Brian Reese is a leading expert on and advocate for U.S. veterans’ benefits. A former active-duty Air Force officer, he deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and received the Defense Meritorious Service Medal. He is a Distinguished Graduate of Management from the United States Air Force Academy and earned his MBA as a National Honor Scholar from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He is the Founder & CEO of VA Claims Insider, a Coaching and Consulting company whose mission is to educate and empower veterans to get the VA disability benefits they’ve earned for their honorable service.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. 75% of Veterans alive today don’t get anything from the VA at all.
2. We all experienced things that changed who we are for the rest of our lives.
3. It’s ok not to be ok. It’s a sign of strength to admit that you’re not ok and ask for help. Your path to help you celebrate life change starts by looking at the mirror, admitting to yourself that you are not ok and you need help, and then take action.
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Corbett is founder&CEO of fizzle.co, where independent creators learn to grow an audience online and get paid for their work.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You don’t have to do anything just because someone else says that that’s the way you should do it. You can find examples of people who are successful in every walk of life doing things their own way. All of us are figuring things out as we go along.
2. The purpose of social media platform was to figure out how to manipulate people so they would spend as much time as possible on these platforms so they can sell other people ads that they then show to us.
3. Look at trends happening, places where there’re lots of interest, energy and money going, and figure out on how to carve out a little piece of that interest, and become someone of value.
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Lloyed Lobo is the Co-founder of Boast.AI, which automates access to billions in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to help businesses fuel their growth without giving up equity and dealing with red-tape.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. If you don’t have an ideal customer, you won’t know what to build, what to do, and what service to provide. Focus brings clarity to your messaging.
2. As founders, what we don’t do well is that we no longer stop and smell roses. It’s important to enjoy life a bit everyday and appreciate things a bit more everyday. Doing a bit more everyday compounds and becomes a big thing.
3. One of the most important things to build and inspire a team for high performance is to hire smart people and get out of their way. You hire people so they tell you what to do and not the other way.
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Yanik Silver has been called a Cosmic Catalyst, a Maverick Mischief-maker and a Galactic Goofball. He redefines how business is played at the intersection of more profits, fun, and impact.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The intention is more important than goal setting.
2. It is not one-way-fits-all for everyone. You have to create a path by walking your path.
3. Your vision will carry you forward, and it will energize you to achieve your goal.
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Alex has scaled multiple eCommerce businesses to 7-8 figures with dropshipping, no inventory model. He's using Facebook ads to scale products from the testing phase to $100,000 a day in sales.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can be successful in any environment; be surrounded by sharp people to succeed.
2. Focus on fundamentals, be creative, and be unique.
3. Build a business instead of just a hobby. Build it, and make it sustainable to truly scale.
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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/income93, and IGNITE!
May 2021 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for May: $222,618
Total Expenses for May: $101,092
Total Net Profit for May: $121,526
Difference b/t May & Apr: +$3,486
% of net profit to overall gross revenue: 55%
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Sheri is chief retreat strategist and CEO of Wanderlust Entrepreneur, where she’s taught thousands of passion-driven entrepreneurs how to design experiential transformational retreats that allow them to stand out in their niche, change lives, and make an incredible income. She’s also the owner of Journeys of the Spirit Travel®, a boutique agency specializing in the planning and management of group travel.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. People who do not believe in failure or success never feel wounded by things not working out, and that makes them resilient and invincible.
2. A good transformational retreat needs to have time to learn, and lounge, and go inside, and process.
3. Start to consider your retreat as part of your income-producing activities in your business.
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Andrew Gazdecki is a 4x founder with 3x exits, former CRO, and founder of MicroAcquire. Gazdecki has been featured in New York Times, Forbes, WSJ, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, TechCrunch and VentureBeat.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You don't need experience, you have to work hard, and you have to have the ability to learn anything.
2. When you build a company, it becomes a part of you.
3. It is essential to listen to the customers.
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Allison Maslan, CEO of Pinnacle Global Network, is the Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author of, Scale or Fail, endorsed by Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran.Allison’s built 10 successful companies starting out at age 19.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You don't need to work night and day to create great success. It comes faster when you apply creative strategy instead of the non-stop hustle.
2. Scaling is replicating your offering so it can grow beyond you. Find your multiplier.
3. Remember that every huge success started in Phase 1. Stay focused, and don't let anyone tell you that it can't be done.
