Julie is a Harvard law graduate and relationship wellness expert focusing on loneliness, millennial isolation, and how we can foster strong long-distance connections with our networks. She is also the founder and CEO of Small Packages, a curated care package company that sends love when you cannot be there in person. 

Julie’s work and opinions have been featured in numerous international publications, including The Everygirl and Elite Daily. Julie was also awarded a Visionary Women Grant by Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran.

Show Notes

“We felt so lonely in the crowd. And now we feel so connected in isolation.” 

― Hrishikesh Agnihotri

What lessons have you learnt from the quarantine? What is your biggest takeaway? All this and more are the issues we focused on for this episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast.

Here is a snippet of what Julie shared:

“The thing that I always keep going back to is when you’re an entrepreneur, you’re sort of inventing everything for the first time. We like to say that we go to the university of Google and YouTube; teaching ourselves how to do all of these things that we didn’t expect to have to be experts in_finding away at least this is what I do.  Congratulating yourself for continuing the search I think is enormously helpful because if you wait until you have achieved competency and everything you need to in marketing and sales in all of the aspects of running a business, that’s just exhausting. So congratulating yourself on the journey I think is a really helpful move..”

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George is the Founder of 5 companies, 3 exits, still running two. He is the founder of onestopdevshop.io, software and design agency, and online reputation management software, Wavereview.

Show Notes

“Nothing ruins your day more than getting a bad review.” Taylor Swift

It is no secret that reviews can either make or break your business. This is backed by statistics. In a recent survey, 83% of consumers say they either completely or somewhat trust recommendations from family, colleagues, and friends about products and services – making these recommendations the highest ranked source for trustworthiness. [Nielsen]. This week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast focuses on this notion.

Here is a snippet of what  George shared:

“The statistics that I’ve seen is that 70% of the people that read reviews trust them as much as a recommendation from a friend. If you’re looking at a business and it has no reviews that means you’re probably going to be 70% more likely to choose the business that has reviews than the one that doesn’t.”

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Jennifer, a virtual classroom and blended learning pioneer, is Founder and President of InSync Training. Her entirely virtual consulting firm specializes in the design and delivery of engaging, innovative, and effective modern blended learning. Under Jennifer’s expert leadership, Inc. 500|5000 named InSync training the 10th Fastest Growing Education Company in the U.S. in 2013, the 20th Fastest Growing Education Company in 2014, and to their Inc. 5000 list for four consecutive years. Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, Forbes Most Powerful Women Issue, The NativeAdVantage, and Goldman Sachs 10000 Small Businesses have all recognized her entrepreneurial drive.

Show Notes

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or could not learn. — Sir Winston Churchill

With over 20 years in the online training business, Jennifer has been ahead of the game and has garnered so much experience which makes her a leader in this area. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast couldn’t be more relevant to the times we are now experiencing.

Here is a snippet of what  Jennifer shared:

“I like three things, I want everybody to be able to write on the Whiteboard at the same time because there’s ways we can get introductions of 25 people done in 2 minutes. It makes it very effective, which is so important in the virtual world. We may only have 90 minutes or two hours together and everybody’s working at the same time, which can be very powerful. 

I like to have a chat room where everybody can have a group chat that’s easy to use that allows everyone to have an equal voice. So you may decide to speak out loud or you may decide to type in chat. It eliminates accents. It can help people with for example English as a second language and it allows people to reflect. I also want easy to use breakout rooms. Break out rooms allow us to come together in one virtual space and with the click of a few buttons we can send learner’s into smaller groups where they can collaborate and create together. Those are the things I look for in technology.”

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In 2006, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back. His company, Askinosie Chocolate, was recently named by Forbes “One of the 25 Best Small Companies in America.” So far the company has provided over a million school lunches to malnourished children in Tanzania and the Philippines, without any donations. Founded at the forefront of the American craft chocolate revolution and regarded by many as a vanguard in the industry. Shawn was named by O, The Oprah Magazine “One of 15 Guys Who Are Saving the World.” Shawn’s book, co-written with his daughter Lawren, published by Penguin Random House titled “Meaningful Work: The Quest To Do Great Business, Find Your Calling, and Feed Your Soul” is an Amazon #1 bestseller.

Show Notes

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever thought about running a chocolate business and what that would mean for you? This episode of The  Entrepreneurial You   is all about this sweet business.

Here is a snippet of what  Shawn shared:

“The business is a Cause. And the cause supports the business; it’s a circle. And so what I mean by that is, when I started the company I knew that I wanted to directly engage with Farmers. I wanted to meet them. I wanted to be in their homes. I wanted to get to know them and I’ve done that for 15 years. This next time I travel, whenever that’ll be (after a vaccine then) It’ll be my 45th origin trip since I started to meet with farmers, and that’s a lot of travel. 

Then when I became You know engaged with them and understood what was happening in their communities, it was a very natural step for us to say. not can we fix this, this is a very important notion not can we come in as the great white Savior and solve all your problems, The question is can we be your partner? Can we be your friend? And is there a way for us to together contribute to some of these issues in your village? And so that’s the way it started in the school lunch program started about 12 years ago in the Philippines.”

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Matthew Clark is the founder of The Virtual Edge and co creator of The Rainmaker System – an online marketing system that helps entrepreneurs get 2-5 high value leads per day from Linkedin without paying for ads. 

With their flagship programme Matthew and his business partner Wesley Longueira have helped over a thousand businesses in 17 countries grow exponentially. They are now on a mission to reach 10k businesses worldwide and build a vibrant community of Rainmakers! The success of The Rainmaker System has led to Matthew becoming a sought after international speaker and has shared the stage with big names like Dr. Phill, JT Foxx, Michael Douglas and many more. Matthew is also the author of The Proven Path, The Automation Playbook and The Automated Income systems and has been featured in Wake up- How to live a Healthy Vibrant Lifestyle. 

Show Notes

“LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.” – Jeff Weiner

If ever a time we need a strong social presence it’s now. Yet many are still struggling to identify the ideal platform to be present on  and how to engage on their medium of choice. This episode of The Entrepreneurial You  with Matthew Clark focuses on getting high valued leads from LinkedIn.

Here is a snippet of what  Matt shared:

“There are three specific stages that we take them through. Which is positioning. So get your position right. Make sure you set up so that you are irresistible to your ideal client. Step number two is connect, so go out and connect with people and you know, that’s not just direct connections. That’s one piece of the puzzle. It’s also about writing content, also about positioning. Position yourself as an authority, connecting with the media and then the third step is scale. How do you take this manual process and you grow it so that you can actually scale your business using it? You can’t make calls all the time because you can’t scale that. I want to create a system that I can bring a team in and they can jump into that system and get calls booked. On  average my team and myself, we do between 10 and 15 sales calls a week.”

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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.

Show Notes

“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.

Show Notes

“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.

Show Notes

“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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