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Aaron Christopher (A.C.) Evans is a pioneer in conversational marketing and is the Co-founder and CEO of Drips.com. Drips is a conversational texting company leading the way for some of the biggest brands in the world. They use automated, humanized conversations at scale for companies like Liberty Mutual, Creditrepair.com, and many more. Drips engages in millions of completed humanized conversations with zero client-side human resources or operators. In this episode… How badly do you want your business to grow and become known for what it does? You may have seen some successes in your current business setup, but if you want to sustain it, there are some things you need to do to make sure that happens. A.C. Evans knows this first hand as he recalls the inspiring story of his company, Drips, and how he and his business partners bootstrapped it and brought the company to where it is today.  In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews A.C. Evans of Drips.com about bootstrapping your company a

Mike Michalowicz is the author of Fix This Next, Profit First, Clockwork, The Pumpkin Plan, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, and more. By his 35th birthday, Mike had founded and sold two companies, one to private equity and another to a Fortune 500 company. Today he's running his third multi-million dollar venture, Profit First Professionals. In this episode… The most significant challenges entrepreneurs face are not knowing their biggest challenge and not having the time to figure it out. This is why many entrepreneurs end up devoting their lives to serving their business instead of the other way around. And according to Mike Michalowicz, there is a way for entrepreneurs to be able to make their businesses run like clockwork, giving them more time and bandwidth to do other things. Tune in to this episode of Inspired Insider as Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews Mike Michalowicz, renowned author of the book Fix This Next, about his insights on how to have your business run seamlessly without you. They’ll be discussing

Steve Adams is the CEO of Tiger Neuroscience, a company that helps decode and optimize human performance. It’s a science-based approach to improving performance and their formula is performance equals skill minus interference.  Steve went from being the largest franchisee of a national pet supply chain to Tiger Neuroscience. Their mission is to contribute to the well-being and performance transformation of people and they specifically help professionals, entrepreneurs, and biohackers. In this episode… How can you optimize your performance and guarantee top-quality results with every output you deliver? According to Steve Adams, people may have the skills they need to deliver but with seemingly insurmountable interferences, they’re unable to truly give their 100% when doing their tasks and reaching for their goals.  What does Steve mean by interference, how do they impact your performance, and how can you get rid of them so that you can blaze your way to the top of your success ladder? On this episode of INsp

Dov Gordon is the Alchemist Entrepreneur and he is Founder of JVMM Group and ProfitableRelationships.com where he helps consultants, coaches, and entrepreneurs develop a consistent flow of their ideal clients by creating their own alchemy network. He trains and coaches entrepreneurs to become an Under-The-Radar leader in their industry so that they can play by a different set of rules and earn more clients. In this episode… Relationship marketing is hard and unpredictable. It involves finding and reaching out to potential clients or referral sources and hoping that they give you the time of day, and it also hinges on a mere possibility that the connection might be mutually beneficial. But what if there was a way to bring these people together in such a way that you can leverage your relationships in ways you never thought possible? Well, there is a way, and it is what Dov Gordon calls the Alchemy Network. It is a way to turn your relationship marketing from a time sink into a brand new revenue stream.  Learn

Dr. Cortney Baker is the Founder and CEO of Baker Management Group. She is also the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of KidsCare Home Health, a multi-million dollar enterprise providing speech, physical, occupational, and nursing services to children with special needs from Texas to Colorado. The company has more than 650 employees and has provided healthcare to over 40,000 children with special needs.  Dr. Baker also coaches female entrepreneurs on how to start and scale their service-based businesses. She's the author of Unlimited: Conquering the Myth of the Glass Ceiling and the bestselling book, The 10 Do's and Don'ts for Business Leaders. She went from a single teenage mom on Medicaid and food stamps, working double shifts as a pregnant waitress to Texas Businesswoman of the year. In this episode… How hard can life and business get? Just when Dr. Cortney Baker thought she was out of the woods and ready to expand her business, one of her employees committed fraud that almost made her lose her comp

