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Tom Wise is a 30-year veteran of Live TV shopping. He is a TV Host-Director of On-Air Talent, vendor at QVC USA/Germany and HSN, and he teaches how to make money in your sleep.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. TV Shopping became an industry in the ’80s. It is about a 9-Billion dollar business in the US.
2. Start by having a product that works.
3. It is always a good idea to get out of your comfort zone. Look for products that may not be in the HSN world yet.
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Joe Rivera went from Park Ave to park bench. He was making 7 figures a year and lost it all to substance abuse. Through achieving sobriety and building my 3 pillar system he has been able to not only build another multimillion dollar business but have also created wealth emotionally and spiritually as well.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
2. Life throws curveballs every day especially in these changing times. So, keep on reminding yourself what your why is.
3. There are so many different vices out there that create that emptiness. And if you don't have some type of belief that there's something greater than yourself, and you're consistently counting on yourself to get yourself out of the hole, you're going to find the emptiness there.
Join Joe’s 12-week coaching program - Reforge Academy
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Chris Sheng is a 3x founder and growth marketing expert. He has worked with 200+ venture backed Saas companies on go-to-market and growth. Additionally he is a resident growth advisor at Mucker Capital and works closely with other top VC firms and their portfolio companies. He is currently the CEO of LeadrPro, the first software marketplace directly connecting sellers with buyers of software.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Look at failure more as a learning exercise, and that perspective shift unlocks everything. You go at it long enough and you fail nine times, that tenth time, you're going to probably find the one thing that's going to work.
2. You could pretty much build anything with code. The matrix is real. There's creators and there's consumers and you can choose which side of the spectrum you want to be on the matrix.
3. All the founders, every single one of them goes into a room not thinking that they're the smartest person. Ego has to be stripped away. Their eagerness and willingness to learn from others to hire people that are smarter than them, that is that's another key component to it all.
Discover the most innovative software, while getting paid - Leadr Pro
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Mike Stemple has built 20+ startups, is an expert at ideation, innovation, and startup psychology, and advises corporate executives and innovation teams on how to “think and act more entrepreneurial.”
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It has never been easier and more profitable to be an entrepreneur in all of history, even going into this economic environment we are. Great companies were created in scarcity. Scarcity breeds creativity.
2. The innovator psychology is focused on creation and making things, being curious and tracking down new ways of optimizing that machinery.
3. Fierceness is a powerful and heartfelt intensity. Great innovator have an emotional fierceness about them. They have this intensity when they talk about their ideas, this passion that just comes through in the presentation of their ideas, that's lacking in the corporate environment.
Visit Mike's Website - Inspirer
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Aasha T is the CEO & Founder of BeyondEQ, High-Achiever Coach & Energy Guide for rapid shifts in business, health & love. She started her business two years ago while her world was burning down and still took $500k from Day 1. Emotional Intelligence Creates Unicorns, it’s ALL about momentum.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Momentum works in every direction. So, if you're doing nothing, you're still building momentum of inaction. If you're building momentum toward growth you're going to grow.
2. Emotional intelligence is so often, it's often considered a soft skill, but it is anything but that. It is having the awareness of your emotions in the moment and then using that information of your energy in motion.
3. The biggest problem with emotionally intelligent and inward focused businesses is actually having enough jobs because everybody wants to work there.
Connect with Aasha on LinkedIn - Aasha's Linkedin
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Sharon Brown is founder of eLuminateNetwork and the Product Launch Lab® member community that helps entrepreneurs transform any idea for a physical product or service into a revenue-ready launch. She is a tech entrepreneur, angel investor, and creator of award-winning products featured in the Grammy gift bags.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. A physical product or service should be a core deliverable that you can hand to someone.
2. If you do not know what your product or service looks like, you are automatically set up for failure.
3. Get focused. Get knowledge. Get Ready.
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A former corporate slave, Chala Dincoy is the CEO of The Repositioning Expert. She’s a Marketing Strategist who helps B2B service providers reposition their message to successfully sell to corporations.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The biggest mistake of a business is not pivoting to the new market needs and resisting packaging their wisdom to sell online.
