Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs
312 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsTough decisions are made every day by entrepreneurs. Dan interviews high-level professionals from around the World and gets them to open up about the struggles they’ve faced in business and how they were able to overcome the tough decisions that have come their way. These tough decisions are what shape the lives of successful entrepreneurs and you can learn from these situations to allow success to follow you too! Subscribe today and listen to this unique 20-30min daily podcast for inspiration and to learn to overcome the struggles that will come your way.
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TD330: Building A Trusted Pain Relief Center With P. Brendon Lundberg
December 20, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBWhen no one believes in your vision, believe that you can do something bigger for yourself. In this episode, Dan Handford interviews P. Brendon Lundberg, the Co-Founder and President of Radiant Pain Relief Centres about his journey into opening his own pain relief center and finding investors. All for the love of helping people experience comfort and becoming pain free, Brendon went through self-development and trainings to pursue his dream. Be inspired more from his entrepreneurial strategi...
TD329: Handling Typical Property Investment Dilemmas With Michael Becker
December 12, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 18.6 MBHandling a big property investment firm can present more headaches than smiles if not done with precision. In this episode, host Dan Handford and Michael Becker, the Founder of SPI Advisory, tackle the tough decisions investors face in the world of property investment. Michael talks about going through prepayment penalties and how he and his team steered their way through it. He also shares some strategies on mitigating the risks of what he went through with regards to prepayments as well as...
TD328: Training Your Brain: Harnessing Your Reticular Activating System With Dana Wilde
December 06, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.7 MBIn growing one’s business, tackling problems and coming up with solutions can be daunting if we do not approach it with having a positive mindset or attitude. In this episode, host Dan Handford brings on brain trainer Dana Wilde to talk about the brain’s reticular activating system, having the right mindset, and how we can train our brain to make good decisions. Listen to this episode to discover how you can make money by being happy and get paid by being you.
TD327: Getting Out Of A Recession With Paul Moore
November 25, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBRecessions are difficult, especially in the real estate field. Recovering from it can be a tough road to take because you get to be faced with a number of tough decisions. Founder and managing director at Wellings Capital, Paul Moore, is not an exception to this experience. In this episode, Paul talks about the first mistake he made and the tough decisions he had to face. Learn how he got out of the recession with the practices that aid him in making decisions in this toughest of times.
TD326: Alex Talcott On Balancing The Life As An Educator And Entrepreneur
November 21, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15 MBSome of us are not born to do just one thing in this world. Balancing the educator and entrepreneur realm, Alex Talcott has managed to keep his teaching bug while running several businesses in the financial planning and real estate space as well as in public affairs consulting. Having these two different things to juggle is no easy feat, however. In this episode, Alex shares with us the tough decisions he has made throughout his career journey. He shares the strategies and lessons he learned...
Making Critical Decisions To Shift A Losing Business With Tim Meuchel
November 18, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.6 MBLetting go of a business is harder than starting it. Tim Meuchel, entrepreneur and business owner, is someone who started in the corporate world and had to face the heart-wrenching truth of losing a business. Learn how he managed to keep his ground and make critical decisions to salvage his business amidst so many things shifting and going against him. Through it all, Tim takes us deeper into identifying where we should place our commitment and who are the right people to trust.
Learning From Mixing Pride And Greed In Business With AJ Osborne
November 14, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 16 MBOnce you are down, there is no other way but to go back up. In this short but impactful episode, AJ Osborne, the Owner and Founder of Keylock Storage, shares great lessons about how pride and greed pulled his company to a catastrophe. He tells us some stories of his life, including how taking huge risks from investing with fraudsters drove their insurance business down the hole. By setting yourself up in a position where only excess capital is risk, you can eventually progress your business ...
Brett Swarts On Making Tough Decisions As A Commercial Real Estate Broker
November 11, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 16 MBSome of the most significant events in our life are borne from tough decisions. Letting us in on his share of making tough calls is commercial real estate broker, Brett Swarts. Brett takes us through the good and the bad decisions he made across his career and shares how it shaped him as an entrepreneur. He then discusses some of the strategies he uses when faced with one of these tough decisions, shedding light on the importance of surrounding yourself with people you trust. Don’t miss out ...
Managing And Scaling Mobile Home Parks With Andrew Keel
November 07, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 12.7 MBMillions of Americans are opting for affordable housing in the form of mobile homes. Dan Handford interviews elite mobile home park investor Andrew Keel, the Founder and CEO of Keel Team Real Estate. They talk about mobile home parks, what preparations are necessary for putting them up, and the depreciation of land value. Setting up […]
TD322: Managing And Scaling Mobile Home Parks With Andrew Keel
November 07, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 12.7 MBMillions of Americans are opting for affordable housing in the form of mobile homes. Dan Handford interviews elite mobile home park investor Andrew Keel, the Founder and CEO of Keel Team Real Estate. They talk about mobile home parks, what preparations are necessary for putting them up, and the depreciation of land value. Setting up a real estate team is an overall challenge. Andrew shares some of the trials they went through – from hiring the right people and getting outside investors to ex...
