The Entrepreneurial You

Kingsley Grant is the founder of Kingspire Communications, a growth mindset company based in South Florida. He has taught 21st Century Leadership skills to Leaders and Business Owners and have consulted, coached and mentored high-performance professionals and executives; authored an Amazon #1 Best Selling book and is a contributing writer for platforms such as Huffington Post, Addicted 2 Success, Thrive Global and The Goodmen Project.  Show  Notes: In this episode of The Entrepreneurial You podcast my guest, Kingsley Grant goes in detail about Emotional Intelligence and how leaders can leverage it to be more effective. So is Emoteligent Leadership taught or nurtured or is it an innate thing? Kingsley shared this startling statistic from a recent study, “85% of our financial success is due to skills and human engineering and the ability to communicate, negotiate and lead”. This means that majority of our success is due to nurture and not nature. What is Emoteligent Leadership? What is its impact on th

Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping raise $500k to $15mil. He now runs the biggest YouTube channel for entrepreneurs with 1M+ subscribers.  He's the author of Your One Word, the powerful secret to building a life and business that matter and The Top 10 Rules for Success. Show  Notes: “Your purpose comes from your pain; whatever you went through that was the most painful moment in your life, you want to make it easier for the people who come after you.” That’s how Evan Carmichael opens with his response to my question “What drives you?” Evan believes true happiness comes from serving. The worst point his life drove him to serving others around the globe through entrepreneurship.  Throughout the conversation, he cautions us to do what we do for the right reason. When you can tie your purpose to the activities you enjoy doing throughout the day, that is purposeful. We need both passion and skill to succe

Simone Morris is a Coach who has been recognized by Diversity Best Practices and Diversity MBA for her exceptional leadership skills as a Diversity Practitioner. She is the CEO of Simone Morris Enterprises LLC., a company whose focus is on inclusive leadership and women's empowerment. Show  Notes: “Diversity is being invited to the dance, and inclusion is being asked to dance” - Verna Myers. Perhaps you’ve heard of the age old saying that there is unity in diversity. Well that is what my guest on this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You advocates for. Are we being hypocritical when we talk about diversity? Do we only speak of diversity when we are outside of the door? What happens when we get on the inside, do we still advocate for the others who are not yet in? When we talk of diversity, what are we really talking about? How can we create a culture of inclusivity and acceptance for all? Can diversity be measured? Why should we care about diversity and inclusion? What are some of the way

Jen Bricker is an extra-ordinary woman who, born without legs, her biological parents left her at the hospital. Always challenging herself, she transitioned into an accomplished acrobat and aerialist. Her incredible story has been featured on multiple shows, including HBO Real Sports, 20/20 and Good Morning America.  Show  Notes: Imagine being born without legs and left at the hospital perhaps to die but for the love of adopted parents who appreciated her and embed in her an ‘able-bodied’ mindset. Jen was taught from an early age that she can accomplish whatever she put her mind to. She knew her birth was not a mistake, that she was born for a reason. As she got older, she understood it even more as she saw how her life was being used to help other people. Always a social butterfly, she was never identified with ‘the girl that didn’t have legs’. It stopped her from doing nothing. In addition to her faith, family and friends, Jen had a great foundation, leading to a personality with resilience as a hallm

Every November for 1 week, there are thousands of events and competitions in close to 200 countries to inspire millions to engage in entrepreneurial activity while connecting them to potential collaborators, mentors and even investors. This is to observe Global Entrepreneurship Week.  I’ve reached out to 4 women entrepreneurs from 3 countries to share their challenges as women in business - Georgina Terry, Brittany Rose, Jade Lee & Lisandra Rickards. Show  Notes: Imagine a conversation with 4 talented, successful and beautiful women on the subject of challenges that women are faced with as they set sail on the entrepreneurial vessel as it were. With varying backgrounds and one major goal i.e. to make a positive impact in their country, they share with me through the lens of their first hand experience. Georgina Terry: “I don’t see myself a woman entrepreneur therefore I don’t see myself through that lens”. Jade Lee: “Being a women in business in Jamaica is a little bit unique. Jamaican men can be a litt

