We all fear that our business is not going to be able to run as well without us there. International bestselling author Aaron Muller says we have to address that fear. Once you get through that and know that it's good without you there and maybe even better, then you got to make sure that you have the right manager in place. Going along with that manager is having the right systems there so that manager follows your direction based off of your systems. That company runs the way you run that business if you were there because you've set everything up for them to follow. Having the right manager plus systems equals business that runs without you. Aaron talks about how to become lifestyle business owners by operating a profitable business in the community that runs without the owner.

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Ken McElroy has experienced massive success in the real estate world–from investment analysis and property management to acquisitions and property development. With over $700 million investment dollars in real estate, Ken offers a unique perspective on how to get the biggest return on investments. Ken is the Real Estate Advisor to Robert Kiyosaki of the Rich Dad Company and is the author of several books, including the The ABC's of Real Estate Investing.

www.kenmcelroy.com

Jason is an executive coach focusing on maximizing your leadership potential and performance. His inside­ out process helps identify and dissolve your hidden blind spots so you can make rapid behavioral changes.

He's the best selling author of Social Wealth, how­ to­guide on building extraordinary business relationships.

He's a featured speaker at TEDxWilmington 2017, where he shares a game­changing team building game he created.

Finally, he hosts the podcast show, Executive Breakthroughs, bringing the game changing CEOs, entrepreneurs, and experts that share their breakthroughs and breakdowns.

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Kim Kiyosaki is an internationally-renowned speaker, author (Rich Woman, Good Deal Bad Deal), entrepreneur, real estate investor, radio show host, and the founder of Rich Woman. This is not just the Kim Kiyosaki Bio, it's an inspirational message for women everywhere to get a financial eduction and make their dreams a reality!

When Kim (Meyer) Kiyosaki left her home in Oregon and boldly moved to Hawaii to attend college, she had no idea that her move to an island paradise would transform her life in every way... and set the course for a future that would transform the lives of millions. Like many college freshmen, she planned to go to school, graduate, get a job, work, and begin the steady climb to the top of some corporate-ladder. She figured that college would be the ticket to a more secure life.

However, while working for a local business in Honolulu, Kim discovered that being an employee wasn't her dream. It wasn't getting her where she wanted to be, and she realized there had to be something more. That's when Kim's real education began.

www.richdad.com

Gordon Van Wechel joins me to talk about some late innovations for business marketing online.

He's the founder of The Alchemy Consulting Group in 2003. Build and sold three previous companies. Author of six books. Has worked with several international NGO's developing micro-business programs in Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

thealchemyconsultinggroup.com

Tamara is the founder of LaunchStreet, the online innovation program and community and creator of the proprietary Innovation Quotient Edge, only assessment able to help you discover your unique cArchetype so you can innovate on demand.

She is a sought after keynote speaker, Crossfit addict and knee high sock lover.

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Podcaster, Master Coach, and Marketing Strategist all rolled up into one purple-haired powerhouse, Nicole Holland is known as the secret weapon that smart CEOs and successful small business owners turn to, to grow their business exponentially through Podcast Guesting. Proud to have been named in the Huffington Post as one of “50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs in 2017” alongside female business leaders like Marie Forleo, Danielle LaPorte, Amy Porterfield, and Dorie Clark, Nicole is all about recognizing and empowering today’s emerging leaders to get known now! It's a pleasure to have my friend Nicole Holland join us here on the show today, and I'm excited for what we're about to dive into.

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Joining us on this segment is Tod Holland - He’s created numerous successful companies that help businesses connect with their perfect clients, automate their processes, and maximize efficiency on one core belief:

Holding true to one’s own values; becoming the best means taking the responsibility to pass on the craft as passionately as possible.

He’s currently an Instructor for Real Estate and Mortgage Marketing, and the Chief Economist and Digital Marketing Consultant for HOM Sotheby’s Int’l Realty,

Co-founder of the first 100% virtual real estate company,

and the Digital Marketing Contributor to the Xpansion Team where he coaches hundreds of agents on social media practices, lead generation, automatic conversation, and other strategies.