2. The best way to stand out is to super-niche.
3. The #1 way to differentiate in the pandemic - or before or after or without a pandemic - is to super-niche.
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John Donovan earned a scholarship to Vanderbilt after walking on to the team. 12 years in pro football: NFL, AFL, XFL, CFL. 12 years as a chiropractor. And author of 8 books covering concussions, natural vision correction, and more.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The Power of Focus is important to achieve your set goal. The tricky part is if you put your whole life to focus on one goal, and you do not have anything set after that, there is a big let down.
2. It is important to not only focus on what you want, but also have action steps listed out so you can have specific things to do that will help you achieve your goal.
3. You can do whatever you want in life - you decide what happens. If you want to be healthy, you make the right decisions to get you where you want to go. There will be challenges, but look at it as an adventure.
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Maya Nazareth is an award-winning entrepreneur transforming the world of women's MMA. She started Alchemize Fightwear at 20 years old with $2K to her name. Alchemize is now a multiple 6-figure business disrupting the athletic apparel space.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. It's not about you, it's about the customer.
2. Creating immense value for the people around you who interact with the brand and turn it into an ecosystem that benefits that community and that customer.
3. Work with those customers or those community members to develop the solution with them to creating evangelist customers and de-risking your business.
Follow Maya on Instagram - Maya's Instagram
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Nicholas Crown is an AI entrepreneur and creator featured in Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes. He is most known for the viral series "Rich vs Really Rich", which reaches +20M people each week.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Being collaborative and open-minded and putting other people first is the secret to success.
2. Being really rich is not about the dollar amount but about your attitude.
3. Look at the collaborative and competitive path, then choose the collaborative path for 30 days and see what happens.
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Matt Schneider is an Executive VP/Co-Owner of a global SaaS company with a projected valuation of $100M within the next 18 months. He also offers Executive Coaching on Decentralized Command.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Every entrepreneur should always have an end in mind. We should always be looking for opportunities to diversify and freedom that allows us to spend the time that we want in the places we want, when we want with the people we want for as long as we want.
2. Leadership is always the problem and it's always a solution.
3. Focus on leadership first. Recognize that leadership is not a title. It's not a rank. It's not a position. It is a living, breathing thing. If you're going to get to a place to where you can build a big business and a big profitable business that you can be unhandcuffed from, it starts with you.
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Jonathan Page is an entrepreneur in an attorney’s body. He thrives on helping CEOs and business owners rethink their next “blue ocean” and how to scale and sustain profitable business growth.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The titans of businesses today all have a common trait among all of them, and it's that they're absolutely relentless about their business goals.
2. Like achieving breakthrough success in your business, it's the same rules. It's the same process. You have to define what a breakthrough is in your personal life as well.
3. Legal can help mitigate liabilities. The last thing you want is some catastrophic legal situation occurring and you don't have any sort of legal foundation or protection to help you in that situation.
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Re Perez is a Brand Strategist, author, and CEO of Branding For The People, a brand transformation agency that helps entrepreneurs optimize their impact by authentically connecting with their audiences.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Branding is a way of thinking; it is every aspect about you that creates the perception you want to have with the people you are communicating with.
2. Great branding elicits an emotional connection and grabs people's attention. It can be polarizing, and it compels you to take action.
3. Find your unique path; find what is consistent with your passion and create your category. Live your most authentic life, and be your authentic personal brand to be successful in the business that you build.
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Mike Michalowicz is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan, and his newest release Fix This Next. 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.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The thesis of Fix This Next is this: the biggest challenge entrepreneurs have is knowing what their biggest challenge is.
2. The Survival Track is the response you have when you are in crisis.
3. The world is depending on you. You have to make your business successful, and you need to take the right actions immediately. Evaluate your business, and be deliberate in taking the right steps forward.
Pin point what your business needs next from you with Mike's free evaluation! - Fix This Next
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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/income114, and IGNITE!
February 2023 Income At-A-Glance
Gross Income for February: $145,734
Total Expenses for February: $14,596
Total Net Profit for February: $131,138
Difference b/t February & January: -$23,553
% of net profit to overall gross revenue: 90%
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Denise Gosnell is a business strategist, attorney, bestselling author, and investor. Denise owns 3 companies and works an average of 3 days per week and generates 7 figures each year.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Freedom is a mindset, not a destination. You have to choose to have it or you never will.
2. The term "grow by subtraction" means to grow by removing from your To Do List versus adding to it. You're forcing yourself to pick the things that matter and cross off stuff that doesn't. So, you're actually growing by doing less.
