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Matteo Franceschetti has always been obsessed with performance. Athletic performance, business performance, and now sleep performance.
An athlete from a young age—he was a competitive ski racer in his native Italy and played tennis and raced cars on the European stage. Not surprisingly, sleepless nights were a way of life. It was his quest for more restorative sleep, in fact, that led him to quit his previous life and launch EightSleep, a New York-based company dedicated to fueling human potential through optimal sleep, and to turning the bed into a seamless health platform for improved health, performance, and longevity.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Lack of sleep can affect your longevity and health.
2. When looking for funding, the key is having traction; it will make the process a lot easier.
3. The future of the sleep industry is that you will be able to sleep for 6 hours yet get more rest with the help of technology.
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Noah St. John is known as "The Power Habits® Mentor" who has guided his coaching clients to add more than $2.2 Billion in sales.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The voice in your head that says “I cannot do it because…” keeps you stuck - you always make yourself right with your excuses.
2. You do not rise to the level of your goals; you sink to the level of your systems.
3. Give yourself permission to succeed.
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Karim Hijazi is a spy-turned-spy hunter, serial cyber security entrepreneur, podcast creator, and host.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You do not need to know what you will do right off the bat to have a clear path to success.
2. The pursuit of perfection limits progress. Get to it even if it is imperfect.
3. There is no better in history than now to start a business. Do not be afraid of the change, of not knowing, and of what could get in the way and stop you from being successful; get on it and do it.
Check out and listen to Karim's podcast - The Introverted Iconoclast
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Ben Reinberg started building his commercial real estate empire at 24 years old with nothing but shoe leather and a lot of hustle. Today he owns over $500 million dollars in assets across the country and shares his wealth building, commercial real estate investing, self-improvement and leadership insights and knowledge with his audience around the world.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. To be successful, you need to work significant hours when you're younger, but as you get older, you can work smarter.
2. There is no such thing as work-life balance, but you can find balance in your life by being aware and understanding how to balance your emotion.
3. Do not ever believe in the words: cannot, shouldn't, and couldn't because they limit you from doing something. Start taking action.
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Adrian Koehler thrives in difficult conversations inherent to leadership, his passion for human performance has given him the opportunity to train and develop leaders at brands like NIKE and LAFC.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can be successful without being lonely.
2. You can make an exponential leap if you befriend your fear.
3. You are your number asset and how you are in your culture. Get more help than you want.
Connect with Adrian on Instagram! - Adrian's Instagram
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Jason Dorsey is the leading Gen Z and Millennial expert. He is President of The Center for Generational Kinetics. He has led more than 65 generational studies, worked with over 700 companies, and his new book is Zconomy: How Gen Z Will Change the Future of Business.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The Center for Generational Kinetics - their goal is to separate general myths from truth to data so leaders can make significant decisions and take action.
2. Generational work helps solve challenges by having a generational trend on the opportunities created nowadays.
3. Do a generational snapshot; you create a piechart representing your customers' different generations or your team members. It will help you shape your messaging, your leadership, and your marketing. Make sure to adapt for the next generation, because they will drive growth.
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Yaro Starak is the co-founder of InboxDone.com, a service that provides a human being to take over your email for you.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Our addiction to checking email is one of the reasons why it's the biggest productivity killer for entrepreneurs.
2. You need to come to the realization that someone else might actually be able to handle 90% of your email for you AND do a better job than you.
3. It's not about the email, it is about what you are holding back from the universe because you are in your inbox.
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John Jonas has helped over 100,000 people succeed in their business by doing outsourcing differently. He owns OnlineJobs.ph with nearly 1 million Filipino resumes and hundreds of thousands of employers hiring VAs.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can hire teachable, talented, and competent full-time virtual assistants for $600 per month.
2. You are ready to hire a VA if you have one thing in your business that you know works, and you are doing it and you feel that you can teach someone else to do it for you.
3. The potential downside of hiring a virtual assistant is if it does not work for you, you lose a couple hundred dollars. The potential upside if it does work: you get time back in your life.
