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The Importance of Risk-Taking in Entrepreneurship
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02/21/25 • 57 min
In this episode of The Friday Habit, hosts Marc Labriola and Benjamin Manley engage with Youngsoo, who transitioned from a successful career in cryptocurrency software engineering to founding Urban EDC, an eight-figure e-commerce business. Youngsoo shares his journey, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection, risk-taking, and audience engagement in entrepreneurship. He discusses the challenges he faced, including job losses and the leap to Silicon Valley, and how he built his business by understanding his interests and validating his ideas through market research. In this conversation, Mark Labriola II shares his entrepreneurial journey, emphasizing the importance of validating ideas through market testing, building trust with customers, and the necessity of financial preparation. He discusses the power of pressure and constraints in achieving success, the significance of feedback loops for continuous improvement, and the transition from being a solopreneur to leading a team. Mark also highlights the importance of strategic hiring, sourcing talent from the community, and managing multiple businesses effectively. He reflects on the need for new challenges and the organic growth of his second venture, GrowthJet, while expressing his desire to empower other entrepreneurs through education and mentorship.
Takeaways
Youngsoo felt an inner drive to start a company from a young age.
He transitioned from finance to tech, seeking fulfillment beyond corporate jobs.
Taking risks in youth can lead to valuable life experiences.
The regret minimization framework can guide decision-making.
Youngsoo moved to Silicon Valley to immerse himself in the startup culture.
He launched Urban EDC by reflecting on personal spending habits.
Building an audience before launching a product is crucial.
Validating business ideas through market research is essential.
Understanding personal interests can lead to successful business ventures.
Engaging with potential customers early can shape product offerings. Validate your ideas through market testing.
Building relationships is key to business success.
Financial preparation is crucial before starting a venture.
Pressure can unlock your full potential.
Feedback loops help in continuous improvement.
Transitioning from solopreneur to team leader is essential for growth.
Strategic hiring is important for scaling a business.
Sourcing talent from your community can yield great results.
Managing multiple businesses requires effective delegation.
Empowering others through education is a fulfilling next step.
Enhancing Company Culture with Laura Treonze - Part 2
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05/28/21 • 26 min
Laura Treonze is an executive coach who specializes in behavioral understanding to enhance company culture, maximize executive talent and boost employee engagement. She combines psychology with experiential coaching methods to help individuals and teams break through limiting beliefs to increase productivity and profit.
Main Topic Notes
- How did you get into executive coaching?
- So how do you enhance company culture and boost employee engagement with behavioral understanding.?
- Speaking about employee engagement, what are your thoughts about hiring and how do we do it right?
- Whats the secret to attracting abundance into your life.
Recap / Takeaways
- Top 3 rules for navigating life:
- Define and create your experience
- Stay resourceful (don't get stuck on one path)
- Be grateful for where you are
- Hire based on culture fit first (most skills can be trained)
- Ask your employees:
- How can I show you how much I appreciate you?
- How can I support you?
- Often when hiring we're not asking enough questions
- When hiring or looking for feedback in your organization ask: If you could change one thing about the organization, what would it be?
- Don't create goals in a vacuum. Close the gap between goals of the individuals on your team and the goals of the company
- In a review, ask first where they think they are before you telling them what you think
- If you can match your people with the correct work then they will be more engaged
- When things go wrong don't stay with just how and why I got here, spend more time on what needs to happen next, who do I need to talk to move forward?
Action Item
- Define the experience you want
Connect With Laura
Go to TheFridayHabit.com to find show notes for this episode. There you can also find links to our websites and ways to get in touch. At the bottom of the page you can download our guide to the Friday Habit system that will show you how to set aside one full day each week dedicated to working on your business instead of in your business.
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Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.
Leading as an Entrepreneur with Jason Reichl - Part 1
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03/05/21 • 24 min
Come on in and take a seat for part one of Mark and Ben’s conversation with Jason Reichl, cofounder of Go Nimbly, lover of design thinking, master of optimizing revenue operations, and a guy who has a love/hate relationship with the Eisenhower Matrix. If you have marketing, sales, or customer service staff in your business, Jason’s insights could be gamechangers. Jason came from a creative background but he always had a firm grasp of the business aspects of every endeavor, so even his mediocre projects became successful. Through his early work experiences, Jason realized that he had a knack for creating the framework and disciplines needed to fill in the gaps that the customer might experience through the marketing, sales, and customer services processes and with Go Nimbly he wants to provide a product that makes all of those aspects of the customer experience more effective and efficient.
