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Toptimizers episodes
- Stay Humble, Be Open Minded with Nicholle Overkamp
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Nicholle Overkamp about overcoming obstacles in life and business. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Nicholle Overkamp
- Nicholle became an entrepreneur almost immediately after college
- Owner of PowHERhouse Coaching, Wilcox Financial Group, and author of Money Bitch
- PowHERhouse Money Coaching
- Be resilient and open to opportunity during the pandemic - a pandemic just speeds up what was already in motion
- PoweHERhouse focuses on real financial planning rather than just pushing sales
- Licensed financial advisers and fee based financial planning combined create the holistic model of PowHERhouse
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Accepting the mindset of success and financial freedom for women can be more extreme than for men
- What does it take to create the confidence needed to become successful?
- Be confident enough in yourself to ask for help where you need it
- When you stop learning your start failing
- Stay Humble, Be Open Minded
- It’s okay to coast if you’re really and truly happy otherwise keep challenging yourself and facing those fears to move forward
- Accept the fact that you will fail and be okay with it
Resources:
PowHERhouse Instagram
PowHERhouse Facebook
Wilcox Financial Group Facebook
Wilcox Financial Group Website
Money Bitch Book
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app32 min - Introduction
- Drop the Need for Routine with Jackie Bertolette
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Jackie Bertolette about her journey into entrepreneurship through unconventional times. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Jackie Bertolette
- From corporate to stay at home mom to entrepreneur
- Haute Ohio Magazine
- Ohio and Midwest talent in the fashion industry
- Using low self-esteem to build a fashion brand empire - a lifelong journey
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Sometimes you need that outside perspective to push you in the direction of your dreams
- Being self-employed gives Jackie the flexibility she needs to homeschool her son and work on her business
- Even though becoming an entrepreneur wasn’t planned, the reward of being able to give back is 100% worth it
- Drop the Need for Routine
- Being an entrepreneur requires a level of flexibility
- Be honest with yourself about what your shortcomings are - learn to outsource what you don’t want to or can’t do
- You may not understand the path you’re taking but things will happen as they should
Resources:
Haute Ohio Website
Haute Ohio Facebook
Haute Ohio Instagram
Haute Ohio Twitter
Haute Ohio Youtube
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Get in Touch:
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app17 min - Introduction
- Stop Answering Questions with Mad Singers
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Mads Singers about the importance of good management to ensure business success. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Mads Singers
- Having a great manager put Mads on the path to entrepreneurship
- Mads Singers Management Coaching
- Helping new business owners or management teams learn how to manage a team and a company
- Helping to reduce the amount of physical work needed - from 60 hours a week to a manageable work week
- If you’re working in something you should be living it - Mads also runs a virtual assistant business and a media publishing business
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Remote work is one of the biggest trends right now - if you’re a bad manager then going remote is going to hurt your team and productivity
- Companies will be able to hire the best people rather than the closest with the remote work trend
- Choose a specific niche to get started so that you can become proficient before growing
- Don’t forget yourself in your entrepreneurial process - make sure that you take care of yourself just as much as you take care of your business
- assistant business and a media publishing business
- Stop Answering Questions
- When you start hiring staff, stop answering questions
- Don’t get hung up on the power of managing others - don’t be the bottleneck
Resources:
Mads Singers Website
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Get in Touch:
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app39 min - Introduction
- Build a Business You Could Sell with Creighton Wong
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Creighton Wong about building the mindset needed to become an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Creighton Wong
- Running a business as a digital nomad
- A former attorney in California but switched paths to entrepreneurship when the economy dropped and jobs were hard to come by
- Exponential Clients
- Helping businesses scale their operations
- More people are looking to take control of their financial situation through entrepreneurship
- There’s a gap between those businesses who are struggling from COVID and those who are exploding
- Consumers care about where they spend their money and who they spend it with
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- Be really honest with yourself and your relationship with money - grit and perseverance are the keys to becoming a successful entrepreneur
- Build a business as if you’re going to sell or franchise it - create systems as you go to understand how your business works and operates
- The skills needed for entrepreneurship can be innate or learned so long as you have the desire to make it happen
- Entrepreneurs will trade a 40 hour week to work 100 hours a week so balancing family life can be a little challenging
- Learn to balance all aspects of your life as you start your entrepreneurial journey in order to be at peak performance for your business
- The First Step is the Easiest
- The mindset to start day 1 is not the same that you need for every other day
- Pick the one thing you can do today to move the needle forward and make today a good day
Resources:
Creighton Linkedin
Creighton Website
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Get in Touch:
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app40 min - Introduction
- Be Patient, Be Present, Be Joyful with Ryan Stanley
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Ryan Stanley about being the creator of your own life and building yourself into the best version of you that you can be. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Ryan Stanley
- Being an entrepreneur is like being an artist - you start off with a blank canvas and end up with something beautiful
- Working with startups helped spark an interest in entrepreneurship
- MLM helped with building networking skills as a young entrepreneur
- Ryan went from owning a daycare to owning an artist management company and finally into coaching
- Ryan Stanley
- Helping people become the best version of themselves they can be
- IPEC certified life coach - worked with IPEC for a time and moved back into his own business
- Working with organizations and individuals
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What made you decide to become an entrepreneur?
- What kind of trends are you seeing in your industry right now?
