Are you a part of the minority that will change the world? You will get 99 no’s before that first yes. It is therefore necessary for you to have the right mindset that can propel you to success. This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Justin Breen to share strategies on how to build an epic business and having freedom while doing so. 

Tune in to this episode to learn how being different from everyone else can make you more successful!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Discover how to become a successful entrepreneur without sacrificing your freedom.
Learn how owning who you are will contribute to your success. 
Learn how to get to the highest level as an entrepreneur. 

 
Episode Highlights
Sharing The Same Entrepreneurial Mindset- 

Your business is a reflection of your mindset. 
Understanding who you are and who you aren’t removes that inner conflict. This understanding will allow you to have more clarity on who you should surround yourself with-people that share similar entrepreneurial mindsets. 

Owning Who You Are-

Justin shares that he was always like this, but did not realize it at first until he just started finding persons with similar mindsets who understood his perspective.
Do not feel uncomfortable when your mindset sets you apart from everyone else. 

How Does One Have Freedom While Building An Epic Business? 

Weed out the noise and focus on maintaining a successful business.
Understanding when “less is more” is crucial to your success.

Four Challenges All Entrepreneurs Must Overcome

Bankruptcy or Potential Bankruptcy
Depression
The Highest Level of Anxiety 
Traumatic experiences

First Step To Reaching Your Highest Level

Start by surrounding yourself with successful people. 
Find someone that can be a teacher or a mentor that provides coaching on how to become a successful entrepreneur. 
Here are four types of people you should surround yourself with if you want to be “Epic”:

Relentless workers that push you to want to work harder. 
Positive attitudes: people perform better at what they’re doing when they are happy with their job. 
People who ask questions: people who do this learn more and also provide a different outlook on situations. 
Dreamers: they understand that setting goals and working hard will help them to achieve the unachievable. To keep this drive going, you should always be surrounding yourself with people who have similar goals in mind. 

3 Powerful Quote from This Episode
“This is who I am, this is my game and I make the rules.”

“There are no excuses at the highest level.”

“It doesn’t matter where you are located. Doesn’t matter the vertical you’re in and it doesn’t matter how big the company you’re in. None of that matters. If you have the right mindset, it attracts the right network, creates the right opportunities.”

 
About Justin Breen
Justin is CEO of the PR firm BrEpic Communications and author of the No. 1 International Best-Selling Book, Epic Business. Justin is hard-wired to seek out and create viral, thought-provoking stories that the media craves. And he finds the best stories when he networks with visionary entrepreneurs and executives who understand the value of investing in themselves and their businesses. Justin believes strongly in the power of introductions and creates important relationships through those introductions. He is an extremely active member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Strategic Coach, and Abundance 360, and he has an incredible global network of visionaries and exceptional businesses.

The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

Have you ever thought about becoming a Franchisee? Are you ready to live the life of your dreams? Tune in to this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast as Kimberly Daly shares how we can build wealth and live the life of our dreams through franchising!Click To Tweet

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: 

Discover the benefits of franchising and learn how to build your wealth. 
Learn effective strategies on how to select what franchise is best for you. 
Learn the importance of having clear values and goals in becoming a franchisee. 

Resources
Free Consultation

 
Episode Highlights
What Is Franchising? 
It is a way for anybody who has a dream and wants a business, to own a business. 
How Do You Know What’s The Right Fit?

What can you afford?
How much are you willing to invest?
Fear of making money; fear of not making enough money
What are your income expectations?

Being A Franchisor- 

Consider why you wish to franchise your company?
Do the pros outweigh the cons of becoming a franchisor?

What To Look For When Trying To Identify A Franchise To Work With 

Franchises are awarded, not sold. 
One needs to focus on building a relationship, which includes:

Ensuring that the culture of the company matches the goals of the individual pursuing the franchise. 
Ensuring that you are taking on a franchise that you will be passionate about. 
Are you comfortable going out and networking your business? 

Wealth That Can Be Created In A Franchise
When we talk about wealth, coming into a franchise that you have leveraged, that you are not buying yourself a job or replacing a job for this business. It’s through the leverage of technology, people, a brand, marketing systems, that allow owners to come in as CEOs working on their businesses rather than in their businesses. 
Powerful Quote from This Episode
“Rich people have money. Wealthy people have time to spend their money”Click To Tweet
About Kim Daly
Kim has spent the last 20 years helping people achieve financial freedom by enabling them to find the perfect franchise opportunities. Her skill for matching a client’s background, interests, skills, finances, and life goals to the ideal opportunity has made her one of the top franchise consultants in the USA. Today, we are here to pick her brain and gain some insight into what can seem like a daunting process – deciding on the perfect franchise to enable you to gain financial freedom.

