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Entrepreneurs Tribe Podcast

Entrepreneurs Tribe Podcast

By Joel Ong

An Apple's #1 Podcast in Entrepreneurship ranked beside Gary Vaynerchuk, CNN, Instagram, & Tim Ferriss - Joel Ong interviews some of the most purpose-driven minds in business and entrepreneurship on how to maintain success, and take it to the next level. We breakdown all of the myths, legends, stories, struggles, and insights behind what it takes to be a part of this tribe of entrepreneurial leaders to grow and stay ahead.
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053: How To Turn Your Idea Into A Profitable Product, With Thiefaine Magre of PROUDUCT

Entrepreneurs Tribe PodcastFeb 10, 2021

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053: How To Turn Your Idea Into A Profitable Product, With Thiefaine Magre of PROUDUCT
Feb 10, 202134:38
052: How to Generate Leads and Find Your Audience Online, With Mike Moll of MarketMe
Feb 03, 202134:38
051: Tom Schwab Teaches You How To Market Yourself Using Podcast Interview Strategy
Jan 27, 202136:42
050: Spending Over $500M on Ads: The Art of LinkedIn Engagement & Influencer Marketing, With StandOut Authority Co-Founder Joshua B. Lee

050: Spending Over $500M on Ads: The Art of LinkedIn Engagement & Influencer Marketing, With StandOut Authority Co-Founder Joshua B. Lee

Known as The Dopamine Dealer of LinkedIn & author of ‘Balance is BullSh*t’ . Joshua B. Lee is an Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Author, Keynote speaker, Coach, Husband and Father.

In 2003, he built his career in online marketing with clients such as MySpace, Yahoo and Google. Managing over $500 million in advertising spend and controlling over 35 Trillion online impressions. He has built 16 companies from online marketing to coaching to web design and more, but is most passionate about human connections.

His current venture, StandOut Authority, is about humanizing your professional brand on LinkedIn through authentic and inspirational engagement. Clients have included Dan Sullivan, Joe Polish, John Maxwell along with companies such as Gartner, Oracle and ADT.

He believes there is no B2B or B2C, only H2H, human to human connections. As a father of two and published author, he believes there is no work-life balance but an integrated life based on vision, relationships, health and business.

In this interview, he shares his thoughts on why LinkedIn is the best place to have business conversations and foster relationships, how to use LinkedIn to not only grow your audience and engagement, but convert them into brand advocates, and give you the secrets of how to use LinkedIn to build authentic connections and relationships that result in amazing opportunities.

Key takeaways

  • Why LinkedIn
  • Social Listening and why it's more important than EVER
  • No B2B or B2C, just H2H (Human to Human) when crafting your outreach
  • Have industry influence that draws in Opportunities
  • Engage with your target audience through human conversation, not automation.

Learn More about Joshua B. Lee and StandOut Authority at: www.StandOutAuthority.com

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Jan 20, 202131:22
049: How This TEDx Speaker Built Authority as a Thought Leader, With Dominic Soh
Jan 13, 202142:00
048: From Exit To Liquidation - How To Reinvent Yourself In A Black Swan Pandemic, With Jake Anderson of Solasta Digital

048: From Exit To Liquidation - How To Reinvent Yourself In A Black Swan Pandemic, With Jake Anderson of Solasta Digital

Just 2 days before signing the deal on exiting his company, the pandemic hit and Jake Anderson's successful events lighting company went in the red. Eventually, he had to sell it off in liquidation to manage liabilities and that forced him to realign himself quickly. Seeing his award-winning event lighting design firm that he launched grow from zero to working on Celebrity galas and grandiose celebrations for Fortune 500 companies, and later being badly hit by the pandemic was an experience like no other.

Now, Jake is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Solasta Digital - a brand development and marketing firm for entrepreneurs who are ready to take the bottom line to online by igniting their brand presence and expanding visibility to new markets with cutting edge content management systems.

He brings a unique mix of analytical problem solving with creative thinking.  His background ranges from more than 10 years examining multi-billion dollar banking institutions as a senior analyst.

Jake is the host of the Introspective Podcast - a Top 100 podcast on Apple, where he deconstructs the mindset of successful entrepreneurs to learn how they breakthrough and level up in both life and business.

Jake operates from a foundation of values that embraces human connection, growth through relationships, and believes integrity is the most precious asset for any business.

Connect with Jake: connectwithjake.com

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Jan 05, 202143:43
047: From Drug Addict to 22 Year Old Systems Genius, With Trey Carmichael of Limitlessware
Jan 01, 202135:12
046: Lessons From Building And Losing A Multi-Million Dollar Pipeline - Remote Work, Team Building, and Podcasting, With Terng Shing Chen of SYNC

046: Lessons From Building And Losing A Multi-Million Dollar Pipeline - Remote Work, Team Building, and Podcasting, With Terng Shing Chen of SYNC

Dec 29, 202035:49
045: Change Your Breath, Change Your Life - Just Relax and Breathe!!!
Oct 17, 202032:06
044: From Truck Driver to Working with Elon Musk and Andrea Bocelli: The Art of Networking, With Luxury Concierge Bluefish Founder Steve Sims
Jun 23, 202036:26
043: The Truth About Personality: Rewriting Your Story, With The #1 Writer In The World, Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Jun 17, 202035:25
042: The Art of Public Speaking: From The Screens of MTV Asia to Acting, With Hanli Hoefer

042: The Art of Public Speaking: From The Screens of MTV Asia to Acting, With Hanli Hoefer

Hanli has built a high profile in Singapore and Southeast Asia as a multi-talented television host, emcee, radio DJ, actress and model. Her main role has been host of MTV Asia, presenting many of its iconic shows and TV specials.

