Entrepreneurs Start Here

This week's episode is with Riley Butcher, an alumni of College Pro who now works as a Business Coach with WSI. Riley talks about what he learned, why he's grateful for the experience, and how he's been able to use these skills in all of his endeavours since running a business with College Pro. Check it out! 

Nicholas Waldram ran a College Pro franchise from 2017-2019. Through this experience, he learned the foundations that would help him to start his own business, EaveSafe. Listen in to see how Nicholas did it, and how he believes College Pro played a fundamental role in his entrepreneurial journey. 

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!! Today's episode is with a Muskoka-born female entrepreneur, Danielle Ryan! Danielle is not an alumni of College Pro, but is a fellow entrepreneur who shares the same mindset. Danielle tells us how she got started, from quitting her corporate job to evolving as a business coach, she shares the steps she took to start. Check out her story here! 

Our guest on the pod today is Alex Pezutto, a College Pro alumni. Listen in on Alex's story as he shares how he got started as an entrepreneur (and no, he wasn't born a natural selling lemonade at 5 years old). Alex has started 7 ventures over the last 7 years, learned many lessons, and has achieved great success, a lot of which he attributes to fundamental selling skills he learned at College Pro. Check it out! 

Today's guest is none other than a valued College Pro alumni! Mohit Kanyan was a franchisee back in 2018. Mohit tells us his story, how he got started as an immigrant to Canada, and where he's headed now. He credits learning small business management from his days with College Pro. Tune in to find out what he's been able to do with his entrepreneurial skillset. Enjoy! 

This week's episode features a fellow window cleaner! Jersey is the owner of Window Cleaning Nation, and is a passionate entrepreneur. Listen in as Quinten and Owen discuss what it takes to start a business, what trait Jersey believes will set you apart, and what he is up to now. Enjoy!  

Casey Clark, CEO of Cultivate has constantly shared his love for College Pro and the entrepreneurial start he got from his experience, and how his experience with College Pro fuelled his passion and desire to help business owners optimize for growth.

Casey started his entrepreneurial journey at the tender age of 10 when he started rollerblading paper routes with his Dad. By 18, he was running his own College Pro franchise. In his third year with College Pro, he was one of the top performers in the company. While still pursuing his college degree, he became a General Manager with the company so he could learn to coach and teach others how to grow their own successful College Pro business.  

Over the next 7 years, Casey became Vice President and bought in as a Partner with College Pro. In 2015, after promoting someone to replace himself, he partnered up with another College Pro alumni and together they started Cultivate Advisors.  

Cultivate is one of the fastest growing small business coaching and advising firms in North America.  In 2019, Cultivate was the 280th INC fastest growing company in the US and the company has made the list every year since.  At this point, Cultivate has partnered with over 2,000 businesses and has a staff of over 100 full time entrepreneurial employees. The company continues its growth as it works towards its vision of a World Made Better by Entrepreneurs. 

Think this episode is about teaching you how to power pose? Think again! Aaron Mansoor, a College Pro alumni and current Franchise Owner shares his story of HOW he got started as a business owner. From studying business to coining himself a life long learner, Aaron put theory to action in university. Serving over 1000 customers in his career, he is taking the window cleaning world by storm in the GTA. 

Aaron explains why he loves College Pro, what he learned when he left and ultimately what brought him back to the Franchise Ownership opportunity. Tune in to hear his story! 

This week's episode is a good one (we're biased but we won't lie). Quinte and Owen get the chance to sit down with Ruth Agbaji, Founder and CEO of CodeWiz. Ruth's story is a powerful one, and hopefully you can resonate with pieces of her story to your own. We talk the power of mentorship, the importance of structure in order to scale a business, and HOW Ruth got started with CodeWiz (fun fact: she says she tried and failed at 11 different businesses before this one!) 

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This week we talk to Tony Valle, CEO of College Pro. He talks about how he got to where he is today and what goes into building a successful people first company. He talks about the importance of training and how important the development of skills and abilities are to creating a cohesive team. 