Curious about Kim’s work? Check out her website.

Have specific questions? You can reach out and follow Kim on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. 
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Are you ready to live your best life? Having a solid financial plan must be part of this journey.Click To Tweet There are several benefits to having a solid financial plan for your business, namely, it reinforces clear goals, allows for sensible cash flow management, smart budget allocation, necessary cost reduction, risk mitigation and provides a growth roadmap. 

In this episode, we are joined by Curtis May to discuss some winning wealth creation strategies and discuss four components of the ideal financial plan!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: 

Learn effective financial management strategies.
Learn how you can have financial freedom. 
Discover a financial plan that works under all circumstances!

Resources

Free report on How To Create Wealth Using The Velocity Of Money. Text “pwealth” to 55444. 

 
Episode Highlights
Who Is Curtis May? 
Curtis shares that he has been in business for 35 years. Passionate about his clients and helping them save money and be able to live their best life. He also shares that he is a third-generation business owner. At the age of 7, his father gave him business advice- “You’ll never make any money working for someone else”.
Four Main Objectives For Financial Management
Build Maximum Wealth-

Most people believe the key to investing is finding better rates – you will need to take on more risks. 
You will first need to create maximum efficiency with your money.
Grade yourself from 1-10 how you deal with cash flow, in your personal life and your business. Track your inflow and your outflow.

Wealth Transfers- 
Here are some questions you need to consider:

How is your mortgage paid?
How do you find retirement plans?

 Retirement plans defer taxes, more accurately they postpone the tax calculation.

 Ask yourself the question, “Do I think that in the future will my taxes be higher, lower, or the same?”
How do you pay for major capital purposes(anything you can’t pay for in full with monthly cash flow)? 
How will you fund college tuition?
You will need liquidity- looking for mass marketing things

 
Create A System That Will Transfer The Wealth That You Created

We want people to create legacies for generations to come. 

 
Have A Plan That Works Under All Circumstances

You have to diversify your way of making money and value the market space. 
You need to play defence – review your insurance, for example, life insurance. 
As you’re working and saving, what is your ultimate goal?
The key is to focus on buying assets that you can control. 

Five Key Areas In Financial Management

Save 15% of your gross income
Maximum Protection
Legacy
Establish Goals
The Velocity Method – buying assets that generate investment incomes

3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
“You have to be able to pivot, and learn how to serve people”

“Until you double your time off, you will not double your income”Click To Tweet

“Money follows value”
About Curtis May
Curtis is the host of The Practical Wealth Show Podcast and the creator and owner of Practical Wealth Advisors. Curtis has been planning for individuals for more than 35 years, and he is passionate about helping his clients save money and live the very best life they can right now. The primary focus of his financial planning firm is to help individuals and families become financially free by following the principles of wealth creation that have endured for centuries around the world.

Are you interested in becoming a successful self-employed business owner? Are you ready to start controlling your destiny? Statistics have shown that there are 582 million entrepreneurs across the world and there is room for more. Click To Tweet

Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by yours truly, Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow via this business podcast – the podcast for entrepreneurs in 2021 and beyond.

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Jeffrey Shaw to share business strategies that work for self-employed business owners and the personal development they need to increase their capacity for success.

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life as someone who is self-employed!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: 

Discover how to create a successful business and life!
Learn effective strategies that work in becoming successful as a self-employed business owner. 
Learn about the Self-Employed Ecosystem and you can benefit from it. 

Resources

The Self-Employed Bundle
Guide To Being An Awesome Podcast Guest 

 
Episode Highlights
Who is Jeffrey Shaw? 

Jeffrey shares that as a child he was extremely withdrawn, that he was afraid because at that time the world seemed like “this big scary place”.
He pointed out that he was the youngest of three boys who were the classic masculine with a domineering father figure and expressed how different he was from them. 
He pointed out that while he had all those emotions, fears, and feeling misplaced, some part of him knew that he was “awesome”.   
He expresses that we as humans are far more complex than we give ourselves credit for, but limit ourselves because of circumstances.
He also shares that there is no division between our business experiences and life experiences; they overlap and they both make us who we are. 

