Mentor Nation with John Abbas
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsAt Mentor Nation,
John Abbas interviews people who are doing very interesting things, building successful businesses, or have accomplished incredible feats and gets them to mentor you in a practical and useful interview.
If the guest were to give a keynote speech to a large audience giving their best lessons, strategies and wisdom, what they would share is the goal of my interview and what I will deliver to the audience week after week.
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S1E18 - A Mogul at 25 years Old with Ayla Kress
February 01, 2020 05:22 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBIn today’s episode I interview Ayla Kress. At 25 years old she is already an incredibly successful entrepreneur. She was Ranked top 30 under 30 Music Moguls in the making and is the founder of Brain Candy Management which represents talented musicians nationally. What fascinated me so much about Ayla was her mindset at such a young age. As I sat down with her in person, it was amazing to see her incredible confidence, disciplines and habits. Having grown up in a family of ultra successful ...
S1E17 - Fighting Wars For a Living with Marcus V
January 25, 2020 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBToday I interview Marcus V. who is currently active duty special forces. The nature of what he does is extremely secretive but I can tell you with certainty that he is one of the most hardcore people on the planet. He is one of the most decorated veterans on earth and has spent more time in war than almost anyone alive and has the scars and the medals to prove it. He has lead large teams under the most extreme circumstances where every decision can be life or death. In one crazy story you’ll...
S1E16 - JT McCormick: How to Rewrite you future
January 18, 2020 18:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBJT McCormick is a self-made Multi-Millionaire, an author, and the CEO of Scribe Media which was just ranked #1 as the best company culture in America. These are incredible accomplishments considering JT was born to a drug dealing pimp, raised in the slums of Ohio, sexually abused for much of his childhood, and in and out of jail as a youth. In these episode JT shares his story and how he views his early misfortunes as valuable weapons that helped him succeed instead of baggage that could h...
S1E15 - Millionaire Success Principles with Marc Demetriou
January 10, 2020 20:24 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIn today’s episode we interview Marc Demetriou. Marc is a self made millionaire and the in the top 1% of all mortgage bankers in the country. He is also the author of Lessons from my grandfather. A book that has won many awards for its practical wisdom on success. Marc’s grandfather was an immigrant who came to the US with nothing and became a millionaire using specific success fundamentals. He then spent years mentoring Marc on the principles he used to create his success. After becoming suc...
How to tell Stories that Captivate Audiences with Kindra Hall
January 01, 2020 11:05 - 30 minutes - 21 MBKindra Hall is one of the greatest story tellers on the planet and is the author of the book Stories that Stick: How storytelling can captivate customers, influence audiences, and transform your business. She is a wizard at showing entrepreneurs the step by step framework for turning your life experiences into captivating stories, and how to tell those stories in a way that builds massive trust and rapport quickly. In this episode, Kindra shares why story telling is so important, How to...
The Million Dollar One Person Business with Elaine Pofeldt
December 24, 2019 11:44 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBElaine Pofeldt is an award winning author and journalist. She most recently is making headlines with her new book The million dollar One person Business. As a major contributor to many of the biggest entrepreneur outlets such as Forbes Magazine, Fortune, Money, and CNBC, she noticed a huge upward trend with people building businesses to over 7 figures before ever hiring an employee. To write her book, she set out to interview dozens and dozens of these entrepreneurs to find out everything ...
Life Lessons from the great Brad Lea
December 16, 2019 10:17 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBToday I interview Brad Lea. Brad is an entrepreneur, author, host of the Dropping Bombs podcast, and the founder and CEO of the multimillion dollar tech company Lightspeed VT. Lightspeed is the platform that over 50,000 businesses worldwide use to deliver their content and training to their audiences and his customers include some of the biggest names on the planet. In this interview Brad and I have a great discussion about life, making pivots, and chasing success. He was a late bloomer by...
How to Build a Brand that Truly Resonates
December 10, 2019 11:49 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBRyan Michler is an Author, the host of the super popular Order of Man Podcast, and an advocate for helping men become the best version of themselves possible. It’s funny, because initially my girlfriend didn’t want to listen to this episode because she thought it was about men much like I am opposed to watching chick flicks, but she was surprised to find out that his mission is actually to help men become better so they are better equipped to partner and serve the women in their lives.. In...
