The Entrepreneurial You

Professor James Conley serves on the faculty of both the Kellogg School of Management and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. He is a faculty contributor in the Kellogg Center for Research in Technology & Innovation and serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Segal Design Institute (NU IDEA). He is also serving as a Visiting Professor in the chair of technology and innovation management at the WHU in Germany. Beyond Northwestern, he served as an appointed member on the United States Department of Commerce Trademark Public Advisory Committee to the Patent and Trademark Office and is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. In 2017, he became a member of the editorial board at the California Management Review. #PeakPerformers, Professor Conley shares the benefits of IP for the entrepreneur #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet   Show Notes If given a chance, which person would you like to be for a day? Or who would you like to exchange roles with?I would like to be Mark Z

Michael Pryor is the co-founder of Trello, the collaboration tool used by millions to organize and prioritize projects using boards, lists, and cards. He's also the co-founder of Fog Creek Software for Project Management; he currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two daughters. #PeakPerformers, Michael shares about @Trello on #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: If you were stranded on a desert island, what three items would you want to have with you? Snorkel fins as I'm not such a great swimmer, a dog to keep me company and a guitar which would take me a long time to learn. What is the Unique Selling Proposition of Trello? Persons were using sticky notes on their walls. Historically we had built a lot of tools for a much more structured project management and we were thinking about how easy it was for people to use these sticky notes. It helps them organize their thoughts. There is something about being able to see it in front of your face. We tried to map that. It's not like a digit

Tyrone Wilson Founder, President & CEO of eMedia Interactive - a digital media, advertising & training company powered by technology, creativity and innovation. #PeakPerformers, Tyrone shares on being investment-ready on #TheEntrepYou! Click To Tweet   Show  Notes: If you had a time machine that would work only once, what point in the future or in history would you visit? Why? I would say the'70s in Jamaica. I think that's a period where music and cultural space began to take shape. It would have been quite an experience to have existed in that period. What was childhood like for you? Childhood was fun; I grew up in the Inner City, Kintyre, Papine (Jamaica). It was one of the most memorable moments of my life just being free, roam around. I'm at the river, camp and playing every sport that I came across. Just experiencing that side of life prepares me for everything that I face today. My childhood experience was a well-rounded one. What was your thinking like about your own childhood then? I always em

Amar Vyas is the Co-Founder of Kamakshi Media, creator of Baalgatha- Podcast of Classic Childrens’ stories, and author of the Amol Dixit series of books. He creates branded Podcasts for his clients to increase their revenue. #PeakPerformers, Amar shares about #podcasting in India on #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: If you could eliminate one thing from your daily schedule, what would it be and why? Once you enter the bedroom the cell phone enters airplane mode. The goal is to have no cell phones inside the bedroom. Branded Podcast? The word Kamakshi has several meanings depending on who you talk to. It can mean love, the Goddess of love or it can mean wealth.  We wanted to share knowledge and create wealth in the form of knowledge. I've been listening to podcasts from about 2005. When I was applying to business schools, I used to listen to podcasts from Harvard Business School and London Business school, etc. They would talk about the application process, courses to take, career choices,

Rebecca Clio Gould is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Qigong and Meditation Teacher, Sexual Awakening for Women Facilitator, and an Award-Winning Author of The Multi-Orgasmic Diet.  She has been running her own business, Elemental Harmony, PLLC. #PeakPerformers, Rebecca shares about self-love on #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: If you could buy any island in the world, how would you describe your island? Full of trees, quiet and beautiful. What are some of the underlying reasons why some women are not achieving empowered lives to begin with? I've just encountered in my life and with clients and students that there can often be a feeling of something missing in your life. They are unfulfilled, unsatisfied. I find helping other women and even how to get in touch with my own emotions fulfilling. How to get more in touch with my body; how to cultivate sexual energy and sensuality and self-love; how that lead to feeling more fulfilled.  Were you

LaToya Fonville is a dynamic Transformational Speaker and leader with over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship and business. She has a unique ability to go into an organization and increase productivity through Goal Setting, as well as through her excellent Money and Financial Management skills. #PeakPerformers, LaToya shares about #vision on #TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: If you could be in the movie of your choice, what movie would you choose and what character would you play? The Pursuit of Happiness...Will Smith. Why would you want to play Will? It's a realistic depiction of the struggles, the hardship, the disappointments that you go through as an entrepreneur. Will Smith in that movie depicts the drive that you need in order to be successful. You have to be discipline, you have to be relentless, you have to persevere, you have to endure, to overcome, to overtake. There are some giants that you have to face when trying to pursue destiny. God has a plan for each of our lives b

