Chris is the CEO for the leading information technology support organization tTech Limited – Jamaica’s only pure play IT Outsourcing & Managed Services provider. Chris has thirty 33 years of experience in delivery and implementation of  Information Technology solutions and is a regular speaker on Technology in the IT industry in Jamaica. For fun, Chris writes a wine column in the Jamaica Observer and hosts wine related events in Jamaica and the USA.

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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

Never mind the dog barking in the background, we are in the midst of a pandemic so we make do the best way we can, so please forgive us.

It is hard to imagine our lives without technology but technology in a pandemic? what’s its role? That is the focus of this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Christopher Reckord has a wealth of knowledge in the IT space and is therefore ideal to speak on this topic.

Here is a snippet of what  Chris shared:

“When folks are working in their organizations and in their offices, they’re almost clothed by the organization’s IT security protection and so there’s a comfort in knowing that you are within our scheme of protection. However, now that you’re working remotely, we are not that comfortable anymore. So here are all these other things that have to happen with respect to ‘did the software that they’re using. So for us, one of the big recommendations that we make to all of our customers is switching on multi-factor Authentication, and of course strengthening passwords, and ensuring that the connectivity between you and the office or you and the internet is secure. So whether its VPNs, encryptions, so it’s a whole host of things. Some folks used to have it as additional Software or additional work that somebody else had to do. A lot of technology now has to build that in to ensure that their application is now chosen over another application because they can prove that it is now safe.”

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Vanessa is Lead Investigator at Science of People. She is the bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People. Her book has been translated into 15 different languages and more than 20 million people watch her on YouTube. Vanessa’s shares tangible skills to improve interpersonal communication and leadership, including her insights on how people work. She’s developed a science-based framework for understanding different personalities to improve our EQ and help us communicate with colleagues, clients and customers. She works with entrepreneurs, growing businesses, and trillion dollar companies; and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS, Fast Company, Inc., Entrepreneur Magazine, USA Today, the Today Show and many more.

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“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres

As entrepreneurs, pivoting is not a new concept to us. It is what we do all the time when our ducks don’t seem to align. BUT, who could have known that such a high level of pivoting would be necessary in 2020? No one!

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial you, Vanessa Van Edwards talks about pivoting in during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Here is a snippet of what  Vanessa shared:

“Doing anything in business without measuring is basically practice. If you’re not measuring, it doesn’t count. And what I mean by that is there’s so much to learn in business, that the only way that you’ve learned is if you track and I even think this is true with relationships, so not just revenue and sales and merchandise and distribution. For example, how many contacts did you have on LinkedIn last week, three weeks ago, three months ago? What have you done to try to increase those LinkedIn contacts? Have you converted any LinkedIn leads? Are you getting more clicks on your profile or less clicks on your profile? All of those things don’t seem important. But actually, you can discover hidden ways to revenue (if you measure them). And they’ve been the majority of our business. People do not understand how our business makes money; that is because we have found hidden ways to make revenue. When we were looking at the data, we were tracking things that were working.”

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Stephen Somers is the co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an online education and services company that helps people all over the world learn how to sell their own products globally on Amazon from scratch. Together with his business partner, Robert, Stephen has sold over $12m in products on Amazon and has now helped over 5,200 people learn how to start their own Amazon business.

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“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Everything rises and falls on systems when you run a business. This episode of The Entrepreneurial  You explores putting a promotionational system in place to guarantee success. Stephen Somers shares his expertise, giving insight from his experience.

Here is a snippet of what Stephen shared:

“In summary, you must have a balance of value in your business where you’re providing video content or other content to your subscribers and customers. At the same time, you have to balance that with generating money because you can’t survive in your business if you’re only providing free value all the time. You’ve got to have a systemized way to promote things. So you’ve got to be looking at adding more people to your business; you have to be looking at increasing your prices and you have to be looking at additional products and services for your own customers. If you can look at those three things on your 90 day calendar where you’re consistently adding each of those areas and you’re really focused on creating new customers, you will succeed massively.”

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Dr. Hardy is an organizational psychologist and bestselling author of Willpower Doesn’t Work. From 2015-2018, he was the #1 writer in the world on Medium.com. During that time, he grew his email list from 0 to 400,000 without paid advertising. Ben and his wife Lauren adopted three children from the foster system in February 2018 and one month later, Lauren got pregnant with twins who were born in December of 2018. They live in Orlando. Ben’s blogs are read by millions monthly.

