The Bulletproof Entrepreneur™

Barbara Annis, Founding Partner of Gender Intelligence Group (GIG), is a world-renowned expert on Inclusive Leadership through Gender & Cultural Intelligence, advocating the value and practice of this new type of leadership in Fortune 500 companies and numerous organizations worldwide. Her insights and achievements have pioneered a transformational shift in cultural attitudes across the globe on the importance of gender unity to organizational success.

Barbara began her career as the first women in sales at Sony and became the first woman Sales Manager with 14 Outstanding Sales Achievement Awards and Sony’s MVP Award.  Over the past 27 years, Barbara Annis and her 51 global associates have facilitated over 8,000 corporate workshops and conducted thousands of leadership assessments and executive coaching sessions. GIG has introduced breakthrough research on the practice and benefits of inclusive leadership and gender diversity.  Additionally, GIG offers diagnostics, workshops, and coaching sessions both onsite and online.

Barbara Annis is chair emeritus of the Women’s Leadership Board at Harvard Kennedy School and was recently conferred the International Alliance for Women, Lifetime Achievement Award. Her extensive studies have included work with exceptional thinkers such as famed psychologist Dr. Virginia Satir, Dr. Fernando Flores, Director of the PhD program in Linguistics at Berkeley University, and Dr. Willis Harman, Founder and President of the Noetic Sciences Foundation.

Barbara has produced four transformational books:

Her latest book, Gender Intelligence: Breakthrough Strategies for Increasing Diversity and Improving Your Bottom Line (May 2014) co-authored with Dr. Keith Merron, represents the culmination of twenty-seven years of gender-based research and global practice that uniquely apply cutting-edge brain-based research to the workplace.  It offers leaders the mindset and systemic changes needed to transform their organizations, bridge the gap between men and women at all levels of leadership and management, and in the process, create more inclusive and productive organizations.

She is also the co-author of Results At The Top: Using Gender Intelligence To Create Breakthrough Growth.

What if your company could gain a greater profit share of the market simply by promoting more women into its senior management team? Sounds like a no-brainer, and despite nearly every study done in the past three decades proving companies with women leaders deliver superior performance, the number of women in the C-suites of companies all over the world is noticeably low. Results at the Top is written for the men who know the value female leaders bring to the table and need a tangible way to get them there.

Whether you're building your leadership team from scratch or trying to transform long-established norms for a competitive advantage today, the practical guidance inside wastes no space with blame for the current state of women leaders and goes straight to the immediate steps organizations can take to change it. It gives you everything you need to both create the internal systems for promoting gender diversity on every step of the career ladder and motivating employees to celebrate its shared, bottom-line benefits.

Up-to-date viewpoints don't confuse equal with same and go in-depth into the scientific differences between men and women that can complement each other to produce higher performing teams. Along with neurological variances, there are societal behaviors men and women need to recognize and substitute with more productive and advantageous ones. Through eye-opening research and illustrative examples from the real world, both sexes gain a deeper understanding of how we got here and the pioneering systems companies in the highest echelons of their industries are using to evolve leadership development all the way to the top. This everyday guidebook will immediately change the way you approach work with:

• A powerful new evaluation method for assessing the source of gender diversity in a company's leadership

The most satisfying part of Results at the Top is watching your company's performance soar as gender bias disappears.

Stephanie Chung is an executive coach, trainer, speaker, author, and mentor. As the head of Stephanie Chung and Associates, she and her team offer high ticket sales coaching, sales training, and executive mentorship services that help sales executives work smarter.

Growing up in a military family, Stephanie spent her formative years as a professional new kid. Her family moved every two years to a different city, state & country as a result of her Dad’s military deployment. She quickly learned how to adapt to new situations, build relationships fast and blend into her environment. She also acquired a love for airplanes which led her to a career in the aviation industry.

Though she started her career in sales at an early age, Stephanie noted that nothing prepared her for what she would have to do to make sales in the aviation industry. She felt helpless when her boss gave her a sales target of $25 million in her first year in private jet industry.

Not one to back down from a challenge, Stephanie dug deep and found the will to take on the challenge head on. She put herself through a rigorous self-study program and learned from the world’s best masters in sales & marketing. She became so good that she rose quickly within the ranks of her organization and eventually led her team to make $1 Billion worth of sales of private jets during the great recession of 2007 - 2011.

