The Damn Good Day Show

#36: Today we sit down with the CEO and Founder of Cushion, Paul Kesserwani. As of late April, Cushion announced a Seed round of 2.8 Million and shows no sign of slowing down.

On this episode you will learn:

1. Tips and tricks to successful fundraising

2. How story marketing can make or break your business

3. Stress management 101

4. And how to run your business without sacrificing your life.

To Download Cushion go to https://cushion.ai/

#35: At just 24 years old, Mike has built a million dollar business via Valor Media and has had multiple successful business ventures leading up to today. Mike has a deep background in philosophy and goes into great detail on topics that will have your head spinning trying to keep up. I believe that Mike is one of those people that is capable of shaping the future of humanity and after listening to this podcast, you will understand what I mean.

What’s extra cool about Mr. Valor is just how real he keeps it about the mistakes he made in his career. He goes into details about one of the most horrifying experience he encountered in business concerning how a lack of control checks led to a social media atomic bomb that wiped out nearly his entire business. While most could never recover from such an incident, I found it fascinating how he was able to take such an L and turn it into a W which takes true character and perseverance.

On today's episode, you will learn.

1. Why meditation needs to become a pillar in your life

2. New advances in Marketing and advertising

3. How to build a rock solid company infrastructure

4. The incredible upside of being able to employ virtual assistants

5. and Implementing the philosophy of, "fail fast.” in your life and business.

#34: Alex has mastered Instagram. He built his account @The.Success.Club to 818k followers and his personal account to 187k followers. He is the co-founder of Invigor8 and has taken part in some of the most exclusive masterminds with industry leaders.

On this episode, Alex speaks about:

1. 3 things you can do now to upgrade your Instagram brand

2. The process to become an overnight success

3. Embracing the struggle so you can manufacture the story,

4. Key lessons learned after building multiple companies.

#33: Brock Johnson is a Football quarterback, podcaster, YouTuber and overall content creator. He specializes in "Story Marketing" and goes deep into his secrets in this podcast.

On today's episode, Brock speaks about:

1. The process to create an online course

2. How to stay one step ahead of your audience

3. How outsourcing has allowed him to serve more people

4. Effective strategies to free up more of your time.

5. How to leverage new social media platforms to get that first mover advantage.

#32 : Shylo Eckstrom is a 7-figure earner inside direct sales and has been through a rollercoaster of a journey. She coins her peeps as the “rebel influencers” to acknowledge that you need to be a rebel to get into entrepreneurship and chase your dreams.

On this episode, Shylo talks about

1. How to avoid massive financial mistakes.

2. How to be real all the time while allowing eyes to see you at your most vulnerable.

3. The process to stop caring about other people and to know you’ll be fine.

4. Her rock solid morning routine for getting the juices flowing.

5. What it means to fail fast, do it often, and eat the freaking cake.

#31: Danelle started as a teacher and pastor to being forced to make a change that led her down a long route of challenges. She has taken the stage with the likes of Darren Hardy, Les Brown, Lewis Howes, Grant Cardone and more but her philosophy is what really impresses me. Danelle believes that “First, it’s about building the person, then one can master the skills.”

After spending an hour with Danelle, I felt compelled to buy her book, “I Choose Joy.” which serves 3 purposes. First, it's a daily gratitude tracker which Danelle details exactly how to go about this in this podcast. Second, writing down your goals for the day. and third, Writing what you’ve learned from 30 minutes of personal development each day. You can find a link to the book in the show notes.

Danelle speaks about:

1. Her process to help people get clear to sell congruent with who they are.

2. The power you can give someone simply through believing in them. If you can show someone what’s possible, they rarely go back on that.

3. How to build your business around your life (not vice versa)

4. The power of daily gratitude and how it can reprogram your mind.

5. And Being thankful for our challenges because they give us the greatest gift of all. Perspective.

#30: Cesar made his first million at 29 years old, became the owner of multiple businesses, and created many courses specifically on sales techniques and closing tactics. He has geared his life 100% to optimal business growth. It is really cool to see how he views everyday problems people face and his methods for approaching each day with gratitude. I especially loved the 2nd half of this episode where so many golden bars were shared that I know so many of you will find value in.

On this episode, Cesar speaks about

1. How to view stepping outside your comfort zone as a social experiment

2. The mighty gateway drug into entrepreneurship

3. The process of becoming 10 times bolder in everything that you do

4. How to recover from any failure no matter how large

5. The power of social media and strategies to build your own personal brand.

#29: Today’s guest Tyler Gallagher is the real deal. At 16 years old, he was living in a homeless shelter barely getting by. He recounts that every day he would go to the local library and read books such as rich dad poor dad by Robert Kiyosaki that shaped his entrepreneurial mind early on. Tyler hit rock bottom multiple times but his happy go-getter attitude always kept new opportunities forming. After stumbling into a man driving a Bentley, he obtained an internship learning about moving currencies. Specifically precious metals like gold and silver. Fast forward a few years and Tyler’s company, Regal Assets has offices all over the world, Is an Inc. 500 company, and has done over 1/2 a billion in investments for his clients.

Tyler speaks about:

1. How Important customer testimonials are in today’s online economy.

2. Tips to not burn yourself out as an entrepreneur

3. The major building blocks he learned early on that led him to run a huge business.

4. His favorite marketing tool being affiliate marketing and how it exploded his business.

5. His excitement surrounding precious metals and being able to diversify your portfolio

6. Things he wishes he could tell his prior self as a 16-year-old living in a homeless shelter to save him a lot of time and money.

#28: At the young age of 19, Daniela V. Fernandez founded Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) as a college-room idea. Five years later, she has built SOA into a global organization that is cultivating and accelerating innovative solutions to protect and sustain the health of the ocean. With phenomenal speed, SOA has created the world’s largest network of young ocean leaders - through establishing a presence in over 50 countries, launching the first-ever Ocean Solutions Accelerator to support ocean start-ups.

Daniela has been recognized for her work by former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, President Bill Clinton, and EU Commissioner Karmenu Vella. Daniela is also a contributor to National Geographic and has been interviewed by Voice of America, New York City TV, and Ocean Radio, and has been a panel and keynote speaker at multiple high-level events including: The Economist World Ocean Summit, United Nations, Net Impact Conference, U.S. Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Collision Conference, Sustainable Brands Conference and World Ocean Festival

In this episode, Daniela speaks about:

1. The most important activities you can participate in to help shape our future

2. The current state of climate control

3. How she plans on accelerating 100 ocean companies in the next 3 years

4. The struggles with paving the way in a new industry.

5. and Key Conversations that helped make SOA what it is today.

#27: As a young college kid, Luke built a 4,000 person business of predominantly young people inside the health and wellness industry, which was racking him around 30-40gs a month. What I found so interesting back then was how Luke was a master at creating an electrifying culture that was magnetic in nature. He has this phenomenal ability to make you believe you can achieve whatever you want and have fun doing it. Later in his career, Luke went on to actually start his own company inside of direct sales doing bucket list activities which for those who understand the industry is by far no easy task.

I was particularly interested in Luke’s most recent traditional business, Invigor8 which founded by an incredible team of entrepreneurs.

Luke went deep into topics such as:

1. How to master the day by Mastering your Calendar

2. The process of becoming the best version of yourself

3. How anyone can become an influencer

4. Mastering your Daily activities

5. and Building a Sass Company with your friends