TD321: Measuring Readiness: How To Know Whether You’ve Succeeded Or Failed In Your Strategic Initiatives With Alex Castro
October 24, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 21.1 MBAlmost 80% of all types of strategic initiatives fall into the pattern of building the plane while you’re trying to fly it. In this episode, Alex Castro, an entrepreneur and the CEO of M Corp, narrates how he became an entrepreneur and talks about his current focus in his business. Sharing the tough decisions he had to undergo and the strategies he used to face these challenges, he also discusses measuring readiness and the readiness score as well as how to measure whether or not you’ve succ...
TD320: Facing Tough Decisions With Christian Zeron
October 21, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15.4 MBIn this episode, Dan Handford talks with Christian Zeron, the Founder of Theo & Harris, a company that sells a collection of amazing vintage watches, about facing tough decisions. Desperate to find a business partner who could bring on capital and some necessary skills at the beginning stages of his company, Christian went through some disastrous explorations. Over the years, he’s learned to be more comfortable owning the decisions and owning the good moments and bad moments, even more so be...
TD319: Starting An eCommerce Business With Manuj Aggarwal
October 17, 2019 10:00 - 14 minutes - 14.5 MBStanding out and being different are keys to excelling in a competitive marketplace. Tech startup expert Manuj Aggarwal shares his entrepreneurial journey and how unforeseen circumstances led him to starting an eCommerce business. Manuj talks about how he was able to jump from one business to another by simply building his own brand, audience, style, and aesthetics. He talks about the tough decisions he had to face and what guided him to making better ones as an entrepreneur and teacher.
TD318: Investing In Small Town Properties With Edna Keep
October 14, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15.6 MBRegrets suck but we all have to experience it if we want to learn tough lessons in life. Edna Keep has had her fair share of regrets such as letting go of good deals that could have sold way higher than expected. Narrating her journey from multifamily apartment buildings to venturing out into the Airbnb space, she shares her thoughts on coaching and mentoring and how it has been helping her through the years. With the lessons she learned, she shares how taking risks and following the inner k...
TD317: Focusing On Your Customer Is The Best Strategy with Rick Smith
July 08, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 26.2 MBDan interviews Rick Smith, Founder and CEO of Axon and author of “The End of Killing” a book with his manifesto of how he is going to make the bullet obsolete. Dive in as they talk about how making shortcuts to make money almost made him shut his business down, and how being customer centric and customer driven turned out to be the best strategy implemented to expanded his base and make it more diversified.
TD316: A Successful Business with Poker Strategies with Chris Sparks
July 04, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.7 MBDan interviews Chris Sparks, Founder of The Forcing function. Join in as they talk about how he got caught not knowing what to do after online poker was officially shut down, and three years later getting all his money back in one big sum, and after no more poker, how he confronted the idea of not knowing what he really wanted to do, and ended up doing business with payment for his services in advance.
TD315: Online Sales From $600 to a Multimillion Level with Dan Meadors
July 01, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 16.6 MBDan interviews Dan Meadors, a co-founder of The Wholesale Formula. Dive in as they talk about how working with a distributor with whom they didn’t have a great relationship cost them 10 thousand dollars, all the money they had, and how hiring a boy who was making more money than him and his partner were, turned out to be an equal partner.
TD314: Good Partnership and 300MM in Assets Under Management with Ivan Barratt
June 27, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 16.3 MBDan interviews Ivan Barratt, founder and owner of Barrett Asset Management. Tune in as they talk about how taking on an operating partner that was not the leader he said he was to be, made him put a system in process when hiring somebody new, and led him into a new partnership with the actual COO and president of his company who has shown a keen understanding of what it takes to mind about every detail and has helped the business grow.
TD313: Mindset and Reality in Numbers with Joe Trodden
June 24, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.9 MBDan interviews Joe Trodden, a coach, mindset expert and founder of Mindset Experts. Joe shares his journey from an IT background making tons of projects, to having his own mindset business. Tune in as they talk about charities not being viable from a business perspective, his late decision of not running his passion led business as a non profit, stepping out of his job to start his own business and the actions he took to mitigate that risky decision.