David Mullings is the Founder of a private investment firm, Blue Mahoe Partners and the Chief Money Officer of RunLive. He has worked in Corporate America, Corporate Jamaica, worked on a Presidential campaign, started multiple ventures, failed at a number of them, invested in companies, raised capital from investors and shared his lessons along the way. Show  Notes: David parents had a great influence on him. His parents thought that David should understand business. He and his brother kept presenting business plans to his parents for a while before they were sold on the plan.  With his dad being a Doctor and his mom a Nurse, David wanted to venture into the medical field, eventually though he combined his love for Football and Media to create his first business. After he created the largest platform of Caribbean music on the web, Reel Vibes - going on tour with top artistes like Sean Paul, partnering with MTV and YouTube and more – he had his first experience meeting ‘haters’ unbelievably from his home

Shelagh Cummins is someone whose unique background in experiential education, combined with her corporate leadership training inspires her practical, hands-on approach to getting real results for her clients. Her ultimate mission is to show other women that it’s possible to build a profitable, sustainable business—without drowning in debt, forfeiting family time, or working in their sleep Show  Notes: Shelagh turns theoretical material into content that will be useful and easy to implement. She is a self-described ‘recovering Teacher’ who knows the work of a teacher is never done so it is important to “turn off the light in the classroom at the end of the day” knowing that there is always ‘one more thing to do’. In an entrepreneurial setting, your work is never done. Shelagh pointedly says, “There is always one more thing to do. How do I prioritize what actions I need to take throughout the day and how do I know when I’ve done enough and I can turn off the lights and step away and have a life?” Focusing

Sigrun Gudjonsdottir is a success strategist, storyteller, speaker and the host of the Sigrun Show podcast. She’s the creator of SOMBA, the MBA program for online entrepreneurs, and in only four years she built a multi 7 figure lifestyle business. Show  Notes: "Fun people and a beautiful place". That’s Sigrun’s idea of Jamaica. A very warm response to my ice-breaker I have to say.  Let’s move on. Communication has got so much easier with the advent of improved technology. Customers love this because they want technology that will respond to their need for speed in an efficient way. As this dynamic improves, Voice will become synonymous with value. After reading Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Crushing It”, I was led to delve deeper into the. In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Sigrun talks a little about her entrepreneurial journey which includes 10 years as a CEO before she started her own business before delving into the topic of the day, “Voice First”. Voice First is the future of devices

Brian Lofrumento is an entrepreneur, speaker and author whose businesses have reached over 3.5 million people around the world. He started his first business at the age of nineteen and since then, he has helped grow multiple six-figure businesses and teaches solo entrepreneurs how to exactly do that through his courses, programs, podcasts and retreats. Show  Notes: "Focus on getting those sales because it is your obligation. If you have a product or service that helps people, it's your obligation to sell it to people. To sell is to serve and that's the only thing that's going to grow your business". In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Brian Lofrumento shares what he believes is the number one thing new entrepreneurs need to focus on in building their businesses.  Brian states that the absolute number one thing is getting customers and clients. Anything other than that is not actually growing your business. Especially when you're just starting out, you need to be selling.  Selling

Janice Sutherland is the Caribbean's top woman's leadership development expert. Over the past twenty five years, she has held senior executive roles with prestigious multinationals and crossed continents to become the first female CEO for the Caribbean's leading communications and entertainment provider. Show  Notes: Adversities is something we all face whether professionally or personally. In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Janice Sutherland shares her story of resilience and tenacity in overcoming adversity. According to Janice, having resilience is a very underrated skill set. It is about bouncing back after facing challenges after challenges. Janice recounts how knowing nothing could hold her down and that she had the power within herself to change her circumstances, accounts for the person she is today. According to her, “I have a choice; I can either…Click To Tweet You can guess that she decided to ‘make it work.’ Janice’s experience from the corporate world to entreprene