In this episode, cover Stephanie’s entrepreneurial journey, the steps she took to learn the art of high ticket selling, how she came up with a strategy that led to $1 Billion worth of sales and how she helps clients succeed in the industry. You’re going to want to take plenty of notes because this is probably the most action packed interview you’ve heard in a long time.

Stephanie Chung

Books

Profit Like A Girl by Stephanie Chung

Embrace The Suck by Stephanie Chung

Peggy Caruso is the Owner of Life Coaching and Beyond, LLC. She is a Certified Executive & Personal Development Coach, Advanced Relaxation Therapist, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Master Practitioner, author and 8-time entrepreneur with 24 years experience.

Her ‘Revolutionize’ series has been approved as a registered trademark and inclusive of that are her previous books, Revolutionize Your Life and Revolutionize Your Child’s Life. Throughout her professional career, she has helped not only countless professionals but numerous children rid themselves of depression, ADD, and ADHD medication.

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Peggy's life story and her entrepreneurial journey. We also talk about Peggy's work as a life coach and some of the problems people face in the workplace and how to overcome them.

Resources

www.LifeCoachingandBeyond.com

Felena Hanson is a long-time entrepreneur and marketing maven. She is the founder of Hera Hub, a spa-inspired shared workspace, and community for female entrepreneurs.

With branches across the U.S. and international locations in the works, the company provides a flexible work, and meeting space that fosters a cooperative & productive community where business owners can thrive and succeed.

Felena founded Hera Hub with the belief that women are the future, and they will be responsible for the next wave of prosperity across the globe.

Hanson had her first taste of entrepreneurship when she was just eight years old. Since then her 20-year career has spanned from technology start-ups to digital marketing agencies, and her client list includes DirecTV, Epson, CNN, and Union Bank.

Hanson and Hera Hub have been featured in Inc. Magazine, BBC News, Forbes, and The New York Times. Her new book Flight Club - Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business, outlines tools and resources to help women in every stage of starting their business.

In this episode, we discussed her life story, entrepreneurial roots, business, success principles and plans for the future.

Resources

www.herahub.com

In this episode of The Bulletproof Entrepreneur podcast, we discuss how businesses can profit from applying common sense in their operations with Rex Conner.

Rex is the co-founder and Lead Partner of Mager Consortium, the company which Dr. Mager (a pioneer and thought-leader in the management consulting world) has entrusted with teaching his workshops and managing his publications.

Rex's career started in the US Air Force where he was an Instructor Pilot/Flight Examiner and earned a Masters degree in Curriculum & Instruction and a Doctorate in Flying Instruction from Air University.

He retired from the Air Force and went into management consulting. During an eight-year stint as a corporate trainer in a financial services company, Rex learned the CRI methodology and has since been a practitioner, coach, trainer, consultant, and advocate for it in over 50 businesses in more than a dozen industries during the last 20 years.

As the lead partner in Mager Consortium, Rex and his team help businesses by teaching them how to apply common sense principles in various aspects of their operations. From hiring & onboarding to succession planning and everything in between, Rex shows companies how to use the CRI methodology to get results that drive profitability and reduce costs.

In this conversation, we discuss some common areas where companies fail to apply common sense and what they can do to correct their mistakes. There are a lot of actionable tips in this episode so listen, learn and take plenty of notes.

Resources

Mager Consortium

What If Common Sense Was Common Practice In Business?

AJ Wilcox is a digital marketing master and performance marketing entrepreneur. He's the founder of B2Linked, a company that specializes in helping companies acquire customers from LinkedIn.

He spent the early part of his career learning PPC and working for large enterprises and then transitioned into entrepreneurship.

Though the beginning was rough, AJ persisted, and today his company is one of the leading agencies in customer acquisition. He and his team use proprietary marketing strategies to ensure that their clients get the highest ROI possible for every $1 spent on ads.

When AJ is not helping companies fuel growth, he is a frequent guest/contributor on podcasts, social media conferences, and blogs.

In this episode, we discuss AJ entrepreneurial journey and success habits and discuss practical applications of LinkedIn Advertising.

Why LinkedIn marketing offers high ROI on advertising for B2B

And lots more. I hope you listen, learn and take plenty of notes.

Resources:

Twitter: @WilcoxAJ

Serial entrepreneur Robert “Bob” Glazer is the founder and Managing Director of Acceleration Partners, and the founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. He has an exceptional track record of helping companies grow their revenues and profits using performance-based affiliate marketing.

In this episode, we talk about how entrepreneurs & businesses can implement performance-based marketing techniques to grow their businesses. Inc. magazine has recognized his company as one of the fastest growing companies in America 5-years in a row.

