The Compassionate Capitalist™ Show for Crowdfund and Angel Investors

From the archives of The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast show with host Karen Rands, we present the golden nuggets on over coming procrastination...how it is a success killer and strategies to overcome it.  As you listen to Karen's special guest Kristopher B Jones, you'll hear many references to Napolean Hill and Tony Robbins.  One such tidbit that Kris shared from his time training with Tony Robbins:  

"The way that you take action in life is to start with the outcome; to really remove the in decisiveness about what it is that you're truly going after in life."

And as Napolean Hill teaches - the opposite of procrastination is decision. Failures come from the attitude and behavior of waiting for the "time to be right" or lack of belief in the ability to reach a goal, and burning desire to overcome a fear of failure.  

Enjoy this gem of a conversation between Karen and Kris because Kris, with his accomplishments is clearly a man who has conquered procrastination on his journey to success. Kris is the former President and CEO of Pepperjam, a full-service internet marketing agency and affiliate network he founded in 1999 and sold to eBay Enterprise. Kris founded an early stage technology investment fund called KBJ Capital, which includes portfolio companies Highlighter.com, Referlocal.com, Yumm.com, and Internet Media Labs to name a few.  He is a best-selling author and sought-after speaker.  To learn more about Kris, visit http://krisjones.com and follow him on twitter @krisjonescom.

Learn more about Karen Rands and how she educates Investors and coaches Entrepreneurs to a common end: Funding innovation, growing successful companies, creating jobs, and creating wealth - Compassionate Capitalism http://karenrands.co

Karen Rands wraps season 12 of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio with a fresh take on goal setting.   New Year's resolutions are notoriously set and usually broken in the first 30 days.   When it comes to business, goals are rarely achieved when you are flying by the seat of your pants with no road map to achieve those goals.   For entrepreneurs, often times business goals are co-dependent on personal goals.  It can be very challenging to achieve one without sacraficing the other. 

Karen will dig a little deeper on aligning your personal and business goals, because when it comes to setting goals, that is easy.  Writing a goal down on a piece of paper is the first step but it won't be achieved by magic.  Setting goals is easy, achieving goals is hard.  It takes motivation, yes, but really wanting a goal to come true also won't make it so.  If you have dealt with failure in your pursuit of your goals, you need to get rid of your stinking thinking.   You must have clear intent and purpose, which requires assessment of what works and what isn't working for you and your business.   Achieving your goals requires a strategy.   However, strategy requires a plan.  A plan requires all of the above to know what is needed, how to get it, and what to do when you get it.  Taking Action, in both a positive and negative way --- Do this, don't do this -- are the elements to achieve new goals in the next 12 months.  

After listening to this podcast and you determine your goal is to increase sales, grow production, and raise capital to do that, and you are willing to do the hard work to achieve that, then Karen and her team can help you and are eager to talk to you.   Please go to http://karenrands.co to learn more about our programs and contact us.

Karen Rands shares her insights and perspectives on how we can use the feelings and the intentions of the many faiths that celebrate Peace, Hope, Joy, Faith, and Love during the holiday season to expand upon the hope, faith and expectation of future prosperity that comes from entrepreneurism.  Compassionate Capitalism is the silver bow on the package of holiday celebrations. 

Karen Rands is leading the movement of Compassionate Capitalism by helping people of at every economic level to understand how entreprneurism, whether it is starting that local business you have always dreamed of or inventing the next big thing, can bring freedom to be more generous, more hopeful, more joyful to your life.  And for those that dream of being an entreprneur but for many reasons should not be an entrepreneur, can also participat in that success by being a Compassionate Capitalist and invest in entrepreneurs, their vision, their plan for success and share in that success. 

Karen is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.  The primer for all would be angel investor, whether that be in REG CF, REG A+ or REG D 506c, and even intrastate investment exemptions under REG D 504, to be well informed and better equiped to make this type of private equity investment.   Learn more at http://InsideSecretsToAngelInvesting.com

Karen has been educating investors and advising entrepreneurs on success in their endeavors for over 15 years.   Learn more at http://karenrands.co 

Please subscrive to her podcast channel on Apple Podcast, TuneIn, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts and let us know what you think.