Dr Taunya Lowe is known as the Riot Starter. She is an innovative, insightful change agent who understands the concepts of adding value to others. She is the founder and driving force behind the results-driven philosophy and the Riot Starter Movementwhich consists of programs, products, retreats and training. Show  Notes: “Understanding it's not all about you, actually, it's not about you at all. You are the vehicle to deliver the service”. In order to win with others, we must be very aware of this fact, according to Dr. Taunya Lowe. Click To Tweet Dr. Lowe states: “whenever you want to do better, be better, grow better and change, you feel like you're in a riot and many people feel that way because someone is telling them, ‘Don't quit your job; don't start a business; don't go back to school; don't go visit that different country; don't join that organization”. “These people are really not trying to stop you from growing. They feel like they're trying to protect you and so for many, especially women,

Andrea Rozman has been working in the virtual world supporting entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small businesses for over ten years. She and her team of virtual assistants help relieve the stresses of business owners by doing all the odds and end tasks that need to get done so that owners can focus their attention on the big picture; growing their businesses. Show  Notes: Who remembers the time when team members definitely had to be sitting in an office where their employers can see them? Now, we have drifted away from that in favour of a new paradigm. Tasks are now being effectively executed  with teams members that are remote - virtual assistants as we refer to them. According to this week’s guest, Andrea Rozman, ‘The world changed and the way we do our work had to change with it’. If you’ve ever considered having team members that work offsite, this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcastwith Andrea Rozman is definitely for you.Click To Tweet Andrea shares passionately about how a virtual

Mike Sipple Jr is president of Centennial which specializes in talent strategy and executive search. He's also the founder and CEO of the Talent Magnet Institute and the host of the Talent Magnet Institute Podcast. He partners with leaders who have a strong desire to build the right team as they grow and transform their businesses. Show  Notes: “There's a lot of people working in environments that are toxic and [to] those listening, let's not be one of those. Let's lean in and really invest in our people in a way that brings out the best in them and brings out the best in the world around us”. In this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Mike Sipple Jr talks about talent management strategy and finding the right people that augurs well for your business goals.Click To Tweet Mike details the best practices to leading people, building a healthy organization and planning for the future. He believes it is important to put plans in place for your organization to reach its long term goals and th

Ian Cleary is the founder of the content marketing/ digital agency, Razor Social, which is one of the most popular marketing blogs globally. He is also the founder of the email outreach software, Outreach Plus, which helps companies drive more traffic & sales for their products and services through personalized email outreach. He is a regular keynote speaker and is a writer for Forbes. Show  Notes: In this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Ian Cleary details digital and content marketing. According to Ian, content marketing is a very crucial part of digital marketing. You must have valuable, useful content to share, to make a connection with your audience for better results. Click To Tweet Tune in to hear how to leverage your business growth via content and digital marketing.  Ian also shares insight on the Return on Investment possible when using these platforms as business growth strategies. RESOURCES TO PEAK YOUR PERFORMANCE Get 20% Lifetime Discount to Send Personalized Emails 

Stephen Shedletzky is head of Community and Communication at Simon Sinek. He started with Simon Sinek team in 2012 by answering fan email and now leads Community and Communications initiatives. He is committed to ensuring that team Simon Sinek and those they serve, live their why; their just cause from the inside out. Show  Notes: Have you had any experiences of feeling unmotivated, uninspired, unfulfilled, disengaged in your career? Well, in this week’s episode of The Entrepreneurial You Podcast, Stephen Shedletzky, Head of Communications, Simon Sinek shares how discovering your why will lead to a more fulfilling life. He describes our why as: Our purpose, cause or belief.   Whether as an individual or an organization, the reason we exist and that each and every one of us has one.   Based on who we are. It's our origin story so it's those times in our lives from our earliest memory as a child up until the instances of times where we've been at our best and even the times where we've been most