She is also an established model, shooting for local and international campaigns. Off-screen, she had her own radio show on local Singapore radio station power98.fm.

Most recently she has started a podcast called ‘Just So We’re Clear’. In addition to her multiple hosting roles Hanli has landed main and supporting acting roles in locally produced dramas.

She is also a stellar emcee and event host, having commanded audiences of over 30,000 right down to moderating in-depth panel discussions. She credits her extensive travels abroad for shaping her global outlook, enhancing her ability to engage with diverse audiences and tackle a breadth of topics.

Hanli's Website: https://hanlihoefer.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanlihoefer/

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Jun 10, 202025:47
041: Mental Health, Coronavirus, To Making His First Millions at Age 16, With Forbes-Featured Speaker Mark Metry
Jun 03, 202034:18
040: CBD Gummies For Optimal Relaxation And Sleep, With SMILE Founder David Jiang

040: CBD Gummies For Optimal Relaxation And Sleep, With SMILE Founder David Jiang

DAVID JIANG / SMILE (http://reasontosmile.com/) - Is the young 24 year old CEO and Founder of smile.

SMILE and their cannabis gummy products mission is provide people with a Reason to Smile through products that encourage self care and values that exemplify purpose (they give back funds they make to charities such as the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation).

Their gummy products are all custom made into fun molds and come in 3 formulations: Energize for daytime or whenever you need a boost  (w/ B12, Ginseng, 5-HTP), Unwind for nighttime or whenever you want to chill(w/ Melatonin, 5-HTP) and Balance for anytime throughout the day (9 vitamins: 5-HTP, Calcium, Iodine, Iron, Magnesium, Vitamin A, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D3, Zinc). SMILE's mission is to make CBD accessible to all and consumers to feel better.

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May 27, 202023:05
039: From Music Industry to CBD, Serial Entrepreneur Jason Winkler Talks Branding
May 20, 202029:14
038: Media Buying And Platform Development, With eNabled Software Founder Conrad Brits

038: Media Buying And Platform Development, With eNabled Software Founder Conrad Brits

Conrad Brits is the Founder of eNabled Software (https://www.enabledsoft.com/), a Colorado based start-up focused on building digital products to personalize the consumer's experience linked to a client's inventory and/or manufacturing capacity.

In summary, Conrad's company creates cutting-edge e-commerce websites and platforms for companies of all types, and also designs prototype online sample "3D models" for people's products, and helps them to advertise and promote them via Google and Facebook.

Some of the big US corporate companies he has done work and partnerships for include: Google, Groupon, Novartis, Deloitte, SAB Miller and GKN / Land Rover. Originally from Johannesburg, South Africa, and a father of three boys (who go to the same school Elon Musk did in South Africa), Conrad now splits his time between his home country and here in the United States.

For over 20 years he has designed digital services and products in manufacturing, retail and media, and is one of the most sought-after platform developers globally.

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May 13, 202030:04
037: Celebrity Dentist Explains Veneers, Affordable Aligners and "Hollywood Smile", With Dr. Jon Marashi of Byte

037: Celebrity Dentist Explains Veneers, Affordable Aligners and "Hollywood Smile", With Dr. Jon Marashi of Byte

Dr. Jon Marashi is a famous Hollywood celebrity cosmetic dentist with A-list clients such as Joaquin Phoenix, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Pink, Cher, Tom Hanks, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Seacrest, etc.

The “Tom Ford of Cosmetic Dentistry” helped co-create byte (byteme.com) with the goal of making the inaccessible, accessible aka providing a smile solution that more people can access right at their home (the byte products have invisible aligners that straighten and whiten your teeth 6x faster than braces and for a fraction of the price).

It has been taking the teledentistry industry by storm with how they work and the technology they use.

Dr. Jon Marashi Cosmetic Dentistry: https://drmarashi.com/

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May 06, 202032:09
036: 11-Year-Old Olivia's Dying Wish To Fight For Kids With Cancer, With Shelley Lorusso of The Olivia Hope Foundation

036: 11-Year-Old Olivia's Dying Wish To Fight For Kids With Cancer, With Shelley Lorusso of The Olivia Hope Foundation

Olivia was a happy healthy 11 year old girl. She loved baking and playing with her twin sister, she loved late night slumber parties with her older sister Gia. Olivia was all about family. Her favorite place to be was in the Hamptons with her family, cousins and close friends. She looked forward to summers and beach days.

She loved animals, especially her cat Milo. She played the flute and was the only one in her school band that played the flute and she loved that. Olivia always wanted to make everyone around her happy, whether it was by baking them something sweet to eat or just telling them how much she loved them. She truly had a servants heart. We all deeply miss her.

While she was going through her cancer treatments she decided she wanted become a pediatric oncologist because she wanted to help find a cure for pediatric cancers. This is why the Olivia Hope Foundation was born.

In this episode, Joel interviews Olivia’s mother - Shelley Lorusso. She is the President and Founder (and mother) of The Olivia Hope Foundation. Olivia Hope Foundation was created in 2018 to honor Shelley's daughter dying wish to fight for a better world for kids with cancer.

