TREPX Podcast | For enTREPreneurs by enTREPreneurs, TREPX Podcast provides actionable advice, tips, and steps for freelancers, startups, and early-stage companies to grow into a business bigger than themselves. artwork

TREPX Podcast | For enTREPreneurs by enTREPreneurs, TREPX Podcast provides actionable advice, tips, and steps for freelancers, startups, and early-stage companies to grow into a business bigger than themselves.

69 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 8 years ago - ★★★★★ - 42 ratings

The TREPX Podcast is a place for entrepreneurs who are serious about growing a business and transitioning from amateur to pro. A business pro is someone who has a vision to build something bigger than one person. A pro creates systems for growth and has clear, authentic marketing that connects with customers and prospects. A pro has financial awareness to look forward instead of backward. The TREPX Podcast will feature interviews with those who have built successful businesses to deconstruct their success, and show entrepreneurs how to move from amateur to pro.

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Episodes

How Entrepreneurs Tell Their Story with Leanna Johnson - Episode 69

April 18, 2016 14:55 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MB

Micky Deming: (00:35) Hello and welcome to the TREPX Podcast! This is Micky Deming and I’m really excited about today’s interview! I had a chance to talk with a fellow journalist. I talked to Leanna Johnson who is a journalist and who is using her journalism to build a business around it and to promote entrepreneurs to help them tell their stories. As entrepreneurs, as business owners we talked about this in the Chris Smith interview if you’ve heard that, telling your story is one of the mos...

How to Approach Entrepreneurship with Emad Rahim – Episode 68

April 15, 2016 16:19 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB

Micky Deming: (00:35) Hello entrepreneurs!  This is Micky Deming and this is the TREPX Podcast.  The podcast where we talk about entrepreneurship and how to grow a business, how to build something that is bigger than yourself, and there is a variety of ways to do that.  In this podcast we cover so many different topics and in this episode is one that is I think we covered some of the most important pieces.  They have to do with really how you approach entrepreneurship and how you approach bu...

How to build an engaged following with Matt Gottesman Episode 67

April 04, 2016 18:01 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

Today’s episode features Matt Gottesman from TREP Media Group. Matt is an expert when it comes to creating media and engaged communities. Matt talks about how you can stand out when you’re specializing in media and content. “If you focus too hard on the end result, you are not as flexible for pivoting in the process. All you need to have is a vision of the end. The rest of the details are revealed to you while you are building.”  You can find Matt on Instagram and Twitter at HDF Magazine o...

The 5 Forces of Entrepreneurial Storytelling with Chris Smith: TREPX Podcast Episode 66

March 04, 2016 14:29 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MB

Stories are how we learn about history, people, and even businesses. Poorly told stories are forgettable and hard to connect with, but we rarely think about investing in the stories we tell as entrepreneurs. When we don’t clearly communicate our company’s brand and message, we miss huge opportunities. Even a simple networking introduction can turn into thousands of dollars of business and long-lasting business relationships.   In TREPX Podcast Episode 66, host Micky Deming talks to The Cam...

Living and Growing Yourself and Your Business Consciously with Kim Ades - Episode 65

February 26, 2016 06:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB

Kim Ades, the Founder and President of Frame of Mind Coaching, joined TREPX Podcast host Micky Deming to talk about mindset, journaling and getting ahead in business. Kim coaches executives and leading entrepreneurs to become emotionally resilient. ”Coaching, up until recently, has been highly focused on helping people take actions in order to reach their goals.  It wasn’t really focused on emotional resilience,” says Ades. Ades described emotional resilience as “the ability to bounce back f...

Where “Crazy” Entrepreneurial Minds Get Stuck with Alex Charfen - Episode 64

February 19, 2016 15:13 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB

Alex Charfen has dedicated his life to answering the question, how do you make your business grow? As a personal consultant to billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful individuals in the world, Alex’s pursuit evolved into a larger calling to understandHow do you help people grow? For the past two decades, Alex has created and curated proven business philosophies, models and strategies geared specifically to entrepreneurs. Alex was labeled as developmentally disabled bac...

How to grow your business fast with the Newsletter Guru and Mastermind Expert Jim Palmer - Episode 63

February 12, 2016 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB

Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and host of Newsletter Guru TV and Stick Like Glue Radio. He is known internationally as ‘The Newsletter Guru’- the go-to resource for maximizing the profitability of customer relationships. “Every entrepreneur needs to be working with a coach and be in a mastermind group. When you think you have all the answers or you think you know the plan is when you either are not doing well or your growth is being stunted because you don’t know wh...