Neal Schaffer is the leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation of sales and marketing. He does this through consulting, training and helping enterprises, large and small, develop and execute on social media marketing strategy, influence the marketing and social selling initiatives. He's the author of three books on social media including Maximize your Social. Show  Notes: “You should have a strategic approach to who you connect with, who you engage with and what sort of content you post. All that should be aligned with your social selling strategy”. And in this week’s episode of the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, we discuss social selling with Neal Schaffer. According to Neal, social selling is really about sales people that need to sell primarily to businesses that have larger organizations or have multiple people that decide on a purchase and how they can leverage social media, as part of their sales toolkit, throughout the sales process. Compared to social media marke

Millette Jones is a coach, speaker and host of the Unstoppable Coach Podcast. She guides entrepreneurs on how to be recognized as experts in their fields and steadily grow their businesses by telling their unique stories on podcasts. She achieves this through her private coaching, online course, Podguesting for Profits and her new membership site, DIY Podguesting. Show  Notes: In this week’s episode, we discuss a topic dear to us at the Entrepreneurial You Podcast, podcasting and the concept of being a guest on podcasts, otherwise known as podguesting, with podcast publicity coach Millette Jones. The best way to start with leveraging interviews and being a guest on a podcast, according to Millette, is: Start with a solid foundation. Have a good website that's updated and contemporary. Also have consistent branding across all the different internet platforms and social media sites. Go ahead and reach out to those podcasts hosts on social media and start making connections there because you never know

Ted Rubin is a leading social marketing strategist, keynote speaker and co-founder of Prevailing Path.  He is the author of Return on Relationship, How to Look People in the How to Look People in the Eye Digitally  Digitally and The Age of Influence: Selling to the Digitally Connected Customer.  Show  Notes: “A network gives you reach and that's great because you have to reach people in order to make friends, build relationships, have influence but a community gives you power. Network connects, communities care”. Those are powerful words from this week’s guest, Ted Rubin, who was placed number 13 on Forbes' Top Fifty Social Media Power Influencers and number two on the Leadtail List of top twenty- five people most mentioned by digital marketers. Ted details his concept of Return on Relationship, RonR, which he describes as the value that is accrued by a person or a brand during nurturing a relationship. Although there are some parallels with the term Return on Investment (ROI), which he describes as si

Kim Garst is one of the world's most tweeted people among digital marketers. She is a renowned marketing strategist, keynote speaker and an internationally bestselling author of Will the Real You Please Stand Up: Show Up, Be Authentic and Prosper in Social Media. Forbes named her as one of the top ten social media power influencers. Her blog, kimgarst.com is one of the top social media resources in the world. Show  Notes: A self-described accidental social media influencer and entrepreneur, Kim Garst struggled with authenticity when she focused on getting started in social media and trying to leverage the platform to attract people to her business over twenty five years ago. Like so many others, she stressed so much over what she should post and whether people would engage with. However, one day she made the decision to step back and just focus on what she would say standing right in front of somebody she cared about and then her strategy of being authentic was created. She reminds us: “Don't get wrapped u

Roberto Cabral is the CEO and Founder of BenjiLock, the world's first traditional, rechargeable padlock that was the CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Smart Home product category.  In 2017, he successfully pitched to the sharks on Shark Tank and successfully struck a deal with Mr. Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary. Show  Notes: “In the end, it's all about your gut. Whatever you're doing in life, if your gut is telling you to do this or do that, probably go with what you feel instead of just listening to what other people are telling you what to do. If I went with what people were saying about the whole journey beyond Shark Tank, I probably would have quit already because a lot of people told me, you're not going to make this or this is not going to work out, you're not going anywhere or that's a stupid idea…I kept going with my gut and my passion…in the end, your own gut and passion will tell you if it is going to work out or not”.  Those were some inspiring words from this week’s guest on the Entrepreneu