The James Harrisson Show

How James Swanwick sold $1 Million of glasses in less than a year What you'll learn from this interview: 1) How James took his business from zero to $1 Million+ sales in less than a year 2) What James learned from paying $25k USD to be personally mentored by Tai Lopez 3) Why James left a successful journalism career to pursue entrepreneurship and how he made this transition My guest today is James Swanwick. He's the co founder of Swanwick Sleep which is a sleep brand that helps people look good, feel great and sleep better. He's also the founder of 30 day no alcohol challenge which teaches social drinkers how to quit booze for 30 days James originally had a successful career as a print, TV and radio journalist. At one point he was a Hollywood entertainment correspondent where he interviewed Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and many more A list celebrities. He was also a host for SportsCentre on ESPN In 2015 he had an idea for a physical product business and founded Swanwick Sleep with his brother Tristan and grew it from zero to $1 Million+ in sales within 12 months I wanted to bring James on the show to find out how he launched Swanwick Sleep, how he grew it so quickly and what his plans for the business are now IG: @jamesswanwick W: https://jamesswanwick.com/ https://www.swanwicksleep.com/ http://30daynoalcoholchallenge.com/

How Ryan Lindsey is helping disrupt the UK car insurance industry with Cuvva

IG: @the.fitness.hippie

Daily Prompt: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/daily-prompt/id1448668946?mt=8

What you'll learn from this interview:

• Why the best business ideas mean nothing unless you have good execution and distribution
• What Ryan learned from 6 years of failed business attempts, and how those failures actually prepared him for his successes today
• What he's learned from being employee number 5 at Cuvva (now 60+ employees), an insurtech startup that's disrupting the car insurance industry
• Why you'll never "make it", and it's more important to focus on the journey instead

My Guest today is Ryan Lindsey. Ryan has a diverse range of experiences, he's built an online personal fitness brand, a wholesale fruit and veg business, a cooked breakfast delivery company, written 2 books and even built a meditation app

Today he's a data analyst at Cuvva, which is a UK based insurtech startup, disrupting the car insurance space by offering car insurance on demand for infrequent drivers

I wanted to bring Ryan on the show to discuss what he's learned from his past business ventures, what it's like working at a company disrupting an industry as archaic as the car insurance space, and what his plans for the future are.

How Robert James Collier built a business around hosting dinners on yachts and at private villas

IG: @robertjamescollier

W: https://entrepreneursdinner.com/

What you'll learn from this interview:

• The problem Robert saw with most networking events, and how he was able to disrupt this broken model
• How he was nearly sued for $40k which almost derailed his business before it even began
• How Robert was able to give a TEDx talk, and his advice for being a better speaker
• What Robert learned from various spiritual experiences including a 10 day silent meditation retreat, and an ayahuasca journey

My guest today is Robert James Collier, an entrepreneur and TEDx speaker based in Dallas Texas.

As entrepreneurs and businesspeople, we all know the value of cultivating a strong network, and early in his career Robert saw this too. He was attending a lot of networking events, but saw a big problem with these, they were all about slinging business cards and taking from other people.

Out of growing frustration from attending these transactional events, Robert founded Entrepreneurs Dinner, a unique event which brings together a highly curated group of like minded entrepreneurs who are looking to serve. Attendees help each other overcome their biggest business challenges while enjoying a dinner prepared by private chefs. These events take place anywhere from private villas to yachts, and attendees walk away having built lifelong friendships and business connections.

He has helped over 100 entrepreneurs to accelerate their business success by gaining greater emotional clarity to fulfill their vision, meeting 1-2 life-changing mentors per quarter, and developing long-term partnerships to reach their financial goals even faster.

He has shared the same platform with Former President Bill Clinton, Tony Robbins and Richard Branson.

I wanted to bring Robert on the show to discuss how he started and grew Entrepreneurs Dinner, what separates these events from regular networking events, and find out what's next for him

How Alex Ikonn launched, grew and sold Luxy Hair

IG: @alexikonn

YT: Alex Ikonn

Podcast: The Ikonns

What you'll learn from this interview:

• How Alex launched, grew and sold a 7 figure business selling hair extensions
• Why he started to get depressed despite living the literal 4 hour work week, traveling the world and buying his dream car, and what he learned from this experience
• Why money doesn't solve all our problems, it just creates different problems and what we really need to find fulfilment
• Why we're currently living through the biggest shift in commerce and capitalism ever, and how to take advantage of that

My guest today is Alex Ikonn, an entrepreneur and investor based in London UK.

In 2008 Alex was on track to become an investment banker at one of Canada's big 4 banks, but a series of events changed this trajectory and he ended up unemployed, broke, surviving on Government benefits.