Shelley's daughter Olivia was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at the age of 11. She went through a series of treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant (her twin sister Sabrina was her donor). After 15 months of battling Leukemia, Olivia passed away on April 16, 2017 at the age of only 12.

The foundation today has raised hundred's of thousands of dollars in her honor and even celebrities such as Stranger Thing's actress Millie Bobby Brown are big contributors to the foundation.

Support The Fight Now: https://oliviahope.org/

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Apr 29, 202023:48
035: What Is Public Relations? How To Cut The "BS" From Your Life - With Zack Teperman of ZTPR

035: What Is Public Relations? How To Cut The "BS" From Your Life - With Zack Teperman of ZTPR

Zack Teperman was originally from Toronto, Canada, and he is the President of ZTPR (http://www.ZTPR.net), a music, celebrity, tech, fashion, start-up and product/lifestyle public relations firm. Before getting into PR/Marketing and running his firm with their first office in Los Angeles and second in Nashville, TN, he was an on-air radio disc jockey working at stations across the US and Canada.

Zack was hired by a large PR firm in the United States working with the likes of Martin Sheen, Richard Grieco, Marina Sirtis, Grant Fuhr, Taylor Hicks, Naya Rivera, Guns N Roses, etc., and then 4 years later he took over the company (bought them out) and rebranded under his own name and opened up shop in Hollywood while also expanding to Canada and overseas in Europe.

Beyond the PR stuff, he is also a guest speaker at Universities and a published author, and last year released his first ever book "CUT THE BULL$HIT" across North America... a humorous guide for people wanting to learn how to market their product or themselves out there in the world. The book is a collection of funny poems, straight to the point facts and hilarious photos of sheep acting like humans.

Connect With Zack Here: https://www.instagram.com/zackteperman

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Apr 22, 202033:14
034: Rags To Riches - Humble Beginnings of Self-Made $100M Millionaire Josh Snow
Apr 15, 202025:34
033: How to Attract Customers - 7 Marketing Strategies to Dominate in Business, With Gaetano DiNardi of Nextiva

033: How to Attract Customers - 7 Marketing Strategies to Dominate in Business, With Gaetano DiNardi of Nextiva

Gaetano DiNardi is the Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva and has a track record of success working with brands like Major League Baseball, Pipedrive, Sales Hacker and Outreach.io. Outside of marketing, Gaetano is an accomplished music producer and songwriter - he’s worked with major artists like Fat Joe, Shaggy and loves making music to stay turbocharged.

Discover how to attract customers, and 7 marketing strategies to dominate in business and get clients on demand.

Gaetano is the Director of Demand Generation at Nextiva. Learn more about their cloud phone systems - https://www.nextiva.com/products/cloud-phone-system.html

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Apr 08, 202036:35
032: How To Find Your Purpose And Passion In Life, With Cauvee, The Inspiration Engineer
Apr 01, 202032:18
031: If You Can Understand Your Emotions, I'll Show You How You Can Achieve Your Business Goals! , with Catherine B. Roy
Mar 25, 202015:48
030: A Behind-The-Scenes Look at How Diana Nguyen Built Her Entertainment Career
Mar 18, 202030:13
029: The Art and Science Behind Performance & Health, With Julian Hayes II of The Art of Fitness & Life
Mar 11, 202048:18
028: The Art of LinkedIn Ads, With AJ Wilcox of B2Linked

028: The Art of LinkedIn Ads, With AJ Wilcox of B2Linked

AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads pro who founded B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency, in 2014. As official LinkedIn partners, they manage among the world’s most sophisticated advertising accounts worldwide.

He's also a ginger & triathlete. He and his wife live in Utah, with their 4 kids, and his company car is a wicked-fast gokart.

Free checklist for anyone who wants to get started advertising on LinkedIn: B2Linked.com/checklist

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Mar 04, 202057:20
027: Energy & Overcoming Burnout Without Needing To Stop Doing Business, With Andrew Pearce, Human Behaviour Specialist
Feb 26, 202051:18
026: The Business of Beauty and Modelling: Into the World of Fashion and Entertainment, With Kelleth Cuthbert
Feb 18, 202030:19
025: Is Burnout A Good Thing?, With Breakfast Leadership CEO and Founder Michael Levitt

025: Is Burnout A Good Thing?, With Breakfast Leadership CEO and Founder Michael Levitt

Michael Levitt is the CEO and founder of Breakfast Leadership, Inc (BreakfastLeadership.com), who works with individuals to reduce stress and prevent burnout, so that they can focus on what REALLY matters most.  Breakfast Leadership trains leaders of all walks of life how to design and properly structure their work days, so you will accomplish more, by doing less.

Michael is also a Certified NLP/CBT Therapist through Academy of Modern Applied Psychology, the Book Author of “369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenarios” and keynote speaker.

But prior to his successes, Michael lost his health, his job, his car, and his home all in 369 days, and he now teaches people how that happened to him, so that they can make the crucial changes in their lives to prevent those losses from happening to them.

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Key Takeaways:

- Going Through a heart attack, retrenchment, home foreclosure all within a year

- Burnout & Why It Happens

- Healthy Boundaries & Protecting Your Time

- The Myth of Not Having Enough Time

- Michael’s principles around prioritising areas of your life (themes of each day)

- Drive, Success & How It Makes You Prone To Burnout

- Blocking Out Time in Your Calendar To Rest

- Being Conscious of Your Energy Levels

- Peers, People Around You, Mentors

- Determining What Led Up To The Burnout

- Is Burnout A Good Thing?