Episode 62: Navigating Growth in a Constantly Changing World with Lee Caraher

February 05, 2016 06:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

Lee Caraher is a CEO and acclaimed communication strategist known for her practical solutions to big problems. She started Double Forte as a new kind of communications firm designed to work with good people, doing good work for good companies by providing the best results and service in the business. So far so good. This is not her first rodeo, and she’s learned a lot along the way that she shares with others in the hopes that everyone can reduce drama and conflict in the workplace and creat...

Episode 61: Focusing on Selling and Marketing with Michelle Evans

January 29, 2016 06:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

Michelle has one bottom line for all of her clients. Measurable results. She does not teach the “one size fits all” approach to marketing. Michelle L Evans walked away from her global marketing strategy role at Microsoft in 2012 after a successful 16-year corporate career spanning many industries. Now she shows business owners how to stop being the best-kept secret around and instead become a sold-out success. Combining her proven business-building skill set with her ninja marketing skills,...

60: The Perks of Podcasting with Jessica Rhodes

January 22, 2016 06:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MB

Jessica is the founder and CEO of her business Interview Connections which connects entrepreneurs and those who want to be interviewed to podcast hosts. Most entrepreneurs will hire a virtual assistant to book a guest spot on other podcasts. That is now an unnecessary step because Jessica has made great system that will find podcasts in your niche for you to be featured on. “Podcasts are one of the best ways to learn. My number one recommendation for knowing what podcast to listen to is to...

Episode 59: The Big Lessons Learned in One Year of a Startup

January 15, 2016 06:00 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MB

Another great episode with Russ Perry from Design Pickle. In this episode, we talk about the misconceptions in priority, growing pains in a company, and content creation. “I believed that everything that came into my head should be captured and put into action, and that led to a path of a lot of nonsensical projects that really didn’t matter.” This is one of many quotes from this episode that really stuck with me. In one year Russ grew his company to have $80,000 in monthly revenue, and a ...

58: Getting Results from Content Marketing with Gray Mackenzie

January 09, 2016 06:00 - 40 minutes - 36.6 MB

Micky interviews two time entrepreneur Gray Mackenzie. They discuss entrepreneurial growing pains and the importance of building a game plan for your business. “I would recommend to start by defining who your target audience is. People often target the person writing the check but that is not the person that usually finds you.” This is an excellent interview for everyone who wants to know more about inbound marketing and the mindset of running two businesses at the same time. To find out ...

57: Reprogramming Your Mind with Dr. Herman SJR

December 29, 2015 06:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB

For his entire life Dr. Herman SJR soaked up every bit of knowledge that came his way, and now he is on a mission to inform entrepreneurs on how to reprogram their minds. “The first thing you have to do is see that you have a problem. Without realizing your problem you will not improve no matter what you do.” Herman informs us on how destructive fear can be to an entrepreneur, how knowing your mind can translate into success, and what keeps us from following through on ventures we were pre...

56: The Truth Behind Digital Marketing with Ilan Nass

December 22, 2015 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB

Ilan Nass came from an entrepreneurial family and has made it in the world of digital marketing. He tried his hand in finance but that all ended in the crash of 2008. “People who do not know their own data will have a very difficult time growing in any meaningful way because they will not know where their holes are. Once you know your data you can grow. And there is nothing better for growth than having a good competitor because that will force you to either be better or fall off.” Ilan re...

55. Best Resource for Agency Owners in the World with Jason Swenk

December 18, 2015 06:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MB

After building and selling a digital agency in 12 years, Jason finds his niche market and is now looking to be the #1 resource in the world for agency owners. “I am putting together all the information I wish someone had told me. There are so many landmines you could fall into and my goal is to try to show people how to avoid them.” Jason gives great advice on how to find your price, what it tells you about your product, and where people go wrong when adding clients. This episode offers a...

Episode 54: Getting Rid of Boring Presentations with Kenny Nguyen

December 11, 2015 06:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MB

After enduring the most boring presentation of his life, Kenny Nguyen got the idea to start The Big Fish Experience. The goal of The Big Fish Experience is to end all boring, dull, and slow presentations. Whether you are a maid of honor about to give a speech or a business man giving the most important pitch of his life, Kenny is set out to help people like you deliver an excellent presentation. “I view speaking as an investment, and the best investment is yourself. There is always tomorr...