Don Yaeger is an award-winning keynote speaker, business leadership coach, and an eleven-time New York Times best-selling author. He has published more than two dozen books and has profiled some top leaders, athletes, coaches such as John Wooden, Walter Payton, Michael Jordan, and many more. In this episode… “Make each day your masterpiece.” This is Don Yaeger’s favorite quote from Coach John Wooden, and he tries to live by it by choosing to write books that can only be described as a masterpiece. Don has published 11 books that have landed him as a New York Times best-selling author and he intends to continue writing stories with meaning and impact. He is intent on creating legacies that will leave an impression on people’s lives and he is able to do this through the multiple hats he wears that allows him to touch people's lives, and quite possibly, to share it through a book. Join Dr. Jeremy Weisz in this episode of Inspired Insider as he interviews 11-time New York Times best selling author, Don Yaeger, a

Adam Feldman is the Vice President of Business Development at Kendago B2C Media, a media company that drives massive volumes of high-converting traffic for themselves and their clients.  Kendago owns and sells a direct-to-consumer product called Trim Down Club through which they’ve helped over 2 million customers lose weight and live healthier lives. Their success with Trim Down Club has been the magnet that attracted clients from all over the world who are looking to work with an agency that has a proven track record in running successful PPC and monetization strategies. In this episode… How can you turn a traffic that’s gone cold and possibly even drying into a market that’s warm and ready to take what you have to offer? Kendago started 15 years ago as an affiliate marketing company that utilized video sales letters and other strategies to reach out to their audience and convert them into sales. Theirs is an inspirational success story that started with the launch of their direct-to-consumer product, Trim

Dan Kuschell is an accomplished entrepreneur, business coach, and former CEO of Genius Network. He's run 11 companies since 1992 and built many of these businesses to revenues exceeding eight-figures with one of them growing to a 170-strong team before Dan sold it.  Dan currently runs Breakthrough3x, and he helps founders and entrepreneurs triple their profits and impact without multiplying their stress levels. He's coached over 5000 business owners, had over 200,000 clients, and has allowed over a million people to enjoy his educational resources. Dan also hosts Growth to Freedom Show where he discusses how people can transform their lives, business, and relationships using a fresh mix of strategy, resources, entertainment, and survival guide that creates the personal and business breakthrough they need for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. In this episode… One main reason people aren’t buying from you or aren’t buying enough is because of the uncertainty that your offer conveys. It could also be

Steve Dobbins is the Founder and CEO of The Dobbins Group, a full-service consultancy solving marketing and communications challenges. For more than 20 years, Steve has worked side-by-side with CEOs, helping them grow their brands. He’s helped brands such as IBM Watson Talent, Crumpl, Tarsadia Foundation, OCO Biomedical, SWIMS, and more. In this episode… Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, some companies have been able to pivot their businesses and blazed a new path for their marketing strategies. But so many other businesses have stuck to their old practices and are not getting the result they expect from their marketing efforts at all, particularly at a time when things have just gone into completely unknown territory. Steve Dobbins, who has over 20 years of experience marketing and growing big brands, says the first mistake they are making is running their marketing in a vacuum. So what exactly are they doing wrong and how should you market your business during this crisis and thrive?  Join Dr. Jeremy Weisz as

Steve Adams is the CEO of Tiger Neuroscience, a company that helps decode and optimize human performance. It’s a science-based approach to improving performance and their formula is performance equals skill minus interference.  Steve went from being the largest franchisee of a national pet supply chain to Tiger Neuroscience. Their mission is to contribute to the well being and performance transformation of people, and they specifically help professionals, entrepreneurs, and biohackers. In this episode… Everyone wants a high-performing workforce to drive their company’s growth, but not a lot of people know how to reach that goal. Steve Adams has cracked the human performance code and grew a pet supplies shop into a hundred million dollar company, and he says that a big part of that is intrinsic motivation because you can’t motivate anyone consistently externally.  Learn more about Steve Adams of Tiger Neuroscience in this episode of the INspired INsider Podcast with Dr. Jeremy Weisz. They will be talking abou