- Huge Warning When Things Stop Becoming Enjoyable

- What Is The State of Burnout? (5 Signs of Burnout)

- Building Resilience For Burnout

- Pull vs Push Motivation

Feb 16, 202043:30
024: Battle Tested Principles on Scaling a Fast-Growing Ecommerce Store on Shopify, with Caroline Balinska of Just Ask Parker

024: Battle Tested Principles on Scaling a Fast-Growing Ecommerce Store on Shopify, with Caroline Balinska of Just Ask Parker

Caroline Balinska is the founder of Just Ask Parker. Shopify's ONLY Small Task Marketing Agency. Caroline has over 18 years of experience in marketing and over 12 years experience in ecommerce. Having started, grown and sold over 12 businesses, what makes Caroline's skills so highly sort after is that she comes from everything from the business owners perspective.

Caroline found that the reason startup ecommerce stores where failing was not the right help to get over that hurdle of their first 1000 sales.

She created Just Ask Parker to help Shopify store owners get more traffic and sales.

Caroline is also the host of the #1 podcast for newbie Shopify Merchants and created the most comprehensive Shopify Approved marketing course, find it over in the Shopify approved courses list.

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HER LINKS

www.winningwithshopify.com/summit

www.1000saleandbeyond.com

www.justaskparker.com

Key Takeaways:

- Being busy, happiness, and merely working for money

- Running a business on your own terms

- Ecommerce & how it frees your time

- Why Shopify

- Principles that make some Shopify owners more successful than others

- Product-Market fit / Customer Service / Quality Products

- Importance of customer service phone number & reviews

- Calling your clients (Customer experience)

- Influencer Videos

- 1 Type of video that works well on Ecommerce

- What sort of investment should you make

Feb 14, 202040:43
023: A Deep Dive Into Personal Transformation Through The Unconscious Mind, With Tiffany Toombs

023: A Deep Dive Into Personal Transformation Through The Unconscious Mind, With Tiffany Toombs

Tiffany Toombs is an international speaker and leading expert on rewiring the unconscious mind for success and tapping into your personal potential. For over 20 years, Tiffany has educated and transformed the lives of thousands of people across the world. She is also the author of “Stop Being A Selfish B*tch – A Comprehensive Guide To Living Your Best Life Through Radical Self Love”, a top-rated self-help book.

Tiffany’s clients and course participants experience undeniable results – showcasing over and over again that our unconscious mind can be our most powerful asset – when we truly understand how to make it work for us.

Tiffany is a sought-after speaker and has been invited to speak on numerous global podcasts and stages – including speaking at events run by Marshall Sylver – the world’s most televised hypnotist, Akbar Shiekh – Founder of Coaches Secret & The Givers Clubs, and has shared stages with a number of notable influencers including Dan Fleyshman and Ron Lynch. Through education, Tiffany empowers people to understand why and how they have become stuck in the past and how to take action in all areas of their life, in the present moment to completely change their lives in a positive way forever.

Tiffany is currently focused on her personal life mission to change the world by empowering 1 million people to live an intentional life that is aligned with their deepest truth, every day.

With this mission in mind, Tiffany has created a range of programs and products to help people around the world tap into their unconscious potential and create a positive ripple effect through their individual communities.

Discover What's Inside The BossCast Academy: http://bit.ly/bosscast-podcast


Key Takeaways:

- Dealing with suicide, abuse & abandonment

- Matrix therapy: Re-framing emotional points of view

- Using past negative experiences for power

- Fast-tracking your growth / dealing with unconscious trauma

- Most important clues to finding a good coach

- Difference between a coach & a therapist

- Pitfalls of placing your trust in people of authority

- Myth of willpower / discipline / goal-setting

- Journaling / Meditation

- How to get out of the cycle of betraying your values

- Over-achievers and being too hard on yourself, Feeling Empty & How to unlock greater happiness & contentment

- Seeking completeness from others / lack of self-worth

- Codependent / toxic / abusive relationships

Significance vs Contribution

Feb 11, 202049:08
022: From Recruitment to Marketing: The Journey of Understanding People, With Victoria Rush of The Social Movement

022: From Recruitment to Marketing: The Journey of Understanding People, With Victoria Rush of The Social Movement

Feb 07, 202047:26
021: Mastering the Art of Social Media: Growing Over +2 Million Followers On Instagram and TikTok, With Maayan Gordon of Monkey Boy Art

021: Mastering the Art of Social Media: Growing Over +2 Million Followers On Instagram and TikTok, With Maayan Gordon of Monkey Boy Art

Maayan is a 28 year old TikTok Consultant, Branding Expert, Glass artist, Business owner, Social Media Consultant and Influencer.

Her passion is for helping businesses and people grow their BRANDS and businesses, creating a larger and more impactful online and offline presence, with 10 years of experience as a business operator and entrepreneur with extensive internet marketing experience.

Out of college, Maayan was a freelance copywriter for a very large internet marketing brand, then started her own small graphic design business creating logos and Wordpress websites for brands and businesses.