 
What Is The Self-Employed Ecosystem?

Maintaining that balance between our personal lives, our inner and outer world. When people can do something with their lives they grow further. You already have everything you need inside yourself to be great. 
Largely, the self-employed ecosystem is about who we are and personal development.
There are three essential components to being successful from being self-employed:

Personal Development 
Business Strategies
Daily Habits and Mindsets 

What the self-employed ecosystem does is that it creates the environment to make your success almost inevitable, and puts everything in place. 
The goal is to control what you can and manage what you can. 

 
What Does A Growth Mindset Look Like? 

Jeffrey shares that from a personal development standpoint a growth mindset is all about unblocking, as we are trying to increase capacity.
When looking at the growth mindset daily habits perspective, they are less about unblocking and more about moving forward. 
Jeffrey points out that he teaches his clients how to properly set their intentions as most people have not been taught a system on how to set intentions in their life in a way that really works. 
He shares that he teaches intentions through a system called “From-To”, where you highlight where you wish to go from, to. This allows us to reduce vague intentions to have more clear set actionable intentions for ourselves. 

Want to know how you can turn your life around? Are you in charge of your own destiny? Are you interested in becoming a successful entrepreneur? What does your next level look like? We all need to be able to touch our own next level! We all need to take that next step towards becoming a successful entrepreneur. Sometimes we overestimate that we can do everything and accomplish everything on our own- 76% of people think mentors are important, however, only 37% of people currently have one. Only 14% of mentor relationships started by asking someone to be their mentor. 61% of those relationships developed naturally. People with mentors are happier at their current jobs than those without.

Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow.

The Entrepreneurial You was recently named among the “Top 30 Entrepreneurship Podcast You Must Follow” by Feedspot.

This week my guest is Lisa Nichols and this episode was taped with a live audience a few weeks ago. Want to unleash the entrepreneur within you? Keep listening! When you are through listening, head over to henekawatkisporter.com for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

In this episode, we are joined by Lisa Nichols, the world’s most requested transformational speaker, to discuss how shining your light sets you apart from others. From a struggling mom on government plans to a multimillionaire entrepreneur, Lisa shares her story on how she had to give herself permission to heal so that her light could shine.Click To Tweet She speaks about growing up being a part of the Black community but no feeling as though she was good enough and how she had “climbed over” the belief system that something was wrong with her after going out into the world.   

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life as someone who is self-employed!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

Find out how you can stop limiting yourself from achieving greatness. 
Learn effective strategies on how you can feel more confident about yourself. 
Learn how to touch your own next level. 

 
Episode Highlights
Lisa’s Breakthrough- Giving Herself Permission

Lisa speaks about giving herself permission to heal from being a struggling single mom and having to be on government systems. 
She speaks about her journey from weighing over 200 pounds.
Lisa also speaks about her journey from not feeling comfortable in her own skin

 
Understanding What Your Next Level Looks Like-

Lisa shares that sometimes we won’t always have the capacity to see the version of ourselves that is yet to come so we have to accept that we won’t have the whole plan right away. 
You have to take advantage of all the online resources available to you as online learning has become quite popular.
Trust yourself to implement and then find the right coach for yourself.  
Touch Your Own Next Level
Even without clarity, I’m ready for it

Adjusting and Working On Your Light- 

We need to recognize when it is time for us to start learning something new. 
If you want to take yourself somewhere you’ve never gone, you will need someone else- sometimes we have to accept that we have taken ourselves as far as we can get on our own. 
Work with someone that is 10 to 20 steps ahead of you, someone you can study and learn from. 
Lisa points out that you should “Hook your caboose” t…

Have you ever wanted to ask a CEO and Harvard MBA all your burning business questions?  What about spending an hour with the smartest person you know?  April interviews Ahron Oddman, CEO of PSS, a former colleague, and client, and gets to do both! You don’t want to miss all the gems from the man who inspired April to start her company and introduced her to the term “Pouring In”.  

This week I am pleased to be partnering with my very good friend April Shprintz of the Pouring Into Your Business podcast for an episode swap. April has   been a guest on The Entrepreneurial You Podcast and I have also been a guest on her Pouring Into Your Business podcast.  When we first spoke I fell in love with her story of generosity which is what episode199 of The Entrepreneurial You podcast was all about.