Joseph Grenny is the co-founder of VitalSmarts, one of the most respected corporate training and organizational development companies globally with clients representing 300 of the Fortune 500 companies.  Joseph also co-founded The Other Side Academy, which is a two year, peer-run residential school for those with deeply broken lives. They help people with long histories of crime, homelessness, and addiction to transform their lives at no cost to them or the government. He is the Chairman of the Board of Unitus Labs, a nonprofit on a mission to reduce global poverty through economic self-empowerment. They've deployed over a billion dollars globally to battle poverty. Joseph is a four-time New York Times bestselling author with seven books to his credit, including Crucial Conversations, Crucial Accountability, Influencer, and Change Anything. In this episode… Change is hard-hitting and more often than not, it will require you to sacrifice ego, time, and money. But if you have to choose between sacrificing your

Kim Walsh Phillips is a multiple seven-figure business entrepreneur with no business degree. She has put more than a billion dollars in her clients’ pockets through direct response and social media marketing.  Kim is also the Founder of Powerful Professionals, where she empowers entrepreneurs to stop relying on word-of-mouth marketing and start scaling quickly online. She is the best selling author of the book No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, which she co-authored with Dan S. Kennedy. She’s also a renowned public speaker who has spoken at different conferences worldwide and has shared the stage with the likes of Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk. In this episode… Let's face it, not all marketing strategies on social media are great. In fact, some of them are downright terrible. And according to Kim Walsh Phillips, about 87% of businesses on there have no trackable ROI because they aren't doing anything to track them. With the skyrocketing activity levels on social media activity since t

David Nevogt is a Co-founder of Hubstaff.com, a SaaS time tracking, project management, and employee development platform. David co-founded Hubstaff in 2012 out of a personal pain and a need to be free. He runs the day-to-day marketing, operations, and support for the company as there are over 34,000 companies that trust Hubstaff, including companies like Groupon. Instacart, Ring Doorbell, ClickFunnels, and many more. In this episode… You’d be hard-pressed to find an entrepreneur who wouldn’t wish for more hours in a day just so they can finish everything that they want to do in order to scale their business. But the problem isn’t in how much time they have but on how they spend their time. See, a lot of entrepreneurs don’t really know where their time goes, let alone that of their team members and this gray area is where the opportunity to focus on high-value activities that can help scale any business gets lost. David Nevogt knows firsthand how difficult it is to keep track of everything that’s going on in

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital, and negotiation, and has raised over $2 billion in investments for his companies. He is the best-selling author of Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal, and Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea.  Oren also helps companies worldwide to craft and deliver a pitch that will help them raise funds that will change their company. In this episode… If you're looking to raise millions in capital or you’re wanting to close B2B deals worth millions and you're struggling to lock down the second or third meetings, Oren Klaff says it’s most probably because you're going about it the wrong way. He says that when your pitch is only about your product's features, benefits, and the clients you currently serve with nothing else but the price to talk about, what is to say that those you're pitching to won't go with your competitors?  According to Oren, no one will get into a dea

Kim Walsh Phillips is a multi seven-figure business entrepreneur with no business degree and she has put more than a billion dollars in her clients’ pockets through direct response, social media marketing.  Kim is also the Founder of Powerful Professionals, where she empowers entrepreneurs to stop relying on word-of-mouth marketing and start scaling quickly online. She is the best selling author of the book No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing which she co-authored with Dan S. Kennedy. She’s also a renowned public speaker who has spoken at different conferences all over the world and has shared the stage with the likes of Tony Robbins and Gary Vaynerchuk. In this episode… The entrepreneurial journey has many hustle moments. These are moments when even if you’re lacking in resources or have no idea what your next move will be, you just can’t say no. So what do you do? You get resourceful. And that’s exactly what Kim Walsh did when she encountered her very first hustle moment. In this episod