TD312: Real Estate with a “Big 3” with Chris Prefontaine
June 20, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 17 MBDan interviews and welcomes back Chris Prefontaine. Chris is a real investor, coach and founder of Smart Real Estate Coach. Dive in as they talk about how going to an unorganized meeting has made him put a Big 3 process in place which has opened the communication totally as a team and as a family team, and the tough decision of firing a bookkeeper that could not follow their business growth gave him a chance to hire a successful team to replace her.
TD311: From Flying to Coaching with Nathan Seaward
June 17, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 17.6 MBDan interviews Nathan Seaward, a coach and mentor. Nathan shares his journey from working as a pilot and flying big planes all around the world, to having his own coaching business. Tune in as they talk about the time he hired a social media management company he spent too much money on, did not work out and encouraged him to understand all aspects of his business to be able to delegate, and how connecting with his truth helped him leave his flying career, to start his own business.
TD310: Income Property as an Asset Plus with Jason Hartman
June 13, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBDan interviews Jason Hartman, real estate investor, advisor, and CEO. Tune in as they talk about how buying a failing company has made him independent and more in control, how he mitigates the risk of a franchise network getting away, and the way he created a business that combines wall street’s model with the better class of income property.
TD309: Living on Passive Income with Antoine Martel
June 10, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 17.1 MBDan interviews Antoine Martel, investor and partner of MartelTurnkey, a family business that assists real estate investors buy cash flowing rental properties. Tune in as they talk about how building a team in a week end made him slow down and take the proper steps to build a team and relationships, and how selling his family house gave him the opportunity to reinvest in a 20 unit property and with the cash flow of one of the units rent free a house for his parents to live in the same area.
TD308: Improving Mindsets to See the World in a More Positive Way with Ryan Gottfredson
June 06, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBDan interviews Ryan Gottfredson, professor at CSU-Fullerton teaching into research on Leadership, and a leadership consultant. Dive in as they talk about an online resume course Ryan created as a side hustle, and how it has made him get out more in terms of speaking, his own book on mindsets and the process to get it published, and how he helps people develop 4 different mindsets.
TD307: Delegate and Let your Business Take Off with Michael Greenberg
June 03, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.5 MBDan interviews Michael Greenberg, a B2B growth strategy consultant and founder of Call for Content, a content marketing agency. Dive in as they talk about the measures you should take before hiring or going into partnership with somebody, and how just doing B2B growth strategy and delegating his other tasks has given him the opportunity to grow his business faster and has allowed him to focus on the main initiatives and push podcaster relations.
TD306: Investing USD 15000 in Real Estate Marketing with Bradley Smotherman
May 30, 2019 10:00 - 14 minutes - 14.2 MBDan interviews Bradley Smotherman, investor and founder of Brad Smotherman, a business that does real estate investing. Tune in as they talk about his investment in a brazilian jiu jitsu academy and how important it is defining boundaries and having everybody’s roles laid out before going into partnership, and how investing USD 15000 in marketing allowed him to buy equity positions and cash all out.
TD305: Coaching and Mastering a Field of Study with Carl Gould
May 27, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBDan interviews Carl Gould, life and business coach, Founder and Chief Discovery Officer of 7 Stage Advisors, a coaching and consulting company. Tune in as they talk about how franchising his coaching and consulting business led him to consolidate the client acquisition, and how selling both companies and moving into coaching has been a his greatest move.
TD304: Systems in Place to Run 5 Different Teams and 70 Writers with Madeleine Lambert
May 23, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.6 MBIn this episode, Dan interviews Madeleine Lambert, CO-Founder and CEO of Content. Madeleine started her first entrepreneurial journey in the technology world two and a half years ago, and has a medical technology background. Dive in as they talk about her business and her core clients, clear policies,and how putting systems in place and getting rid of the bottom 10% of the writers every month has helped her produce content of high quality with serious contractors.
TD303: Becoming a Better Leader with Patrick Donohoe
May 20, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this episode, Dan interviews Patrick Donohoe, a financial strategist and consultant. He is the President and CEO of Paradigm Life, author of the book “Heads I win, Tails you lose”, and Host of The Wealth Standard Podcast. Tune in as they talk about how he learned about leadership after having been forced to do some layoffs and how he created a solid group of leaders with a foundation of principles, values and communication.
TD302: Growing a Business Without Putting a Penny into Marketing with Jill W. Fox
May 16, 2019 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.9 MBDan interviews Jill W. Fox, marketing consultant and owner of Fox Social Media. Jill shares her journey from being Miss America Pageant and a two time cancer survivor, to being a successful entrepreneur. Tune in as they talk about when Jill should have taken action and din’t , and how getting over herself and creating her youtube channel and podcast, made acquaintances reach out for her help in social media and marketing for their businesses and grow her business without putting money into ...
