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Published on 08 Feb 2017. On this episode I have a very special guest who you all may know from Rob & Big and Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory, my good friend Christopher "Big Black" Boykin. Spending 3 years in Guam and being a chef in the Navy he moved to San Diego & started his own security/limo business where he doubled as security and driver. Around this time he was picked to become Rob Dyrdek's security for the DC Skateboarding Video in which he formed his bond that everyone knows from MTV's Rob & Big.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Published on 08 Oct 2012. Learn how adjusting your course is beneficial on today’s episode of Seth Godin’s Startup School. This week Seth describes how being a consultant differs from being an entrepreneur, explains how he came to own a 40 billion dollar t-shirt, and starts to ask the group a series of questions that every entrepreneur should be able to answer.

Published on 04 Oct 2016. My guest this week is as effervescent and ‘glass half full’ as the come.  Her name is Rachel Cruze, and she’s the daughter of one of the most respected and, in some circles, reviled money experts of our time. That would be Dave Ramsey. I happen to think he’s brilliant but, I’ll admit, he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. Letting that get in the way of hearing what Rachel has to say today though would be a huge mistake. Rachel co-wrote her first book, Smart Money Smart Kids, with her dad, a smart move that enabled her to be touted as a bestselling author for the launch of book two, her first solo endeavor. In her new book, Love Your Life Not Theirs, Rachel shares her thoughts on the power of habits, and the need to leverage them for being smarter with your money. The first one – Quit the Comparisons – is alone worth the price of the book. Join in on our chat below Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In today’s episode, Rachel and I discuss: * Practical steps you can take

Published on 25 Apr 2013. In this episode, I explain my "calculation" of what I call life-work balance (because I work to live) and therefore life proceeds work, but perhaps not in the way you think. Note: I'll add this one final thought credited to my fellow productivity enthusiast and journalism professor Kenna Griffin (who you can find blogging at profkrg.com) who coined life-work balance instead as "Work-Life Negotiation" since all of life is a negotiation.I hear people tell me often that I "work too much." While this may seem like the case, I can assure you that's not the case. I have a different paradigm about the definition of "work" and how it fits into my life. Life is dynamic and long-term process. Instead of worrying about if you're working too much (and definitely worrying about whether someone else is working too much), I suggest that you determine how satisfied you are with how you spend your time. And, you know what I'm going to say...there's only one way to know that...track your time! In thi

Published on 04 Feb 2016. Extra credit is where we go over information that is niche or too time consuming to go over in the normal episode.

Published on 12 May 2017. Gregg Renfrew is the founder and CEO of Beautycounter, a cosmetics company with a mission: making safer products accessible to everyone. Gregg has been an entrepreneur since college when she started a cleaning business on Nantucket to earn money to study abroad. In 1997, she launched The Wedding List - a company she sold to Martha Stewart Living. She continued to establish herself in the fashion and retail world, but it was the realization of the toxins and cancer-causing ingredients in makeup that propelled this mother of three to create Beautycounter. Renfrew explains how she is changing the beauty and skin care industry, shares her best advice for entrepreneurs She also dishes on her biggest mistakes along the way and why cold-calling can really pay off. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Beautycounter: http://www.beautycounter.com Follow Gregg on Twitter: @GreggRenfrew Follow Gregg on Instagram: @Greggrenfew * ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS:  Rebecca Jar

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Published on 22 Feb 2019. Most people still don’t know what affiliate marketing is. Well today’s guest understood it so well that he created a business that would allow anyone to start an affiliate program. Greg Shepard is the founder of AffiliateTraction (renamed Pepperjam) which is a multinational affiliate marketing agency and was acquired by eBay. I want to find out why he thought of himself as a failure and why he actually might have been one for a while. Greg Shepard is the founder of AffiliateTraction (renamed Pepperjam) which is a multinational affiliate marketing agency and was acquired by eBay. Sponsored by ActiveCampaign – Improve your marketing & sales processes by upgrading to an automated platform. Start sending follow-up that adapts to your customers’ behavior so you are sending the perfect message at the perfect time. You’ll have happier customers and higher conversions. See why over 150,000 marketers use ActiveCampaign to create intelligent marketing that gets better results. If you’re w

Published on 24 May 2017. If you’re Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect. But there are almost no Steve Jobs’ in the world. For the rest of us, If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released it too late. Imperfect is perfect. Why? Because your assumptions about what people want are never exactly right. Most entrepreneurs create great products through a tight feedback loop with real customers using a real product. So don’t fear imperfections; they won’t make or break your company. What will make or break you is speed. And no one knows this better than Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. He shares the origin story of his famous mantra, “move fast and break things” and how this ethos applied as Facebook evolved from student project to tech giant.