Show Notes

“Your personality is not set in stone, you can always develop yourself to be a better version of yourself.” Asad Meah

Personality tests –we’ve all done them. But are they really as accurate as the developers  make them out to be? This podcast episode with Dr Benjamin Hardy debunks all the myths about these tests. 

Here is a snippet of what Dr Hardy shared:

“Every time you view the past, you view it from the perspective of your current self. And so your future self is going to actually view your past differently and hopefully they’re going to frame it better. Memories are always fluid; memories change and evolve as you think about them. The big problem with painful experiences is that we try not to think about them but in psychology, there’s a concept called ‘exposure therapy’ and basically it’s the idea that as you expose yourself to something more and more, you neutralize the emotions. It’s like if you’re scared for example to publish a blog post because you’re worried about what people think, if you do it 100 times, it stops being so scary. You neutralize the emotions and that’s really how you turn the past into information–you face it, you learn about it, you write about it; you recontextualize it, you could ask what’s another way of looking at this or how has this benefited me or how would my future self look at this? Or what would my future self say to my former self; what would happen if I stopped being so mad about this, or what are all the ways that this has benefited me.”

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Andrea is fiercely committed to helping businesses and podcasters build profitable communities online through simple social media solutions. She’s been featured in places like Hubspot, Aweber, and WordPress. She was also named one of Social Report’s “top marketers to follow” in 2019.
As the host of the Savvy Social Podcast and the creator of SavvySocialSchool.com, Andrea is dedicated to simplifying social media through easy-to-follow courses, professional guidance, and community support. Outside of teaching and training, she spends most of her time serving her full-service clients and practising what she preaches by implementing organic social media strategies for businesses, and brands that want to grow an engaged audience online.

Show Notes

“It’s a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don’t understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a television.” – Amy Jo Martin

Ever wondered how you can become a master at social media, posting content that your audience values? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast will get you well on your way.

Here is a snippet of what Andréa shared:

“The algorithm wants attention. It’s like a small child like a two-year-old. Look at me, look at me. It wants attention. So whatever we can do to give it attention is a good thing. I think sometimes as business owners, we forget that. So if our content isn’t interesting enough, and people aren’t paying attention to it, the algorithm is going to start showing other content pieces. So it’s not like it has a personal vendetta against you personally. It’s just that it’s trying to get attention as much attention as possible from its viewers.
So some things that work really well right now.”

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Britt is an internationally recognized thought leader who creates brain science–based solutions for today’s challenges. As CEO and President of 7th Mind, Inc.,Britt Andreatta draws on her unique background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and learning to unlock the best in people and organizations.

Britt has published several titles including Wired to Connect: The Brain Science of Teams and a New Model for Creating Collaboration and Inclusion, Wired to Grow: Harness the Power of Brain Science to Master Any Skill and Wired to Resist: The Brain Science of Why Change Fails and a New Model for Driving Success. Upcoming books focus on the neuroscience of purpose and the conscious evolution of organizations. 

Show Notes

“The most talented, thought-provoking, game-changing people are never normal. Richard Branson

Innovation and creativity are words that we are accustomed to hearing used interchangeably especially as it relates to entrepreneurship. But, how many of us know that they are actually quite different? This episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast explores all this from a neuro-science perspective. The conversation with Dr. Britt Andreatta was quite enlightening.

Here is a snippet of what Britt shared:

“From a neuroscience perspective, neuroscientists have been able to study what happens in the brain when we have that aha moment. They can set people up for the ‘aha moment’ and have them on an MRI machine. We know that when we’re having that burst in our mind of like, Oh, I have this new idea, we can see in the brain about a third of a second before that aha moment, there’s a burst of gamma waves above our right ear. 

There’s a certain part of the brain that’s called the anterior temporal gyrus. What we see is that there’s this gamma wave burst and also a rush of blood into that part of the brain. Then even a full second before that, scientists have found that there’s a burst of alpha waves in the right typical cortex, which is where we see; it’s part of our vision cortex. It suppresses vision for just a millisecond. Scientists call it the brain blink.”

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Joel has been working as a solo entrepreneur since 2013 and has used his skills in the fields of animation and video production to start his own business, JumpStartVideo.net. In just a few short years it grew from a side job in the corner of his bedroom to a thriving business that now generates 5 figures a month, and I did all this through good ol’ fashion hustle and online gig platforms like Fiverr.com where he is a top-rated seller an award-winning SUPER SELLER. Our conversation will be even more relevant given the global pandemic that the world is  experiencing right now. 