She later transitioned into glassblowing after years of a friend’s suggestion that she try it out, and after the first lesson she was hooked! Monkey Boy Art was created and she found huge success in her first 3 years, selling and making over $500,000 in revenue. Through running and growing this company, Maayan learned to multitask and be efficient with her time at a very high level.

More recently, she has found growing success on both TikTok and LinkedIn as she continues to implement strategies that she has learned on both platforms. She now looks to help other businesses create and improve long term branding strategies while staying on top of and at the forefront of technology changes in marketing and social media. At the same time, she is making a big push to grow her personal brand and influence through her own marketing efforts.

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Socials:

TikTok: 1.7+ Million (@worldofglass)

325K (@joyoffood)

Instagram: 80K (@monkeyboyglass and @Monkeyboyart)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/maayangordon


Key Takeaways:

- Youth’s lack of experience

- Principles for building a Community

- How Maayan scaled up the business

- Pinterest and experimenting on platforms

- Key questions for a business to invest in a social platform

- What’s a viral video on TikTok?

- Where TikTok is heading towards for marketing & ecommerce

Feb 04, 202037:11
020: Pain, Suffering, Death, Love, and How To Leverage Adversity Into Blessings, With Joel Ong on the Mental Fitness Show
Jan 31, 202030:06
019: HUBBA Co-Founder Amarit Charoenphan Shares the Story Behind Thailand’s First Co-Working Space and The Techsauce Global Summit

019: HUBBA Co-Founder Amarit Charoenphan Shares the Story Behind Thailand’s First Co-Working Space and The Techsauce Global Summit

Amarit Charoenphan (Aim) is the Executive Chairman and Co-founder of HUBBA, Thailand’s first and largest co-working space and community. He started HUBBA with his brother 8 years ago, which was born as Thailand’s first co-working space, HUBBA grew to become an entrepreneur growth platform serving end to end from early stage startups to large conglomerates and MNCs like Coca Cola, Google and Tesco Lotus. 

Armed with HUBBA CONNECT and Techsauce, their business is run on a digital platform supported by media (4 million readers annually) and one of the biggest and top 3 best Tech conferences in Asia, Techsauce Global Summit. Today, Amarit is also the Chief Connection Officer and Co-founder of Techsauce, and their event attracted 12,000 conference goers, along with global speakers from former Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) of DBS, Principal of Sequoia Capital, Co-founder of Ethereum to the Former Prime Minister of Estonia. 

He has also been named as one of Forbes Asia 30 Under 30: Enterprise Technology, and Thailand Startup Enabler of The Year 2016. 

His passion for building the startup community over the past 8 years and to help entrepreneurs grow has led him to angel invest in many of the top startups and actively mentors and coaches over 100+ different startups founders annually. Aim has also coached and consulted ecosystem hubs and leaders in over 30 cities on how to build tech communities. 

He is also a Fellow of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) in New Zealand, Obama Foundation Leaders: Asia Pacific inaugural cohort, and considers Singapore and New Zealand his second homes (his third home is the airport). 

Inspired by the book Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries by Johan Rockström, Mattias Klum, and Peter Miller, Aim’s life's mission is to help entrepreneurial ecosystems flourish across Asia by combining capital, education and programs, talent and cutting-edge research and physical spaces to accelerate scalable solutions that will help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals before the world runs out of time. As a Youth Startup Support Consultant under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), he helps to tackle extreme poverty and climate change through entrepreneurship. 

He also loves to travel, meet interesting people, attend conferences and visit communities, coworking spaces as if they were living museums. 

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Key takeaways: 

- How Aim started from scratch with no capital, network, or experience 

- What the 2008 Financial Crisis taught him 

- How he found himself in entrepreneurship and co-working spaces when there was no technology localized for Thai people 

- People’s relationship with each other 

- Biggest problem in the start-up ecosystem of going out of alignment 

- 3 Key Factors for Founders to stay together for the long-haul 

- What Ex-US President Barack Obama said to him about creating scale and impact successfully 

- Observations about SMEs and what’s holding them back from innovation, scale and speed 

- How SMEs can stay relevant & competitive - The #1 thing SMEs need to learn today 

- How to change & build Culture 


Contact Aim at: 

- Southeast Asia's leading technology media and events company (https://techsauce.co/en) 

- Techsauce Global Summit, one of the biggest and top 3 best Tech conferences in Asia (https://summit.techsauce.co/) 

- Aim’s Twitter (https://twitter.com/AimAmarit)

Jan 28, 202043:16
018: Travel, Tourism, and Culture: Away From The Beaten Path, With Joel Ong on Lee Rowley’s After Dark Podcast

018: Travel, Tourism, and Culture: Away From The Beaten Path, With Joel Ong on Lee Rowley’s After Dark Podcast

For today’s episode, we highlight an interview I did on the After Dark Podcast with Lee Rowley last year. 

“When you travel somewhere for a vacation, are you the typical tourist with a camera?

When was the last time you travelled to a destination and decided to NOT be a typical tourist?

Imagine taking a break, stepping outside and drawing in a deep breath of sulfur gas and smoke. And doing so hiking about 12 miles up and 12 miles down a steep mountain twice a day.

After Joel’s last trip, to Indonesia, he had an epiphany of sorts. He was so struck by the people and the culture around him that he determined he would never again take his “normal” life for granted, nor could he ever ignore the culture of the people where he was visiting.

After watching men work for meager wages at jobs that robbed their health (yet these same men were happy as clams) he had to learn more and understand why.

