Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur who by his 35th birthday became a self-made cash millionaire after selling two multi-million businesses, before losing it all trying to become an angel investor.

When Mike announced to his family that they were financially wiped out, his daughter ran upstairs and offered to give her piggy bank to support the family, tears came running down his face.

That was the most humbling moment for Mike as he realised he simply couldn’t ignore the biggest problems he had avoided up until now.

After some serious business soul searching while going through functional depression and getting over his financial heart attack, he made the commitment to dig his head out of the sand and help fix the entrepreneurial problems he experienced and realised he knew very little about.

That’s when he asked himself if he had all the money in the world, what would he most like to do? And if he had no money in the world (which he did) what would he want to do to generate income. The crossroad answer became clear: become an author.

It was a crazy dream, but thirteen years later, Mike is a best selling small business author of six books (Surge, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Pumpkin Plan, Profit Firsts, Clockwork and Fix This Next) and is on a mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.

He’s also a former Wall Street Journal small business columnist and business makeover specialist on MSNBC.

Today Mike is passionate about making the complex entrepreneurial problems simple, and as a shareholder of four companies, he uses his companies to further the teaching of his books and uses them as guinea pigs for future book ideas.

Mark

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Today's guest on The Unconventionalists podcast is Grant Baldwin, creator of The Speaker Lab and author of The Successful Speaker who generated $2million in speaker fees as a professional public speaker.  

Grant and his team are on a mission to empower thousands of speakers around the world to get booked and paid to speak, be it on stages or online.  

In this first special episode of "In Between Seasons", we dive into the most common mistakes budding speakers make when trying to land speaking gigs.  

We also dive into the reality of growing a business from scratch and how that feeling of feast and famine never really goes away, no matter how big your company gets.  

Grant shares some personal anecdotes and opens up about the reality of being in the business of speaking as well as shares his biggest wish for everyone listening.

As always I'd love to hear your biggest takeaway and any follow up questions you might have.

Mark

-Founder & CEO at The Unconventionalists

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In today’s special episode of The Unconventionalists podcast, host Mark Leruste shares an exciting announcement of a new limited season of the show being launched entitled “In Between Seasons”. 

Mark will be sitting down with inspiring guests from around the world to tackle some of the biggest challenges and questions entrepreneurs and business leaders are facing in today's new world, to put themselves and their message out there.

From the fear of exposure, to the need of being seen, get ready for an exciting line up of world-class guests.

Mark also shares a personal anecdote of a hard lesson learned and why we are all in this together, learning as we go along.

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This special bonus episode of The Unconventionalists podcast was recorded a month ago, just before the Coronavirus outbreak in the UK. I hesitated to release it since the world has changed so much since then. But then again, I realised that this episode was a celebration of all that you helped me achieve in 2019-2020. That's right, in this special bonus episode I share with you the the ups and downs of what has turned out to be quite the year thanks to your incredible help and support. Thank you, Mark x

What’s it like to have the lives of refugees in your hands aged just 20? Mark Leruste interviews Leti Galdón Co-Founder of social startup PAZ about how her early experience finding lost refugees convinced her that empathy is the key to bringing refugees and business together to solve new problems.

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These three questions may change your life. Mark Leruste interviews The Unconventionalists podcast veteran David Baker about why vulnerability, emotional intelligence, honesty and community are key tools for the future of work and life.

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Would you run 100 miles across a frozen Mongolian lake? Mark Leruste sits down with army veteran, speaker and mother Rachel Forbes to unpick the guilt and joy of #FindingTime to do something that matters to you. If making more time for yourself and the things you want to do are on your priority hit list for 2020, then you're going to love this week's episode of The Unconventionalists!

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