Inspired by the 4 hour work week and wanting to build a lifestyle business, Alex saw a gap in the hair extension market and founded Luxy Hair with his now wife Mimi and her sister Leyla

What started as a $20k investment from a personal line of credit grew over the next 8 years to a premium beauty lifestyle company with over 250 thousand customers in 165+ countries. Luxy Hair grew largely from social media including their YouTube channel which has 3.2+ million subscribers, half a billion views, and is the world's largest hair channel. Luxy Hair has also been ranked in the top 2% of the best places to work in Canada. In late 2018 Alex successfully exited from this business when it was acquired by Beauty Industry Group

Alex is also the co founder of Intelligent Change which is the company behind the Five Minute Journal and Productivity Planner, and he's also an angel investor in many startups including the meditation app Calm

I wanted to bring Alex on the show to find out how he started and grew Luxy Hair, what he's learned from starting and building numerous successful companies, and what's next for him now that he has exited Luxy Hair

How this introvert sold $600+ Million in her corporate sales role, and took her own coaching business from zero to 6 figures in 6 months with Susan McVea

FREE gift from Susan (6 figures in 6 months mind map): https://www.susanmcvea.com/show

W: https://www.susanmcvea.com/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/successfulsalesstrategies/

IG: @susanmcvea

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) How Susan stumbled into a corporate sales role and went from shy introvert to selling $600+ million over an 18 year career

2) How a life threatening car accident forced her to reassess her life and prioritise her health and family, and how she got through this dark period

3) The one thing she does differently to most that helped take her coaching business from zero to 6 figures in 6 months, and stay consistently at multi 6 figures since then

4) Why selling is a crucial skill for all business owners that is learnable and doesn't have to be sleazy

5) How she helped 30+ of her own clients go from sales novices to 7 figure sales in their own businesses

Plus heaps more!

My guest today is Susan McVea, she is a business sales strategist and coach. She helps online service based entrepreneurs sell with more ease and less sleaze with a proven step-by-step sales process that makes her clients money and gets them serving even more of their dream clients.

In her 18 years of corporate sales experience, she's generated over $600 million in sales. She has built a business from scratch going from ZERO to $15 million in 18 months. She's also helped 30+ of her own clients go from ZERO to 7 figure sales in their own business.

Susan is passionate about helping her clients grow their businesses without sacrificing their family time or health as she knows first hand the challenges around balancing these things.

I wanted to bring Susan on the show to find out how she thinks about sales, how she was able to excel in a sales role as an introvert who wasn't a natural, how a life threatening car accident caused her to reassess her priorities, and how she grew her own consulting business.

How to build a business around travelling the world and going on crazy adventures with Chase Boehringer

W: https://www.thebucketlistlifestyle.com/

IG: @the_bucketlist_lifestyle

FB: https://www.facebook.com/chase.boehringer

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) How Chase built a business around travelling the world and going on crazy adventures

2) Why pain can be the most powerful force for change in our life, and whether we need to experience deep pain to make big changes

3) Why the opposite of fulfilment is being "just fine", and why Chase would take trauma over being "just fine" any day

4) Why we don't need to drop everything in order to live a life of adventure

Plus heaps more!

My guest today is Chase Boehringer. Growing up in a small town in Oregon, Chase was expected to graduate high school, get married and land a job at the local plywood mill. Chase accomplished this at a young age, but despite achieving this idea of "success" he fell into a deep depression, divorced from his wife and even planned to commit suicide.

It was at that point that he started writing his bucket list. A list of things he never thought he'd be able to do, but wrote them down anyway. Over the next few years he slowly began ticking these items off his list and the adventure and experiences he was having started to bring meaning back into his life.

Eventually Chase wanted to start sharing these adventures with others and created The Bucketlist Lifestyle, a company that brings together select groups of people for once in a lifetime "Bucketlist-worthy" adventures

I wanted to bring Chase on the show to find out what it was like to achieve the life others wanted for him, and discovering it wasn't what he wanted, how he got through that dark period, and how he built up The Bucketlist Lifestyle.

How to have a conscious and fulfilling relationship

Angie Sanchez

IG: @iamangiesanchez

W: https://www.angiesanchez.life/

Rob Reynosa

IG: @robreynosa_ & @thinc_

W: https://www.thereisnoceiling.com/

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) The one thing we need to make sure is aligned going into a relationship, otherwise it's doomed from the start

2) Why masculine and feminine energy is different to your gender, and why it's key that we learn how to move between the two

3) Why the most intelligent and successful people have high sex drive, and how to channel it into creative outlets

4) Why we need to focus on becoming what we want in a relationship

Plus heaps more!