Jump into this experience with Joel to learn and understand yourself who these people were, where Joel discovered these people, and what their lives are like… and more so, what THEY are like. Your own life’s problems will seem insignificant. Why? You’ll see in the next few minutes.

Joel’s take-a-way is… welp… listen to this podcast and learn. I assure you, you have never heard of anything like the people and lives described here. And then ask yourself, what’s your take-a-way?

Located in and … Live from Singapore!”

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Key Takeaways:

“Traveling Experiences”

- Met people in Croatia that are like family now;

- Traveled to sulfur mines in Indonesia and saw how the sulfur miners work. Was about a 12 mile (and steep) hike to the top of a crater and then down to the mines.

- Dangerous and hard hike that the miners do every night while dark. Did not realize the hard life lived by these miners.

- They would transport the sulfur from the mines on their shoulders (about 250#), twice a day… 12 miles to the mine to work, 12 miles out, 12 back and 12 out again… then home at night to do it again in a few hours.

- Pay was about $1.00 a day.

- Miners live about 45 years, due to breathing in the sulfuric smoke & gases.

- What struck Joel was how happy these miners are, and friendly, and puts one’s lived and problems in perspective.

- Miners would craft figurines out of sulfur and enjoyed that, handing them out to tourists.

- Was encouraged to try and learn their language and how they live. Learned empathy from this trip to Indonesia to see the sulfur mines.

- When he travels tries not to be the typical tourist, instead tries to immerse himself into the world around him, the culture, the people… tries now to make trips longer to be able to appreciate culture better. Says that is how people should look at travel.

After Dark Podcast: https://anchor.fm/LeeAfterDark

Lee’s Website: http://leerowley.com/lee-after-dark/

Jan 24, 202029:18
017: Bootstrapping a $20M Ecommerce Company and $12M Hiring Marketplace to Acquisition, With Nathan Hirsch of OutsourceSchool

017: Bootstrapping a $20M Ecommerce Company and $12M Hiring Marketplace to Acquisition, With Nathan Hirsch of OutsourceSchool

Nathan Hirsch is a 30 year old entrepreneur that's been scaling businesses since 2009.

Nathan's first business, Portlight, sold over $30 million in sales through Amazon. Nathan then co-founded FreeeUp.com with an initial $5,000 investment in 2015, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and it was acquired in 2019.

Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-depth courses. With all of his businesses, Nathan has hired and scaled with hundreds of virtual assistants and freelancers from all over the world. He shares his roadmap for scaling businesses with virtual assistants through OutsourceSchool.

Nathan has built himself into a social media personality online, he has appeared on over 300+ podcasts, and has spoken to thousands about remote hiring at industry events. He has also been featured on CBS, ABC, NBC, and Entrepreneur.

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Key Takeaways:

  • Nathan’s entrepreneurial story: Amazon Marketplace, eCommerce operations, drop-shipping, FreeeUp and      exit, OutsourceSchool
  • Recruiting, interviewing, and building a team of outsourced freelancers
  • Trial and Error and Importance of Speaking to Your Customers
  • Nathan’s approach of not following the conventional wisdom, trying things out and adapting it to make      it your Own
  • Delegating tasks off your plate that aren't your expertise or aren't worth your time.
  • Figuring out what doesn’t work and 3 common tenets of all 3 businesses
  • Speed in the Marketplace
  • Understanding when, how and who to delegate to
  • Gathering Feedback
  • Not being emotional about your product/service
  • Figuring out who you like to work with and surround yourself
Jan 21, 202032:58
016: Interviews, Job-Seeking, Leadership and Communication, With Cristina Flores of Creative Solutions Coach

016: Interviews, Job-Seeking, Leadership and Communication, With Cristina Flores of Creative Solutions Coach

Jan 17, 202032:58
015: Building an Audience of +1.2 Million Followers in 9 Months Using TikTok, With Social Media Star Jayde Vincent
Jan 13, 202021:27
014: Heather Monahan’s 20 Year Journey to Breaking The Corporate Glass Ceiling And Creating Boss In Heels

014: Heather Monahan’s 20 Year Journey to Breaking The Corporate Glass Ceiling And Creating Boss In Heels

Heather Monahan is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, entrepreneur and founder of Boss In Heels. Having successfully climbed the corporate ladder for nearly 20 years, Heather Monahan is one of the few women to break the glass ceiling and claim her spot in the C-suite.

As a Chief Revenue Officer in Media, Heather Monahan is a Glass Ceiling Award winner, named one of the most Influential Women in Radio in 2017 and Thrive Global named her a Limit Breaking Female Founder in 2018.

Based in Miami, Heather’s new book Confidence Creator shot to #1 on Amazon’s Business Biographies and Business Motivation lists the first week it debuted on Amazon.

Heather is a confidence expert and is currently working with Fortune 500 companies and professional sports to develop confidence in the workplace and on the court. She’s also a member of Florida International University’s Advisory Council to further serve as a mentor and leader in the South Florida Community. Heather’s new show, Creating Confidence, debuted on the Top 200 shows on Apple podcast.

Heather’s work has been featured in USA Today, CNN, Forbes, Fast Company, TEDx and Business News Daily. Most recently, she added Guest Professor at Harvard to her list of accomplishments.