In this episode, April speaks with Ahron Oddman about Harvard Secrets for Purchasing a Business.
In this episode, you’ll discover—

The most powerful way for you to impact 2021 personally and in business
How to research and buy a successful business to grow
Why your gut sometimes trumps all the data in the world

Resources
Think Big Buy Small available on Amazon!

 
Pouring Into Yourself & Your Business Highlights
Ahron Shares What He Learned In Business School About Acquiring a Business-

Ahron shares that he went to business school with no real expectations in it otherwise from technology. 
He pointed out that during grad school he had two professors, one of which yelled for over 20 minutes that “You guys are all supposed to be smart because you’re here in grad school but you guys are chasing the dumbest opportunities possible. What are the odds that any one of you will invent any one of these unicorn type companies.”
He shared that based on that discussion he stopped and reflected 
Ahron also points out that 75% of the battle is won or lost in what company you buy along with what price you pay for it. 
He also highlights that in buying a business, the closing process can take up to six months; the buyer and seller have to come to mutual terms and agreements.
Ahron shares that with COVID-19 came a massive amount of opportunities for business growth. He speaks that obstacles/challenges that come your way can present opportunities for your business to thrive in new ways. 

Criteria for What Type Of Business To Look For When Buying-

Look for businesses that are profitable
Look at the financial benchmarks; learn about the businesses’ finances
Establish customer base
Take into consideration whether there is a future market for the product/service that the company provides. 
Consider where and how that business impacts the world

 
Having The Right Mindset In Business-

Focus on self-development
Map out your goals both short and long-term
Create a mission worth spending your life on
Accept challenges
Be proactive
Be passionate about your business
You don’t need permission to be an entrepreneur

Business Advice from Ahron Oddman 
Guard your mindset; Now your rather our responsibility as leaders and those who know better is to go out and inspire others to take stock of their mindset and for us to influence with really positive ideas and impact other peoples’…Click To Tweet
3 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
“Take a stop and look back at the mountains that got you where you are,  because in some ways they helped to define who you are today”

“Being a great leader isn’t something we should take for granted”

“75% of the battle is won or lost in what company you buy along with what price you pay for it.”

Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow. Want to unleash the entrepreneur within you? Keep listening! When you are through listening, head over to henekawatkisporter.com for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

In this episode, we are joined by Matthew Woodard to discuss using search engine optimization to drive traffic and have massive growth.

Users trust search engines and having a presence in the top positions for the keywords the user is searching, increases the website’s trust. SEO is good for the social promotion of your website. SEO is important for the smooth running of a big website. The majority of search engine users, more than 70% are more likely to click on one of the top 5 suggestions in the search engine results pages (SERPS).Click To Tweet

Tune in to this episode to learn how to increase your website traffic and your sales!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: 

Learn how to increase your website traffic and sales. 
Discover what problems your website has and how you can fix them. 
Learn about what is missing from your website. 

Resources

To find out if your website has issues with low speed, check out this website at https://batchspeed.com/
If you are ready to take the next step to fix the problem you identified, check out this website at https://nitropack.io/
If you want to learn how to increase traffic to your website check out Matthew’s website at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/quick-win-seo/ – you’ll get a free copy of his internal SEO tool and step by step tutorial videos.
Want to learn a  strategy that Matthew has been using to build links, traffic, and authority with great success across the past 18 months check out his website at https://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/seo/link-building/podcast-jacking/. 
If you want to learn how to automate podcast bookings, check out this website at (provide the link that was sent in the chat during this episode)

Episode Highlights
Matthew Shares His Story- 
Matthews shares that he was always that kid that was trying to sell you something that you didn’t want. He mentions that he’s always had that entrepreneurial spirit, from washing cars to selling candy at school at high prices. All throughout his school years, he was naturally interested in the internet and building websites. He mentioned that at the age of 11 years old he did not have the full vision to build Youtube. Then he moved to jobs where he did supermarket and warehouse works. He ended up in the corporate world where he mentions that he had some great successes- where he was able to utilize all of his skills he acquired growing up. He shares that he was lucky to step into the corporate world with his level of web knowledge as that had been a continuous advantage for him. 
How Can I Increase My Website Traffic and Increase my Sales(Identify The Problem)-

The first thing you need to is to find out if I have a problem- what you will need to focus on is web speed- how fast your website loads. 
If your website is slow, it then leads to lower conversion rates, lower average order values, and lower revenue per visitor. However if your website is fast, higher conversion values and higher values for revenue generated per visitor. 
Matthew shares that for about three years Google has made site speed a ranking factor and will improve on that in May with what is called “core web vitals update”- in other words,

Are you feeling stuck in a rut? Feeling like you don’t know which direction to take? Want to learn how your business can maximize its profits? If you’ve ever felt “stuck,” you are not alone. Many of us experience this feeling at some point in our lives and for different reasons. 