Episode 53: Creating Loyal and Rabid Fans with Peter Shankman

December 04, 2015 06:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB

As a business owner, there is nothing better than people spreading the word in a positive way about what you do.   The good news according to Peter Shankman is, to achieve this all you need to do is “be one step above crap.”   Shankman is an expert in providing a valuable, helpful customer experience as a business. This is exactly what he did to grow Help a Reporter Out into an email list of hundreds of thousands of people with a 79 percent open rate.   His secret has always been to be...

Episode 52: How Keeping Score is the Key to Leadership and Growth

November 26, 2015 06:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MB

This month, Frank Lunn celebrated his 20th year in business. His long journey has taken him through almost everything, which includes founding Kahuna Accounting in 2012. But Frank is not an accountant. He’s not even what you’d call a “numbers person.” He is an entrepreneur, and in his entrepreneurial journey he realized how incredibly important it is to have an understanding of your finances. In this interview Frank talks about what he learned along the way and how a business can scale whe...

Episode 51: Finding Entrepreneurial Bliss with Suresh Thakoor

November 17, 2015 06:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

The stress of entrepreneurship can be heavy. You grind, work hard and at times you feel completely overwhelmed.   Suresh Thakoor knows the feeling. But he also knows we have the ability to control our thoughts, and be intentional enough to work on what matters.   Too often we end up drifting into lives that take us to a place where we end up miserable.   Suresh is the founder of Blisshacker and Ananda. Both of those companies strive to help others find clarity. Clarity is when you know...

Episode 50: Overcoming Critics, Performing Everyday: Interview with Michael Port and Michael Luchies

November 11, 2015 06:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

This episode dives into the topic of public speaking but is applicable for anyone. We are all performers, Port says, because we have to deliver when we are on display.   This interview covers the topic of fear and anxiety surrounding public speaking and what the root of it really is.   Port says the reason we find speaking publicly difficult is because we are too self-absorbed. The more you focus on your audience and what you are saying, the more your anxiety goes down.   The other rea...

|49: Mike Michalowicz: Profit is a habit, not a destination

November 05, 2015 06:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MB

What happens when you arrive at a destination you are seeking then find out you are still not all that satisfied.   For Mike Michalowicz, it caused him to do a lot of thinking and the realization he needed a new framework on viewing his life and business.   In this interview, he says profit is a habit not a destination. Since hitting rock bottom, he has now written 3 books and become an expert in the world of entrepreneurship, teaching concepts based around his “Profit First Formula.”  ...

|48: Ty Crandall on the Two Reasons Businesses Fail

November 03, 2015 06:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MB

How important is capital? Well, think about it like this. Every business that fails, fails because it runs out of capital.   If you are serious about your business and committing to it, capital is the lifeblood of your business.   Ty Crandall, owner of Credit Suite, is an expert in the world of business finances and credit. He says businesses fail because they are poorly managed and they aren’t able to access capital when they need it.   Crandall also points out how it doesn’t work to ...

|47: LinkedIn: What’s the Big Deal? With Michael Luchies

October 29, 2015 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

Hundreds of millions of people use LinkedIn, but what’s the big deal? People just post their work history in aimless efforts to get a job, right?   The value of LinkedIn extends far beyond job searches. It’s an extremely valuable tool for entrepreneurs, marketers, salesmen, brand representatives, working professionals, and more.   Micky Deming and Michael Luchies are two who have both benefited greatly from using online to connect with and recruit new customers. Both Micky and Michael ha...

|46:How to Build Your Business By Reaching Out to Influencers with Dave Schneider

October 23, 2015 17:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB

  When a Google algorithm change completely diminished Dave Schneider’s business, he had to ask a question. What’s next?   So he looked at his own experience and realized his secret weapon in building his business was the ability to expand his network by reaching out to influencers.   He realized this is something that could be automated and enhanced, so he got to work and built a new business, Ninja Outreach.   Now Ninja Outreach is a trusted tool for marketers and entrepreneurs, and...

|45: Marc Angelo Coppola on Why We need Entrepreneurial Superheroes

October 22, 2015 05:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB

Sometimes entrepreneurship is the sexy thing. We talk about it like being one of the cool kids in the band.   We need entrepreneurs, but not because it’s cool or fun. We need entrepreneurs because they are the ones who make meaningful change. Entrepreneurs are the ones who solve problems that make our world better.   Marc Coppola is passionate about seeing more entrepreneurs do these things. And he believes it happens by learning how to think big without limiting yourself.   In fact, M...

