The Black Diamond Podcast

Brendan Hsu is from San Francisco, California. He has 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship and marketing, he helps brokers, agents, designers, stagers, architects, builders and more, he takes control of their business to start reaching their goals. He manages Aerial Canvas which is a real estate marketing company in San Francisco Bay.

In this episode, we talked about how he started in his entrepreneurial journey at such a young age, his first business, Fyx it, which is a computer and phone repair business and how he made million dollars a year revenue. His experience in entrepreneur and marketing also lead him to manage Aerial Canvas, a full-service agency that consistently provides the highest quality photography, cinematography, aerial drone services, 3D tours, websites, and other real estate marketing solutions. He shared why it is growing and why it is a proven "WOW" to their clients!

Enjoy the show!

Quotes:

• "I believe everyone is entrepreneurial."

• "It's about creating a win for yourself, win for others and ultimately that's what entrepreneurism is about."

• It's about creating solutions, creating opportunities and the more of those that you can create for not just yourself, but for others the more successful you'll become"

Resources and Links:

Aerial Canvas

Connect with Brendan's LinkedIn

Reach Brendan: 650-850-2431

Matt Lawless is from the United Kingdom. He is the owner and CEO of Vital Certificates Ltd. Their company helps citizens to live, work, and move abroad through a range of documentation, legalization, notary, and apostille services. They are the only UK company to provide this service worldwide.

In this episode, we talked about how he started as an entrepreneur, having background with music to working in the corporate world to business owner. He also shared some critical factors of success, an impressive story of building business owner-client trust and relationship and the mission of his company helping ambitious professionals to make their move abroad that is much easier by proving services of legalization, verification, translation, concierge, or simply taking clients' officially-issued documents from one country and make them ready for use in another and they can deal with documents from over 100 countries. You will learn lots of insights from Matt!

Quotes:

• "Not doing something is scary than doing something."
• "One positive thing this time is it brings people in the world together and people become more agile."
• "Success revolves around a happy state of mind and whatever you're doing, you're not pushing things backward."
• "If you are pushing towards what you're trying to achieve and you feel like you're making headway, I think that is also a success."

Resources and Links:

Connect with Matt

Vital Consular

Eric Carlson is the Co-Founder of 10XFactory, an exclusive entrepreneurship community with 1,000+ members worldwide. He is also the founder of One Cup Media, a high powered agency whose successes include the fastest-growing subscription box ever on CrateJoy, the fastest-growing direct to consumer golf brands in the US, and one of the fastest-growing functional beverage brands in the world. Prior to these achievements, he managed over $100m in advertising. Responsible for and generated ROI on budgets as large as $4m/mo via the internet, radio and TV marketing specializing in SaaS, communities and e-commerce. He also worked for the largest privately-held financial newsletter in the world, Agora Inc, and was the Chief Marketing Officer for a private equity fund for 6 years before founding his own companies.

In this episode, we talked about his transition working in a marketing firm, learning e-commerce to successful digital marketer, co-founder of 10XFactory and Sweatpants Agency. He also cites some companies that he helped to successfully grow, tips as a marketer, and applying contrarian marketing thought.

Quotes:

• "Always know that you're in control of your own destiny."
• "Time is probably the most valuable asset."
• "There are so many blocks in your life. I've had the moments where I've made over $100,000 and I've had moments where I lost $15,000"

Links and Resources:

Sweatpants Agency

10X Factory

Connect with Eric

Email Eric

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

In this episode, he shared early stages working for his dad to becoming a successful entrepreneur owning a 7-figure business, how he overcame hardships, steps after surviving a health problem, his criteria of success, how he helps other entrepreneurs understanding their value, tips on aspiring entrepreneurs and many MORE!

Quotes

• "Health is critical. You can have all of those things that you want without first taking care of yourself."
• "I define my success criteria of having a purpose, and having the freedom to choose whatever purpose of what is important to me and those around me that are close to me and how I want to live my life with that freedom of purpose."
• "Every success, there's a lot of failure."
• "I don't like making repeating mistakes. So I really work hard to fail so I can learn great lessons so that I can do bigger and better things the next time."

Resources and Links

Reebok Crossfit Ramsay

Ken Andrukow's LinkedIn

Level 5 Mentor