Dave Woodward is the Chief Revenue Officer and Partner of ClickFunnels. The platform helps businesses quickly create beautiful sales funnels that convert their visitors into leads and then into customers. ClickFunnels has over 100,000 users and has helped people build over 6 million funnels generating over $4 billion. Before ClickFunnels, Dave started his company Monopolized 17 years ago and has been helping businesses grow in different industries from insurance, investments, real estate, and much more. Dave is also the host of the Funnel Hacker Radio podcast. In this episode… The current business climate isn’t the best of time for many entrepreneurs around the world because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses have had to let go of some members of their team because they weren’t generating the same revenue due to a decrease in revenue. But according to Dave Woodward of ClickFunnels, every loss is a learning opportunity and it helps define who you are as an entrepreneur. So what can you do to not only attract

Oren Klaff is one of the world's leading experts on sales, raising capital, and negotiation, and he has raised over $2 billion in investments for his companies. He is the best-selling author of Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal, and Flip the Script: Getting People to Think Your Idea Is Their Idea.  Oren helps companies worldwide to craft and deliver a pitch that will help them raise funds that will change their company. In this episode… There are low and high points in business and life, but how quickly you come back from a low point determines how you can flip things around for the better. For Oren Klaff, there are just four words that he uses to motivate himself in order to come back up after reaching a low point in business. Tune in to this episode of INspired INsider, as Oren Klaff shares with Dr. Jeremy Weisz how he gets back up after reaching a low point in business and how a seemingly innocent exchange made him realize the importance of messaging.  

Johnathan Dane is the CEO and Founder of KlientBoost, a hybrid PPC SEO agency that has grown from zero to eight figures in just the past few years. KlientBoost is a creative pay-per-click and paid social and landing page conversion rate optimization agency pushing the boundaries of ROI and profit potential for over 200 active clients in SaaS, eCommerce, and lead generation.  Johnathan is also the Co-Founder of GrowthComet, a training platform that assists agencies, consultants, and freelancers looking to 10x their service business through a community and 12-month training course. In this episode… Many marketing agencies, ironically, don’t know how to market themselves. Marketing agencies play in a very saturated market where they have to compete against other marketers to attract potential clients to sign on with them. For Johnathan Dane of KlientBoost, succeeding at marketing as an agency and not having to depend on referrals for the next client requires a deliberate focus on differentiation.  How do you dif

Ian Garlic is a top video marketing and content expert. He is the founder of StoryCrews, a company that helps businesses connect with top-rated videographers to help businesses market and expand their brand through powerful stories captured on video. He is also the CEO of authenticWEB, a top-rated SEO company that helps businesses grow by sharing authentic stories online through a combination of videos, animations, websites, and SEO. Ian also runs and hosts his own podcast, the Garlic Marketing Show podcast, where he has featured some amazing guests such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Neil Patel, Ryan Deiss, and many more. In this episode… Did you know that testimonials are actually hurting your business? Customer testimonials provide a huge ego boost in business but it doesn’t really leave much of an impact to future potential customers. So how can you share client feedback in a way that not only catches people’s eyes but sticks? You create case stories.  But not everyone knows how to tell a story and not a lot of peop

Nick Araco is the Chairman and CEO of AchieveNEXT, a company that helps introduce disruptive knowledge sharing to the c-suite, the Finance, and the HR communities in North America. Considered as one of the nation’s most prominent business, career, and life Connector, as well as the ‘Voice of the Middle Market CFO, Nick has spent over 20 years educating, inspiring, and empowering his ever-growing c-suite and professional network. In this episode… Entrepreneurial decisions are tough calls to make. And these days, it’s even more difficult to make financial decisions because the repercussions can lead to a domino effect within your business and outside of it. This is why for Nick Araco, it’s crucial to have a support system and a network that can help you study your decisions so that you can get to the most optimal solution and get to an informed decision. And that is exactly what Nick has been up to with AchieveNEXT and his CFO Alliance Community In this episode of INspired INsider, Dr. Jeremy Weisz interviews N