|44: Andreea Ayers on How to Be Relentless to Grow a Business

October 20, 2015 05:00 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB

Andreea Ayers has built multiple e-commerce businesses and her secret doesn’t involve any secret formula.   “I was relentless,” Ayers says about her journey in customer acquisition.   For example, when she launched a T-shirt business she emailed 3,000 yoga studios and asked if they’d put the shirts in their studios.   Enough said yes and she built some traction to eventually grow it into a massively profitable business.   Now she helps other entrepreneurs do the same.   In this int...

|43: Justin MacDonald: How Customer Experience is the Ultimate X-Factor for Small Businesses

October 15, 2015 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB

In a small business, it’s tempting to reduce the business down to two sides. First is creating a product or delivering a service. Second is selling the product or service.   This misses a key element that should envelop all activity in the business: Customer Experience.   Justin MacDonald is the Manager of Customer Experience at Infusionsoft and this interview is a deep dive into the subject. He shares the key pillars of a successful customer experience approach and ways it has worked fo...

|42:Trivinia Barber: How to Delegate, Outsource and Take Control of Your Life and Business

October 13, 2015 05:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB

Trivinia Barber has lived on both sides of the work of being a virtual assistant. She has been a Virtual Assistant, and now she’s been an entrepreneur with her own company.   Seeing both sides of that coin, she has seen a lot and understands the tremendous power in prioritizing tasks. For Trivinia and her business, Priority VA, the concept of delegation is not about getting mundane tasks off your plate.   Delegating is about making big things happen. That’s because in order to successful...

| 41: Growing a Cinematography Business From Humble Beginnings to Working with Matt Damon and LeBron James with Michele Spiezia

October 08, 2015 05:00 - 42 minutes - 39.7 MB

Michele Spiezia on Growing a Cinematography Business From Humble Beginnings to Working with Matt Damon and LeBron James   Michele Spiezia didn't know what would happen when she left her comfortable job to commit to helping her husband Francesco launch a cinematography business, Films by Francesco.   The business started slowly and the couple took any business they could get. But eventually they made a shift to commit to being a premiere offering, raising their prices and increasing their...

| 40: 19 ways to gain traction in your business with Gabriel Weinberg

October 06, 2015 05:00 - 33 minutes - 31.4 MB

If you have a great product or service, you'll have a great business right?   Actually that is wrong. Without customers, without buyers, without clients there is no business.   Businesses fail because they fail to get proper traction in the marketplace. Gabriel Weinberg knows this. He has grown the search engine DuckDuckgo into a major player, and after that he interviewed some of the top marketing minds to create the book, Traction.   After selling out every copy they created with the...

| 39: Nick Loper: Be Risk Averse and Build a Powerful Business

September 30, 2015 05:00 - 25 minutes - 23.9 MB

Nick Loper talks all about hustle at his website sidehustlenation.com. He knows about it because it’s the journey he has lived.   After working in the corporate world, Nick began to explore entrepreneurial opportunities on the side, and eventually built such a successful business he was able to leave his full-time job.   Now as an entrepreneur, he helps others find meaning in their work and develop business models that work.   In this interview, Nick talks about being risk-averse and s...

| 38: Michelle Ngome: Build a Network and Expand Your Influence

September 28, 2015 05:00 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MB

As an entrepreneur, nothing is more important than the connections and relationships you build to surround yourself with like-minded people.   Your network helps you with valuable feedback and support in everything you do.   Michelle Ngome discovered the power of building a network when she was in a career transition. Naturally, she was not the most extroverted person, but she put herself out there and found out what can happen just by steadily investing in real relationships.   Whethe...

TREPX PODCAST | 37: Jen McDonough on Facing Adversity Head on and Coming out Stronger

September 23, 2015 05:00 - 36 minutes - 34 MB

Jen McDonough has lived a life of adventure and challenges. From competing in weightlifting competitions to firefighting to completing an ironman, Jen has learned what it takes to face adversity.   Now, she is helping others to do the same. She coaches entrepreneurs and first responders and those who work in high-stress situations.   This interview is packed with stories from Jen’s experiences and actionable advice on what to do when facing fear and a major challenge.   If you are an e...

TREPX Podcast | 36: Greg Jenkins on Why It’s Not Enough to Be Awesome at What You’re Awesome At.