TD301: Over 100 Real Estate Deals in Three Years with Zachary Beach
May 13, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 15.8 MBDan interviews Zachary Beach, a real estate investor and coach that works in SmartRealEstateCoach. Zachary shares his journey from bartender and personal trainer to these last three years in real estate; with 28 years old has over 100 deals underneath his belt. Tune in as they talk about Zachary’s first deal and the importance of having business credit lines in place before any transaction, and about his risky and effective decision in leaping into a family business.
TD300: Build Confidence to Take Action and Never Label an Outcome with David Schnurman
May 09, 2019 10:00 - 33 minutes - 31.8 MBDennae interviews David Schnurman, President of Entrepreneurs’ Organization in New York, CEO of Lawline, and author of “The Fast Forward Mindset: How to Be More Fearless & Focused to Accelerate Your Success”. Tune in as they talk about the main focus of his book, the intangible results from hiring an executive coach from outside and how taking on the position as the president of an entrepreneurs organization gave him the opportunity of becoming a better leader.
TD299: Online Income While Learning to Surf with Kyle Reidhead
May 06, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.7 MBIn this episode, Dan interviews Kyle Reidhead, a BASc. kinesiologist with a diploma in health and fitness, health coach, host producer of HealthSimple Radio Podcast and founder of HealthSimple. Kyle started his own online business while working in the corporate world in Toronto, and recently has moved to Indonesia, an island where he dedicates himself to it full time and learns how to surf.
TD298: 30MM Dollars in 7 Years with Greg Dickerson
May 02, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 17.8 MBDennae interviews Greg Dickerson, speaker, coach, real estate investor and developer. Dive in as they talk about how Greg backed up a couple in a bar-restaurant venture and the consequences he had from not being in control of it, and how recruiting a multitask bookkeeping office manager, and taking the first step in leasing the first office space led the business in seven years to be one of the largest builder developers in the area.
TD297: Turning Money Down to Serve Bigger Customers with Cynthia Kay
April 29, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 19.1 MBDan and Dennae interview Cynthia Kay, author, speaker and owner of Cynthia Kay and Company, a media production and communication consulting company. Join in as they talk about what Cynthia did after receiving a bad result from a big consulting firm and how important it is when looking for business coaching to make sure they are in the right position to consult, having business agreements before going into partnership, and how turning money down has allowed her business to grow.
TD296: If You Cannot Sweep the Floor, You Can’t Start a Business with Anupam Satyasheel
April 25, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 17 MBDan and Dennae interview Anupam Satyasheel, Founder and CEO of Occams Advisory, a full advisory company for small and medium business clients. Anupam shares his journey from Wall street as an investment banker to having his own business. Dive in as they talk about how important it is to comply with a process when hiring someone, and how getting a job from his previous employer gave him cash flow stability and made his business grow.
TD295: Intangible Values that Grow a Company Fast with Estie Rand
April 22, 2019 10:00 - 18 minutes - 18.1 MBDan and Dennae interview Estie Rand, founder of Strand Consulting. Join in as they talk about why Estie has decided that new vendors, freelancers and independent contractors have to do internal projects before using them for client work, and how giving an employee the raise she was asking for, made her save a lot of money and gain ability to grow the company faster.
TD294: Daily Method of Operations from the Heart with Lance Essihos
April 18, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBDan and Dennae interview Lance Essihos, an entrepreneur, mentor and podcaster. He is the host and producer of The University of Adversity podcast. Dive in as they talk about how building his own model from the heart has led him to success, the importance of a daily method of operations when building a personal brand and how giving value to others has made it come back in return.
TD293: Adding Value to Other People with Logan Tyler Nelson
April 14, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.4 MBDan and Dennae interview Logan Tyler Nelson, consultant, speaker, founder of Logan Tyler Nelson Agency. Join in as they talk about how focussing on other people has helped him overcome the hard decision of not becoming an actor, and how being his own employee has helped him understand more about human psychology in order to deal better with people.
TD292: A New Venture in Tough Times by Chris Williams
April 10, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode, Dan and Dennae interview Chris Williams, entrepreneur, corporate leader trainer, business culture strategist and keynote speaker. He is a host of his own podcast High Level Wisdom for New Generation Leaders. Tune in as they talk about how important alignment and communication is in a marriage when starting an entrepreneurial journey and how setting emotions to a side when taking on a new venture added over U$S75000 to his revenue stream.
