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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship

The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship

Rob Napoli

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The Bear Necessities is a podcast where we sit down with entrepreneurs, ecosystem partners, and innovation folks to talk about what it takes to launch, create, and scale businesses across the world. We talk about the journey, the challenges, what it takes to be entrepreneurial-minded, and how that translates into your journey giving you the tools and knowledge to overcome challenges you may be facing in your life's journey. We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact marketing firm to give back for each episode. To learn more visit: https://app.phinforgood.com The Bear Necessities is part of the Rise Up Media family and we thank you for tuning in.
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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Content to look forward in 2022
  • Dealing with imposter syndrome for young people
  • Figure out what you want to do
  • Be responsible for your own goals
  • Internal vs External Motivation: Finding the right balance
  • What brings you joy?

QUOTES

Ryan: "This is what I tell my athletes: 'When you graduate college, you are so much more than just a division one football player or woman's basketball player, or gymnastics or baseball player. You are a unique individual and you just have to find the next challenge.’"

Rob: "A lot of times we have great ideas. We have these things we want to do. But when the imposter syndrome sets in, it's that because we live in an influencer lifestyle and influencer society, we think it's easy. And it's not, and no one sees the unglamorous side of when we put in the work and the 80-hour weeks and the early mornings or dealing with customer service."

Ryan: "When I look in the mirror, I know I'm really good at what I do, no matter what other people might think or what's happened to me. I know I'm really good at what I do because I care and I love it and I'm driven."

Ryan: "External motivation is great and you have to have a support system around you. That's a huge piece of motivation. That's why as coaches we have 10 position coaches, you got a head coach, you have GAs, you have a bunch of people around the organization for football to help motivate. And we need that support system. But you have to internalize and drive yourself."

Rob: "Many times, when we're not motivated, it's because we're doing things we don't care about. We're just going through the motions."

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Connect with Rob: https://beacons.page/RobNapoli or on LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/in/robnap.

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact marketing firm, to give back for each episode. To learn more, visit: https://app.phinforgood.com.

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Jumping In Your Canoe and Owning Your Journey with Walker McKay, Founder of No BS Sales
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01/27/22 • 43 min

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Life is like riding a raft, rowboat, or canoe
  • No BS Sales: The result of a decision to stop making excuses
  • Hard times, asking for help, and taking a leap of faith
  • Sellers' transformation: Be sincerely curious and understand people

QUOTES

Rob: "I think that's such a big lesson that, at any stage in your journey whether you're 18, 27, 32, 49, 61, asking for help is not a bad thing and it can be the opportunity that you need to grow."

Walker: "I had to take everything I knew, put it down, put it in a system, and make it work. And that step, that me stepping out with, I mean, I just took a leap of faith. That's what's made the difference is because they forced me to do the hard shit and not just pull stuff out of my ass as what I was doing before."

Walker: "What I believe is that we need to be having real conversations with people. We need to be having conversations where the salesperson is sincerely curious. They don't go in to educate. They go in to be educated."

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Ep 74: The Millennial Era and How Open Innovation Inspires Leadership - PT 1
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09/23/22 • 40 min

This episode of #TBNE features a long-time friend of the show and 2x guest Matt Hooper as we get tactical on The Millennial Era and how open innovation inspires leadership.

As we are both millennials we discuss how things changed from our perspective and how the millennial generation paved way for what is to come. This is part 1 of a 3 part series as we got together to cover some ground!

Check out the previous episodes with Matt Hooper to hear his entrepreneurial background and journey. Episode 53 // Episode 54

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Show Produced by: Niranjan Deshpande (Nick), Broken Frames Studio, www.brokenframesstudio.com

Creative Director: Maxim Sokolov, www.maximsokolov.com

Special offer for #BearNation listeners who are interested in trying Brilliantly Warm (https://www.brilliantly.co/), use this 10% off discount code WELCOME10.

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact company, to give back for each episode to the communities that we serve. To learn more or get involved with Phin for your company, visit:

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Building Green Sustainability with Egija Gailuma

Building Green Sustainability with Egija Gailuma

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06/23/22 • 49 min

A big risk-taker, and an advocate for green sustainability, Egija Gailuma is a refreshing and enlightening drop of sunshine to today’s show. Rob Napoli welcomes Egija in this latest edition of The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship, as they talk about why you should take big risks, always trust yourself, trust and delegate to someone else, and her journey to building green sustainability.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Egija's background
  • Start now, waiting for perfect can be too late
  • Risk big, trust yourself, delegate to someone
  • Egija's upcoming launch
  • Building green sustainability
  • Egija's superpower

QUOTES

Egija: “I'd rather risk big, and then also lose big, instead of playing small and then risking that, there's like a smaller upside to it.”

