The Bulletproof Entrepreneur™

Andrew Lassise is a business coach and the founder of Rush Tech Online, an I.T company that provides tech support services for accounting firms. Andrew took an unusual path to entrepreneurship and now runs an I.T company that provides services to the accounting industry. He’s been featured in several publications and podcasts. 

Andrew received a bachelor’s in financial planning and services from the Perdue School of Business, has worked as a VITA volunteer and financial coach. Most recently, the American Institute of CPAs certified his knowledge in its Cybersecurity Risk Management Program.

Today, he combines his financial know-how with his skills and leadership in tech support to help accountants around the United States with their IT issues.

Resources

Website - www.rushtech.online

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lassise/

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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur gives you powerful strategies and tactics required to not just survive but conquer the AI age.

Robert Thomas Bethel is the orchestrator of 80 business turnarounds over the past fifty-five years. Early successes and troubles in his own professional career inspired his passion for taking over struggling businesses and guiding them towards the road of profitability. Bethel has turned around companies in various industries—from restaurant chains to engineering firms—and has helped save over ten thousand jobs as a result of his strategic business counsel. 

A graduate of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Bethel owns several companies across the southern United States and has operated businesses both nationwide and internationally. 

In this encore episode Bob shares how business owners who are struggling with the financial and economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic can do to save their businesses.

He is an Eagle Scout and, in addition to counseling, also spends times teaching three-day seminars on best business practices throughout the country. He currently resides in Orange Beach, Alabama with his wife, Reese.

For more information, visit robertthomasbethel.com

Book : https://www.amazon.com/Strengthen-Your-Business-Fail-Proof-Strategies-ebook/dp/B075FGLCNL/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Robert+Bethel&qid=1599430162&sr=8-1

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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur gives you powerful strategies and tactics required to not just survive but conquer the AI age.

In this episode, we talk to Kymberli Speight and learn about the power of networking and forging meaninful relationships.

Kymberli Speight is a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, a prior military officer, and a speaker and executive coach.

She wrote the book 'I Need to Know You: How to Meet Ordinary, Extraordinary People, and Improve Your Life,' which is about her journey to meet 100 people in 100 days.

Resources Ways to Contact Kymberli Speight: Website: https://kymberlispeight.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kymberlispeight Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KymberliSpeightSpeaks Twitter: https://twitter.com/kymberlispeight

Book - I Need to Know You: How to Meet Ordinary, Extraordinary People, and Improve Your Life

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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur gives you powerful strategies and tactics required to not just survive but conquer the AI age.

Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, where she has spent over a decade helping thousands of people improve their negotiation skills. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for the United Nations, where she has taught dozens of negotiation workshops to hundreds of diplomats from more than eighty nations.

Alex teaches us how to  get more value by asking the right questions of the person you’re negotiating with as opposed to arguing with them. She offers a simple yet powerful ten-question framework for successful negotiations where both sides emerge victoriously. 

Resources

Alexandra Carter

Ask for More: 10 Questions to Negotiate Anything

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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur gives you powerful strategies and tactics required to not just survive but conquer the AI age.

Matthew Hunt is the founder of Automation Wolf and Summit Beast, a virtual summit agency. He built 3 profitable  B2B companies in the last 13 years on the back of smart marketing & sales. In his career as a sales and marketing expert, he’s helped hundreds of companies implement sophisticated marketing & sales strategies that have generated consistent leads and sales even in very challenging economic circumstances.

Resources

www.automationwolf.com

www.summitbeast.com

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The Bulletproof Entrepreneur gives you powerful strategies and tactics required to not just survive but conquer the AI age.

Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg is a management consultant, executive advisor and keynote speaker. He is the author of What’s Your Problem? (Harvard Business Press, 2020), a book on how to solve the right problems.

He is also the co-author (with Paddy Miller) of Innovation as Usual, a Harvard Business Review Press book on the art of driving innovation in regular organizations. Thomas works with executives in companies around the globe teaching them how to become better problem solvers.

His research has been featured in Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, BBC Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Financial Times. His work on innovation led HR Magazine to recognize him as a “Top 20 International Thinker”. As an executive advisor and keynote speaker, Thomas has addressed organizations such as Cisco, Microsoft, Citigroup, Time Warner, AbbVie, Caterpillar, Amgen, Prudential, Union Pacific, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, the Wall Street Journal, and the United Nations. Thomas holds an MA in Media Science from the University of Copenhagen and an MBA from IESE Business School.

Prior to his business career, Thomas served for four years as an officer with the Danish Royal Guards

Resource

https://wedellsblog.com/

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

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Ramia Marielle El Agamy is the Co-Founder of Orbis Terra Media an international Content Studio and Publishing House based in Switzerland as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Tharawat Magazine,  the global publication for family businesses and a product established by her family. As a Director of her family's enterprise, she has helped expand its activities globally and works alternately in media, cross-border entrepreneurship, and family business. Her role as the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Tharawat Magazine has allowed her to specialise in topics relevant to business owners and their successors.