A recent study has found that 69% of people feel trapped in the same old routine, and only 3 out of 10 people are happy with their lives. People are feeling stuck. Click To Tweet

Welcome to The Entrepreneurial You podcast, hosted by Heneka Watkis-Porter, the Jamaican podcast Queen, Author, international speaker, coach, and entrepreneur. Each week I feature a global, high-impact entrepreneur and leader to motivate, inspire and educate peak performers about international best practices to help their business scale and grow. This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Laura Noel to share about “Bridging The Gap Between Feeling Stuck And Finding Fulfillment.”

Keep listening! When you are through, head over to henekawatkisporter.com (if that’s not where you first found tis episode) for more episodes, blogs, and other useful content.

Tune in to this episode to learn how to create a successful business and life!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: 

Learn how you can break away from old habitual ways of thinking.
Find out how you can tune out those negative thoughts and start focusing more on the positive.  
Learn effective strategies on how you can find fulfillment in what you are doing. 

Resources
Laura has a special welcome page for us at www.stretchintosuccess.com/tey where she has provided on the page a few Giveaways, namely:

Free download of PDF-6 Mindset techniques for a more fulfilling life. 
Free access to 5-day (1 hour each day) Breakthrough Your “Busy” B.S. (Blind Spots) Workshop.
Want to get more insights on what your paradigms might be? Get a free 15-min coaching consultation call with Laura Noel.

Episode Highlights
Laura’s Life as A Veteran- 

Laura speaks about being very grateful that she had the opportunity to serve in the military. 
She pointed out that from the time she started her journey in college she wanted to learn as much as possible about the military and from that she later enlisted.
What she thought was only going to be four years in college, turned into almost 28 years of service. 
Laura highlighted that she retired in 2017 but the journey was incredible. 

Laura Speaks About Her Purpose-

She points out that her purpose is to share what she has learned and what she now knows to be true in terms of the inner power that we all possess and are capable of unleashing. 
To help people connect with the “awesomeness that is already inside of them. 
Connect with the answers and also to discover their purpose; to understand that the answers are already inside of ourselves but sometimes we have to look outside of ourselves for the direction and getting them connected. 

 
How Do We Cultivate An Environment Where We Can Slow Down and Live?- 

Laura points out that we should start small; start from where we are at. Your quiet time doesn’t have to be sitting in silence, it can also be going for a walk, without music, that way you are able to listen and become more aware and present in the sounds of nature. 
Find out what works best for you. 
It is very important when checking in with yourself to ask yourself the following questions:

What am I thinking right now?
How do I feel right now?
How do I feel in my body right now?

Dylan Ogline is a high school dropout from a small country town in Pennsylvania. He started his first business when he was 14 selling cell phones. In 2016 he scrapped 10+ business projects and started focusing on one single thing, digital marketing. Tired from struggling getting no progress and working from his freezing basement, not to mention nearly a Million dollars in debt – it was an uphill climb. Turns out, focus was the key. 4 short years later he has built Ogline Digital into a 7-figure agency generating over a million in sales three years running. Dylan is now a leading expert in direct response advertising and business growth. He has now turned his focus to helping other people start and grow their own hyper profitable digital agency.  

Show Notes

“In the world of Internet Customer Service, it’s important to remember your competitor is only one mouse click away.” – Doug Warner

It seems we are so easily distracted by bright shiny objects. We never give ourselves enough time on one project before we move to another. 

This week, The Entrepreneurial You podcast invites Dylan Ogline to share about his experience  on “The Secret To Success: Focus.”

Here is a snippet of what Dylan shared:

“If you own a business your true number one priority should be providing your product or service to your customer, but I don’t like to mention that because that’s like telling you to breathe. I shouldn’t need to tell you to do that beyond that if you talk about growing your business, your number one focus should be on making the cash register ring bringing in customers and actually getting them to pay you. So just work backwards from there and look at like what is the most simple single thing I can do to bring on more customers all these extra things a website a logo, you know wasting your time trying to get you know, public relations or whatever are all of these things necessary or that they just help that one single thing.”

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