TD291: Increasing Productivity Time by Pulling Business Out of Home with Lee Milteer
April 07, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBIn this episode, Dan and Dennae interview Lee Milteer, educator, speaker and author of many books. She provides business and success advice and resources to nearly 250,000 people around the world, is the owner and CEO of LeeMilteer Inc and founder of Millionaire Smarts. Join in as they talk about how taking on a marketing manager with no experience has made Lee more diligent when hiring people, and how her income tripled and her productivity time has increased after pulling her business out ...
TD290: Leaving Corporate World And Starting a Software Development Firm with Daniel Ghelman
April 04, 2019 10:00 - 9 minutes - 10.1 MBDan and Dennae interview Daniel Ghelman, a resourceful business leader. Daniel is an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur with a vast experience in the corporate world in new divisions and business development. Join in as Daniel shares with us how important it is to fire people at the time when they are not doing what is expected, so as to avoid waste of money and time and how hard it was for Daniel to leave the comfort zone of the corporate world to dive into the launch of a new business.
TD289: Building Up Own Brand in the Fitness Equipment Business with Matthew Januszek
April 03, 2019 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21.8 MBDan and Dennae interview Matthew Januszek , Co Founder of Escape Fitness Equipment. Matthew, with a great passion for weight lifting, shares his journey from being a doorman to starting his own family business. Dive in as Matthew shares with us how exercise and a good diet can help when taking any decision and talks about how setting their own brand nearly ended up with their business and the importance of time when taking major decisions.
TD288: The Importance of Having Same Focus with Employees with Sima Vasa
April 01, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 12.4 MBDan and Dennae interview Sima Vasa, an entrepreneur in the Market Research space, founder of SampleCon and founder and CEO of Infinity Squared Ventures, LLC a company that advices and consults with other entrepreneurs in early stage companies. Hereunder Sima shares the process she makes when hiring people. Join in as they talk about how projects can be interesting in terms of money but distract one from core mission, and how to find focus when in business.
TD287: Act Quickly Firing Bad Property Manager with Pancham Gupta
April 01, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 18.9 MBDan and Dennae interview Pancham Gupta, a real estate investor. Pancham was born in India, and in 2003 moved to USA where by 2012 started his entrepreneurial real estate journey. Dive in as they talk about how having a bad experience with a property manager has made him change his philosophy when hiring somebody, and his first syndication on a 44 unit multifamily deal with an increase of it’s value and a returned 13% annual cash-on-cash return in year 1.
TD286: The Importance of Organizational Culture with Arthur Carmazzi
March 28, 2019 10:00 - 14 minutes - 14.6 MBDan and Dennae interview Arthur Carmazzi, a motivational leadership and speaker specialized in psychological approaches to leadership and corporate culture transformation, and Founder of the Directive Communication . Dive in as they talk about the processes Arthur created to identify fits when hiring, the importance of conserving organizational culture and the use of the brain’s ambiguity relief process to have clarity when taking a decision.
TD285: Quitting Job and Shifting Into Real Estate with Michael Blank
March 27, 2019 10:00 - 19 minutes - 19.2 MBDan and Dennae interview Michael Blank, a full time entrepreneur, apartment building investor, coach and teacher. Join in as they talk about how shifting into real estate made him learn how to raise money, how his first apartment building deal put him into good actual position and how investing in multifamily is a little bit more work than in single unit family house, but resulting outcome is disproportionately bigger than extra work that is been done.
TD284: Should You Invest in Real Estate with Friends? with Billy Keels
March 26, 2019 10:00 - 16 minutes - 16.1 MBDan and Dennae interview Billy Keels, an international real estate american entrepreneur living in Spain, that helps others meet their goals financially doing cash long assets; Founder and Ceo of KeepOnCashflow. Dive in as they talk about the process he put in place to do these investments, the importance of reading home inspection reports before purchasing a new property, and how accepting friends to invest with has helped him connect with a lot more people, and helped them get closer to th...
TD283: Seeing Opportunities Where Others Don’t with Kira Golden
March 25, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15.1 MBDan and Dennae interview Kira Golden, Founder and CEO of Direct Source Wealth. Tune in as they talk about how taking on projects and areas that others have not seen the opportunity in has added value to her business, leveraging relationships to find good quality deals has positioned them in a high level and working with people that share same focus in long term wealth has made a stronger group
TD282: Take Action and Reinvest to Reach Further Goals with Andrew Henderson
March 21, 2019 10:00 - 15 minutes - 15.4 MBDan and Dennae interview Andrew Henderson, consultant on legal offshore tax reduction, investment immigration, and global citizenship. Founder of Nomad Capitalist. Andrew started his entrepreneurial bug at the age of eleven reading business books. Tune in as they talk about how the improvement in each part of the process has increased the amount of people going to their website, and the importance of reinvesting in your business.