You might also be surprised to learn that Tod is passionate about transcendental meditation and uses it as a cornerstone for how he works!

www.marketmakersacademy.com

tod@lumenwoodgroup.com

Tom Dutta is a senior business leader, speaker and International #1 Best Selling author with more than 30 years experience helping build and grow companies in Canada and the USA. Tom brings leadership

experience from the Financial Services, IT, TELCO, Not-For-Profit, and Health sectors. His career includes senior roles in many of Canada’s prestigious companies including President and CEO, and Chairman of the Board.

As Founder and CEO of KRE-AT® Tom is the world’s only motive-based leadership expert. In concert with his business expertise, Tom’s intense travel and study of the science behind success has enabled him to create a proven coaching and mentorship formula called The Way of the Quiet Warrior®. This dynamic program helps leaders manifest success by discovering purpose, taking action and living life their way. Tom mentors CEOs and Executives and has extensive experience participating in and facilitating masterminding. Tom is Executive Producer and Host of the EPIC Podcast “The Quiet Warrior Show” and appeared on William Shatner’s Moving America Forward TV Show.

Previously, Tom was General Manager with Ocean West Financial, Chief Operating Officer of the Annex Group, one of BC’s fastest growing IT Professional Service Firms. He was CEO with CRI Canada, a Division of AEGON - a supplier of software and financial services globally.

At TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies, Tom held a dual role of Director, Customer Excellence and Director, Enterprise Marketing. VanTel Credit Union was his first executive role as Vice President, Sales Marketing and Operations and previously he held Management roles with Toronto Dominion Bank.

Tom has served on a number of industry boards and served as Chairman of the Board for MDABC working to pioneer a change in the Mental Health model.

Tom

Leslie H. Tayne, Esq., is a consumer and business debt-related attorney. She founded Tayne Law Group, P.C., which is one of the few New York State law practices concentrating in debt management, debt resolution and bankruptcy alternatives for consumers, small business owners, and professionals who are in need of help with managing finances.

Leslie has over 20 years’ experience in debt relief. Just last year, she decided to expand her practice beyond New York State by going franchise. Her mission is to reshape debt resolution alternatives by giving clients a supportive and reliable environment built on experience, trust and results that will not only relieve clients of the stress from debts but also the burden of the never-ending debt cycle.

For more information, please visit, www.taynelaw.com.

Ira Bass, CEO of Connect To Success is Your LinkedIn Guy. After a long and distinguished career as an advertising media director, Ira founded IB Media LLC in 2007. In an effort to stimulate growth, Ira began to use LinkedIn to build his network of contacts and pursue new business opportunities.

After landing several multi-million dollar accounts as a direct result of his LinkedIn interactivity, Ira was inspired to launch Connect to Success to help other professionals achieve their own business goals. Since starting the company, Ira has shared his LinkedIn expertise globally with both corporations and individuals. He is passionate about conducting workshops for conferences, groups, associations and companies in a variety of industries.

As a Certified Communication Coach Ira offers behavioral assessments to his individual clients to help them achieve more effective communication strategies and interactions with their LinkedIn connections.

LinkedIn is a marketing, branding, new business development and social selling tool. Used properly LinkedIn can propel any individual or company forward by developing new business opportunities, collaborations and exciting new job possibilities. Ira and his staff are available to help you successfully navigate this important business-oriented social media platform.

www.ConnectToSuccess.biz

Guy at AHAthat (https://AHAthat.com ) who empowers thought leaders to share their genius. His superpower of extracting the genius from your head in a twohour interview so you can then share it with those that need to see it.

He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author with fiftynine business books. He's provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, has advised over five hundred CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ listed company. In addition to these accomplishments, he’s been happily married for twenty eight years and regularly spends four weeks annually in a European country with his family and friends.

www.mitchelllevy.com

www.AHAthat.com

Chris is a digital marketing entrepreneur who is passionate about helping businesses learn what their users want on their website using psychology based testing, and analytics. He started his Conversion Optimization agency Dayley Conversion in 2014, which he later merged with Disruptive Advertising, where he currently works as VP of site testing and optimization.

www.disruptiveadvertising.com

Tom is a father, husband, entrepreneur, and the visionary behind iTREKKERS. Tom founded the company in 2014 after realizing that bringing together vetted professional captains and guides on one platform would help guarantee everyone a better experience in the outdoors.