The Science of turning Fear into Happiness with Akshay Nanavati
December 02, 2019 09:26 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBIn today’s episode I interview a former marine and the author of the new book called Fearvana, The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness.” Akshay Nanavati was tasked with the ultra dangerous job of walking in front of military vehicles in Iraq to search for explosives before they could explode. This traumatic experience lead Akshay down a dark path where he was diagnosed with PTSD, and abusing alcohol and drugs daily. After a suicide attempt, he decid...
My First Solo Episode. Why you Need a Mentor now!
November 25, 2019 11:06 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBIn my first solo episode ever, I share a little about my story from joining the military at age 17 to losing everything at age 27 and having to start all over as a new father. For 10 years I chased success on my own, making major mistakes along the way and having to start over again and again from zero. Everything changed when I found my first mentor randomly while at an airport in Los Angeles. That chance encounter, and the success that came shortly after has fueled my never ending quest to ...
Chase Your Impossible Dream
November 18, 2019 10:55 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBToday’s episode is a fantastic story about chasing a dream despite the difficulty, and getting creative despite the setbacks. In 2011 Dr. Aaron Hinde and his friend Orion whom he met at the crossfit gym created the Lifeaid beverage company after Aaron realized that there was not a healthy alternative to the energy drinks sold in stores. Having no money, no experience and entering an industry with a 99% failure rate, they pushed on by focusing on creating a product that people would love. Afte...
Tom Black on Mastering Sales and your Mindset
November 11, 2019 10:50 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBTom Black is an Ultra Successful Entrepreneur, Author, and one of the largest wine collectors in the world. He grew up in a railroad boxcar and after discovering sales in college going door to door selling books, he used those sales principles to start many different companies and scale them into major corporations. 3 of those companies went public, and one sold for a billion dollars. Today his passion is collecting expensive and rare wine, entertaining celebrities at his home, and coach...
The Man Who Got 3 Presidents Elected
November 04, 2019 10:55 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBWho do you call when you want to get elected President? Phillip Stutts. Phillip is the founder of Go Big media ( a top tier political marketing firm) and Win Big Media ( a multi million dollar corporate marketing agency). He is also the best selling author of Fire Them Now. Political marketing is the most brutal, competitive, and cutthroat marketing in the world. There is no second place. You either win, or you lose. Phillip is the man you hire when you want to win. He has helped 1200...
How to Dominate by Standing out and Creating Massive Attention - with Jesse Cole
October 28, 2019 10:50 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBJesse Cole is someone that I believe every entrepreneur in the world should study. After spending years studying the greatest showmen on Earth such as PT Barnum and Walt Disney, he figured out exactly how they attracted massive attention and crowds, He took those secrets and transformed a small college baseball team in Savannah Georgia, from having less than 200 attendees at games and only 1 season ticket holder, to selling out all 4,000 seats every game, with a wait list that is years l...
How to Crush Copywriting and make $10,000 in the next 90 days starting from zero
October 16, 2019 20:46 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBI knew Robert when he was just a young kid in college and have personally watched him become one of the biggest authorities in the copywriting and digital marketing space. Robert Allen is only in his mid 20s, but he is the man behind some of the biggest names in a wide variety of industries. He helped Dr. Axe scale from $12 million to over $100 million per year and he has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Foundr magazine. Some of the biggest companies on earth trust him with milli...
The Keys to Building a World Class Culture in any Organization
October 16, 2019 20:46 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBI was so excited to interview Erin personally because of her insane reputation and accomplishments, but more importantly, who she is as a person. Erin Krueger is practically a legend in Nashville. She is one of the top real estate agents not only in TN, but the entire country. She sold over $100 million in real estate last year alone and is on track to eclipse that in 2019 averaging almost 80 homes sold PER MONTH! What makes her special however, is how she is doing this with a team half th...
From Jail to Juggernaut
October 16, 2019 20:45 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBFor those of you who don't know Chris, he is the founder of Nutritionsolutions.com, one of the largest and fastest growing meal prep and meal plan companies in the United States. They have not only helped thousands of people lose tens of thousands of pounds, but celebrities and professional athletes globally turn to nutrition solutions for their meals and strategies. In this conversation we talk about how Chris went from being arrested 17 times before his 18th birthday to turning his life...
The Origin Story
August 30, 2019 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.83 MBShownotes: Join your host John Abbas, mentoring advocate and entrepreneur as he brings the worlds foremost and top entrepreneurs front-and-center with one request: if you had to give a keynote speech to an audience full of entrepreneurs, and you were paid an insane amount of money with only a small window of time on stage, what would you teach? And so it begins. In the pre-episode, John details how he got here and why, from almost being homeless from a failing business, to now owning severa...