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“The internet and online communication is the window into your world – but real life, in person communication / connection is the door.” – ― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Even amidst the chaos that is happening around the world, there is never a better time to be alive than it is today. The numerous opportunities that abound far outweigh any set back we could ever face.

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, Joel Young shares his online entrepreneurial journey, providing insight into some of the opportunities that we can tap into as we “coronavirus-proof” our businesses.  

Here is a snippet of what Joel shared:

“Something I try to remind myself of everyday’s that I live in one of the most accessible and, and dynamic times in the history of humanity. And so I think we sometimes lose that in the middle of all this stuff because we just think about what we’ve lost or what we’re losing or, or the difficulties in front of us. And we forget about the opportunities. And to me, and I gave this advice, advice to my YouTube audience just yesterday, to me, there’s no better time than when the world world shuts down, to hit the gas, start something new or press forward hard on something you’re already doing. Because right now is a time when many people are either working less working differently and trying trying to figure it out, or maybe not working at all because either they can’t or they’re just not sure what to do. So that’s an opportunity for people who have real ambition and drive to do something, maybe new do something more. This is a time when they’re faced with probably more free time than they’ve ever had before.”

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There was no magic bullet for coast-to-coast business and sales strategist, Tiffany Largie. She went from being a single mom to building three six-figure businesses, and on to a seven-figure business by the age of 30. Tiffany began with no capital but sheer hard work and determination. Today she helps people create the income, influence, and impact they dream of. She’s the creator of Onwards to Freedom, a group that offers business training and support to idea-driven entrepreneurs. She speaks around the world on sales strategy, entrepreneurship, and profit-building. She has dedicated her life to end small thinking worldwide. 

Show Notes

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres

Stop thinking about it. Just get up and do it. This is the essence of the message shared by Tiffany Largie on this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Tiffany shared:

“Wherever you are right now, like whoever, whether you think you have or you don’t you do at this moment, the greatest thing that you can acknowledge is that you’re enough. And for me, when I say that you’re enough, you’re enough to get to the next step. And when I say forget the future version of you, it’s not just because the future version of you doesn’t matter. But it’s like sometimes we get so overwhelmed with thinking about the 35 steps, when really and truly we just need to focus on the one that lands tomorrow, one step at a time. And if we do enough steps, it’s just one step at a time at the end, we get to the destination, but trying to leave the greatest part of the equation behind which is you your experiences, your stories, it’s not going to work, because your experience is the one thing that we can’t buy in a store.”

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Sergei Revzin is a Venture Investor at the NYU Innovation Venture Fund where he leads the university’s technology investments, and Vadim Revzin is a professor at NYU and State University of New York where he teaches entrepreneurship and management. The twin brothers host a weekly podcast called The Mentors featuring stories from successful founders and creators and regularly contribute to Forbes.com and HBR.org. They have advised hundreds of startups and have been founders and leaders across several early and growth-stage companies.

Show Notes

“The last 10% it takes to launch something takes as much energy as the first 90%.” –Rob Kalin

It is official! History has been made on The Entrepreneurial You podcast. For the first time ever, we have twin guests, Vadim and Sergei Revzin – double the fun, double the pleasure I say.

Having met these two passionate and driven entrepreneurs at Podcast Movement – Evolutions, I knew I had to invite them to the show. 

On this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast, this duo gives us a glimpse into their journey of monetizing their podcast, The Mentors, even prior to having a large audience.

Here is a snippet of what Vadim and Sergei shared:

“I think there was a lot of moments. But one that stands out the most is a business that we were working on were from the outside world, things seem to be working pretty well. We had a team. We had a couple of people working on the business, and we were hiring more contractors; we were generating revenue; we were pitching to investors, and we were getting investors interested in the business. But the reality was that we were also at the same time living in New York City, which is one of the most expensive cities in the world and trying to figure out how to pay rent and food and everything like that. And eventually, it became too much. And when the timing didn’t work out of the business, making enough money to cover all the expenses, we were starting to get into debt. And at one point in our late 20s, we had to make the difficult decision to leave the city and move back in with our parents home, which is something that most people don’t want to do, especially here in the States when you’re in your late 20s. That’s just kind of unheard of, but it’s something we absolutely We have no choice. So we were lucky that we had that Support System.”

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