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Devin Johnson is the current Chief Executive Officer of Kennected. He is a serial entrepreneur, an inspiring leader, and an adept marketer. As the CEO of Kennected, Devin directs the daily workflow and is responsible for the overall success of over 100 + employees and reaching over $15m in sales in gross total. His leadership led to Kennected being a recipient of the coveted INC.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It does not need to take a hundred-hour work week to succeed.
2. The best way to use Linkedin effectively today is to have a mindset that you have to use LinkedIn to build relationships and create revenue.
3. Be consistent and focused in everything that you do. Give a good core offering, use automation, build systems, and seek mentoring.
Connect with Devin on Instagram! - Devin's Instagram
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Rami Tamir has 25 years of experience in the management of multidisciplinary software development, as an entrepreneur he has a proven track record of driving technology companies and projects from inception to maturity. In 2019 Tamir co-founded Salto and serves as its CEO.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can succeed by knowing how to pace yourself correctly.
2. An acquisition cannot be predicted; it happens from the relationship built and success.
3. The company's value does not come from the founders but the people working with you.
Salto translates your business applications' configuration into text, allowing you to search, compare, test, deploy, and track changes across your environments! - Salto Website
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Spencer Carpenter is the founder of Outlier Audio, a full service podcast booking agency. He uses 15 years of talent representation experience to get successful entrepreneurs, investors, and business professionals on interviews with industry leading podcasts.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You do not have to put a lot of emphasis on your brand, but on you, as a person.
2. Anybody with a skillset or experience beyond the average person can guest on podcasts.
3. You need to develop your catchy angle is going to be and lead with that. Be unique and provide value.
Check out and learn more about how to build reputation and authority with podcasts! - Outlier Audio Website
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Elias David started at the bottom of the automobile industry, broke and in debt as a New Dad. But In one year he was the head of Sales for Mercedes, BMW & Lincoln Dealerships simultaneously. He took the company where he started, from zero to multiple Million Dollars in revenue that year & the years after.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You can do it. You may not be the tallest person or the smartest person, but at the same time, studying, understand your weaknesses and not overlook them. Study the 1%.
2. Nobody wants to pay you more. No one's going to give you that job promotion. You have to earn the skill and you have to force your way into it.
3. Leadership wins trust. They influence their team under them and do everything to build up their team.
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At 29, Brian Smith decided that a life in Public Accounting was not for him! He quit his job and went to California to look for a new business idea and to surf. He soon noticed that there were no sheepskin boots in California, so he and a friend brought six pairs from Australia to test and so, “UGG” was born.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You have to have a certain amount of ignorance to be a good entrepreneur because if you knew all the obstacles ahead of you, you would never start.
2. You have to capture the image of what you want your target market to feel; the more you put emotions to your visuals, the more successful you can be.
3. The most disappointing disappointments will become your greatest blessings.
Check out Brian’s book on Amazon! - The Birth of a Brand
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Randy is the Cofounder of Outgrow.co. He is passionate about digital marketing and growth hacking. He previously worked in investing at SilverLake and in online advertising at Ampush. He studied Business at Wharton and Engineering at UPenn.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Interactive content allows you to personalize the information through a medium based on the interests of your audience.
2. You have to develop Interactive Content that will determine if it will be useful for the end-users.
3. Every company needs to experiment with different content types and other ways to engage with your customers. Focus on how you can build customer's trust online and create a more personalized customer experience.
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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/income111, and IGNITE!
November 2022 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for November: $129,862
Total Expenses for November: $28,217
Total Net Profit for November: $101,645
Difference b/t November & October: -$60,209
% of net profit to overall gross revenue: 78%
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Matthew Gallagher is a self-made entrepreneur and philanthropist generating over $300 million in online sales.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Assess what it is that drives you and make a goal. When you get to a certain point, reassess and then decide if it’s time to chill or is it something that you want to keep growing on.
2. If you're going to start somewhere you have to have a reason for it. Know what's your purpose in moving forward and entering this journey because it's not easy or guaranteed. But if you're not good where you are and you want something different then that's going to drive you.
3. If you have a good product and you see the product fits into a certain market and that market is large enough, it's really just about getting the right eyeballs onto your product.