Egija: “I always try to trust myself that I'll forget, and figure it out. No matter the topic, the question, I know that somehow I'll deal with it.”

Egija: “Delegate and trust someone that they will do their job better than maybe you would do that because you don't like it.”

Egija: “This trust in myself. That's basically whatever wherever I go, whatever I do, even I might be afraid of it and then kind of like stressed out. But still, I will always bet on myself.”

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Ep 81: Building Culture at Starbucks with Howard Behar

Ep 81: Building Culture at Starbucks with Howard Behar

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11/11/22 • 29 min

This episode of #TBNE features the former president of Starbucks Coffee and is the author of "It's Not About The Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks".

His career in business spans decades across consumer-oriented businesses covering a number of industries. He retired from Starbucks Coffee after 21 years where he led both the domestic business, as President of North America, and was the founding President of Starbucks International. During his tenure, he participated in the growth of the company from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning five continents. He served on the Starbucks Board of Directors for 12 years before retiring.

Currently, a Trustee for the Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation and is on the advisory board of Anthos Capital as well as having formerly served on the board for Starbucks, GAP, and the University of Washington Foundation among many others. He is deeply committed to the development and education of our future leaders and has been a longtime advocate of the #ServantLeadership Model Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review.

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Show Produced by: Niranjan Deshpande (Nick), Broken Frames Studio, www.brokenframesstudio.com

Creative Director: Maxim Sokolov, www.maximsokolov.com

Special offer for #BearNation listeners who are interested in trying Brilliantly Warm (https://www.brilliantly.co/), use this 10% off discount code WELCOME10.

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact company, to give back for each episode to the communities that we serve. To learn more or get involved with Phin for your company, visit: https://www.phinforgood.com/

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Don't Overthink, Take Action, and Learn By Doing with 4x Entrepreneur Collin Mitchell
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03/03/22 • 55 min

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Moving from being a VP to an Entrepreneur
  • Founding his first company
  • Challenges in building his first business
  • Balancing personal relationships and running a business
  • Start of podcasting and co-founding Salescast
  • There are about 2.7 million podcasts today
  • Building a podcast community
  • The plan for Salescast in 2022
  • Salescast being a community enabling people to share their story
  • Collin’s final advise

QUOTES

Collin: “The short answer is I'm not a good employee. Yeah, you know, entrepreneurs, I think have some similar traits, right, we're typically a little bit stubborn, you know, have a lot of drive and motivation and don't like being kept in a box of thinking outside of that box.”

Rob: “I mean, I think there's no right or wrong way. On who you partner with, there's tons of stories, and it could be a solo founder, multiple founder and their stats saying like people invest in multiple founders more than solo founders.”

Rob: “ The way we consume content and the way we consume podcasts has just evolved with the evolution of technology. And I think it's still a great time to have a podcast to leverage that for many different ways and things you want to do, whether that's, you know, driving sales and potential clients by starting relationship through a podcast and selling but driving that relationship to the keynote topics that you want to talk about to, you know, try to make it into more of a monetization platform and a really kind of fun show.”

Collin: “ We thought everybody should use their podcast to prospect or, you know, call it prospect, but really build relationships. And not everybody wants to use it that way. We've started to learn the different ways that people can use a podcast to drive revenue. And we've started to identify who we serve best and who we don't.”

Rob: “ And the lessons that many of us need to learn is that we can create businesses to serve everyone. But we don't need to, we got to niche out, we got to find that authentic, you can call it your tribe, whatever, right riches and niches, you need to find kind of where you can go deep before you can go wide.”

Collin: “I still believe, as an entrepreneur, like sales is the number one skill that you should have. And if you don't, let's say you're a technical founder and you build stuff, then I think it makes a lot of sense to have a co-founder that sells, because you could have the best product, you could have the best service, if nobody can sell it, then nobody cares.”

Collin: “Just get started. maybe you just start it as a side hustle first. What skills do you need in order to start whatever business you're thinking about. Or maybe you've already started and you're trying to get to the next level to go all in on entrepreneurship and maybe give up the 9 to 5. Surround yourself with some like-minded people. Have some people that you can seek counsel from. Don't try to do it on your own.”

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Special offer for #BearNation listeners who are interested in trying Brilliantly Warm, use this 10% off discount code WELCOME10.