3. Build a business around your life and be willing to limit the amount of time that you're willing to work so that you force yourself to focus on what really matters.
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Gerry Powell is the founder of Rythmia Life Advancement Center, the largest medically licensed facility in the world to offer ayahuasca. He is a successful conscious entrepreneur and author focused on building businesses that provide healing to humanity and nature.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. There is no luck when it comes to success.
2. It takes a unique set of skills and personality traits to hang on long enough to experience success in business without being driven from a place of incompleteness.
3. You have to override your instincts and agree that you will not quit and continue creating value.
Check out the website and be awakened to miracles! - Rythmia Website
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René Morkos invented the world’s first generative construction simulator and optimizer. He is the Founder/CEO of ALICE Technologies, which increases construction efficiency using AI, and an adjunct professor at Stanford University.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. No matter your position, the upside, and downside tend to be similar.
2. Do not take the high so high and the low so low, and be gentle with yourself. Do not tie your self-worth to the success of the company.
3. Do not quit, and keep building.
Connect with Rene via email - René's Email
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Ahmed Ejaz is an Optometrist, former UK parliamentary candidate and entrepreneur aiming to build a global British eyewear brand that also helps to end preventable blindness.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You have to be friendly in business to succeed instead of being ruthless.
2. Getting started is challenging, but you can surpass it by being well-rounded.
3. Have a passion for what you do, and be genuine and friendly. It is essential to build relationships in a good way.
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Joel Jensen is a CPA and CEO of Tax Sentry. Joel started his career at Ernst and Young. His specialties include forensic accounting and advanced tax strategy.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Look at taxes with a different mindset.
2. Go to someone who is an expert with the taxes and have someone available for you throughout the year who does tax planning with you.
3. Have great business optimization and have proper documentation for the type of money that you spend on your business.
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Jake Cohen leads Product Marketing at Klaviyo. He loves his family, marketing funnels, and golf - in that order.He started going grey at 9. Draw your own conclusions.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. You should focus on e-commerce brands - or any brand that sells online.
2. If you are in a new essential category, you should increase your ad spend.
3. Klaviyo’s mission is to help businesses grow and to help you see your dream come to life in the real world.
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Moiz Ali is the Founder of Native, the fastest growing CPG company in the United States. The company was acquired by Procter & Gamble for $100 Million in 2017.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. The founder is the backbone of the growth of the business.
2. Random ideas appear and suddenly become great ideas.
3. Be as frugal as possible and wear it as your badge of honor; it is how you will build a successful business.
Follow and get to know more about Moiz - Moiz's Instagram
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Dream Believe is a podcast about following your dreams and believing in yourself. George DeMartino taps into stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things to help us all learn how. His passionate storytelling and unique interviews will inspire you to Dream Believe.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Vulnerability is an asset to being successful.
2. You can achieve your dreams by focusing on what you want to do and chasing it, no matter what.
3. Put yourself into the arena and get started.
Learn more about the book and George's story - Dream Believe Never Give Up Website
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Eugene Nilus Emigrated with his family from Ukraine to San Francisco in 1997 at 19. He started college but didn't finish it. He spent more than 20 years in tech by being an engineer and then marketer. He got involved in Real Estate 3 years ago. After being laid off in the past 5 months, he decided to devote time to grow the hard money lending business. He has been married for 14 years to his wife and raising two great kids.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Do not be afraid to fail. Do not get stuck in education mode and analysis paralysis. Educate yourself a little bit, take action, and surround yourself with people who have already achieved what you want to achieve.
2. There are so many beliefs that got placed in our brains since we were kids that they put false perceptions of what's possible and what's not.
3. If you're starting to think about getting into private money lending, #1 is education, #2 is product, #3 clients, #4 capital and #5 education. Educating yourself more to fill those gaps so it becomes like an infinite loop.
Visit and schedule an appointment with Eugene! Get double digits returns with low-risk investments backed by real estate - Y2 Lending
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Owen Video is the founder of Acceleratus Media and the award-winning YouTube Growth Strategist and High-Performance Business Coach behind the Nation’s Most Visible & Influential leaders and brands.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Having a vision for the future and being willing to refine it consistently to get where you want to go is essential.
2. A revenue strategy is a pathway to 6-figures on Youtube within your first year.
3. Focus on your goal, helping your viewers experience transformation, and your best content will appear every time you press record.
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