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Key Takeaways:

- How Heather found herself in entrepreneurship after being fired from her job

- How being vulnerable turned into countless opportunities

- How to ask for help, when to ask, stepping into shame, and champion that fear

- Feeling like a fraud and its relationship to growth

- Tuning out self-limiting beliefs and tuning into our talents, passions and purpose

- Self-awareness and not apologizing for saying “No”

- Going through the process and trusting it along the way

- Focus and not quitting as the one key to her success

- Top 2 things you need to remember to grow 10X in the next 10 years

- Journaling to prove to yourself you can overcome your fears

- Fire Villains from your life

Jan 10, 202030:49
013: Mastering Lead Generation and Being At Your Best, With Sidney Clevinger of The Better Leads Institute
Jan 07, 202039:38
012: Stephanie Scheller’s Rapid Rise from Corporate America And Marketing To Running The Largest Sales Training Practice In Central Texas

012: Stephanie Scheller’s Rapid Rise from Corporate America And Marketing To Running The Largest Sales Training Practice In Central Texas

Stephanie Scheller is a TEDx speaker, a Forbes 30 under 30 nominee, a 2019 New York Life Woman of the Year nominee and a two time best-selling author.

She is also the founder of Grow Disrupt, a San Antonio-based training organization for small businesses and CEO of Scheller Enterprises.

As a speaker, she has graced the stages of global organisations and Fortune 100 companies, such as TEDx, Microsoft, Time Warner Cable, and BNI. She co-hosts a podcast called Black Belt Selling.

After three years in corporate America, Stephanie Scheller ramped up her sales training and coaching business in four and a half months to completely replace her corporate income. She also ran a sales training practice in Central Texas, Scheller Enterprises, as its CEO, and grew that in less than 18 months to become the largest, most active sales training practice in the area.

After working behind-the-scenes with over 2500 businesses and thousands of individuals on their sales, marketing and systems, Stephanie shares with us her observations, insights and experiences on what it takes to grow and run a successful business.

Discover What's Inside The BossCast Academy: http://bit.ly/bosscast-podcast


Key Takeaways:

- Turning adversity and crises into opportunities

- Bruce Lee’s Philosophies in Business

- Martial Arts and Pulling the Punches in Business

- Stephanie’s Process of Getting Around Obstacles

- Tracing the 5 “Whys”

- Cultivating your “Personal Board” of Peers and Guarding Them Closely

- How to figure out when, what, and how to ask for help

- Importance of Integrity in Business

- Nothing has weight except what you give it

Jan 01, 202042:26
011: Zero to $20 Million in 4 years: How The Archimedes Group’s Ryan Narus Went From Selling Cars to Providing Affordable Housing for the Underprivileged in USA

011: Zero to $20 Million in 4 years: How The Archimedes Group’s Ryan Narus Went From Selling Cars to Providing Affordable Housing for the Underprivileged in USA

Dec 28, 201940:39
010: How Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value Allowed Mark Thompson To Build a $20M SaaS Company Using The Internet

010: How Maximizing Customer Lifetime Value Allowed Mark Thompson To Build a $20M SaaS Company Using The Internet

Mark Thompson is the Co-Founder of PayKickstart (a popular shopping cart and affiliate management SaaS company). He has been an online entrepreneur for 12+ years, teaching and selling software/training to other marketers and online business owners.

As a leading SaaS company with a global network of vendors and affiliates, Mark got great at building a subscription-based business. However, it was more than just launching 12 to 14 software products that made him masterful in the digital world. He and his partner, Matt Callen, both figured out how to help other businesses sell well online too. They have processed collectively over $150M as a platform, did over $20M in revenue, and are set to break $1 million Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) this year.

Mark was recently featured on Starter Story, The Next Web, and Business.com, as well as a number of mainstream podcasts like The Fighting Entrepreneur by Anik Singal and the $100 MBA show.

Discover What's Inside The BossCast Academy: http://bit.ly/bosscast-podcast


Key Takeaways:

- Mark’s early struggles of trading his time for money and how he got started in digital marketing and developing software products

- How PayKickstart was born out of necessity to replace archaic systems and maximize efficiency in his business

- Why more traffic or leads is not the answer to your problems

- Diagnostic tool to differentiate ROI-producing activities from tedious, non-ROI-producing ones and how to delegate or automate them

- Importance of a recurring model

- Providing more value while minimizing churn as the core tenet of longevity in business and retaining customers

- Facilitating the process of helping customers understand the full value of your products and services to retain them

- Differences between voluntary and involuntary churn and how to fix them

- 3 Main Questions to ask yourself why your business growth is stuck

- Pitfalls of being feature-happy versus emphasizing the perceived value

Dec 24, 201942:41
009: Navigating the Unpredictable Journey From Entrepreneurship to Learning How To Learn: With Mike Yates of Alpha
Dec 17, 201926:14
008: Overcoming Addiction and Starting All Over: Behind-The-Scene With Lifestyle Entrepreneur Dai Manuel
Dec 14, 201901:05:04
007: How SHIELD Changed the Way We Produce Content On LinkedIn, With Head of Partnerships Juan Pablo

007: How SHIELD Changed the Way We Produce Content On LinkedIn, With Head of Partnerships Juan Pablo

How do you keep track of all your posts on LinkedIn?

Co-founders Andreas Jonsson and Alexander Brandi kept asking themselves that question: How can we create messages that resonate better with our professional audience? 

After providing consultancy services to large corporations in Denmark, they could not wrap their heads around why there were no tools to measure the impact of content creation on LinkedIn. 