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact marketing firm, to give back for each episode. To learn more, visit:

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Making Mental Health Tangible with Nevaro Tech CEO and Co-Founder Rita Maçorano
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02/17/22 • 38 min

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Getting an entrepreneurial idea through a master's degree
  • Solving the technological gap in psychiatry and psychology
  • Resilience is key in building a business
  • Working with a co-founder and separating tasks
  • Dealing with mental health while building a business focusing on mental health
  • Gathering steam and being blindsided by COVID-19
  • What is Nevaro Tech up to?
  • Just launch and iterate as you go
  • What Rob and Rita are looking forward to in 2022
  • Life is a sinusoidal journey

QUOTES

Rita: "Throughout my master's degree, I started having some classes on neurosciences and the human brain, and I started seeing, okay, that's what I like, that's what I want to explore a little further. And even more than that, we started exploring what kind of technology was applied in psychiatry, in psychology, and what a surprise, we looked at it and there is none. There is no technology, there is no innovation in those fields."

Rita: "Something that we are proud of and usually people criticize a little bit, is every time we have an opportunity, we take it and we go learn from it. We did a lot of acceleration programs, we did a lot of mentoring. We really grew. We had an academic background in engineering, but we lacked completely the parts of the business, of the entrepreneurial world."

Rita: Our main goal at Nevaro Tech is turning mental health tangible. We are showing that there is science backing it up. If you do this, your body will be like that, and that will improve because of that. Something that we really value is being really straightforward deconstructing everything like showing the science behind what will breathing exercises do to your oxygen rate, carbon dioxide, how will that affect your body and how many times you should do it."

Rob: "Working with founders from all over the world all the time, I can't tell you how many times people are waiting for the perfect product. If you wait 'till perfect, it's too late. Get good out, get feedback, iterate, and move quickly."

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Klavdia Malysheva is from Russia; she is a millennial entrepreneur, CEO and Co-Founder of the company called HowMuchTravel. HowMuchTravel is an app made for travelers to calculate the estimated budget of a trip, provide fantastic recommendations and save you time and money on planning trips around the world.

To learn more about Klavdia Malysheva, you can check out the links below.

Connect with Rob Napoli: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rise-up-coaching-llc/

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship - Ep 78: Innovation in Sweden w/ Uminova Innovation

Ep 78: Innovation in Sweden w/ Uminova Innovation

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10/21/22 • 24 min

This episode of #TBNE was filmed in the Umea, Sweden with our friends at Uminova Innovation. Rob sits down IRL with Peter Bäckström, Head of International Business Development. Peter and Rob met back in the pre-pandemic days of 2019 when Peter pitched the idea to go to NYC to develop strategic partnerships for their incubator companies.

On that trip, Rob and Peter met along with Phil Delvecchio and Maria Olofsson to establish a key partnership for US GTM training and scaling.
Finally, Rob was able to make it to Umea to meet with the team, and incubators, do some workshops, and of course record this pod!

Check out the episode as we get into the “how” of building international relations and partnerships, what an incubator does, and some of the exciting innovations coming out of Sweden!

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Show Produced by: Niranjan Deshpande (Nick), Broken Frames Studio, www.brokenframesstudio.com

Creative Director: Maxim Sokolov, www.maximsokolov.com

Special offer for #BearNation listeners who are interested in trying Brilliantly Warm (https://www.brilliantly.co/), use this 10% off discount code WELCOME10.

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact company, to give back for each episode to the communities that we serve. To learn more or get involved with Phin for your company, visit:

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All listeners are invited to get onto the mailing list for our global accelerator summit -- the summit is closed to the public, but those on our mailing list will have an opportunity to apply. You could meet your life-changing mentor, investor, community, customer, or other relationship on our big day at the Nasdaq, October 28th (celainnovation.com/summit-2021)

https://www.linkedin.com/company/celarator/

Connect with Rob: https://beacons.page/RobNapoli or on LinkedIn, www.linkedin.com/in/robnap

We have teamed up with Phin, a social impact marketing firm, to give back for each episode. To learn more, visit: https://app.phinforgood.com.

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The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship currently has 107 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Business, Innovation and Careers.

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The episode title 'Happy Holidays! Last Episode of 2021 with My Twin Ryan Napoli talking Imposter Syndrome And Goal Setting' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship is 41 minutes.

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Episodes of The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of The Bear Necessities of Entrepreneurship was released on May 24, 2021.

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