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The Marketplace is a weekly podcast posted every Sunday and hosted by Priest Willis, Sr. The podcast is created with you in mind and talks with a variety of industries such as education, business, sports, comedy, entrepreneurship and more!
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The Marketplace is a weekly podcast posted every Sunday and hosted by Priest Willis, Sr. The podcast is created with you in mind and talks with a variety of industry leaders in business, education, music, sports, comedy, entrepreneurship and more!

Mar 10, 2018

Sri Sharma is CEO and Co-founder of Increasingly, the AI product bundling technology company.
Previously, Sri founded and sold two digital marketing technology businesses. He has won National Business Awards’ highly commended Entrepreneur of the Year, Sunday Times Tech Track 100 and Deloitte Tech Fast 50. Most recently, he won a Google awarded scholarship to study AI and futuristic technology at NASA.

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Sri and I discuss;

  • How he started online?
  • Past business ventures
  • First "super affiliate" venture turning into a full business
  • Current business ventures
  • What criteria he follows when looking for investment opportunities
  • Steps he takes to find peace when business has challenging times
  • How to create demand for a product that the market doesn’t necessarily know they have a need for
  • and much more!

 

Mar 3, 2018

Brian Smith was born in Australia, where he developed his love of surfing. A chartered accountant, he studied at the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and with $500 of start-up money, he founded UGG Imports to bring sheepskin footwear to America. 

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A passionate innovator and entrepreneur, Brian is one of the most sought after business leaders in the country today. As a media guest and inspiring speaker, he is committed to teaching his breakthrough business strategies to entrepreneurs and translating personal vision and spirituality into company culture.

Brian and I discuss;

  • The motivation for business
  • Bringing a trend from Australia to California
  • Challenges he overcame in the early days like getting distribution for his product
  • How exercise and meditation helps him manage stress in business
  • How to create demand for a product that the market doesn’t necessarily know it "needs".
  • The brand re-alignment that created the tipping point for Ugg's
  • His four mantras for business.
  • Important things to understand if your goal is to build an iconic brand
  • and more...

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The Birth of a Brand (book)

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Feb 25, 2018

For most of his life, John Cronin completed his outfits with a pair of wild socks. His older brothers often asked dad, Mark Cronin, to curb their little brother's outrageous style. But John simply ignored them.

The 21-year-old Long Island man has Down syndrome. As high school graduation loomed, he began considering what he wanted to do with his future. He knew that he wanted to start a business with his dad but wasn’t sure what type. At first, he thought he wanted to have a “fun” store; though he wasn't sure what he would sell. Then John thought a food truck seemed cool.

“One of the problems, me and my dad, both can’t cook,” John said. “Both of us are good at eating.”

But then John realized that he could turn his love of socks into a business.

“I wanted to do something fun and creative,” he said.

In November 2016, John and Cronin settled on the name of the business, John’s Crazy Socks, and designed a website and logo.

During 2017, John's Crazy Socks pulled in $1.75 million in gross sales, representing 42,710 separate orders. The online store sells 1,500 different kinds of socks, giving shoppers a lot of options from which to choose. Their inventory includes colorful variants of classic shapes including no-show, ankle, crew, knee high, and above the knee socks.

John's Crazy Socks also now employs a dozen full-time staff members, eight of which have some form of diagnosed disability.

HAPPINESS THROUGH SOCKS.
John's Crazy Socks four principles for business success:

1. Inspiration: Showing what’s Possible

2. Giving Back: 5% of earnings donated to the Special Olympics

3. Socks You Can Love: Over 1,2000 awesome socks choices

4. Gratitude: Every package has a thank you note from John and some candy

Other Links: 

Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose (book)

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Feb 19, 2018

I was excited to sit down and have an interview with Ravinder Deol, who is a a Certified Bitcoin Professional and after absorbing a lot of his content, he has one of the more sensible approached to how we approach this new financial revolution.

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He's been involved in the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain space since 2013, and has seen it grow tremendously. He said he saw a white space in the structured education of it all. So he's taken it upon myself to help you get all the knowledge you need in one place!
Initially he started out by teaching live classes which then lead to the creation of B21 Block, where along with a team of co-instructors the goal is to bring high quality, engaging and practical Cryptocurrency and Blockchain education online. As of this date he's had over 83k students and currently 23 courses available but he's kind enough to help answer some of our questions here. So without further

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Feb 11, 2018

Buy low, sell high. It’s a simple idea that a bored accountant used to create a multi-million dollar business, and one that he says you can replicate as a side-hustle. Ryan graduated from college, pursed a career in accounting and quickly found himself wanting more in life. It started while in college, Ryan started shopping for sales in popular retail stores and buy items in bulk. But instead of purchasing what he liked, Ryan came armed with a secret weapon...an Amazon seller's account and his phone.

Ryan Grant Retail Arbitrage

 Ryan would find sale items in Walmart, Target and Toys R Us, then used the Amazon seller app to compare them to online prices.

Eventually In 2013 Ryan quit his full-time job paying over $50K per year to pursue making a full time income selling online. His business now does over 7-figures in sales per year and he sits down with the Marketplace to discuss just how he did it.

Feb 6, 2018

Chad Carson who also goes by "Coach" proves that you that you don’t need a large down payment to get started in real estate. You can even learn “how to do one of the more important parts of the rental business on someone else’s dime” if you’re smart about it.

This episode is packed with actionable advice to help get you started with a side hustle in the real estate market, as well as some long-term options to set you on the path to building long-term wealth.

Chad and I discuss;

  • How to start making money in real estate now. Here's a hint...you have to innovate and hustle.
  • Getting into real estate with bad credit or no credibility
  • How to use house hacking to earn rental income and live for free
  • How live-in flips can build your nest egg tax-free
  • How anyone can start master leasing
  • How to become a leasing agent
  • How to start “bird-dogging”for deals
  • and much more...

You can learn more about Chad and his real estate business at CoachCarson.com, where he writes about using real estate investing to retire early and do what matters.

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Here are a few resources from Chad to help you along:

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Jan 28, 2018

Evolving SEO, a boutique SEO company located Massachusetts. Dan’s been heavily involved with SEO after starting in helping his father establish his business onlne. Dan who went to college and graduated with a degree in music switched gears after doing side work in music, started his own business and this is where the journey and evolution begins.Dan and I discuss;

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  • His love or music and his hustle beginning out of financial desperation but evolved into a real love for SEO.
  • Useless College degrees and why critical thinking and creativity should be the focus.
  • Believing everything you hear or read, how it shaped the election and the big sites getting rid of 'Fakenews'.
  • What evolving SEO is and my need to keep calling evolving CEO (geez!).
  • Approaching SEO as a beginner
  • Being strategic on what content to delete from your blog and why.
  • Google Correlate, what it does and a hidden trick.
  • Domains we’ve purchased. My latest is mensgroomingden.com. We’re willing to part with some if interested.
  • Filtering through big sites content to get topic ideas. MAJOR KEY!
  • Dan shares advanced keyword research when creating new content opportunities (download deck below).

Extras Mentioned on the Interview

Jan 21, 2018

Neil Patel from neilpatel.com also quicksprout.com. A lot of you also know him because he's the founder of Crazy Egg and Kissmetrics and a number of other tools and other great pieces of software. He's created 4 multi-million dollar businesses and he consults a lot of other great businesses, too. He's just a wealth of knowledge.neil patel, blogger, content marketer

I brought him on the show today to talk specifically about: content, managing content, how to approach content, how to know what to write about, how many articles you should launch with, if you're just launching for the first time, how often you should be blogging and putting content out there into the world, and how to make the most out it, too. We put so much hard work into our content, a lot of it just gets put into the archives or we often do too much. What's just right? I asked Neil and I pick his brain on that to help you and Neil definitely delivered on this episode.

Lastly, we talk about he more recent book Hustle: The Power to Charge Your Life with Money, Meaning, and Momentum. This book is kind of his response to a woman who he met who told him that creating a successful company can’t be done unless you’ve already had some kind of advantage beforehand. In it, he talks about how to hustle as an entrepreneur, how to know yourself, and how to build your business.

Jan 14, 2018

uincy is a former teacher and school director who transitioned into a career in tech. He is the creator of Free Code Camp, an open source community of over 500,000 people who learn to code while building projects for nonprofits.code camps

Quincy first became interested in tech while working in China as a school director. During this time, his focus on using technology to increase efficiency led to a career change. Back in California, Quincy began attending meetups and hackathons as often as he could. His networking efforts led him to his first tech job, and eventually to his founding of Free Code Camp.

In this episode, Quincy and I discuss...

  • His career move from teaching to becoming a programmer.
  • Why he started Free Code Camp?
  • How Free Code Camp is different from paying for profit code camps?
  • Is this a Non-profit or for profit business? What’s the long term sustainability around this?
  • Is coding for everyone?
  • The process someone can expect from learning how to code, to gettting a job.
  • and much more!

You Can Do Real-World Work at This Free Coding Boot Camp
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/

Jan 7, 2018

Today my guest who goes by Dr. Bee and I take on Cannabidiol also known as CBD Oil and Anti Marijuana Propaganda.cannabis legal sales states

Dr. Bee is a proud Air Force Veteran, former federal police officer, college professor, turned cannabis entrepreneur. Dr. Bee has over 25 years of sales, marketing & management. She actually help grow a dispensery to $5M. She's now the co-founder of Hemplogica and Buycbd.net which founded in 2014. She's part of a group of cannabis authorities that searched the world over to find the best CBD Oil products on the market, worthy to sell on Hemplogica and Buycbd.net. In this interview we discuss Dr. Bee's journey in the industry, the health benefits of CBD oil, anti marijuana propaganda and more.

Dec 31, 2017

J.R. Tolver isn't what's considered to be the standard ex-"jock" or the statistics that tend to go with them. A new study says that 16 percent of NFL players will go broke within 12 years of retirement. The findings are markedly different from a 2009 study that put the number at 78 percent just two years after retirement.

Regardless what the percentage is, some people don't plan to fail...they fail to plan. In some respect they're not just talking about money in terms of being "broke". This also includes in spirit. 

J.R.'s spirit and drive remains strong and he attributes that to the way he was raised and the example set by his father. So by the time his playing days in the NFL were over, he knew what he had to do next. He earned both his Bachelors and Masters...with that and the connections he made during his playing days, he set a plan in motion. You have to respect the grind!

In this interview J.R. and I cover his journey;

Dec 25, 2017

Our guest is Robert “Brix” Glover, 🍕Ex-Fat Boy, 🎥YouTuber, owner and founder of Brix Fitness. Four years ago he made some critical changes that not only transformed his body, but his entire life and the lives of those he has trained…including myself.

Tipping the scale at 346 pounds with high blood pressure and being borderline diabetic didn’t persuade Robert to change his lifestyle. Neither did his inability to walk a flight of stairs without feeling faint. In his defense, he had ventured out on many weight-loss journeys before but first, second and third attempts failed. His addiction to unhealthy foods was always his downfall and he had become the ultimate yo-yo dieter.

It wasn’t until January 2013 when a close friend who was the same age as he, died of health problems associated with being severely overweight. And soon after, Robert made the decision to adopt a healthy lifestyle, forgoing all lose-weight-quick schemes. In his new love affair with perfect health, Robert was moved to create Brix Fitness, which relies on principals based on a realistic approach to health and fitness.

 

Meetup with @brixfitness in Raleigh. #inspired #health

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Dec 18, 2017

Kristen Hadeed imagines a world in which all organizations have cultures that empower people to keep climbing toward the best version of themselves every day. As the young leader of Student Maid, a successful cleaning company that hires students, Kristen has fostered a unique perspective on leadership, organizational culture and engaging the next generation.

In October 2017, she published her first book, "Permission To Screw Up," in which she tells the stories of her biggest mistakes in leadership. She hopes to inspire other leaders to share their "perfectly imperfect" stories of success to empower people with the knowledge that even if they screw up, they can still make it. Kristen and Student Maid have been featured in news outlets including PBS, FOX, Inc., TIME and Forbes. Her first TED Talk has received more than two million hits on YouTube.

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Other Links:
What One CEO Did When 45 of Her Employees Quit (INC)

Dec 9, 2017

For the first 24 years of his life, Chris Rickerson’s future looked dim. He grew up in poverty, with a drug-addicted mother and drug demons of his own. Facing dire consequences, he turned his life around and, in 2013, started Elite Staffing Solutions, a Wichita, Kansas-based staffing companythat lifts up people who are struggling as he once did.

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We talk about;

  • Growing up in a home with a drug addicted mother
  • Chris’s own battles with substance abuse
  • How his faith helped him turn his life around
  • Why his firm doesn’t hesitate to hire those with similar backgrounds to Chris’s
  • The keys to Elite Staffing Solutions rapid growth
  • Mentors
  • People over profit
  • Advice to other entrepreneurs

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Other Links:
This $3 Million Company Hires People Who Need a Second Chance. Because Its Founder Needed Help Once, Too. (INC article)

Dec 2, 2017

Susie Moore entrepreneur, writer and life coach based in New York City. A former sales leader for a Fortune 500 company, she inspires and educates people to live the lives they imagined by tuning in to their authentic power and unlocking the confidence to get what they really, really want.

Beyond her high vibe personality, she’s also a force to be reckoned with as a life coach and business woman. In this interview, you’ll learn more about how Susie manages to be positive and joyful ALL the time, how she’s taken so many risks in her life with grace, how to be more confident, and how to create a profitable side hustle that allows you to live out your purpose.

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Having A Side Hustle Allowed Susie Moore To Walk Away From A $500K Job (Forbes article)

What If It Does Work Out?: How a Side Hustle Can Change Your Life (book)

How to turn your hobby into a sustainable side hustle (MarketWatch Article)

Nov 28, 2017

In 2007, Rhett resigned from his lucrative consulting career to co-start a toy company called Wild Creations. Less than two years later, the economic downturn left him exhausted and nearly bankrupt. Rhett was not only forced to analyze his company, but himself to see what needed to change. The results of this were that he figured out how to do the right things right and Wild Creations was named one of INC 500’s fastest growing companies 2 years in a row and has gone on to win over 40 national awards.

He is the author of the Amazon best-seller, One Million Frogs, a regular contributor to INC, Success Magazine, and Business Insider… and has a new book being released in the next week called, The Entrepreneur’s Book of Actions.

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Other reads: Amazon #1 Best-Seller One Million Frogs: Lessons About Entrepreneurship Learned The Hard Way

https://www.success.com/profile/rhett-power

https://www.inc.com/author/rhett-power

Nov 19, 2017
MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell had a dream about the perfect pillow. Now he’s a millionaire.
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Inventor and CEO Mike Lindell of Chaska demonstrates pillow making at his new factory in Shakopee.
Photo/Craig Lassig

Mike started his own business in his garage, working hard and not sleeping well, so he set out to design a pillow that would help him sleep. After two years he finally came up with the patented fill, ensuring MyPillow® that would be breathable and washer and dryer safe. Mike heard a lot of “no’s” in those early years, but never gave up on his passion to share his pillow with the world and to this day Mike has more than 1200 employees, and his company is estimated at taking  in $100 million a year.

Tune in to hear his story and find out some of the growing pains Mike experienced along the way. In this interview Mike will also share his ups and downs of being an entrepreneur and offer lessons and advice to other entrepreneurs who are just starting their own company or going through struggles today.

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Mike’s Story and Business Journey – Timeline

The Preposterous Success Story of America’s Pillow King – Bloomberg Story

Nov 12, 2017

Patrick J. McGinnis is a venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded Dirigo Advisors, after a decade on Wall Street, to provide strategic advice to investors, entrepreneurs, and fast growing businesses. In this capacity, he has worked in a range of settings, from building startups from the ground up in Silicon Valley to acting as an expert consultant to the World Bank in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.

In Patrick's latest book The 10% Entrepreneur, he shows you how, by investing just 10% of your time and resources, you can become an entrepreneur without losing a steady paycheck.

As a 10% Entrepreneur himself, he has built a diverse portfolio of investments outside of his day job. This portfolio encompasses fast growing new ventures in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, including ipsy, the world’s largest online beauty community; Bluesmart, the inventor of the world’s first smart, connected carry-on suitcase; and Afiniti, a big data company that is reinventing the call center industry. He has also been a partner in several real estate investments.

 
  • What does it mean to be a 10% entrepreneur?
  • How do you begin the transition towards becoming a 10% entrepreneur?
  • How not to let the complacency trap get you?
  • Why failure sucks and what you can do about it?
  • The criteria for evaluating investment opportunities?
  • Is entrepreneurship over-hyped?

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Oct 29, 2017

A highly successful entrepreneur, Matt DeCoursey launched his first company in a spare bedroom of his Indianapolis home in 2009. Using nothing but an AmEx card with an $8000 limit, he built companies that generated millions of dollars in revenue.

Matt is also the founder and CEO of GigaBook, a cloud based appointment-booking platform, which has the ability to provide utility to millions of small and medium sized businesses. He now lives in Kansas City with his wife and two children.

In this discussion, Matt and I cover:

Oct 8, 2017

Awarded as an iTunes Best of 2014 podcast, The $100 MBA Show is a new kind of business podcast where you simply get better at business with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world. These no fluff, 10-minute episodes are packed with only the pure business building training you want.

Omar Zenhom, co-founder of Webinar Ninja. Omar and his partner and wife Nicole used their years of education experience to develop software and training resources for webinars. Omar also hosts the $100 MBA show, a top-ranked podcast with over 50,000 downloads per day.

In this episode, Omar and I discuss;

  • His start in teaching High School in Dubai
  • Webinar Ninja and it's benefits
  • How to create a buzz for your podcast
  • Ignoring the competition
  • Thoughts on having a college degree
  • Thoughts on "internet stardom"
  • and much more
Oct 1, 2017

Ian Balina is a cryptocurrency investor, serial entrepreneur, author, and film maker. He was a full-time employee at IBM until the day of our interview  to focus on Amazon FBA and his cryptocurrency investments.ian balina balina sales

Ian authored The Complete Freelancer Guide, a book that encourages others how to start a freelancing business. He founded Fusion Video Producers, a video production company that’s worked with Nancy Pelosi and NFL star Pierre Garcon. He is known for his ability to “hack the system” and create multiple streams of income through investing in cryptocurrencies, turning hobbies into freelance businesses, short-term real estate rentals and creating private label brands that sell items on Amazon.

He is the founder of Peer Hustle, a mobile on-demand freelance jobs marketplace, as well as a tech evangelist for IBM’s North American Open Source and Hybrid Cloud business. Ian holds a Masters in Computer Engineering from The George Washington University and spoke alongside Michelle Obama during his graduation.

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Extra Links:

Why Bitcoin, Etherium and Cryptocurrencies (free ebook)

Investing In Bitcoin: A Wise Choice? (NPR)

Ian Balina's "MoneyBall" spreadsheet (Patron access)

Sep 25, 2017

Miko Branch, co-founder and CEO of Miss Jessie’s, started the company in the early 2000's alongside her late sister, Titi Branch.

Miko and Titi Branch didn't have to go far to get their business chops. Their father and Miss Jessie, their paternal grandmother who the business was named after, gave them the push they needed to forge the road ahead. Miko, a 70's, hip-hop baby like myself and the environment that holds in NYC, help to visualize, shape and launch their entrepreneurial spirit in addition to their family.

At one point, Miko says she wanted to go into fashion, but decided to go another route. On the day that she graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, she enrolled in beauty school. This is where we pick up her story.

Miko and I discuss;

 

Sep 18, 2017

Nick is an entrepreneur, author with several books on Amazon and lead Hustler at SideHustleNation.com, a growing community and resource for aspiring and part-time entrepreneurs.

Nick worked full-time for a giant corporation, but spent his nights and weekends working on a comparison shopping website which eventually led him to stitching together other side projects ultimately launching out on his own and finding success.

Nick starting getting more questions on how he created his side businesses and that’s where Side Hustle Nation was born. Side Hustle Nation is a growing community of aspiring and part-time entrepreneurs, where he also hosts the top-rated Side Hustle Show podcast.

Nick and I discuss;

  • Why it was important to start his own business
  • How he made the transition from his side hustle to doing it full-time
  • What are some top niches others could look at starting now
  • Sites and apps to use to help you be a more effective side hustler
  • And much more!...
Sep 10, 2017

Tyler Merrick, founder and CEO of  Project 7 started 10yrs ago after learning about social entrepreneurship through a friend. He soon discovered, however, that social entrepreneurship works only when people want to buy the product you’re selling. After restart of the brand and  reformulated products, Project 7’s sales now exceed $10 million, and its gums and gummy bears are distributed at Target, Meijer, SuperValu, Starbucks and elsewhere. The company donates a minimum of 10% of its profits to seven areas of focus, including tree-planting, clean water and anti-bullying program.

Sep 3, 2017

Luisa Zhou is a serial entrepreneur and online educator who teaches people how to leave their day job and start their own six-figure plus business working for themselves. She’s helped hundreds of students, including health and business coaches, designers, copywriters, and consultants, and shown them how to launch businesses that generate anywhere from 10K to 100K in a matter of months. She has appeared in numerous online and print publications including Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur, Success magazine, and more.Luisa Zhou YouTube

In this episode , Luisa tells us how (and why) she generated $106k in sales in four months in business — while maintaining a full-time job that was 50+ hours a week. We also learn about Luisa; How she launched her coaching program? Does the fact that coaching is so huge (billion dollar industry) but unregulated cause concern and her approach and much more!

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Extra Links:

Luisa's Employee to Entrepreneur Coaching program
How This 28-Year-Old Started A Side Hustle Which Now Makes Over $1M A Year (Nagina's Article for Forbes)

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