Influence with Brad Harker - Interviewing business leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

Welcome to Influence with Brad Harker, where we bring together great minds, and game changing concepts to help YOU, embrace your purpose, amplify your potential, and leverage the power of your Influence.

What does it take to succeed as an Entrepreneur? How can Influence help you achieve that success? Are there consistent strategies among top entrepreneurs that drive their success?

My guest today, Ever Gonzalez, has interviewed thousands of entrepreneurs through his successful podcast Outlier On Air. Ever shares his journey starting as an entrepreneur by profession, to becoming an entrepreneur by passion. He talks about the differences between successful start-ups and failures, and shares concrete strategies that you can employ today to take your project or company to the next level.

In this episode we talk about:

• Why Influence is an essential ingredient of entrepreneurship.
• Why consistency is important to build a brand and following.
• The "consistent" habits of successful entrepreneurs.
• How to make a transition from your “job” towards an entrepreneurial “passion.”
• How to overcome adversity and succeed in entrepreneurship.

Shownotes: https://bradharker.com/2015/11/influence-001-influence-entrepreneurship-ever-gonzalez/

Website: www.bradharker.com

Outlier: www.outliermagazine.co

One of the most essential ingredients to influence and entrepreneurship is the ability to build rapport with your customers. While it is one thing to know where to find your customers, it's an entirely different thing to know how to build relationships that create value for them, and revenue for you.

• How to convert a passion into a profitable business.
• How to find and build rapport with your target audience.
• The most commonly misunderstood truth about what customers actually want.
• How to make the transition from giving away free advice to becoming a highly-paid expert.
• Developing greater confidence in your business or expertise.

My guest today is Luis Congdon. His unbelievable story begins in Columbia when, at the age of five, his mother was murdered leaving him both orphaned and homeless. At the age of eight, his life transformed as he was rescued by adoptive parents who brought him to the United States.

By nature of the many struggles Luis faced with relationships, he gravitated towards the work of relationship experts, Dr.’s John and Julie Gottman. In addition to teaching their system, Luis was also a key player in one of the nation’s largest research projects looking into the components of successful marriage relationships. However, in spite such powerful experience, Luis struggled to find his niche, and again found himself homeless. While sleeping on friends couches, Luis discovered the power of online marketing and embraced a forum that would enable him to share his expertise with the world.

Today, Luis is the host of Lasting Love Connection, a top rated iTunes podcast as well as thrivinglaunch.com. Luis is the creator of a powerful course for podcasters and owner of a popular Facebook podcast group. Luis went from sleeping on couches to making a six figure income via digital products, podcasting, Facebook and networking in only 10 months. Best of all, he is ready to teach you his secrets.

"My work comes out of a passion to help others avoid the pains I went through." -Luis Congdon

• www.lastingloveconnection.com
• www.thrivinglaunch.com
• Twitter: @wholesomeunion

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"The biggest tragedy in my life wasn't that I lost my sight. The biggest tragedy is that I didn't live my life, before I lost my sight, like I do today. Today I see my blindness as a gift . . ." -Tanner Gers

This episode of Influence introduces the incredible story of Tanner Gers. At age 21, Tanner was in a horrible car accident that left him blind in both eyes. Instead of giving up, Tanner took flight, finishing his degree and eventually representing the United States as a Paralympic athlete. Today, Tanner is a power-house entrepreneur with a variety of businesses centered around coaching, health, and fitness. Just listening to Tanner will inspire you to stand up, get over yourself, and do something fantastic with your life.

In this episode we are going to talk about:

• The accident that cost Tanner his vision and how he was able to overcome such adversity.
• How Tanner was able to "get back up", finish his degree, and become paralympic gold medalist.
• The power of belief and how Tanner was able to save his own life.
• How to take control of your life and find greatness within you.
• How to view obstacles as "gifts" that can propel your life to new heights.

"Everyday is a lot easier when you know it could always be worse" -Tanner Gers

Tanner Gers (pronounced Gears) is a published author, professional speaker, US Paralympian, founder of ABSolutely Lean, and host of The Athlete Summit. Tanner’s big mission in life is to help people across the world achieve their potential with his gift for cultivating confidence, determination, and the will to achieve greatness in life, regardless of circumstance. Oh yeah. He’s also totally blind.

In 2004, Tanner experienced a horrible auto accident that left him in a coma and destroyed his ability to see. Tanner was determined to not be defined by his disability or let that prevent him from living his dreams. Tanner is an individual that embodies the idea that anyone can do anything they set their mind to and does this every day by helping others achieve their full potential.

In 2010, Tanner started training and coaching developmental athletes in various sports, including volleyball, baseball, football and cross country. After having the honor and the privilege to represent the United States at the 2012 Games in London, Tanner’s focus on optimal athletic performance began to shift toward optimal health.

While having tremendous success with his 1-on-1 clients, Tanner felt he could do more with his story and began his public speaking career. Quickly becoming an accomplished speaker, Tanner delivers keynotes for schools, colleges, non-profits, and corporate events across the country in addition to presentations on exercise, nutrition, and health.

Motivated to help individuals worldwide, Tanner launched www.ABSolutelyLean.com and published two books, “Becoming ABSolutely Lean: The First Steps to Optimal Health, Hormones and Achieving a Lean Body,” and “ABSolutely Lean Fast Food: The Fat Loss Guide in a Fast Food Life” and released his bodyweight fitness program, ABSolutely Lean System Fitness. Today, Tanner still consults, trains and designs customized programs for women, men and youth in health, body composition, fitness and athletic performance through www.ABSolutelyLean.com.

"I decided that I wanted to be the fastest blind dude" -Tanner Gers

Websites:www.ABSolutelyLean.comTwitter: @tannergersFacebook: Tanner Gers

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Picture yourself on the wrong side of enemy lines. You are in the midst of a firefight and your survival is hinging solely upon the performance of your team. Now rewind back to the school-yard pick. What character traits would be most important when choosing each member of that team?

Enter Army Ranger and Delta Force Veteran Travis Krauss, my guest on this week's episode of Influence. Travis has an unbelievable resume of combat experience, complimented by an equally impressive resume as a consultant, entrepreneur, and creator of the Las Vegas combat experience, Adventure Combat Ops. Travis joins me to talk about what it was like to be part of an elite team, and moreover, what 10+ years of combat has taught him about building companies and leading highly skilled teams.

In this episode we talk about:

• Self Assessment - Azimuth checks and being brutally honest with yourself.
• What makes a great soldier? The importance of purpose and commitment to the mission.
• Dealing with adversity Delta Force style.
• What does it mean to evaluate the 2nd and 3rd order of effects?
• "Hustlers" and the importance of integrity in the face of opposition.
• Why building the RIGHT team is always better building the BEST team.
• A combat story about drawing on your strengths to create value for your team.

"The unit (Delta Force) prides itself on being the best in the world NOT because they have the BEST operators, but because they have the RIGHT operators. " -Travis Krauss