywhere. That's another part of feeling safe" Resources and Links: Reebok Crossfit Ramsay Ken Andrukow's LinkedIn Level 5 Mentors

Cody Loughlin is the builder of 3 different multi-million dollar companies, became a millionaire at 27. He has 20+ years in finance, real estate, internet marketing and leadership training. He has a podcast show called "The Money Talkers". In this episode, he shared how he started as an entrepreneur, his journey to becoming a millionaire at 27, he also talked about his mission to serve entrepreneurial parents that want to pass down their legacy of knowledge around personal finance, entrepreneurship and a successful mindset, the challenges he had and many MORE! Quotes: • "Basically, I want to bring the subjects of personal finance money on stewardship and successful mindset into I want to give those tools to parents so that they can open up their kid's eyes with this stuff." • "Ultimate goal and wealth creation is that your assets produce and now they start buying assets, when you get to that position, it's a game-changer." • "If you find yourself saying – 'I need to do this' then stop doing what you're doing and do the thing that you need to do." Resources and Links: www.TheMoneyTalkers.com https://www.instagram.com/themoneytalkers/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/MoneyTalkers/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/codyloughlin/

James Mulvany is from Manchester UK and he is the Founder of Radio.co, Podcast.co & MatchMaker.fm where he provides the infrastructure to broadcast successful podcasts and audio content to the world. In this episode, he shared how he became successful as an entrepreneur and how he helps brands, entrepreneurs to use audio to grow.

Quotes:

• "As marketers, some doing a podcast 45 minutes to an hour, it's an incredible opportunity to have someone's attention for that long, you can use that to your advantage. So either growing your business would just kind of building a closer relationship with your market."

• "Interviews in a podcast, it does open doors and you can learn so much."

Resources and Links:

Connect with James

https://twitter.com/jamesmulvany

https://radio.co/

http://pod.co/

http://matchmaker.fm/

Rafael Cortez began his first job at 14 at a local Grocery Store. From 15 to 18 years of age his work experience included everything from hard labor in construction to supervisory positions in retail and customer service while attending the Fire Science Program at Arizona Western College. At the age of 19 he became one of the youngest Firefighters in Yuma County, where he spent the next 5 years of his professional career. He saw an opportunity and began working on his first entrepreneurial project, a Non- Emergency Medical Transportation business at age 21 while providing EMS and Fire services in Yuma AZ. Rafael launched Netcor Transports LLC, his first company opening day May 1st, 2007 at the age 23. Maintaining constant logistical and economic growth since its foundation Netcor was sold in the summer of 2014.

Rafael is currently an Organizational Psychologist and real estate professional holding ownership in multiple companies in various verticals. The base of operations is in Phoenix AZ.

In this episode, we talked about Rafael's humble beginnings, his journey working as an entrepreneur, real estate broker, and organizational psychologist.

Quotes:

• "Real estate is in the prime for tapping into I think it's the best vehicle for Financial Independence"
• "My natural tendency is it is to want to do things a lot faster and get results quickly."

Resources and Links:

https://www.facebook.com/RafaelCortezRealEstate/

https://ceopulse.com/

https://www.instagram.com/rafael.ceopulse/

Ken Andrukow is the owner and founder of Reebok CrossFit located in Ramsay, Canada. He is an experienced business owner and mentors with a demonstrated history of building businesses that scale.

Being conscious of time will result in self-improvement and goal achievement. That's true in both your work and personal life. In this episode, we talked about how a busy entrepreneur manages his time yet still be productive and how free time helps to rejuvenate mind and think of a new way to become more creative and efficient.

Quotes:

• "And the only way I could think to do that was, be in a free mindset as much as I was in a work mindset."
• "If you're a CEO, founder, entrepreneur, you can work from anywhere at any time. But if you don't have intention about the type of work you're actually doing and when you're doing it, I think it becomes less valuable."

Resources and Links

Reebok Crossfit Ramsay

Ken Andrukow's LinkedIn

Level 5 Mentor

Email Ken

Casey Slaughter Stanton started CMOx to help 7-figure health, fitness, technology and manufacturing companies grow faster with a part-time chief marketing officer. His Functional Marketing® process is the cornerstone of CMOx's services, which gives predictable results to both B2B and B2C companies.

Marketing expert turned Successful fractional CMO, now teaching marketers how to be fractional CMOs. Owned my own company since 2008. Lived in New Orleans where he was a professor of marketing at Tulane University. Sold everything, bought an RV and traveled the US and Canada for 3 years with wife Adelaide and their dog to find the perfect city. Moved to Philly in January 2019.

In this episode, we talked about his humble beginnings, his travels, being a marketer, strategic plans to business growth, the nature of his business "Offering Fractional CMO's for High Growth 7+ Figure Businesses" and many MORE!

Quotes:

• "I'm going to be a student of myself on the back of that lawnmower and I would crush like Tony Robbins seminars."
• "It's your time and you only get to do if you only get this thing called life once, right?"

Resources and Links:

Company Website

Casey's Personal Website

Connect with Casey

Lisa Simone Richards is a publicist for online coaches who want to get seen as experts and go from invisible to influencer. She's here to show you how to build your brand, business & influence. Lisa Simone helps her clients get free visibility and get in front of their ideal client, but also build the credibility that gets clients to take the next step and invest in working with you. When she's not shooting national TV segments or working with editors on magazine features, you can find her swinging a kettlebell, getting her zen on at hot yoga, or shopping at her local farmer's market. In this episode she shared how she got into Public Relations to become a successful publicist, how she helps her clients, the importance of relationships and many MORE!

Quotes:

• "You want something done, you gotta do it yourself."
• "I know how to find the right person and how to make an impression with them with a pitch."
• "Relationships obviously make it easy, but just because you may not have the relationship doesn't mean it's not possible."

Resources and Links:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/theinfluentialcoach

https://twitter.com/ellerich

https://www.instagram.com/lisasimonerichards/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisasimonerichards/

https://www.lisasimonerichards.com/

How do you define entrepreneurs and success? What are the common risks and challenges as an entrepreneur? Let's find out more with Kate Jaramillo and Ken Andrukow.

Kate Jaramillo is a certified group fitness instructor and a ketogenic living expert. Kate has been leading the way in the Ketogenic community for years. Ken Andrukow is the owner and founder of Reebok CrossFit located in Ramsay, Canada. He is an experienced business owner and mentors with a demonstrated history of building businesses that scale.

Quotes:

• "Entrepreneurs should crave freedom in every aspects of life."
• "Entrepreneurs in my way of thinking are innovators and visionaries"
• "Entrepreneurs see opportunity in everything."
• "We're always looking to innovate and change."