They repeatedly brought this question to their large enterprise-clients and decided to combine their technical and strategic expertise, along with Juan Pablo's skillsets as a communicator to grow SHIELD Intelligence to what it is today. The trio had already spent considerable time in the workforce in prior businesses which allowed for each of them to gain valuable real-world experiences. Their experience was crucial to the early success and expansion of SHIELD.

The Denmark-based company is on a mission to help LinkedIn users to grow their brands faster through quality content that matters by using their leading analytics platform. Since the company's start, it has processed more than 200 million views across 300,000 LinkedIn posts from thousands of users, with a total of over 250 billion data points across our user base and their LinkedIn activity. This allows users to identify past performances and optimise or replicate it in the future.

Some notable clients who have used their visually-dynamic dashboard include Boston Consulting Group, Capco, and influencers like Justin Welsh, Shay Rowbottom, and some of LinkedIn's Top Voices. 

"Listening to your customers", says Juan Pablo is crucial to building an evolving product at SHIELD around the needs of their customers. 

"Keeping ego at bay...the company comes first."

"Straight-forward and honest channels of communication." 

"[Dividing] tasks into different areas of expertise"

Discover What's Inside The BossCast Academy: http://bit.ly/bosscast-podcast


Listen to these key takeaways: 

- The 4 Types of Businesses Today and how to Think about them

- Your Ego and its Relevance to a Start-Up, Business, or Team

- How to Hire People With Deep Expertise of their Craft

- Building Company Culture

- Top Two Mistakes on LinkedIn Posts

- Connections and how your posts are exposed to your network 

- Allowing content to "breathe" and "mature" versus over-posting

- Hashtags, featured posts, and strategic content-generation

- How to test and get feedback on content on LinkedIn

Dec 10, 201952:02
006: Treating Education Like a Startup, with Don Wettrick of The STARTedUP Foundation

006: Treating Education Like a Startup, with Don Wettrick of The STARTedUP Foundation

"We're drowning in a sea of information but starving for wisdom." A prolific reader and deeply passionate learner, the STARTedUP President Don Wettrick shares his journey from being a high school teacher to revolutionising modern-day education to founding a non-profit that has received national attention and widespread influence which spans across the United States. "We're all in this battle for attention. Everybody's in this market to make a sale, and that starts with attention."  

The Two time Microsoft Innovative Educator award winner and Author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation" explains how to stay relevant globally through intrapreneurship, innovation and collaboration.  As an international speaker, Don has lectured across the US, Europe, South America and Africa about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. He worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Ghana and his podcast, StartEdUp, featured some of the most successful entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders in the world from JP Sears to Zack Friedman and Robert Greene. 

"If I were in charge, what would I do?", says Don, as he challenges the status quo on traditional education and explains an "Open Source Learning" technique taught at STARTedUP, which provides entrepreneurial events, accelerator programs, training, and seed funding for young entrepreneurs.  "The purpose of business is to last." Concerned that your business or organisation is becoming irrelevant? Listen in and tap into Don’s insights and expertise. "Always realise that every company is a media company. If people don't know what you're working on, they can't get excited about it."  

Don discusses issues from capital to building and educating great teams, identifying your weaknesses and greatest strengths, what the lynchpin for long-term success is, where the world is headed towards, and how to become a more effective leader.

Discover What's Inside The BossCast Academy: http://bit.ly/bosscast-podcast

Dec 04, 201945:58
005: How Joselyn Vargas Used TikTok To Build a Family-Friendly Personal Brand and Grab Attention on Pinterest
Dec 02, 201936:59
004: Finding Your Focus: From Working For Free to $150 Million, With Michael Convery

004: Finding Your Focus: From Working For Free to $150 Million, With Michael Convery

From failed businesses to doing door-to-door sales in 100-degree (F) weather in Baltimore to being one of Aflac's top young agents and finally building a business that made 150 Million Dollars in Sales, Michael Convery of The Educated Wealth Center 's success didn't happen overnight. 

"Radical transparency...doubling down on what was working", says Michael was what's needed. His obsession with answering that question has helped him perfect his leadership, marketing and selling skills and scale The Educated Wealth Center with his father from half a million to multi-millions in annual revenue in just eight years.

Today, The Educated Wealth Center has been featured in US News, World Report, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as on the national television network WE, authored in CNBC news, Yahoo Finance, Market Watch, Reuters, and has been on affiliates of ABC, NBC, Fox, and CBS.

From spending time with Darren Hardy, Gary Vaynerchuk to Gerard Adams, Michael considers himself an evergreen learner. He shares the steps you need to master your time, build great teams, and level up your business. 

"I always thought, in business, there is no place for empathy, but the world we live in, there's a lot of space for empathy in all organisations.", Michael reveals the importance of empathy in sales, communication as a leader and being a visionary for your team.

"Entrepreneurs need to realise how important it is to have a digital presence and starting to figure out how to market online. If you're not top of mind, in the conversation over the Internet, in the next 10 years, you'll become almost irrelevant." 

Michael shares his perspectives on the importance of online reputation and digital versus traditional marketing such as direct mail or referrals and where he sees the world going in the next 10 years.

"We live in a world where the customer now has more control than ever before. So you have to put your customer first."

"Making sure you have a great customer experience and understand how powerful they truly are."


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Dec 02, 201949:37