Author and accomplished aviation management professional with over 26 years of experience in Aerospace Operations, Maria’s high performance leadership coaching and training framework focuses on: leadership, team-building & effective communication.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Most people perceive success as having a balanced life, freedom, financial stability, and a fulfilling family life.
2. A defined destination, discipline, and good habits will get you where you want to be.
3. Do not be afraid to lead. Lead with a heart for people and integrity. Pour out everything you built inside of you into creating something that adds value to everyone around you.
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John Jaquish, PhD. has spent years researching and developing improved approaches to health. He is the inventor of the most effective bone density building medical technology which is now partnered with Tony Robbins and OsteoStrong for rapid clinic deployment. His methods are used in training the world's most elite athletes and associations such as the entire Miami Heat organization, various NFL and NBA players, as well as Olympians.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The number of people willing to do what it takes is minimal.
2. People who look healthy are easily trusted.
3. Train with variable resistance.
Check out Dr. Jaquish's book – Weightlifting is a Waste of Time - Jaquish Biomedical Website
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Stefan Georgi is a direct response copywriter whose words have generated over $1BN. He’s also an accomplished entrepreneur who has founded 9 different businesses that have reached 7-figures+ in revenue.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You do not need to burn the boat; you can dip your toes in the water first and take your time.
2. Focus on what is beneficial for your prospective clients.
3. Put more emotion, authenticity, and vulnerability into your marketing and content.
Check out and get your gift from Stefan! Emotional Research: 23 Questions for Understanding Your Prospect on a Dramatically Deeper Level - Stefan's Website
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After working in communications at organizations including The Wall Street Journal and the United Nations, Rachel Gogos launched brandiD, a soulful digital agency building online headquarters that empower changemakers to share their essence and build their business.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. A brand is not your logo; a personal brand is a combination of your reputation, personality, and marketing.
2. The more your business grows, the more your mindset has to be in the right place.
3. What makes business growth inevitable? Clarity around where you want to go, who you serve, and how you make people feel after they interact with your brand.
The first and leading web-based personal brand survey that gets you the critical feedback you need so you can expand your career or business success! - 360Reach.me
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Jim Dew is the CEO of Dew Wealth Management. He has 24 years of experience building high-functioning wealth management teams and virtual family offices for entrepreneurs.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Have the right structure. It may seem overwhelming depending on where you are as an entrepreneur, but you can put that out as a goal you can start working toward
2. Go DEAPR on your tax planning. D is for defer; E is for eliminate; A is for arbitrage; P is for pay now, not later; R is for reduce.
3. The tax code is very complicated, and there are many opportunities to do things legally to dramatically reduce taxes.
Find out where you fit on the Wealth Mastery Matrix! - Wealth Mastery Matrix
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Clay Clark is the former U.S. SBA Entrepreneur of the Year, founder of 6 multi-million dollar companies, Forbes Contributor, author of 13 books & host of 6-times iTunes chart-topping podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Most people have allowed the process of optimizing their website to become over complicated.
2. “Whatever you do, do it well; do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and again and again..."
3. Understand the urgency of the situation.
Check out Clay's eBook for Search Engine Domination! - TheBestSeoBook.com
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Bobby Demars is the Founder of Blind Barrels - a blind whiskey tasting subscription, the first to create disruption of the industry’s current distribution model by showcasing American craft distilleries.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Find a place to park your problems. Address yourself why you’re stressed. Are you chasing what others want to see in you or what you want to see in yourself? Comparison is the death of joy.
2. Redefine your success. Check in on how you feel and the people around you feel. That should be the benchmark of your success. It’s the happiness you create for others and for yourself.
3. Overcoming obstacles is difficult. Managing it with your mindset before you take the risk will allow you to deal with these ideas, obstacles, and stresses that automatically come with your business.
Check out Bobby’s website - Blind Barrels
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Collin Mitchell, the host of Sales Transformation, is currently co-founder and CRO of salescast. As a 4X founder, he is passionate about Sales, Entrepreneurship, and Podcasting.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Changing mindset from “always be closing” to “always be helping” made a big difference in winning more relationships that resulted to larger deals.
2. Don’t hold back anything. If you’re a person that educates people in your niche, and you start to create super fans through that, people will want to work with you and support what you do. They will send business your way.
3. Being a better listener and a more curious person are two of the most important traits for a seller or an entrepreneur.
Sign up for Collin's Newsletter Founders GTM Playbook and get a free copy of his new book Content-Led Growth - Founders GTM
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Justin Colby is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, and a mentor that has built 3 multimillion dollar business with a focus on marketing and sales.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Now is always the best time to real estate. Don’t be the person trying to catch the falling knife, or find out the top of the market so you can sell, or the bottom of the market so you can buy.