September 21, 2015 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.5 MB

Greg Jenkins built up a successful small business. Then he went to an entrepreneurial machine and worked for Infusionsoft and learned all the things he did wrong in his first attempt.   Things like having systems in place, outsourcing and finding ways to spend more time focusing on his strengths.   Now he is getting a chance to try again. Greg has launched Monkey Pod Marketing to serve small business owners and educate them about the process of marketing strategy and how to build a compa...

TREPX Podcast |35: How College Entrepreneurs Worked With Mark Cuban and Built a Successful Startup with Peter Maglathin

September 16, 2015 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MB

Peter Maglathin is the co-founder at hourlynerd.com, connecting businesses with professionals to get on demand support. The business started as a project at Harvard Business School, but has now turned into multiple rounds of funding including a backing from Mark Cuban.   This is an incredible entrepreneurial interview as Peter shares the many times he and his co-founders were rejected and failed on their way to finding success.   The grit and determination needed to gain momentum was cri...

TREPX Podcast |34:How to build thought leadership with your blog with Zac Johnson

September 14, 2015 05:00 - 30 minutes - 28.7 MB

Zac Johnson has been creating valuable content on the internet since its early days and has continued to shift and evolve as the landscape has evolved.   Today he has a thriving business and podcast, helping other entrepreneurs refine their content and social strategy. He specializes in content creation for relationship and traffic building.   In this interview we talk about all kinds of marketing strategy from blogs, to podcasts to creating quality over quantity in all forms of content....

| 33: Branding and Self-Discovery with Sunny Bonnell

September 09, 2015 05:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MB

  Sunny Bonnell and her co-founder Ashleigh Hansberger have lived quite an adventure in rapidly growing their branding company, Motto.   In the last ten years, Motto has expanded from just the two creative entrepreneurs working on projects to a team of 8 working for clients across the country and globally.   They have even made an adventure out of their work, taking a road trip across the U.S. that led to an entirely new home for them and the business.   Above all, Motto stands out be...

| 32: How To Grow a Business, or Do Anything By Learning from the Best With Jon Butt

September 07, 2015 05:00 - 43 minutes - 40.3 MB

Jon Butt has seen a lot related to marketing and business growth. In fact, he has been in the business more than 30 years and has seen almost everything! In the end, for Jon, marketing success comes down to 6 P’s.   Presence, Potential, Permission, Purchase, Preacher and Perpetuate.   He believes in educating and providing high value content to your audience in order to build trust. This trust then turns into loyal customers and raving fans.   This interview is a great primer on all t...

| 31: How to lead a 70 Employee Startup While Going to College with Douglas Hanna

September 02, 2015 05:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB

Douglas Hanna has seen a lot in his time as an entrepreneur. As CEO of A Small Orange he led the company to massive growth from 10 employees to 70 all before graduating college.   Now, Hanna is the founder of Help.com, a company he is building to solve an incredibly important element for businesses: Customer Service.     In this interview Hanna shares observations from working in high-growth entrepreneurial environments and how he identified an unmet need in the market with customer ser...

|30: A Champion’s Mindset with Anthony Witt

August 31, 2015 05:00 - 36 minutes - 33.8 MB

A Champion’s Mindset with Anthony Witt  As an entrepreneur it can be easy to look at others and see greatness in them, but miss it in yourself.    But many times what separates the great ones from the average is just a small shift in mindset. This is a lesson Anthony Witt learned as a Division 1 Wrestler. Once he went toe-to-toe with one of the best in the nation, he realized he wasn’t far from being a champion.    This interview provides some deep insight into the mindset that makes up...

| 29:Defining Success and Significance as an Entrepreneur with Aaron Walker

August 10, 2015 14:00 - 37 minutes - 35.2 MB

Aaron Walker has seen his share of ups and downs. And it has been his connection with a community and humility to hear from other perspectives that has helped him keep moving forward through it all.  All of us – especially entrepreneurs – wrestle with those hard questions about our work.    Does this matter?    Will I “make it?”    Unfortunately, sometimes we push so hard after success only to find when we arrive that it’s not what makes us happy or fulfilled.    This interview with...

| 28: The Ruthless Consistency to Create 1,000 Podcasts and Counting! with John Lee Dumas