He joins David to talk about his business, his culture, his missteps and his future plans for his company iTREKKERS.

iTREKKERS is a combination of Tom’s desires to share his love of nature and to simplify the process of booking guided outdoor activities. His mission is threefold: to get people to experience the outdoors through iTREKKERS; to help people get outdoors, period, by providing useful tips and referrals; and to educate people about the outdoors and ways to be mindful.

www.itrekkers.com

Featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Inc, and The Business Insider, Amanda Abella has created an online community where millennials can learn how to make money online and actually enjoy their financial journeys.

Amanda Abella’s ever growing community is currently made up of over 30,000 individuals across social media and email subscriber channels.

The world’s fascination with money – and her own need to learn about healthy financial habits – led her to start her career as a freelance writer who focused on financial topics in 2010. Since then her company has expanded to creating content marketing and financial education courses for companies like Credit Karma, Santander and Discover.

In 2014, Amanda launched her Amazon bestselling book, Make Money Your Honey: A Spirited Entrepreneur’s Guide to Having a Love Affair with Work & Money which has been featured in Yahoo! Finance and Seventeen Magazine.

The book has also appeared on top business and finance podcasts like John Lee Dumas’ Entrepreneur on Fire and Farnoosh Torabi’s So Money. She launched the Make Money Your Honey podcast on iTunes in 2016.

In 2015, Amanda Abella’s blog was a finalist for a Plutus Award for Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials. In 2016, AmandaAbella.com won the

Plutus Award for Best Designed Personal Finance Blog. Amanda has won the South Florida Bloggers Award for Best Finance Blogger in 2016 and 2017.

In addition to helping millennial business owners, as of 2017 Amanda has alsodone consulting work for financial companies targeting the LatinX community such as Dvdendo and MoneyMio. Her own experience as a Cuban-American having been raised in Miami has led to a new passion of helping her community achieve financial goals while speaking to their specific needs as a community.

She is fully fluent in written and verbal English and Spanish.

www.amandaabella.com

Our guest on this segment believes that -

Today’s business leaders operate in an increasingly harsh environment of industry disruption, social media influence, and startup competition. AND….

- The factors involved in surviving this landscape have surprising similarities to actual wilderness survival psychology.

Jonathan David Lewis is Partner and Strategy Director at McKee Wallwork & Co. He has led his firm to national branding and marketing recognition achieving multiple Advertising Age awards.

As a business thought leader, Jonathan is a regular contributor to Forbes, Digiday, and Advertising Age.

He is an expert in the factors that lead to stalled growth and helping companies navigate the dangers of the brand wilderness.

In his new book, BRAND VS WILD: Building Resilient Brands for Harsh Business Environments (Taylor & Francis; May 2017), nationally recognized brand strategist, Jonathan David Lewis challenges the automatic behavioral responses of companies and employees in today’s brand wilderness.

Jenn T. Grace is a nationally recognized business strategist, speaker and author. Guided by the mantra, “change happens in business,” Jenn believes social change happens first in the workplace before spilling over into mainstream society.

She is a Best Selling author and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Hartford Courant and CNBC. Passionate about helping people share their stories of adversity, Jenn is the Founder of the Author's Academy and Publish Your Purpose Press.

www.publishyourpurposepress.com

Matthew is a certified success and leadership coach trained through the Jack Canfield Company. After more than 15 years in sales and sales management, Matthew made the change to coaching.

"Too many people are burnt out with their jobs and careers and this results in living a mediocre life. I teach every day people how to make extraordinary choices, so they can take their life from 'meh', toliving a life with passion and excitement. "

Reach out to Matthew at matthew@makeinspiredchoices.com

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