During this episode, Jason also talks about how he prioritizes the important over the urgent, perhaps reclassifying important things as urgent as well to ensure that they take precedence. He goes a level deeper than the Eisenhower Matrix does by asking himself if the urgent thing in front of him is a reverberation of a previous decision that could have been mitigated by taking a different course of action earlier. Every strategy decision, Jason says, has a dark underside and it is important to recognize and comprehend the effects early on and to remain committed to the strategy so that your people will follow suit and continue to trust in your strategic capabilities. “Even over” statements also help Jason provide clarity as a leader because they establish the core principles and values at Go Nimbly that will never be relinquished.
Tune in next week for the conclusion of the interview with Jason Reichl!
Connect with Jason:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/betterjason
https://twitter.com/betterjason?lang=en
Connect with us:
To submit questions/comments, including voice memos: [email protected]
https://www.thefridayhabit.com/
https://www.instagram.com/benjaminmanley
http://www.benjaminmanley.com/
https://www.brandvivamedia.com/
Building an Authority Brand with Curt Mercadante (Part 1)
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01/01/21 • 20 min
Our guest on this episode of The Friday Habit podcast is Curt Mercadante, Founder of Merc Enterprises, author, certified Gallup Strengths trainer, certified human behavior specialist, and host of The Freedom Mindset Podcast Radio show. Curt shares his insights about creating an authority brand rather than just a commodity brand, providing value, attracting customers, and cultivating loyalty. Every business, he points out, started as a thought which led to an idea which manifested in a business which comes with inherent authority, but many people are not tapping into this authority to improve the lives of other people.
The four pillars of building an authority brand are:
- Attention – Gaining followers, likes, views, and shares is just the beginning.
- Accuracy – Creating a client persona based on demographics, behaviors, and attitudes is essential to understanding and relating to your audience.
- Alignment – Your audience wants to know what is in it for them, so don’t bombard them with your accomplishments and accolades. Create your impact story in the form of one simple sentence.
- Authenticity – Consistently communicating to your audience will establish the know, like, and trust factor.
Many businesses focus their strategies on social media because this his how they think they can reach the most people, but social media is just a tool and it is not reliable for gaining leads or loyal customers. It is crucial to consistently communicate your message, being aware of your niche and the best ways to reach the personas you have established. Rather than focusing on results, dial into the process and reverse engineer your long-term goals to determine your outcomes. Come back next week for the conclusion of Mark and Ben’s conversation with Curt!
Connect with Curt:
https://www.curtmercadante.com/
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freedom-mindset-radio/id1352804152
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Pillars-Freedom-Lifestyle-Comfort-ebook/dp/B07WLLBGRD
https://twitter.com/curtmercadante
https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtmercadante
https://www.facebook.com/curtmercadante/
Connect with us:
To submit questions/comments: [email protected]
https://www.thefridayhabit.com/
https://www.instagram.com/benjaminmanley
http://www.benjaminmanley.com/
https://www.brandvivamedia.com/
Welcome to The Friday Habit
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01/22/20 • 1 min
05/12/23 • 27 min
As a wildly successful author of science fiction novels and short stories, Hugh Howey pushes himself to explore new creative horizons on each project. A lover of classic dystopian novels such as Animal Farm and Fahrenheit 451, Hugh loves multi-layered storytelling that pushes our understanding of what it means to be human. In a world that’s looking more and more like the apocalyptic settings in his novels, Hugh takes a more positive perspective on the impact of technology. Instead of subscribing to sweeping fears around the rise of artificial intelligence and the impending annihilation of the human race, he sees these developments as progress. Because of AI programs such as ChatGPT, human creations and contributions to the world have the potential to live forever, long after humans are gone. For this reason, Hugh sees AI as a path to immortality, not through the physical body but through a legacy of art and information. His stories frequently explore the boundaries of the human experience, especially as humanity itself is transitioning into something new. His timely and best-selling trilogy Silo is now a television series on AppleTV.