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Troy Ericson is the owner of Email Paramedic, the leading Email List Management Agency that has generated over $50,000,000 for their clients since 2019 by improving email copy & deliverability. He was ranked as the #20 Copywriter in the world by Peter Tzemis from Traffic & Funnels. He is also a musician, former college baseball player, and lives in Tampa, Florida
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Pay attention to three things: DKIM, SPF, DMARK. those things should all say pass. If any of those say fail or neutral, or in some cases if your DMARK doesn't even show up, that is a red flag. That basically means you are failing one of the three kinds of verifications, more or less.
2. Quality is always more important than quantity. Everybody wants a really big list, but at the end of the day you got to make sure that they want to be there and they're excited.
3. Understand that you can try and reengage those other people later. But for now, you have to solve the bleeding wound that is in your e-mail list and your open hearts are suffering from.
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Dr. Tim Elmore is the founder and CEO of Growing Leaders, a non‐profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. He has spoken to over 500,000 leaders in businesses, universities, athletic teams and non-profit organizations.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. In order for this multi-generational team to work well, we've got to be humble.
2. People are everything. And if we find ways to serve and love our own people, they're going to serve and love the customer in the end.
3. Make sure you ditch the niche and start fostering relationships that are not like you. We tend to get with people that are most comfortable for us, people that are familiar, and we gave water cooler conversations with people that are like us instead of unlike us.
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Clay Clark is the co-founder of 5 kids, the former Oklahoma U.S. SBA Entrepreneur of the Year, the founder of several multi-million dollar companies, an Amazon best-selling author, and the host of the Thrivetime Show, Business School Without the BS Podcast.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Honesty loves accountability.
2. Action is the objective measure of intelligence.
3. You cannot change the past, but you can decide today to have a new future. Take the leap of faith, join the event and take action.
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Brian is the President of Austin’s Couch Potatoes in TX. He grew the company from selling broken couches out of his garage to opening his 4th location.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. We've got to evolve to be like any other industry. We need someone on our team who truly loves people and has the mind of a strategist.
2. Focus on three things: Loving people, bringing comfort, and practicing fair trade.
3. You need to set yourself apart from the competition — something that will keep you untouchable.
Check out Brian’s website - AustinCouches.com
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John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker, and author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, and SEO for Growth.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Believe that your life is a work in progress.
2. Live and learn and then re-calibrate.
3. Put in the reps so you can remain strong.
Check out John's website and learn more! - What it Means to be a Self-Reliant Entrepreneur
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Gideon Shalwick loves helping entrepreneurs get their message out to large, global audiences using the power of video. His company Splasheo makes it easy to create super engaging videos, ready for social media domination!
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Attention and engagement is what you need to get with your video marketing strategy.
2. One way to come up with content is to get out of your own head and get into the heads of your audience.
3. When you build a connection with your audience and they keep on watching your video content, you are going to have an influence; your message is going to get out there.
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Skylar Lewis went from being bankrupt to becoming the founder of Rise Up Kings and best-selling author of The 2 Day CEO which has helped thousands of entrepreneurs gain freedom.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. To those struggling and having a difficult time getting the machine going, the journey and the destination is worth it.
2. There are four pillars, faith, family, fitness and finances. Have habits built for each of those pillars so that while you’re building the business, your life still stays in order and doesn't have chaos in it.
3. Identify what needs an analysis of your business and looking at what of your business areas have inefficiencies, is there too much human interaction, what areas of your business is the ball dropping too much and then how do you build out processes.
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Brenden Kumarasamy is the founder of MasterTalk, a popular YouTube channel and coaching practice he started to help the world master the art of public speaking & effective communication.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. If you can make sense out of nonsense, you could make sense out of anything.
2. We always look for information, rest the truth is, the best way to speak is to speak.
3. The biggest problem with this industry, it's always focused on fear and what people don't want to do.
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Ron Bauer is a Venture Capitalist, with 20 years’ experience. He’s focused on the Life Sciences and Technology sectors, where he’s created ventures alongside world leading entrepreneurs and scientists.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The more successful you become, the more responsibility you have, and you lose some freedom.
2. Raising money from friends and family raises a sense of urgency for success.
3. Do not create a business just because you want to get rich; do what you love and find your passion. If you love what you do, the money and success will follow.
Follow Ron on Instagram - Ron's Instagram
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