9) How to Find (and Follow) Your Inner Voice | Jessica Rea

06/01/16 • 33 min

Hack the Entrepreneur Top Ten | Business | Marketing | Productivity | Habits

This interview was originally published on March 11, 2015, as HTE 070: How to Find and Follow Your Inner Voice | Jessica Rea

The popularity of this interview has been truly impressive. Not that Jessica isn’t a smart entrepreneur, she definitely is. But the fact that she is not a ‘big name’ in the space and how she struggles simply with the title of entrepreneur, makes this conversation more interesting

Jessica is in the same position you may be in, and I believe that is why this conversation has resonated so well with listeners like you. This is a deep dive into the inner voices (and struggles) of becoming an entrepreneur.

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Today’s guest is not only a smart entrepreneur, she is also part designer, part business strategist, and part coach. A few years ago she would’ve told you that she wasn’t an entrepreneur, but this has changed.

She now runs her own successful business and helps other ‘ladypreneurs’ gain the clarity and confidence they need to connect with their ideal clients, build their brand and business online.

Last year, we had the pleasure of meeting at Chris Ducker’s Tropical Think Tank and I was blown away by her marketing strategies (which she calls her super power) and her truly beautiful web design work, that has been the foundation of her business for years.

Now, let’s hack...

Jessica Rea.

In this 33-minute episode Jessica and I discuss:

Understanding your clients and helping them achieve their goals
Turning your insecurities into assets
How to create opportunities for yourself
Dealing with the loneliness of starting your own business
Why Jessica starts her day the night before
How to start your day to stay focussed and productive
Learning to hit publish (both literally and metaphorically)

The Show Notes

This interview was originally published on March 11, 2015, as HTE 070: How to Find and Follow Your Inner Voice | Jessica Rea

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She now runs her own successful business and helps other ‘ladypreneurs’ gain the clarity and confidence they need to connect with their ideal clients, build their brand and business online.

Now, let’s hack...

Jessica Rea.

In this 33-minute episode Jessica and I discuss:

Understanding your clients and helping them achieve their goals
Turning your insecurities into assets
How to create opportunities for yourself
Dealing with the loneliness of starting your own business
Why Jessica starts her day the night before
How to start your day to stay focussed and productive
Learning to hit publish (both literally and metaphorically)

The Show Notes

Previous Episode

8) Getting Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable | Benji Rogers

This interview was originally published on August 10, 2015, as HTE 112: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

Between the conversation about the merging of art and commerce, and Benji’s mindset of learning to become comfortable being uncomfortable.

This conversation dives into the essential required for gaining the perseverance necessary to push through the hard times.

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My guest today is the President and Founder of PledgeMusic, a direct-to-fan company that offers musicians a unique way to engage with their fans during the music-making process.

He is an independent musician who received the A&R Worldwide Digital Executive of the Year award in 2014 and appeared in the 2013 Billboard 40 Under 40 Power Players list. My guest's recent engagements include keynote addresses and panels at events such as Canadian Music Week and GRAMMY Camp. He also gained a position on the Board of Directors for the Future Of Music Coalition this year. Now, Let's hack... Benji Rogers.

My guest's recent engagements include keynote addresses and panels at events such as Canadian Music Week and GRAMMY Camp. He also gained a position on the Board of Directors for the Future Of Music Coalition this year. Now, Let's hack... Benji Rogers.

Now, Let's hack... Benji Rogers.

Benji Rogers.

In this 36-minute episode Benji Rogers and I discuss:

How Benji had stayed incredibly restless
The true power of having advisors
Learning to become comfortable with being uncomfortable
Being an entrepreneur is about entering a space of uncertainty
Let your team push you to better places, ideas, and outcomes

The Show Notes

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10) How to Generate Ideas and Execute Quickly | James Altucher

This interview was originally published on December 22, 2014, as HTE 038: Most Things In Life Fail. It’s Ok. | James Altucher

From teaching you specifically how to make a living in six months, a great living within two years, and how to be rich within three years, James Altucher joined me for my most unconventional interview to-date.

James Altucher has built more successful businesses than most of us will ever start — not to mention the giant list of failed companies. He has lost more money than most of us will ever earn. And he brings us it all, in genuine Altucher fashion, during this interview.

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Today’s guest is one of my all-time favourite writers and I rarely go more than a few months without rereading his book Choose Yourself. He is an American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, bestselling author, blogger and podcaster.

He has founded or cofounded over 20 companies and 17 have failed. He sold one for $15 million and spent all of the money — all of it. Then he built and sold another within its first year for $10 million.

He fails quickly. He fails frequently. He claims Entrepreneurship is a sentence of failures punctuated by brief success.

He is invested in about 28 private companies. He advises about another 50 private companies — companies ranging from $0 in revenues to a billion in revenues.

This conversation is long than usual but you will not even notice because not a second is wasted. Now, let’s hack... James Altucher.

Now, let’s hack... James Altucher.

What you will learn in this episode:

How James makes his sound better during a podcast (maybe I should have edited this part out)
Exactly how to make a living in six months, a great living within two years and be rich within three to four years.
Success can be measured today or it can be measured in decades.
The important thing is to always be thinking of giving to others.
Most ideas that people have are bad (and this is ok).

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