Tony talks about what its like to leave a company, and comeback and the importance of perspective on everything you do. We also talk about the behavior and mindset of the youth of today and how for better or for worse todays climate is much different than it was 30 years ago. 

We hope you enjoy this week's interview!

This week we reflected on our new year's resolutions of the past and present. Our hosts talk about what has worked and what has not in the past and how long they have actually been able to keep their resolutions. This quickly turns into a conversation about goal setting, and the importance of changing your habits to better yourself. 

The new year is a good excuse to make these changes but it is self discipline and hard work that make you keep these habits permanently. Follow along with us and we will see how long our hosts will hold on. 

We have another solo episode this week without a guest. Owen and Quinten talk about common mistakes entrepreneurs make early on in their career and think back to the mistakes that they themselves made as well. They talk about their experiences as business coaches and how they have seen young entrepreneurs make mistakes but most importantly they describe how they helped them move forward.

The second half of the podcast is answering questions that were submitted by the audience. We had 3 people talk about their experience so far with their entrepreneurial endeavors and our coaches helped guide them and provide next steps to allow them to continue their journey. 

Merry Christmas from us at ESH and we will see you in the new year!!!

This week's episode is a little different. Instead of having a guest to interview, our hosts let you into their lives a bit more. They give you a background on their experiences and explain how they got here. The conversation also covers some current events and then our hosts go through some entrepreneurial scenarios and they explain what they would do.

We hope you enjoy and if you have any feedback or questions for our hosts you can find us on social media here:

Instagram & Tiktok: @esh_pod

You can email us at entrepreneursstarthere@collegepro.com

 On this week's episode we talk to Jessie and Flo from Fuzz Wax Bar, a membership waxing service in the GTA. They tell a great story about how they found each other as friends, and started their business working 8 hours a day in a coffee shop to growing Fuzz into what it is today. 

That's not to say they have not worked through their hardships as they talked about the major restructuring they had to do throughout the COVID pandemic, and how it taught them how important it was to rely on each other to get through it. We also talk about the merits of franchising and how their business model is not like your typical spa.

We hope you enjoy this conversation that shows what a little outside the box thinking can do. 

You can find out more about Fuzz Wax Bar here:

Instagram: @fuzzwaxbar

Facebook: Fuzz Wax Bar

Website: fuzzwaxbar.com

This week's interview is with two people who started a forward thinking clothing brand that mixed their passion for the environment and business. Outreal apparel is an athleisure brand that focuses on sustainability and creating a positive environmental impact. Creating a brand with such a strong philosophy and ethos takes a particular vision and approach that gets discussed in detail over the course of the podcast. 

They talk about their branding and marketing, how they adapted and changed throughout COVID, how they narrow their scope and agree on ideas while also being partners outside of the business, and much more. They also provide key details to the logistics of their ecommerce business and how they handle their inventory. 

This was a very insightful and entertaining conversation with two people who care a lot about their business and how their business impacts the world. We hope you enjoy!

Find out more about Outreal apparel and some giveaways they are offering on their social media!

Instagram: @outrealapparel

Facebook: @Outreal

Tiktok: @outrealapparel

Website: https://outreal.ca/

This week on the podcast we talk to Shayanne Tan from Beauty Compass. Beauty Compass is a digital marketing agency targeted at medical spas. She talks about finding her niche, building up a client base and taking advantage of what you know, while also using all the resources available to you to learn more. They also discuss risk taking, and not being afraid to go in a new direction or try something new, especially when it is something you care about.

Another key piece of the conversation is centered around the learning process of starting your own business and the idea that you cannot do everything yourself. This conversation shows the expansiveness of digital marketing and how there is always room for growth for you up and coming entrepreneurs!