- Don’t let fear hold you back - fear lies
- Get clear on who you’re spending your time with - friends, family, information from the internet - and spend time watching and learning from those who inspire you and already do what you want to do
- Entrepreneurship takes patience just like any new skill - learn from every day’s activities and keep getting better
- Learn to adapt in life and business - you may have an idea what path you want to travel but be open to change and new possibilities
- What advice would you give your past self? Be less concerned with what others think of you and focus on what you can do for your future self
- Be intentional in everything that you do - whether you’re working, spending time with family, connecting with friends
- Lesson for Entrepreneurs
- Decide who you want to be and go be it
- Don’t let what others think or your past define what you can be
- Work every day toward being the best you can be
- Be a creator, create patience, create presence, create joy, keep going
Resources:
https://www.ryanstanley.com/
https://www.ryanstanley.com/be-patient-be-present-be-joyful
https://teachmetosell.com/
https://www.facebook.com/RMS.Life.Coach/
https://twitter.com/RMS_RyanStanley
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmslifecoach/
https://www.instagram.com/rms_ryanstanley/
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
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www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app43 min - Redefining Home Field Advantage with Kristen Fulmer
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Kristen Fulmer about sustainability in architecture and building your network. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Kristen Fulmer
- Kristen was born to parents that loved sustainability and sports
- Sustainability and architecture in undergrad and graduate schools
- Sustainability and consulting for strategies in sustainability within architecture
- Recipric
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship due to the WeWork collapse
- How did you come up with the idea for Recipric?
- What does sustainability in sports really mean?
- Health is a huge trend this year in our unprecedented times which includes sustainability within businesses and buildings
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- How are you balancing your time, family life, and timing of opening your business?
- What advice would you give aspiring entrepreneurs that may have something holding them back?
- Do you feel that passion in your business is essential to keep you going?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give to your future self?
- Successful Virtual Networking
- Reach out to those who are more successful than you
- There’s no such thing as a bad connection
- Linkedin is a powerful tool for connecting either for new jobs, new contracts, or general networking
- Utilize the current situation to your advantage of people being more willing to meet new people and socialize virtually
- Be human and make it conversational rather than overly salesy
- Focus on the other person rather than yourself
Resources:
Recipric Website
Recipric on Instagram
Recipric on Twitter
Recipric on Linkedin
Kristen’s Forbes Article
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app37 min - Introduction
- Personality Isn't Permanent with Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Dr. Benjamin Hardy about personality, why personality tests are harmful, and how you are in control of defining your personality. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Dr. Hardy
- The journey to writing Personality Isn’t Permanent
- Personality
- Personality tests can be harmful to your mental health
- Taking on labels through tests or diagnosis
- How personality tests almost prevented his marriage
- Past decisions have brought you to where you are now but new decisions can move you in a new direction
- What’s the best way to make radical changes in your life?
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- How do you make the mental change to become a business owner?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
Resources:
Buy Personality Isn’t Permanent
Benjamin Hardy Website
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app54 min - Introduction
- Always Be Willing To Try with Donna Egbulem
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Donna about using external resources to make your visions turn into a reality. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Donna
- Working in Uganda for care, treatment, and prevention of HIV
- The impact of COVID-19 on advocacy efforts in Uganda
- Sproutly Support Services
- Adopting self-development strategies
- CV and resume review to quantify employment impact
- Dealing with trends of entrepreneurs losing work and needing to find employment for the first time in years.
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- How do you balance your full time job with business ownership?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
Resources:
Sproutly Support Services Website
Sproutly Support Services on Linkedin
Sign up for Virtual Networking Events
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app34 min - Introduction
- Roll With The Punches - Because There Will Be Punches with Casey Jourdan
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Casey Jourdan about rolling with the punches, because there are punches, and growing along the way. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Casey Jourdan
- Joining the military pre-9/11
- Deploying to and getting injured in Iraq
- Disabled women veteran advocacy
- Deciding to move and become a business owner
- Casey’s Business
- Working with small businesses and solo-preneurs
- Helping businesses grow
- Being a cheerleader/troubleshooter for business owners
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- What trends are you seeing right now with everything we’re going through?
- What mental change did you have to go through to become a business owner?
- How do you deal with imposter syndrome?
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
Resources:
Casey Jourdan Instagram
Casey Jourdan Website
Sign up for Virtual Networking Events
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
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www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
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---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app30 min - Introduction
- Don't Let Fear Hold You Back with Tatum Skipper
Welcome to Toptimizers. The show designed to help you optimize your business to the top. Join us today to talk with Tatum Skipper about how she decided to break away from a perfectly planned life to live a gypsy life as an entrepreneur. We hope to see you at the top!
What to expect in today’s show:
- Introduction
- Meet Tatum Skipper
- From med school to social media
- Just say yes to everything
- Taking risks leads to big rewards
- Bon Voyage Babes
- Taking the leap into entrepreneurship
- Travel planning
- Overcoming fear through travel and adventure
- Life as an Entrepreneur
- 3 F word mindset exercise
- What advice would you give future entrepreneurs?
- What advice would you give your past self?
- What advice would you give your future self?
Resources:
Bon Voyage Babes Website
Bon Voyage Babes on Instagram
Bon Voyage Babes on Facebook
Sign up for Virtual Networking Events
Be a Guest on the Show
Get in Touch:
www.toptimizers.com
www.facebook.com/toptimizers
www.linkedin.com/toptimizers
www.instagram.com/toptimizers
www.pinterest.com/toptimizers
www.youtube.com/toptimizers
---This episode is sponsored by· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app39 min - Introduction
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