During this entertaining segment of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Bob Circosta shares the lessons learned during his legendary career as "TVs  Billionaire Dollar Man" who has sold over $6 Billion in merchandise.   Karen and Bob explore the similarities between selling customers on why buy a product and selling investors on why invest in the company.  A clear message creates the foundation for the story to be presented, and knowing your target and how to get the opportunity in front of them produces the outcome a CEO is seeking.  

Today, Bob helps entrepreneurs create an impactful and profitable pitch to maximize their sales and marketing on various marketing platforms. Bob also co-hosts a live shopping channel called “WHAT A GREAT IDEA with Bob & Chad” and quarterly workshops to help entrepreneurs break through to massive sales growth.  To learn more visit http://bobandchad.com 

Karen Rands helps entrepreneurs get the capital to fuel their growth through the Launch Funding Network and Access to Capital System.   To learn more visit http://karenrands.co   Also get the best selling primer for Angel Investors > Inside Secrets to Angel Investing.

The ABCs of Success?   Watch to learn with the video of the conversation https://youtu.be/A5CtcKo6DNk or listen on your favorite podcast player and subscribe to the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast.

Cannabis Capitalism segments of the Compassionate Capitlist Podcast explore the entrepreneur and investor interest in the trends in legalization of marijuana, cannabis & hemp derived products and the developing supply chaing. 

Georgia's history with the criminalization and legalization of marijuana is full of twists, turns, and technicalities.  Dar'shun Kendrick is a Georgia native, a business master, a elected official, a practicing attorney and a series 65 security license holder.  Her firm Kendrick Advisory and Advocacy Group (http://kaag.co) works with entrepreneurs to understand the legal issues and capital requirements for setting up a Cannabis business in Georgia.   Dar'shun joins Karen to discuss the capitalist, making money as a founder or investor, aspect of capitalizing on the legal cannabis and hemp industry in Georgia. 

Georgia took a bold step in 2015 with HB1, Haleigh’s Hope Act, to legalizecertain cannabis extracts for medicinal use with very specfiic ailments. It wasn't until 2019, though, that laws were passed that made it legal to sell, purchase, and produce those specifically legalized medicinal treatments.   Hemp was legalized under Georgia's Farm Bill HB213 in April 2019, but the means at which to license for the different participants in the supply chain have not be finalized at the time of this recording. 

Karen Rands is the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and is a sought after advisor to entrepreneurs about access to capital and business growth strategies.   As the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, investors seek to work with Karen about creating wealth by investing in entrepreneurs.  Learn more at http://karenrands.co

Compassionate Capitalism is about strategically investing to maximizing impact through the growing of wealth for the investor and the entrepreneurs that recieve those investment dollars to grow their business to create their own wealth.   An important part of creating generational wealth and to maximize the dollars you have to invest is in entrepreneur endeavors as a crowd fund or angel investor is to understand the tax advantages of using certain products and methods to shield your wealth and income from the tax man.  Karen Rands is joined by Charles Theisen on this episode to talk about an Inside Secret the ultra wealthy use to preserve their wealth for future generations and to maximize their retained income.  

Charles Theisen is a sought after speaker, wealth strategist and a business maverick. Charles business philosophy  empowers his clients to “Keep” more of what they earn and to follow the quote from John D. Rockefeller…”The Path to Success is to Own Nothing and Control Everything” through his one of a kind Tax Saving Structures and Strategies. Charles has been a caregiver many times in his life, and has founded a nonprofit organization for cancer patients and caregivers, because of his passion for making a difference and not only people's business but their lives as well.

Karen Rands is the best selling author of Inside Secrets to Angel Investing and a top podcaster about wealth creation through funded innovation and entrepreneurism...the foundation for her Compassionate Capitalist Movement.   Learn more and get free excerpt of 12 of the 44 Inside Secrets at http://karenrands.co

Blockchain is a technology platform best known for the application and use within the cryptocurrency industry.  However, it is so much more than crypto and ICOs.  It is a platform technology that is set to disrupt many industries including contract & records management, supply chain management, identity tracking and validation, and more.  Eddy Travia is a pioneer investor in blockchain technology startups and the Co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium, a London-listed venture builder, investor and advisor of early-stage blockchain technology companies.   