Published on 14 Jul 2017. Bloomberg View columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews Ed Thorp, one of the most storied people in finance. A math professor at MIT and UC Ivine, Thorp figured out how to beat Las Vegas at blackjack and baccarat, created statistical arbitrage, and ran a hedge fund that not only beat the market by a wide margin, but never had a losing quarter. He is the author of several books, including "Beat the Dealer" and "Beat the Market"; his latest book is "A Man for All Markets." Thorp tells Ritholtz that the secret to beating the market is having an edge that's specific, definable and mathematical. If you don't, you should be in index funds instead. This interview aired on Bloomberg Radio.

Published on 23 Apr 2018. Our guidance on how you can improve someone's performance without fully coaching them. We use the example of running a meeting to illustrate.

Published on 11 Jan 2019. Erik Townsend and Patrick Ceresna welcome Chris Cole back to MacroVoices. Erik and Chris dissect the Vol crash in February 2018 and the implicit/explicit short vol risks. They then put perspective on the next phase of the short vol unwind and the impacts of the reduction of central bank balance sheets. They further discuss the link between volatility and the credit cycle and the stock/bond correlation.

Published on 20 Jul 2009. Karel is joined on this episode by special guest UK Psychologist Mandy Kloppers who discusses the important topic of self-confidence. Mandy shares her favorite quotes on the topic and outlines her top 10 ideas for increasing self-confidence. Mandy also recommends the book Mind over Mood as a particularly good source of information on this topic. If you live in the UK, you can also checkout the innovative service she founded called text-tonic. If you live outside the UK, you can still visit the website but for now can't make use of the mobile/cell phone service itself.

Published on 24 Nov 2016. Don Yaeger is a nationally acclaimed speaker, longtime Associate Editor of Sports Illustrated and author of no less than 25 books, 9 of which have become New York Times Best-sellers. As an author, Don has written books with, among others, Hall of Fame running back Walter Payton, UCLA basketball Coach John Wooden, baseball legends John Smoltz and Tug McGraw and football stars Warrick Dunn and Michael Oher (featured in the movie The Blind Side). Don left Sports Illustrated in 2008 to pursue a public speaking career that has allowed him to share stories learned from the greatest winners of our generation with audiences as diverse as Fortune 10 companies to cancer survivor groups, where he shares his personal story. More than a quarter-million people have heard his discussions on “What Makes the Great Ones Great.” He has also built corporate webinar programs on lessons from Great sporting franchises on building Cultures of Success which has naturally led to his newest keynote speech on “

Published on 13 Apr 2017. April 2017 - Monthly Investment Outlook from Bill Gross - Janus Henderson Investors

Published on 08 Jan 2019. This week we discuss why index investing isn’t really speculating because you’re betting on the US to be more prosperous in 10 years than it is today because indexes parallel the US stock market. We talk about what makes the US a good economy (and stock market) to bet on. We analyze the United States using the 4Ms of investing. We discuss why the average PE Ratio of the S&P 500 for the last 100 years has been about 15. Finally, we talk about how recessions typically cycle and what’s going on with the Federal Reserve.Let’s dive into what’s going to happen 2019, if we’re headed for a recession, and the state of the market. For show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. 

Published on 06 Jan 2017. "So… Three things: A widescreen iPod with touch controls. A revolutionary mobile phone. And a breakthrough internet communications device. An iPod… a phone… and an internet communicator… An iPod, a phone… are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device! And we are calling it iPhone.” - Steve Jobs, January 9, 2007 Those words have become so famous in the history of technology that I imagine a large percentage of listeners have them memorized. Ten years ago this Monday, January 9, Steve Jobs stood on stage and announced the iPhone to the world. It was the crowning achievement in the career of the greatest technologist of our time, the moment that the modern era of computing began. On the ten year anniversary of the birth of the iPhone, this is the story of that moment and the history of that device which can take a rightful place alongside the original Macintosh, the first IBM PC, the Apple I, the Altair 8800, the DEC PDP-8, the IBM System/360 and the ENIAC

Published on 07 Dec 2018. This week on Inc. Uncensored, writers and editors discuss the 9 biggest startup acquisitions of 2018. Plus, they talk about Inc.'s best industries for starting a new business in 2019 feature and continue the In the Family series with Diana Nelson, the granddaughter of the founder of Carlson Wagonlit.

Published on 04 Apr 2015. Special Guest: Lee Tanner, long-time CAN SLIM investor and Petaluma, CA IBD Meetup organizer. Notes at investors.com/investingshow.

Published on 29 Oct 2018. Don't let yourself be treated like a cog! Be boring for an old-fashioned personal touch. Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/money-finance/deals-coupons/the-benefits-of-routine-or-why-being-boring-has-its-upsides Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy