Admittedly, running two gigs or what Raffiee and Feng refer to as “hybrid entrepreneurship” can be totally exhausting. The laudable thing to do is to take a leap of faith and jump with both feet into the business of your dreams, burn all the bridges and face it head on. Generally, it is impressive if you can pull off the leap…
Secret Academy Episode – Rizwan Memon
Like many others, Rizwan Memon looked up to his father for inspiration and guidance, and his father always encouraged him to do everything to the best of his ability. He comes from a long line of entrepreneurs so from a young age, he was focused on putting his money towards stock trading instead of buying the trendiest clothes that most young people are concerned with. Rizwan put 100% of his energy into learning everything there was to learn about trading in the stock market, and all of his hard work paid off when he was able to start his own consulting business. His business, Riz International, offers stock market and investment mentoring, personal financial consulting, and business management consulting.
Secret Academy Episode – Matt Lowman
How does martial arts lead to business coaching? Matt Lowman started doing martial arts early on and eventually graduated to teaching martial arts and building schools. During this time, he fell in love with the business side of the martial arts schools: sales, marketing, etc. Matt dove into doing speaking engagements and consulting outside of the martial arts industry, and he became known as the high school dropout turned millionaire. Today, he runs Freedom Practice Coaching, a successful coaching business geared towards helping doctors/physicians learn how to become successful business owners.
Fear is Adrenaline
Fear is a funny thing. The actual word ‘fear’ never really pop up in conversations, stories, articles or various seemingly dangerous situations – however we all recognize fear when we hear it, see it or feel it. It’s the great big elephant in the room that nobody talks about. But everybody knows it’s there. As an entrepreneur, fear has been my uninvited…
Three Steps On How I Landed My First Million-Dollar Listing
I am sharing the 3 steps I took with no marketing budget and nothing by time and determination on my hands to land my very first listing. These are the very same steps that I took which lead me to my very first million-dollar listing, which was listed at $1,300,000.00. I charged a flat 6% commission, which would have been…
Secret Academy Episode – Sean Gagnon
Sean Gagnon’s story of entrepreneurship is truly an example of how work ethic and putting in the hard work beyond what people expect pays off. Wanting to become a personal trainer, Sean started interning at a health club doing any and all jobs asked of him. The owner of the clubs was so impressed by his work ethic that he offered him a partnership opportunity years later to help run his gyms and become involved with fitness products he was selling. Under The Abs Company, they’ve sold products via infomercials and in retail that have become household names: The Ab Roller and Ab Coaster, which have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to date.
7 Things that Successful Entrepreneurs do Differently
There is a popular trend on social media at the moment that talks about us all having the same amount of hours in the day as Oprah and Richard Branson. How do some entrepreneurs get so much done in one day? It’s been proven that working longer and harder is not a recipe for success. So what exactly are the…