2. Be an opportunity seeker. Go out and create the opportunities at volume so you can maximize opportunities.
3. It’s about maximizing each opportunity. Some are better rentals, some are better as flips, and some are better as wholesale.
Follow Justin on Instagram - Justin Colby's Instagram
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Jon Ostenson is a top 1% Franchise Broker, Owner/Investor, and Author of the book 'Non-Food Franchising'. He draws on his experience as a former Inc. 500 Franchise President and Multi-Brand Franchisee in serving his clients. He is a frequent contributor on Franchising for Forbes, Inc., and The Franchise Journal.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. We've never seen so much interest in business ownership and alternative investment opportunities as we've seen over the past two to three years and it's only getting stronger. It really is across the board.
2. These non-food businesses, they're cash flowing, they're Amazon resistant in many cases pandemic resistant or recession resistant. That's what's attracting people.
3. A lot of businesses in different industries are getting into franchising and finding there's just a lot of benefits to scaling through that path and it's certainly not right for everyone, but for a lot of businesses, it is.
Franbridge Consulting - Visit and sign up for a complimentary copy of the new book, Non-food Franchising.
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Greg Smith is a former lawyer, now founder of a software company with over 40,000 customers selling hundreds of millions in online courses. Greg, CEO of Thinkific, employs over 100 people helping you create your own course or membership site.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Do not stop at the moment of sale, but focus on delivering value after the sale.
2. Linear learning is proven to give better results.
3. No one will promote your product if it is not a solid product to begin with. Live up to your promise.
Fire Nation, right now you can a get 1 month free on the Thinkific Pro plan, PLUS leverage over $1,000 worth of training bonuses FREE. Visit Thinkific.com/fire! - Thinkific
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Paul Daly is the founder and CEO of Congruent and host of the Clarity Compressed podcast. After the acquisition of his first business he is focused on empowering others to connect with their audience through his brand-first approach.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Brand is a feeling, and that feeling is the reflection of your viewers values back at them.
2. Brand building does detract from sales, and that is why you need to have the vision for what your brand should and could be.
3. Brand is gravity. Realize that the strength of your brand will attract the right things to you.
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Rick Mulready is the host of the The Art of Online Business podcast and an industry leading expert in teaching online experts how to take their online business to the next level.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Simplify the set up; allow the Facebook algorithm to get you the results you're looking for.
2. Identify how well you understand your targeted customers when you are doing ads so you can leverage all the targeting capabilities on Facebook and on Instagram
3. It's all about mindset and the willingness to test and be patient when running your ads
Visit Rick's website to learn more about his trainings! - Rick's Website
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Matt Briel is the VP of Marketing at Lulu.com. After more than 15 years leading Sales and Marketing teams in the Media & Publishing space, he’s developed a unique passion for helping creators and solopreneurs become more successful by leveraging books as a catalyst for opportunities and sustainable revenue.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Get out there and do it. And if you've been inhibited in the past by fear there are tools out there that can help you do this quickly and easily.
2. One thing that that entrepreneurs and creators these days really need, especially early on, is attention. You have to draw attention to what you're doing, who you are, what your goals are, what your business might be.
3. Most people these days are having the most success connecting with their communities by selling directly and creating those exclusive one-on-one relationships; it just feels more personable and relatable.
Connect with Matt on LinkedIn! - Matt's LinkedIn
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The Ultimate Sales Machine is a cult classic for anyone wanting to double their sales. 250,000 businesses served over 30 years. Amanda Holmes has been CEO for 8 years after her father and founder, Chet Holmes’ passing.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The differentiator is the process of disconnecting from the opinions of what other people think about.
2. Focus on how you can set yourself as an expert and provide value to your targeted market.
3. Learn how to speak to industry trends and the pinpoints of your prospects.
Ultimate Sales Machine Website – Check out the New Edition of The Ultimate Sales Machine and listen to Amanda's podcast to learn more about how to double your sales!
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Clay Clark is Former U.S. SBA Oklahoma Entrepreneur of the Year, founder of Several Multi-Million Dollar Businesses & Amazon Best-Selling Author.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Your success has nothing to do with your passion.