August 05, 2015 05:00 - 27 minutes - 26 MB

John Lee Dumas is the man behind Entrepreneur on Fire, the daily podcast reaching millions of listeners since it burst onto the scene. Even with all the episodes and success, JLD’s fire is still burning strong as he and his team have built a devoted following and have created massive value to their listeners.   Of all the things most impressive about Entrepreneur on Fire’s growth, what stands out the most is their insane consistency. To create a show day after day for years on the way to o...

| 27: Intentionally Building Your Body of Work with Pam Slim

August 03, 2015 05:00 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MB

Bestselling author Pamela Slim asks this question as it relates to the changing work environment in our current day in her latest book, “Body of Work.”   In this interview, Pam talks about the many elements that make up a body of work and what it takes to find meaning and purpose in the work we do.     In finding work that matters you have to look at yourself and find what makes up who you are. Pam talks about roots and ingredients as key factors.

|26: Inbound Marketing and Why You Should get on a Podcast with Tom Schwab

July 29, 2015 05:00 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB

EnTREPreneur Tom Schwab on why inbound marketing is so important to your business and tells you why and how to get customers by appearing on a podcast as a guest.

| 25: How to Build Traction with a Brand New Business with Hubdoc Co-founder Jamie Shulman

July 27, 2015 05:00 - 32 minutes - 30.6 MB

Jamie Shulman is a tech entrepreneur who has quickly gained momentum and a strong following with HubDoc, a bookkeeping automation tool.  In this episode Jamie talks about his story that lead to HubDoc, from practicing as a lawyer to starting multiple businesses.    As HubDoc has grown, Jamie has created a ton of value through partnerships with accountants and other software add-ons. HubDoc is committed to “World Class Customer Service” and providing genuine value to everyone they work wit...

| 24: Mind Hacking for Entrepreneurs with Sir John Hargrave

July 22, 2015 05:00 - 38 minutes - 35.8 MB

Do you struggle with self-doubt? Fear? Being overly distracted?   The biggest battle for entrepreneurs is often the battle of winning in their own mind.   Overcoming fear, fighting against resistance and adversity, maintaining focus in a cluttered world…the list of mental challenges goes on and on.   Most of the time, it’s the entrepreneurs who can mentally understand who they are and what they want who end up finding the greatest success. Sir John Hargrave is passionate about this exa...

TREPX Podcast| 23: Profiting with a Purpose with Josh Schukman

July 20, 2015 05:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MB

Josh Schukman is on a mission. The founder of Socialchangenation.com is determined to help entrepreneurs who are passionate about social causes have a great path to success.   In this interview, Josh shares how he defines a social entrepreneur and why every business should have a greater story to tell and a big WHY in everything they do.   If you are a business owner that sometimes get lost in the day to day and forgets the why behind what you do, you’ll definitely enjoy this interview. ...

| 22: 5 Mindset X Factors with Micky Deming

July 15, 2015 05:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MB

In this episode Micky talks about the 5 most commonly mentioned mental X Factors entrepreneurs have mentioned in the first 20 episodes of the TREPX Podcast.   One of the biggest challenges in growing and scaling a business is overcoming the mental obstacles that hold us back.   In the first 20 episodes, the interviews focused a lot on 5 major mindset elements in entrepreneurship.   1.       Gratitude 2.       Not Comparing to Others 3.       Overcoming Fear 4.       Don’t Be a Hero ...

| 21: 5 Marketing X Factors with Micky Deming.

July 13, 2015 05:00 - 18 minutes - 17.7 MB

After 20 episodes of the TREPX podcast, host Micky Deming takes a step back in this episode and reviews some of the most commonly mentioned ideas in the interviews.   The TREPX Podcast is a podcast to help entrepreneurs accelerate and grow their businesses, so of course these episodes have covered a lot in marketing and business development.   In this episode, Micky talks through the top 5 Marketing X Factors mentioned in the first 20 episodes including    

| 20: Grow Your Business with Lasting Connections and Memorable Experiences with Saul Colt

July 08, 2015 05:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MB

As the Chief Evangelist at Xero, Saul Colt’s mission is to connect with people and create memorable experiences. He speaks across the country and has built a reputation as an innovative marketer and growth hacker.  In this interview Saul compares his marketing strategy to the game Risk, in that you have to focus on one area at a time, own it and then make a short jump to the next.    In focusing on the user, business owners can make a real impact and build lasting relationships, instead o...

Guests

Alex Charfen
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Chris Smith
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Gabriel Weinberg
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Jessica Rhodes
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Lee Caraher
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Michael Port
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Tom Schwab
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