The Unshackled Owner

It’s important to have a plan and to find something you can fall in love with. Laverne and RJ Cox both found a neighborhood that meant something to them and saw that it wasn’t being realized for what it could be. After searching for opportunities and making a few missteps, they finally found a way to go out and revitalize struggling neighborhoods and make a difference for the people. Laverne and RJ Cox talks about how it all began for Evergreen Investment Realty. RJ is a Georgia real estate broker with over twenty years’ experience in the asset, and investment brokerage management industry. Laverne co-founded Evergreen Investment Realty with RJ, and is a graduate of Baruch College with a MBA in Organizational Management with a specialization in Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor’s in Finance from Hofstra University.

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Scott Utterback moved away from his family to start his construction business at twelve years old. Since then, there have been countless stories and lessons learned on his entrepreneurial journey. For the sake of education, Scott took on job positions people didn’t want just so he would learn things, demonstrating that there is not one path to educational success. Soon enough, he became a general contractor and went into retail which added a whole new dimension. Scott talks about constructing value in entrepreneurship and stresses the importance of seeking education and opportunities to identify the real a condition of your industry. This allows us to restart a conversation that will allow us to not only make not a difference in our own company but a difference in the industry itself.

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So many people get scammed by the educational system. The things that we’re taught to do – to do the right thing, to be a good student, to excel in so many ways so that we can go on and make a great living, have a great life, and retire with some wealth and live out the last part of our lives with a vineyard and touring around Europe or whatever you’re doing – is all a bunch of baloney. Most people are living hand to mouth, struggling paycheck to paycheck, and a ton of those people have college degrees. While there is very low unemployment right now in the United States, most people say they feel under-employed. We see a greater and greater disparity between the rich and the poor. If you’re on that linear track to nowhere, get off of it. Look at the world differently and figure out what your superpower is. Don’t get caught up in the scam that somebody else is trying to feed you so that they can build their business.

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Benjamin Franklin once said, “Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today.” Benjamin Franklin who was very successful in so many ways understood the importance of getting stuff done. Procrastination is a well-understood skill of most entrepreneurs. It’s also one that can really get you into hot water fast. There’s a lot of stuff that we, as entrepreneurs, tend to want to delay in doing. When we procrastinate management decisions, when we procrastinate things that maybe we as the leaders see as silly or stupid, what happens is our teams can start feeling like we don’t care, that maybe they better take it into their own hands. You have a constituency that you’re responsible for. Don’t let that constituency suffer because you’re delaying. Whatever our station is, be the best you can be and a big part of that is don’t delay.

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What makes an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurs see the world differently. It’s like they’re putting on a different lens and when they look around, they don’t see all the clutter and all the mess. They see the lack and the need, something that’s not being done well, or there’s something that people want. Happy Days star Anson Williams discusses identifying true entrepreneurial spirit, being “in” your business rather than “of” it, how to find opportunities all around you, and the attitude it takes to make true progress with what you have right now.

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For Barry Shore, founder and CEO of Dlyted, believes imparting anything to anybody listening is a key strategy in life and success. Just as Uber has transformed transportation and Airbnb has transformed hospitality, Dlyted is transforming philanthropy. Dlyted enables you to shop, earn and give effortlessly to your favorite cause by using e-gift cards. Dlyted is the result of Barry’s fight and recovery from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder that left him a quadriplegic. Through resilience and determination, Barry was able to walk again and live a full and satisfying life full of love and peace.

From the time she was a teenager, Jennifer Baker has been focusing on income and started researching what she wanted to do in college. She was a writer who has written for a lot of literary magazines, and thought she was going to pursue journalism until she started looking at it from a monetary standpoint and realized she could never live in that modest income. Jennifer has always been good at resetting life to suit her goals. She went into court reporting, instead of journalism, and afterwards joined the gaming industry. She built her way up from there into being a casino executive and ran the largest gaming company in the world. From the outside, it looked like she had everything under control, but underneath she was paddling upstream. Under all that stress and health issues, she decided to turn her life around. She pivoted her focus to turning companies around and helping them become more efficient so they can stay alive and survive the economy. Discover how Jennifer was able to hit the reset button on her life and left her executive level position in the Casino industry to fulfill her true passion and purpose and be who she was supposed to be to help others find, understand, and achieve their true success.

Stepping up and into the footsteps of your father is one of the biggest challenges for a young entrepreneur, let alone that her father is a business icon. Amanda Holmes, CEO of Chet Holmes International, decided to step into her destiny and chose to stay the course of continuing the legacy of service. Her father instilled in her the importance of following her dreams and putting family first. She was a reluctant entrepreneur until she heard the clients and really listened with her heart. Through soul-searching and meditation, she learned to serve people the same way her father did. Amanda shares how following her heart played a big part in doubling the sales of her company ever since she took over.

Disruption happens when you are ahead of the curve. But this doesn’t mean you get to be in that position once an idea sparks. Amilya Antonetti believes that innovating strategically creates disruption as well as develops a confidence that tells you that you can start things without people telling you to. She sees that this constant is in every person, giving them opportunities no matter what industry they are in. Learn how this internal framework can become your drive to start making things happen.

Our lives aren’t supposed to be static. We either aspire to be someone or aspire to be someone different. With teaching and counselling as the common denominators of his life, Adam Markel closed his law offices in New Jersey and Manhattan to experience a massive life pivot that connects business and spirituality. As a transformational speaker, Adam teaches people to acknowledge that tug in their hearts and be something more than just a lawyer, a doctor or a teacher. His best-selling book Pivot inspires people to wake up in the morning, be grateful and love their lives. Learn how the status quo leads to stagnation and why failure is not the enemy.