Main Topics
- Suspend expectations when it comes to creating art (02:45)
- Hugh’s favorite authors (05:03)
- AI and the future of humanity (07:20)
- Immortality becomes possible through AI (11:55)
- Human legacy lives on through our creations (13:49)
- Hugh’s top 3 science fiction movies (18:10)
- Turning Silo trilogy into a television show (20:35)
- Executive producing on the show (23:57)
Episode Links
Go to TheFridayHabit.com to find show notes for this episode. There you can also find links to our websites and ways to get in touch. At the bottom of the page you can download our guide to the Friday Habit system that will show you how to set aside one full day each week dedicated to working on your business instead of in your business.
If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.
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Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.
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The CEO of Marital Bliss: Creating a Culture Through Core Values with Meredith Monday Schwartz pt. 2
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08/18/23 • 38 min
CEO and culture creator Meredith Monday Schwartz is passionate about investing in her employees and building a work environment that feels like family. At her wedding venue company, Here Comes the Guide, she works tirelessly to not only hire the best people for her teams but to create a sense of equality amongst them. According to Meredith, the value of an employee is not measured by how much time they spend working. Through clearly communicated key performance indicators, the leadership team at Here Comes the Guide can easily track an individual’s growth and productivity. With a combination of trust and verification, leadership empowers employees to function at their highest capacity.
Other core values Meredith has built at her female-owned and operated company include investing in the sisterhood, putting relationships before sales, prioritizing work/life balance, and practicing fearless authenticity, especially during conflict. In order to keep drama at bay, she encourages open and honest communication directly with those involved. Through culture-building activities such as company retreats, book clubs, and small group goal setting, she is able to foster a sense of connectivity even though everyone works remotely. By implementing a more human-centered approach, Meredith is building a company that she hopes will be around long after she is gone.
Main Topics
- The shift to running a fully remote company (03:12)
- Operating from core values (04:45)
Hiring the right people (08:45)
- Creating powerful key performance indicators (12:30)
- Profit splitting between employees (16:30)
- Sisterhood first at Here Comes the Guide (18:00)
- Creating culture through core values (22:40)
- Building relationships through conflict resolution (26:35)
- Onboarding processes (31:05)
Episode Links
Go to TheFridayHabit.com to find show notes for this episode. There you can also find links to our websites and ways to get in touch. At the bottom of the page you can download our guide to the Friday Habit system that will show you how to set aside one full day each week dedicated to working on your business instead of in your business.
If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.
If you have a question or a topic you’d like us to cover don’t forget to record us a quick voice memo and send it to [email protected]
Thanks for listening to The Friday Habit.
Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.
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02/23/24 • 44 min
Episode Summary:
In this episode of The Friday Habit, hosts Mark Labriola and Benjamin Manley sit down with Ian Campbell, CEO of Nucleus Research. Ian shares his extensive experience and insights into the world of investigative research and how businesses can leverage the concept of Return on Investment (ROI) to enhance sales, improve services, and ultimately win more deals. Whether you're a small business owner, a freelancer, or a creative, this conversation is packed with valuable advice on how to prove ROI and focus your efforts to grow your business.
Key Takeaways:
- The Importance of ROI: Ian emphasizes the significance of demonstrating the value of investments to potential clients. He discusses how understanding and presenting ROI can be a game-changer in sales and business development.
- Three Ways to Deliver Value: Ian breaks down the three core ways businesses can deliver value to their clients: increasing productivity, decreasing costs, or boosting profitability. He explains how aligning your services with these value propositions can significantly impact your sales approach.
- The Power of Focusing on Niches: The conversation highlights the importance of specialization and focusing on what you do best. Ian shares insights into how narrowing down services to meet specific market needs can lead to business growth and success.
- Actionable Strategies for Value Selling: Ian provides listeners with practical strategies to implement value selling in their business practices. From identifying customer needs to developing a value proposition and quantifying benefits, the discussion is a roadmap for anyone looking to enhance their sales approach.
- Leveraging Customer Success Stories: The importance of using customer success stories and references is discussed. Ian advises on how to effectively use testimonials to demonstrate value and credibility to potential clients.
Action Item:
Identify the top two or three ways your business delivers value to its clients. Focus on these aspects in your marketing and sales efforts to communicate the tangible benefits of working with your company.