On this episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast, Karen and Eddy explore the evolution, impact and future potential of Blockchain, with insights offered for both entrepreneurs and investors.  For more info and to connect to Eddy, visit https://www.coinsilium.com/ 

Karen Rands is the best selling author of the financial investor primer: Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, and has been helping to funding innovation and creating wealth through entrepreneurism for over 15 years.   She is the founder and leader of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement.   Visit http://karenrands.co to connect and learn more.  You can get a free copy of 12 of the top 45 Inside Secrets for Angel Investors on her website. 

This broadcast was also recorded as a video interview and can be found on Karen's channel on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/P16erqs48RA

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This episode of the Compassionate Capitalist Podcast brings a live conversation with Karen Rands and Max Mrho Learn about Lean Startup processes in practice.  Max Mirho works with young entrepreneurs to teach them how they can validate their business idea with tools readily available and identify their authentice customer before spending all the money, and investors' money,  to start-up. 

Max Mirho is the host of a weekly live stream series called EntrepreNerd, where he conducts experiments live to educate on the accessibility of entrepreneurship through no-code tools and customer discovery. Max's philosophy: there's a process to entrepreneurship.  To prove that, he experiments with it every saturday, (6:30-8:00pm EST) live on LinkedIn and Twitch, by building mini-startups, side hustles, and lifestyle businesses all on camera. https://www.entreprenerd.blog/

On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxmirho/

Karen Rands is the founder of the Compassionate Capitalist Movement and nationally renowned expert in angel investing, having written the best selling book Inside Secrets to Angel Investing as a primer for those newly entering the angel investor lifestyle. Karen works with companies that are in the capital abyss between startup and growth stage, needing resources and capital to scale.  Find out more at http://karenrands.co

Karen Rands is joined by Dr. Calvin Goforth on this episode of The Compassionate Capitalist Podcast Radio to discuss their approach to identifying breakthrough innovation to build and fund companies around R&D from Govt and Universities. As the co-founder and CEO of VIC Technology Venture Development, Dr. Goforth has extensive experience in start-up company development.  To date, VIC has formed 14 portfolio companies based on promising technologies, raised over $140 million in capital, and is expanding to additional sites across the United States.  By 2020, VIC will be forming ten high impact healthcare technology companies each year.  While VIC’s main focus is on forming healthcare related companies, they also have founded companies in high impact areas such as clean water, food safety, and automotive crash safety.

Listen & learn about the VIC's formula for success for assembling the teams that can take an idea, validate it, commercialize, and generate profitable operations from it.  Both entrepreneurs and investors will benefit from listening to Dr. Goforth describe VIC Investor Network's philosophy and best practicies for startup success and return on investment.   To learn more about VIC, visit: https://victech.com/

Karen considers Dr. Goforth and what he has built with the VIC Network as the living breathing example of Compassionate Capitalism > A Compassionate Capitalist invests time, knowledge, resources and money into entrepreneur endeavors to bring innovation to market, creating jobs for the community and wealth for all those involved. Karen's book Inside Secrets to Angel Investing is the foundation for bringing more investors into the Compassionate Capitalist Movement she launched in 2008.

Karen Rands, host of the Compassionate Capitalist Radio Podcast, highlights the business trends in the legal Cannabis Industry with Cannabis Capitalist Radio segments.  This episode has been edited for re-broadcast of a highly popular segment because this topic is under represented and so important to understand. 

Kristen Yoder is trusted advisor in the Cannabis Industry and Veteran BS Detector with over 13 years in the rapidly growing industry.  She is an acclaimed Speaker & Terpene Educator.  She hosts her own very successful Podcast- The CannaBS Detector Podcast. Her company, Soil to the Oil, advises investors and investment firms entering the Cannabis Industry.  Learn more: https://www.soiltotheoil.com/cannabsdetector

There is a fallacy that permeates the industry. Cannabis is marketed with cute names with claims of euporia, or relaxation, or pain relief, and although that may be true in many cases, due to the nature of how the cannabinoids interact with the human CB1 & CB2 receptors, it is not always the case.  Each person's biochemistry is different and therefore the actual effect is unpredictable.  However, there is a way that many experienced in the industry are able to use to help a consumer predict for him or herself how a particular type of flower will effect them -- the Smell. 

In this podcast Karen and Kristen will dig into this fascinating world of the three T's of Horticulture: Trichome, Terpenes & Terpenoids and how they influence the effect of Cannabis on an individual. 

To learn more about Karen and her best selling book, Inside Secrets to Angel Investing, visit http://karenrands.co