If you want to see more of what Beauty Compass has to offer check them out here:

Instagram: @beauty.compass

Website: beautycompass.biz

This week our hosts sit down with Brayden Leonard, founder of Reach'EM Marketing as they talk about everything in the world of digital marketing. They discuss how he started and how he transformed what started off as a passion project into a successful money making business.  

Brayden describes some of the tenants of successful digital marketing and talks about the learning process of releasing some control and allowing other people within your business take on more responsibility. 

They finish their conversation with Brayden sharing some wisdom for entrepreneurs coming up in the digital marketing space or in any other field. 

You can find Brayden and Reach'EM Marketing here:

Website: https://reachemmarketing.com/

Instagram: @reachemmarketing

You won't want to miss this... in today's episode, Quinten and Owen discuss the traits that they believe make successful leaders and entrepreneurs. Our second guest is Rich Diviney, a former navy seal. Rich shares with the 2021 College Pro franchise owners about his time going through BUDS BootCamp, and what attributes he believes helped him successfully complete such an intense grind. 

Rich, like many entrepreneurs, knows the importance of GRIT and resilience. Check it out to hear how this can help you in the starting days of your business. 

You can find Rich and his new book, The Attributes, here: https://theattributes.com/

"During his twenty years as a Navy SEAL, Commander Rich Diviney was intimately involved in the world-renowned SEAL selection process, which whittles exceptional candidates down to a small cadre of the most elite optimal performers. But Diviney was often surprised by which recruits washed out and which succeeded. Someone could have all the right skills and still fail, while recruits he might have initially dismissed would prove to be top performers. The seemingly objective criteria weren't telling him what he most needed to know: Who could be part of the world's most elite military unit?

Through years of observation, Diviney learned to identify a successful recruit's core Attributes, the innate traits for how a person performs as an individual and as part of a team. That same methodology can be used by anyone in their personal or professional lives.

In this book, the key Attributes for success-- including cunning, adaptability, even narcissism--are defined in fresh and surprising ways, and Diviney shows how they can be applied to a team as readily as a person. Understanding your own attributes and those of the people around you can fast-track optimal performance in all areas of your life." 

We talk to Aaron Anders this week, someone whom both of our hosts know very well. Aaron is the President of College Pro and also runs a very successful fishing weight business, Woo! Tungsten. The conversation starts by going over what entrepreneurship means to Aaron and how the entrepreneurial spirit is something that captivated him at a very young age. 

The conversation then shifts to the development and growth of small business and the importance of balancing logistics with marketing, and we talk about how some decisions may come more naturally than others. Aaron talks about the ups and downs of running a business in an area that he is passionate in and how it feels to see this business grow in directions that he never really expected.

We finish the conversation with Aaron doing some reflecting and giving advice to the next generation of entrepreneurs and business people, using what he has learned up to this point in his career to inspire and teach those of us coming next. 

You can find out more about Woo! Tungsten here:

Instagram: @wootungsten

Facebook: Woo Tungsten

Website: https://www.wootungsten.com

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Today's episode is a hot topic: building an e-commerce business! We chat about niches, social media strategy, and how to monetize your social accounts. Dakotah is a College Pro alumni, and we're excited for you to listen in with founder and owner of Got'Em Hunting, Dakotah Syvret! 

You can find Got 'Em hunting online at https://gotemhunting.com/ and on IG at @gotemhunting. 

Welcome to episode 1 of the Entrepreneurs Start Here Podcast. In this episode, you'll hear from our hosts and business coaches, Owen Healey and Quinten McKinley, as they interview Steve Tallis, Co-Founder of Starks Barber Company. They start by talking to Steve about his transition from working in a corporate office to setting out on his own and building his business from scratch. They touch on the risks, rewards, and ultimate freedom that entrepreneurship can provide and how the business model he was able to set up has made the hardships of the pandemic a little bit more bearable. 

You can find Steve at: 

https://www.instagram.com/starksbarberco/?hl=en

@starksbarberco

Check out our show notes for a more detailed description of the episode! Enjoy!