Mr. Glazer is a highly sought after speaker for business & marketing conferences, and a contributor to many large publications including Success.com, Entrepreneur.com.

Bob is a recipient of numerous accolades including the Boston Business Journal “40 under 40” award, the SmartCEO Boston Future 50 award, and a finalist for the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in New England.

When he’s not working with clients or writing articles and blog posts, Bob serves as an active member of several non-profit organizations including the Board of Directors for BUILD Boston, Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO) and The Fifth Night (www.fifthnight.org).

Every Friday, Bob writes an inspirational post for his friends, family, and employees on his website Friday Forward (www.fridayfwd.com).

Robert "Bobby" Klinck - is an entrepreneur, author and intellectual property attorney, who helps entrepreneurs, startups, and innovators protect their intellectual property. You might be wondering what the big deal is about intellectual property? Consider this, Coca-Cola's secret formula has a value of nine-figures or more. And economists have estimated that sixty-seven percent of the value of Fortune 500 companies has been directly traced to intellectual property (also known as Intangible Assets i.e. Trademarks, Tradenames, Trade Secrets, Patents, and Copyrights).

In this episode, we discuss his life story and the road that led him to entrepreneurship and his work with entrepreneurs. We discuss his experiences working as an Assistant United States Attorney prosecuting bad guys in Texas, clerkships with famous and illustrious judges and the events that led him to start his law practice despite being on track to make a very comfortable living.

When I asked him about his biggest failure, I was shocked to hear that despite being a highly trained Harvard Lawyer with many years of experience, he still managed to make the same entrepreneurial mistake that Mark Zuckerberg & countless others have done.

This got thinking that as human beings we all make mistakes. Our brain knows what to do, but our heart sometimes doesn't cooperate with our brain. Nevertheless, you should still do everything to ensure that the right thing is done at the right time.

And for many entrepreneurs, the right thing means protecting their number #1 assets even if they are working with friends and family. Bobby helps us break down the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make with their intellectual property and the steps they can take to fix it. The information he shared is so compelling that he put it in a book and made it a free download on his website.

I hope you listen, learn and take plenty of notes. The future of your business could depend on your knowledge of some of the principles you hear today.

Resources

He proved that by using math and applying common sense, anyone can achieve financial freedom regardless of their industry, profession, resources, connections or lack thereof.

But he wasn't satisfied with just making money alone. After some self-reflection and soul-searching, he realized that he wanted to leave a legacy when he was gone. At the encouragement of his wife, he took steps to start sharing his wisdom. He got so good at helping people achieve their dream of financial independence, that he had to stop his coaching program because he couldn't meet up with the demand.

That's when he decided to create a platform where people can have access to his teachings and training, and thus FinancialMentor.com was born. FM is a place where you can learn about the three paths to financial freedom, and how you can apply esoteric principles like Expectancy to determine the likelihood of success of any venture. It productizes all of Todd's accumulated wisdom from a lifetime of research and makes it readily available to anyone with a hunger for learning.

In this fast paced episode we discuss everything from his morning routine, success habits, asset allocation, wealth building, product creation & monetization and biggest regret. Todd holds nothing back and gives you concrete steps on how to go out there and achieve your dreams. He's the author of 5 personal finance books and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, IBD and more.

Greg Edwards is a fast rising comedian based out of Los Angeles California. Born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, he discovered his comedic talents early and with the support of his family moved West to pursue his ambition of becoming a stand up comedian.

He’s known for his his distinctive voice, one-liners, fearless views and thoughts on the social commentary in America. He currently stars as "Sparky Sweets, PhD" in the critically-acclaimed youtube web series, Thug Notes.

In the show, he uses street language to distill, disect, analyze and summarize classic literature. He’s a fixture on the comedy scene and has worked with comedians like Dave Chappelle, Paul Mooney, Patrice O'Neal, Damon Wayans, Bill Bellamy, W. Kamau Bell and many more. In addition to starring in thug notes, he hosts a weekly free comedy show, "The Workout Room" and "Blame It On Social Media" I'm pleased to have him on the show today to discuss, his life, occupation, social justice issues, UFOs, relationships, and the art of being creative on demand.

In this episode we talk about everything from sports,comedy, dealing with the police, UFO encounters, advice for aspiring comedians and creative artists, the evolution of education  and lots more. So listen intently and take plenty of notes.

Thug Notes