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Dan (and his wife Rachel) make a full time income running two giant projects each year, BCStack and Podcaster's Kit. Their goal is to work 4 months a year.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The Facebook and the internet could not be the great equalizer, and there’s a chance to create an entirely new audience from people that wouldn’t have heard of you.
2. The lack of recognition that a learning curve exist is the biggest hurdle in making full time income online.
3. If you work hard, and really put a lot of effort, time, and energy, you can come out on the other side with systems that allow you to spend time with your family and your kids while your business is still operating.
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Andy is Wealthfront's co-founder and CEO. He serves as chairman of the UPenn endowment investment committee and teaches technology entrepreneurship at Stanford GSB. Previously Andy co-founded and was general partner of Benchmark Capital.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Not every business is meant to be mission-driven. If you build a commodity product, it’s hard to be mission-driven. You have to have an element of changing the world to be mission-driven.
2. You don’t find the idea. They find you from your authenticity to the opportunity because you will recognize that inflection point well before someone else might.
3. Don’t focus on the percentage of times that you’re right. Focus on the magnitude of when you are.
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Mukesh is a software professional turned author of fiction and nonfiction books. His upcoming nonfiction title Bootstrap dream - How to start a tech company from scratch will inspire millions.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Disruptive innovation establishes ways and create new market and create new value networks. Technology disruptions that happened in the world are spearheaded by startups.
2. For startups, it is important to build a good culture.
3. If you follow your passion, you can leave behind a legacy.
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John teach ambitious entrepreneurs how to break into web design, escape their 9-5, achieve financial independence, and gain the freedom to work whenever and wherever they want.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Now more than ever is the best time because almost everyone that wants to start a business needs a website.
2. One of the biggest secrets to a freelance web designer is having customer service and communication skills.
3. If you're considering a career change and want to be creative, the web design industry can provide you with a reliable monthly recurring revenue.
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Mickie Kennedy founded eReleases 22+ years ago to help small businesses, authors, and startups increase their visibility and credibility through press release marketing. He lives in the Baltimore area.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The headline and writing are essential aspects, but the most critical part of the press release is its strategy - What are you announcing?
2. The most important metric that you can use to measure your press release performance is your sales.
3. Press Release is an effective way to get yourself out there and share what makes you different from the media.
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Rebecca Zung is a Narcissism Negotiation Expert. She was recognized as Best Lawyer in America by U.S. News. She has two bestselling books and 6 million views on YouTube. She Featured on Extra, Dr. Drew, NPR, Forbes, Time, Huffington Post, Newsweek and many more media outlets.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You alone define your value. Your value is not defined by that narcissist, nor by anything external. You are inherently valuable. Regardless of how the other person makes you feel, you have the power to not give them the permission. Narcissist will do everything to bring you down.
2. The key negotiating with a narcissist is to build a strategy and leverage that actually threatens a source of narcissistic supply that is more important for the narcissist to keep and retain than the supply that they get from jerking you around and keep you miserable.
3. When you’re creating a “magic bullet” leverage, think about what’s going to motivate and squeeze that narcissist, and incentivize them into wanting to come to the table with you by coming up with things that potentially exposes them.
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Leo Kanell and his team have secured funding for thousands of entrepreneurs for hundreds of millions of dollars. He’s the founder of 7 Figures Funding & authored the Business Funding Formula.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Mentoring and coaching helps business owners so much to have the success. They not only need to pay for coaching but also need to have the extra money to implement the growth strategies.
2. In order for your business that doesn’t have financials to get financing, we need to look at your history of personal credit. Good things on your personal credit will make financing more comfortable.
3. A mixture of different financing types on your personal credit, that will be pivotal in qualifying for the 0% interest rate.
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Michael is a lifelong entrepreneur who has been emersed in eCommerce for the past 7 years, who documents his entire journey along the way via the EcomCrew blog and podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The bad thing about affiliate sites via e-commerce is that you don’t own anything except for the content in your site.
2. Differentiate a little bit. If you do what everyone else is doing exactly, there’s going to be 15 other people doing the exact same thing. If you can make small improvements, it could go a long way because now you have something that’s differentiated.