2. You can grow and scale exponentially by building a system and using a checklist.
3. If you want to be wealthy, you can start a business, buy an existing business model, or be a genius.
Visit and get a FREE consultation! - Thrive Time Show Website
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Scott Royal Smith is a real estate investor and asset protection attorney. He became an entrepreneur while still in law school. He spent the last 10 years of his career analyzing real estate investment and asset protection. Today, Scott is the Founder and CEO of Royal Legal Solutions. A firm he built to offer tax, business, and legal strategies to clients all over the U.S and Canada.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can act before you are ready and take unlimited risks to learn the best and get things to grow the fastest.
2. Avoid being sued by making yourself look unattractive to the lawsuit.
3. At Royal Legal Solutions, they are committed to building and setting up everything for you in six weeks.
Check out, click on the ‘Get A Price’ button and take the 20-point quiz as an assessment to apply for a FREE consultation. - Royal Legal Solutions Website
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Pete Jones is passionate about helping people be more present with God. Pete and his wife have been running their business on the road for the past two years - in an RV!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Being busy is just an attitude, which simply needs to be adjusted.
2. Journaling is important because it will help you remember things better.
3. It's possible to have Kairos moments all the time. Believe it; it will transform your life.
Learn how you can become present in more moments with God - Daily Kairos
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Mark & Tamiel Kenney are real estate investors with 25 years of multifamily experience. Think Multifamily’s mission: Help people retire early though real estate investing.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Don’t focus on becoming an expert on things that you don't like.
2. Leaving a legacy is more than just leaving money to somebody; it's leaving something of value that can change a life, a family, or a community.
3. When looking for a mentor or a partner, make sure you are not compromising your own character or values.
Learn more about how you can preserve & grow your wealth using real estate! - ThinkMultifamily.com
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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/income110, and IGNITE!
October 2022 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for October: $180,856
Total Expenses for October: $20,252
Total Net Profit for October: $160,604
Difference b/t October & September: +$1,098
% of net profit to overall gross revenue: 89%
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Brian Luebben hit financial freedom through real estate and podcasting at 27 years old. Now he has left corporate america and is traveling the world full time!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Success is a game of subtraction instead of addition. Success is found in the subtraction of limiting beliefs.
2. The goal should not be to stop working entirely but to leave the jobs you hate for work that you love.
3. Knowing what you want to do and where you want to be is essential.
Check out and listen to Brian's interviews with top entrepreneurs (1-100+ Million Net Worth) that have earned the ability to do "what they want, when they want, with who they want." - The Action Academy Website
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Todd Rampe teaches Stock Options to newbies. His simple TSL method turns the table on the Market Reversal con-game professional traders use everyday, to fool people, so you can profit.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Do something you like and figure out how to do it uniquely.
2. You do not need any experience to get started and grow a small trading account.
3. If you are interested in becoming a full-time day trader, do not rush it and do not complicate it. Just follow simple steps and commit to it.
Check out and master trading in 60 days! - Wealth Builders Institute Website
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Josh Little is a teacher turned serial entrepreneur with four successful tech companies, hundreds of millions of users, and multiple exits. He’s currently on a mission to bring more connection and community into the world with his latest product, Volley–a video messaging app.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. A great conversation can change your life, and great conversations are getting harder and harder to come by, especially one that stirs you, challenge you, and invites you to be better and reach higher.
2. Everyone has ten true fans, ten people that will buy anything that you're willing to sell.
3. On the most successful programs, everyone who's involved understands that they're going to sweat and they're going to put in the work to get the results or the transformation they want.
Visit and get no Volley fees for the first 90 days! - Volley App Gift for Fire Nation
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Daniel Cleland, aka "The Indiana Jones of Entrepreneurship," is the CEO of Soltara Healing Center, guitarist in metal band Savage Existence, and author of "12 Laws of the Jungle: How to Become a Lethal Entrepreneur."
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The common misconception is that business is easy and pleasurable. It can get that way but the journey to get to that place is absolutely brutal.
2. Undergo the Right of Passage. You don’t have the right to even start the business until you complete it. That is a combination of exercises to learn mental toughness, so even in times of difficulties, you’ll be able to handle it. Hold yourself accountable.
3. Be able to produce professional-level, high quality output in the pressure cooker for a sustained amount of time.
Follow Daniel on Instagram - Daniel's Instagram
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Katrina Ruth is the voice of the multi 7-figure online brand 'The Katrina Ruth Show'. She's here to help leader entrepreneurs remember who they always were - and then become it.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Being magnetic is about unleashing and presenting your true self.
2. Pave your own way. Nobody knows better than you what is right for you.
3. The only person whose validation you need is your own.
Choosing Faith Over Fear - Watch Katrina's video on "Choosing Faith Over Fear to Create the Business and Life You're Meant For!" (Sorry! This link was active when this episode was first published in 2019 but is no longer an active offer.)
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