Ramia holds a MSc in International Business and Management from Manchester Business School (UK). Born and raised in Switzerland, Ramia M. El Agamy is of Dutch-Egyptian descent and currently lives between Bern, Switzerland, and Dubai, UAE and speaks six languages.

Resources

www.orbisterramedia.com

www.tharawat-magazine.com

www.womeninfamilybusiness.org

www.tharawat.org

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Trista Jordan has worked with thousands of celebrities and contributed her expertise to over 50 feature films, staged events, live shows, television series, national commercials, and music videos, most notably the Macklemore hit "Downtown," watched over 144 million times on YouTube. Her clients include: NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and every imaginable production entity. 

She has worked with Academy Award winners Vera Farmiga and Jared Leto; Golden Globe-winner Christian Slater; Golden Globe-nominated Ray Liotta and Christina Ricci; as well as the winner of several awards, Jessica Biel.

Trista began a diary of her crazy life at an early age and continued journaling her wild career moments behind the scenes of her Hollywood movie escapades. When she was interviewed by ESPN during a World Series of Poker event they told her she should write a book. So she did!

Resources & Links

www.tristajordan.com

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1645431231/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

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Dr. Dennis T. Jaffe, is a San Francisco-based advisor to families about the family business, governance, wealth and philanthropy. Dennis helps large and global families manage personal and organizational issues that lead to a successful and fulfilling transfer of businesses, wealth, values, commitments, and legacies between generations.

Dennis is the author of the new book Borrowed from Your Grandchildren: The Evolution of 100-Year Family Enterprises; as well as Cross-Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generations; and Stewardship of Your Family Enterprise: Developing Responsible Leadership Across Generations, and more than 15 other management books, including Getting Your Organization to Change, Rekindling Commitment, Take This Job and Love it! And From Burnout to Balance.

He is the co-creator of the Family Enterprise Assessment Tool (FEAT, The Values Edge, the Transition Curve, and other tools for assessment of family enterprise success. In 1984 he founded Changeworks Global, a consulting firm in San Francisco, which works with organizations for long-term change to build competitive advantage by unleashing the power of their employees. He was a founder of MemeStreams, which pioneered the use of on-line executive development tools.

In 1990-92 he served as Deputy Director of Research for the Macarthur Foundation Network on Healthy Companies. He is an emeritus professor of Organizational Systems and Psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco. He has a B.A. degree in Philosophy, M.A. in Management, and Ph.D. in sociology, all from Yale University, is a licensed psychologist and is professor emeritus of organizational systems and psychology at Saybrook University in San Francisco.

As both an organizational consultant and clinical psychologist, he is one of the architects of the emerging field of family enterprise consulting. He is a faculty advisor to the Cornell Johnson College of Business. As a founding member of the Family Firm Institute, he has served on their board, written frequently for their journal Family Business Review, and was awarded the Richard Beckhard and International Awards for contributions to practice.

In 2007 he was Thinker in Residence for S. Australia, helping the region design a strategic plan for the future of their entrepreneurial and family businesses.

Resources and links

https://www.wisecounselresearch.com/main

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-jaffe-a686286/

https://www.amazon.ca/Borrowed-Grandchildren-Evolution-Stewardship-100-Year/dp/1119573807/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N7JSVSFMMP3W&keywords=borrowed+from+your+grandchildren&qid=1585501401&sprefix=borrowed+fr%2Caps%2C204&sr=8-1

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Jonathan Slain is the Founder and CEO of Recession.com, an author, a highly respected keynote speaker, and an expert on recessions & why business owners don’t need to fear them. Jonathan understands not only how to prepare your business for the next major recession, but also how to turn it into a profitable opportunity.

Jonathan believes that the savvy entrepreneurs are the ones making plans now, so they can be buyers when opportunity knocks. They’re looking forward to purchasing failing companies and hiring top talent when others are caught unprepared by a recession.

Having come from the world of investment banking, working on mergers and acquisitions, Jonathan has seen firsthand how businesses with successful leadership mistakenly hit plateaus. Now, working exclusively with Founders, Owners, CEOs, and Management Teams, Jonathan uses that experience to help best-in-class companies worldwide achieve their vision of success.

Jonathan spent the last Great Recession huddled in the fetal position on the floor of his office. He borrowed $250,000 from his mother-in-law to survive. Jonathan paid his mother-in-law back and is now a highly sought-after consultant .

Jonathan understands not only how to prepare your business for the next major recession but also how to turn it into a profitable opportunity

Whether working with entrepreneurial niche/specialty firms or large corporations ($10M+ in annual revenue), the direction and insight Jonathan imparts, positions businesses to advance to levels they dream about often, but rarely achieve on their own.

Jonathan’s book, “Rock the Recession: How Successful Leaders Prepare For, Thrive During, and Create Wealth After Downturns” came out in September 2019 and is a #1 Amazon Best Seller.

In today's episode, we discuss the possibilities of an imminent recession, and how the situation could be used positively as an opportunity for growth.

In this episode, you'll learn..

•  No need to be afraid of recessions

Links and resources mentioned in this episode.

• https://recession.com/opk/

https://rockyourlifeplan.com

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