3. Dig deep and realize that entrepreneurship is such a long road.
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Michael is the Chairman and Founder of Michael Hyatt & Company. Under his leadership, Michael Hyatt & Company has been featured in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row and Inc.'s Best Workplaces in 2020. He is the author of several New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling books, including Platform, Living Forward, Your Best Year Ever, Free to Focus, Vision Driven Leader, and his newest book Win at Work and Succeed at Life.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. People would like you to think that it work-life balance is a myth because people haven’t figured out an alternative strategy, or they have a misunderstanding what a balance is.
2. The double win is when you don’t have to choose between winning at work and succeeding in life.
3. Establishing constraints, whatever they are, is the secret to productivity, creativity, and greater freedom. It also gives you space in other aspects of your life.
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WSJ Bestselling Author, award-winning cardiac surgeon, Dr. Brain Lima, performed the 1st heart transplant on Long Island. He received degrees from Cornell, Duke University Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Heart health is not separate from our overall self. It is part of us. You can’t be yourself if you’re not physically in good form.
2. Let things fall as it may.
3. Working harder than those around you would make up of what you lack of natural talent and intellect.
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James Altucher has started and ran more than 20 companies and is currently an investor in and advisor to over 30, but at one point, James lost everything. In a matter of months, his account drained from $15 million to $143. Depressed and on the floor, James realized today's standard view of success comes with conditions and the only effective way to be successful is to “choose yourself.” Now, James Altucher is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, chess master, and the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of "Choose Yourself." You can find his best and most controversial advice in The Altucher Report, which provides you with James' personal research in business, finance, and entrepreneurship. James also has a new book, Skip The Line.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It's not enough to be good with what you are doing; you also have to monetize it to have continuity.
2. You can experiment with anything in life.
3. If you do a hundred experiments in the area you love, you will be successful.
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Dan is an award-winning entrepreneur and speaker. He is also the Founder and CEO of McGaw.io, an analytics and marketing technology consultancy.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Using a marketing automation tool will allow you to measure how people are using your website.
2. Personalization is imperative to push somebody down the funnel.
3. You do better in your business and have more free time by building a lot of marketing stack, personalize and automate as much as you can.
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Quddus is an acclaimed TV host, celebrity interviewer and media coach. As the founder of Media Mastery Academy, Q helps leaders own their voice and share their story.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You are enough exactly as you are. There’s nothing else you need to do. There’s no mistake that’s ever happened in your life that’s unredeemable and you’re luxuriating exactly as you are.
2. Be authentic and clear in connecting with your audience about why it matters.
3. Between two products in a shelf, people would rather buy the product that they know the origin story of its founder and the struggle that they went through to put the product in the shelf overtime.
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Destinee Berman is a seven-figure launch strategist and marketing expert who specializes in working with offline business owners, entrepreneurs, experts and educators.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Each launch is a calculated experiment. Even with the most experienced launchers, it’s impossible to get it 100% perfect.
2. It’s important to know that when you are launching a course, you are birthing or rebirthing yourself. It requires you to have a new identity.
3. If you overthink and talk yourself out of the process, it’s so much easier to lose sight of your vision and your dreams.
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Jon Bell and Julian Sage teach people how to build a six or seven-figure business on Airbnb without owning property.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. A lot people think that AirBNB is a fad. Doing it professionally is a completely different thing. If you’re going to immerse yourself in the industry, you’d need help. You need somebody to co-host with you, or someone you can train with and you can arm yourself with to make sure that you’re doing it the right way.
2. Things are not easy. Surround yourself with people that are successful on where you want to be rather than just going out on your own. You can shortcut your learning curve and save yourself so much time through coaches and mentors.
3. AirBNB is a place where it’s not necessarily a city that you have to be in. It’s an experience space platform. A treehouse, or a tent in the middle of the woods, a lakefront home, all of these could kill it in AirBNB.
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President of MAKO Design and Invent, Est1999, the first company providing world-class end-to-end physical consumer product development tailored to startups, small manufacturers, & home inventors. Host of The Product Startup Podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Prioritize energy. Everyday, put in a little bit of effort to the most important things of getting your product launch, and you’ll get tremendous drive over the coming months.
2. The number one thing when you think about developing your product is FOCUS! In hardware, it is important because it is difficult at the end of the development cycle to make quick adjustments if you haven’t focused.
3. Crowdfunding is a phenomenal tool for hardware startups. You are putting your finished product prototype and have people who are interested in these to pre-purchase your product, then use the money to fund the production run.
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