After 20 years in the corporate world, just over a year ago in perhaps the most unlikely time, Samantha Woolf and Hilla Narov took the leap and founded their own marketing & entertainment agency. Not only do they make authentic connections between brands and talent, but they have a unique instinct for what’s next and what’s newsworthy that allow them to put their clients at the center of pop culture moments.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Nice guys do get ahead in the end.
2. Part of every success is learning along the way.
3. You have to understand who your consumers are and ensure that you put the right face out there that will resonate.
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Robin Copernicus is an author, startup mentor, and startup community influencer. He is the founder of Vertical Liftoff (VLO): the first startup accelerator that helps founders skip investor funding.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success is doing what you want whenever you want to do it. Be yourself and be comfortable with who you are.
2. Building a brand story and connection with your users are the things that copycats cannot take away from you.
3. Empower yourself by building a vertical startup that puts all the power in the founder's hands – enjoy and profit simultaneously.
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Saumil Mehta leads Square’s Square Point of Sale and CRM business unit. His responsibilities include overall ownership and organizational management across multiple functional disciplines, including Product, Engineering, and Design.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success The Square's mission is to democratize access and participation in the economy for traditional or underserved audiences.
2. As entrepreneurs, you can now use the most robust tools available to design an exceptional customer life cycle that helps your brand be omnichannel friendly.
3. It is not too early to get started today to produce outstanding customer experiences and brand advocates.
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Featured in Forbes, Julie Reisler is an expert transformation coach with a Masters degree in coaching and is on faculty at Georgetown. Julie is a bestselling author, 2x TEDx speaker and founder of the Life Designer® Coaching Certification program.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Whatever you are starting, you have to fire it up with heart coherence and greater wisdom.
2. You often miss tapping into your greater intelligence. The more you learn to trust and practice, the more likely you will get powerful results with coaching.
3. There is so much intelligence and so many gifts within each of us. The answer to uplifting our planet is leaning in and opening your treasure box.
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Joe Sanok is the author of Thursday is the New Friday: How a four-day week boosts productivity and creativity. He’s a mental health counselor, keynote speaker, and podcaster.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Doing work in the pacing that you need in your life produces more joy, happiness, and more impact in the world. Be able to genuinely enter into the business world and have it be good for your clients and to you.
2. Slowing down a bit and then doing the best work after that is where we see the biggest success.
3. The best connections within the brain is when different parts of the brain can speak to one another in a way that’s different from when we’re stressed out.
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Jose Gonzales is an author, and this is his commencement address at Three Rivers College, Norwich 2017.
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Jennifer Lee is the screenwriter and director of 'FROZEN'. This is her speech last May 2014 at University of New Hampshire.
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Eric Brotman is the CEO of BFG Financial Advisors, host of the Don’t Retire… Graduate! Podcast AND author of the Don’t Retire… Graduate! book, and regular contributor to Forbes.com.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It is not morbid to protect someone’s human life value.
2. Leverage your opportunities.
3. Start immediately. Don’t wait until there’s a trigger event before you do this. Time is on your side.
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Dave Scatchard is a former 14 year NHL Pro, international speaker, author of The Comeback - My Journey Through Heaven and Hell. He is regarded as one of the top peak performance life and business coaches in the industry.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. If you can’t bring your mindset and your energy to it, you’re going to default back to old patterns. Do something big with the energy and shift the old way of thinking, being, and focusing, and build a new one based off of your champion moment.
2. When somebody is in a state of overwhelm, they can’t see the way out. It’s almost like it doesn’t exist because their energy is so diffused, spread across too many areas.
3. To gain confidence, do things and make it your mission. Know what you can do every single day that will bring you an edge and a better chance to win.
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Andy Isom is an entrepreneur and business coach who helped build a $1 Million Pet Brand in under 2 years. His coaching program helps others launch and grow their businesses.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. With determination, consistency, and patience - anyone can be successful.
2. Being unique and being able to provide quality products helped them stay on top of their competitors.
3. Have a long-term vision, reinvest your profits, and be patient.
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Since 2003, Pete Vargas (aka The Stage Whisperer) has taught thousands of people how to grow their business through leveraging the power of their signature talk and stages. Pete has worked with leaders like Grant Cardone, Tony Robbins &Daymond John. Advance Your Reach was founded in 2015, and reached the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America by 2019.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Good people can win.
2. The foundation of any great platform is taking care of yourself.
3. Be committed to building your platform to have revenue, have freedom, and make a difference in this world.
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Tony Petkovich is an experienced deal maker, expert negotiater, known problem solver who has owned over 23 business over the course of a 20 year career.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You cannot have it all. You can have most things, but you have to look at what you are willing to give up to succeed.
2. Look at a roadblock as a speed bump – it might slow you down, but you can go over it.
3. Believe in yourself and try to become the better version of yourself every single day. Spend time reading as much as you can regardless of what it is, and learn from everybody – they might have experience you haven't come across yet.
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Ann is a Silicon Valley veteran who worked directly for CEOs Jeff Bezos at Amazon and Eric Schmidt at Google for 15 years. Now a consultant for CEOs across the globe.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can get your advancement and success by doing invisible tasks and working behind the scenes.
2. To stay innovative, you have to reinvent yourself for your career and your skills consistently.
3. There is no one path towards success.
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Patti Smith's Commencement Address at Pratt Institute, 2010.
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Shaun is a graduate of The Citadel and former United States Army Officer, serving in Germany & Operation Desert Storm. Police Officer since 2000, assigned to Patrol, Tactical, Narcotics & Training Units. SWAT Officer since 2003. Duties involved community education, fugitive apprehension, directed enforcement & inter-departmental interdiction operations. He served as a narcotics & vice detective, conducting investigations, in-depth reports, search warrants, subpoenas & testimony for various State's Attorney’s Offices. He received numerous awards for individual & team performance. He’s been awarded the Medal of Valor. Currently serves in Public Safety management.