Resources Mentioned:
- The Value Sale (Book by Ian Campbell)
- Nucleus Research
Connect with Ian Campbell:
- Website: Nucleus Research
- Email: [email protected]
About The Friday Habit:
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01/26/24 • 25 min
Join us on an exciting journey into the world of real estate investment with your hosts, Mark Labriola II and Benjamin Manley. In this episode, we're here to not only help you grow your wealth but also lay the foundation for a lasting legacy.
We're joined by a special guest, Dan Templin, a renowned business expert, to provide even more valuable insights.
We'll uncover the secrets of the property market and draw on the wisdom of seasoned investors, including Dan Templin, to prepare you for the ups and downs of real estate investment. Discover how tangible assets can open up new opportunities and why this sector is a key to financial success for entrepreneurs and creatives alike.
Our mantra for this episode is to "start small but think big." We'll guide you through the practical steps of entering the world of real estate, beginning with the importance of securing a steady income and building a strong financial foundation. We'll also highlight the potential pitfalls of hasty investments without proper planning.
Get ready to dive into the nitty-gritty of buying undervalued properties and turning them into profitable investments. With mentorship from experienced realtors, Mark, Benjamin, and our special guest, Dan Templin, will provide insights tailored to your financial situation and the current market conditions.
So, whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting out, join us for this enlightening journey into the world of real estate investment. It's time to make your money work for you and create a legacy that will endure for generations to come.
Main Topics
- 00:14:55: Owning multiple businesses
- 00:18:03: Expansion into real estate and property ownership
- 00:20:31: Introduction of new property investment system, Plex Hacking.
- 00:22:47: Importance of a well balanced portfolio
- 00:23:24: Lessons from franchising a laundromat
Episode Links
- https://www.instagram.com/thebusinessman_dan/
- https://www.thebusinessmandan.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvvlEOWw5M-erkL2-7wOlPA
Go to TheFridayHabit.com to find show notes for this episode. There you can also find links to our websites and ways to get in touch. At the bottom of the page you can download our guide to the Friday Habit system that will show you how to set aside one full day each week dedicated to working on your business instead of in your business.
If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.
If you have a question or a topic you’d like us to cover don’t forget to record us a quick voice memo and send it to [email protected]
Thanks for listening to The Friday Habit.
Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.
Listen, rate, and subscribe!
Interview With Joseph Fung pt 1
The Friday Habit
01/20/23 • 22 min
Joseph is the CEO of Uvaro, the Career Success platform. An award-winning, five-time technology founder & CEO with multiple successful exits, Joseph is also an expert on HR technology and is a compelling presenter who speaks frequently on the topics of career success, future of work, high-performing cultures, and corporate social responsibility. As a purpose-driven leader, who is recognized for challenging the status-quo, Joseph is driven to help the world’s professionals lead more fulfilling careers.
Recap / Takeaways
- How to validate business ideas
- What are the long-term trends?
- Talk to people with the problems you're trying to solve
- Do I understand the problem right?
- Here's how I would solve it. Do I understand the solution right?
- If I could give it to you right now, what would you pay be more it?
- The starting point for your culture is your personality
- DEFINE - Definition of the values you want your culture to have
- Make the names short and memorable
- Potentially create icons or visuals that represent each
- SHARE - How to you share culture
- Share stories of people exhibiting your values
- Build weekly habits around the values (like giving kudos related to your values)
- SCALE - How do you scale culture?
- Think about how you could hire for a good culture fit without even being in the interview
- Develop interview questions around your company values
Go to TheFridayHabit.com to find show notes for this episode. There you can also find links to our websites and ways to get in touch. At the bottom of the page you can download our guide to the Friday Habit system that will show you how to set aside one full day each week dedicated to working on your business instead of in your business.
If you enjoyed this episode please subscribe and leave us a review in the Apple podcasts app.
If you have a question or a topic you’d like us to cover don’t forget to record us a quick voice memo and send it to [email protected]
Thanks for listening to The Friday Habit.
Until next time. Live every day like it’s Friday.
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The Friday Habit currently has 189 episodes available.
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The podcast is about Motivation, Entrepreneurship, Self-Help, Startup, How To, Podcasts, Education, Business and Freelancer.
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The average episode length on The Friday Habit is 30 minutes.
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The first episode of The Friday Habit was released on Jan 22, 2020.
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