My guests today are Rob Reynosa and Angie Sanchez. They're a real power couple who I previously interviewed separately on the podcast. One of the topics we discussed in both these interviews was relationships, as both Rob and Angie have some fascinating insights and thoughts in this area

The reason I found their perspectives fascinating is because both of them have such a deep understanding not only of themselves individually, but how their personalities and actions affect their relationship together

The other reason is because they're both super busy entrepreneurs doing big things whilst still maintaining a healthy productive relationship

I wanted to bring them on the show again together to discuss the circumstances where someone should be single or in a relationship, whether a relationship is something that slows them down in their business life, and how they balance their relationship as two alphas

How what started as a tactic to avoid business failure led to a thriving community of entrepreneurs with Aidan Vuocolo

W: https://aidanvuocolo.com/

IG: @aidanvoc & @storiesbehindthegrind

Podcast: http://go.behindthegrind.com.au/podcast

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) The effect growing up in an environment of entrepreneurship had on Aidan, and what he learned from his first business venture (hiring out his pencil sharpener to fellow students in second grade)

2) How he overcame preconceived notions of who other people thought he should be, and how he broke limiting beliefs around his height

3) How he motivated himself to start a podcast and do videos despite being an introvert who doesn't like talking or being on camera

4) What he's learned from interviewing and distilling the knowledge and wisdom of 270+ successful entrepreneurs

5) Why after 7 years of planning and preparing to open his own cafe he decided not to, and why we need to be open to pivoting and not see it as failure

Plus heaps more!

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My guest today is Aidan Vuocolo. From a young age Aidan grew up around small businesses and always had an interest in entrepreneurship

Spending the last 15 years working in various businesses, from medical centres and engineering firms, to cafes and retail stores, he saw first hand the sobering trend that most small businesses fail within 3 years

Wanting to avoid becoming a part of this statistic in his own ventures, Aidan sought out business owners in various fields so he could learn from their experience, successes and failures

Eventually this pursuit of knowledge evolved into Stories Behind the Grind, a platform he created where he has interviewed over 270 entrepreneurs around the world, allowing others to see where their businesses started from, challenges they overcame and advice they have for those interested in pursuing a career in their industry

He also now works with small business owners to simplify, strategise and scale up the impact they are having

I wanted to bring Aidan on the show to discuss his journey with entrepreneurship, how he built up Stories Behind the Grind, and what he's learned from interviewing almost 300 successful business owners

From clinical depression, unfulfilling career and an eating disorder to building a thriving coaching business with Angie Sanchez

IG: @iamangiesanchez

W: https://www.angiesanchez.life/

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) How Angie went from feeling stuck in a job she hated, 40 pounds overweight and suffering from clinical depression, to building her own thriving coaching business helping others reach their potential

2) Why she looks back on her darkest times with immense gratitude

3) Why emotional agility and EQ are the most important skills you never learned in school

4) Why money is something that is created, not earned, and why we need to focus on getting paid for value not time

5) The one mindset shift that took public speaking from her biggest fear to one of her biggest strengths

Plus heaps more!

My guest today is Angie Sanchez, a health and lifestyle coach based in Miami Florida. Angie has had a number of challenges and setbacks she's had to overcome, including an unfulfilling career, a life threatening car accident, clinical depression and an eating disorder.

She says she knows firsthand what it's like to feel unconventional, lost, stuck, depressed, not knowing your potential, or the tools that are necessary for growth and change. Because she was in this position herself, it's become her mission to provide these tools to clients, help them overcome their own challenges and reach their potential.

I wanted to bring Angie on the show to discuss how she overcame her own challenges and what she learned from them, how she built up her coaching business, and how exactly she helps her clients reach their potential.

How to raise $370,000 and take a clothing brand from zero to 7 figures in less than 12 months with Dan Demsky

IG: @dandemsky & @unboundmerino

W: www.unboundmerino.com

What you'll learn from this interview:

1) How Dan raised $370k from a crowdfunding campaign and took his company from zero to 7 figures in 12 months

2) Why timing is one of the biggest factors in business success that no one talks about

3) Why sales is the most important word in business

Plus heaps more!

My guest today is Dan Demsky. Dan is a Toronto based entrepreneur with an impressive track record. 11 years ago he started his first business from his mum's basement and since then he's founded a 6 figure company, 2x 7 figure businesses, and was a partner in an 8 figure business. He was able to raise $370k from a crowdfunding campaign for his latest business, and grew it to 7 figures in less than a year.

His Latest business is Unbound Merino, a clothing brand providing stylish, simple Merino wool apparel that can be worn for weeks or even months - without ever needing to be washed which is perfect for travelling

I wanted to bring Dan on the show to find out what he's learned from building multiple businesses over the past decade, how he's been able to consistently succeed in his ventures, and most importantly find out whether he actually wore the same T Shirt for 46 days in a row without washing it when he was testing materials for his new clothing line

Resources:

Reddit posts

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/63gzyn/after_raising_over_360000_on_indiegogo_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/4uexyw/9_years_after_starting_my_first_biz_in_my_moms/