Dr. Vernet Joseph is America's #1 Potential, Passion & Productivity Speaker, Strategist & Consultant. A bestselling author of multiple books, he is the founder and CEO of Live To Produce Enterprises and President of Gigaré Lifestyle Magazine. He is also recognized as one of the top 40 Productivity Experts to follow on twitter since 2012, Executive Professional of the Year & recently named Black Wall Street Phoenix Arizona Entrepreneur of the Year for 2016. Peak Performers, Dr. Vernet shares his awesome journey on TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: What is your favourite movie of all time? Coming to America - it's one of the all-time greatest with Mr. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy must have played about 6 different characters in the movie. One of the other reasons why I love it so much is that it speaks to productivity. Not only is it comical but it makes so much sense business wise as well. How did you become such a Productivity Evangelist? All my life I have had the entrepreneurial bug. I hav

Kemal Brown is a passionate entrepreneur, motivational speaker and a consultant who help firms build brand equity & create wealth through his firm Digita Global Marketing Ltd. Peak Performers, Kemal shares his awesome journey on TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: What is your favourite thing to do in your downtime? My favourite thing to do is read. Reading is such a vital part of success. When I can sit alone and relax my mind I love to read and go to the beach though I don't do the two things at the same time. What is one of the books you have read that stood out for you? Definitely two - Ed Catmull's Creativity Inc, that book blew my mind; I love Pixar movies - I'm a big animated movie fan...Ratatouille is my stuff. The book is really about corporate culture and how do you really build a great company. The next book deals with personal finances, the Richest Man in Babylon. The ideas really revolutionalizes how I saw finances, how I saw work. It has translated into a level of success for m

Dr. Mooreland is a best-Selling Author of the book Genius-Potential & Founder of Will Moreland International. He is America’s #1 Leadership Life Trainer who has been featured on ABC, NBC, Fox, CBS, Forbes magazine to name a few. Best-selling author & world re-known motivational speaker Les Brown says “he is the absolute personification of greatness”. #PeakPerformers @DrWillSpeaks shares his awesome journey on #TEY #Podcast w/Heneka Watkis-Porter today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: What’s your story? I'm originally from Compton, California; it was known as a pretty bad place. Back in the 80s when I grew up there it was known as the worst city in America. They literally called it a war zone. We were surrounded by gangs, drug dealers, etc. I was raised by a single mother. I met my father when I was 7 years old and he was serving time in a California State penitentiary. He got there because he was one of California's biggest drug dealers at the time. Fortunately, your start doesn't have to determine your fin

Ingrid Riley is a trailblazer in the field of tech. An Award-winning Blogger, she is the founder of Silicon Caribe and Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at getCONNECTID. She is also the leading lady behind many Meetups+ Pitch events, 3 Caribbean Tech Conferences, 3 Caribbean-wide Hackathons, a few Mobile App Competitions, Online Twitter Chats and  Startup Weekends. #PeakPerformers, @IngridRiley shares her awesome journey on #TEY #Podcast today!Click To Tweet Show Notes: If you were really hungry and really, really sleepy and you had to choose only one, which would you choose? Would it be sleep or would it food? I’ll definitely do the food. Because the food would probably help me to sleep better because you can’t really sleep well if you’re hungry if your belly is like rumbling. Who is Ingrid Riley? Just somebody who is curious, love to experiment, love to get to know people, love to read, love to observe individuals, love to travel. I definitely have a thing for travelling. If I don’t travel, my sk

John Lee Dumas is the host of EOFire, an award-winning Podcast where today's most successful Entrepreneurs are interviewed 7-days a week. He is undisputedly the heavyweight champion in the ring of Podcasting, interviewing over 1400 Entrepreneurs. EOFire has over 1 million monthly listens. #PeakPerformers, @JohnLeeDumas shares his awesome journey on #TEY #Podcast today!Click To Tweet Show Notes: What is your favourite thing to do when you're not working? Lay by my pool and read a fiction novel What problem did you want to solve when you began your podcasting journey? I love listening to podcasts; being able to press play when I want to, have targeted On Demand free contents being piped through my ear-buds at any time of the day was just awesome for me. A lightbulb went off for me and I said well I wanted to have a daily show that goes out and interview successful entrepreneurs and tell their stories that I can learn from them. I wanted to find a daily show and that did not exist.   I said wow tha

Host of The Entrepreneurial You, Heneka Watkis-Porter talks about the show and tells her story about why she started the Podcast. Peak Performers, Heneka shares in the ‘About Me’ episode on TheEntrepYou today! Click To Tweet Show  Notes: Hey, everyone, I’m Heneka Watkis-Porter, and I want to thank you for joining me for the very first episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast. In 2014, I started out with a 15 minutes radio edition of this show and started building a community of entrepreneurs using traditional media. Starting this Podcast is a big deal for me. Every Wednesday, I will be interviewing the most dedicated and passionate Entrepreneurs of our time. Each interview will tell a little bit of the entrepreneur’s life with the aim of inspiring you, our wonderful community of #PeakPerformers. They will also share cutting edge tools to get you propelled to a higher level of performance. I’m over the moon with excitement as I look forward to producing a new 30-minute episode once weekly. I know you a