MISSION of the Show Three active-duty police officers in the Chicago suburbs, facing the tough subjects, including police brutality, racial tension, rioting, and more. This is a show about opening a dialogue, accepting that something has to be done and bringing communities together again.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can help create an environment where people can go out and make millions becoming entrepreneurs. Be the gatekeeper for people to move beyond and do better.
2. If you’re miserable, life’s too short to be here. You don’t need approval from people just because you’ve decided to leave something that made you hate life.
3. Listen to the message. Words are words, but you have to dig to see what it is. If it sounds different than what you're used to, it doesn’t mean that you’re wrong.
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Mike Zeller has done over $300,000 Million in sales study under the masters of the industry such as Tony Robbins, Russel Bronson, and Jay Abraham. He has mentored over a hundred high-level entrepreneurs from 4 different continents.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Crises are there to remake you.
2. Do the personality tests and find your Zone of Genius.
3. Your identity precedes your destiny.
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Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world. She teaches at Duke University, and her new book is called The Long Game.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. If you want to build strong relationships with people, especially with higher profile people, you should not ask for a favor for at least a year; otherwise, they may view it as you are just using them.
2. Optimize for interesting will help you keep moving.
3. Often many people are giving up too soon, but if you are strategically patient, you are placing your bet, and you are aware that the results may not come for a while; however, you are willing to persevere while waiting.
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Mike Michalowicz is the author of Profit First, Fix This Next and his upcoming release, Get Different. By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two companies – one to private equity and another to a Fortune 500. Today he is running his third multi-million dollar venture, Profit First Professionals. Over the years, Mike has traveled the globe speaking with thousands of entrepreneurs, and is here today to share the best of what he has learned.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success is not the accumulation of stuff. Instead, it is simply being comfortable with who you are.
2. Unexpected marketing garners attention.
3. Marketing is the ultimate act of kindness.
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Michael is a wine expert, author, professor, drummer, international business consultant, founder Bhutan Wine Company, owner SoCal Rum, Drinking & Knowing Things.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Only do epic stuff with cool people or you won’t be able to maximize the ROI of the time you have on this planet.
2. Bhutanese have a concept called “Gross Domestic Happiness” instead of “Gross Domestic Product.” They give importance to the happiness of their citizens over any arbitrary economic success.
3. You can’t let the risk get in the way of moving forward. What you have to do is monitor the risk and try different ways.
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Tigran Nazaryan is an experienced science, technology and WordPress professional turned CEO. With the vision of automaton of WordPress development he leads 10Web's team of 70 professionals on the way to become a unicorn.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. AI can help to create great tools for professionals. AI can really help to ease processes and simplify what professionals do.
2. Web development is not the same as it was 20 years ago. It can be more complex, having differentiation with front-end and back-end developers. We also see user interfaces becoming more complex, more dynamic, and more complicated for developers to build.
3. Automation is where the processes and workflow of professionals and agencies can scale.
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David Sedaris Oberlin College Commencement Speaker Monday, May 28, 2018.
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Every month we put together an income report to share a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of running a 7-figure business. In full transparency, it’s not easy – but it IS possible. Through hearing about our mistakes, lessons learned, and our wins, we hope to inspire and motivate you to take action in your business with just one step forward every single day. For our full income report, visit EOFire.com/income96, and IGNITE!
August 2021 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for August: $245,799
Total Expenses for August: $21,946
Total Net Profit for August: $223,853
Difference b/t August & July: -$37,820
% of net profit to overall gross revenue: 91%
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Doug Goldstein is an investment advisor. He helps people around the world with their U.S. investment accounts. A bestselling author, he recently came out with The Constant Happiness Gratitude Journal.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Have the things around you that make you happy, stop and take a minute to appreciate it. If you’re not doing that, you are missing out on the best present that we all got which is our lives. If we don’t appreciate everything along the way, we’re never going to be happy.
2. Find great people and bring them on board. If you have that entrepreneurial spirit, you will come up with a business and there’s people out there to help you out.
3. Constant gratitude becomes a habit. Anything that you do over and over makes you smile, and that smile is the reward for developing a habit. You’ll just became a happier person.
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Evan Goldberg is responsible for product strategy and development at Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit. Prior to Oracle’s acquisition of NetSuite, Goldberg was CTO and Chairman of the NetSuite board. Before co-founding NetSuite in 1998, Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking website technology. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success is a mental state.
2. Stop living your life through the lenses of someone else's eyes.
3. Prosperity has a lot of different faces; it means a lot of other things to different people. As long as you understand what scaling life is about and continue working on it, you will find prosperity.
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Hooman Radfar is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and the co-founder and CEO of Collective. He previously co-founded AddThis (exit: Oracle), the largest platform on the web to help drive traffic and engagement for marketers. He was also a founding partner at Expa, a platform started by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp, to support entrepreneurs by building and investing in their companies. He was an early investor and adviser in category defining companies like Uber, Hinge, Sweetgreen, Onfido and Convoy. Hooman co-founded Collective to create a better future workplace by supporting the largest class of entrepreneurs in the world - businesses-of-one.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. To anyone who has that spirit and wants to be an entrepreneur, the tools are there. It’s never been easier to build a company from the perspective of having the right tools in place.
2. Remote is irreversible and accelerating trend. It’s something that if you don’t factor in everything that you’re doing, you’re not going to come up with the right strategy.
3. America is built on entrepreneurship. Immigrants come with nothing, builds businesses and creates wealth, and that’s what makes America great.
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