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4 Lessons From Losing $1 Million Dollars with Mike Zeller: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 17, 2024

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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Mike Zeller has done over 300,000 Million dollars in sales studying under the masters of the industry such as Tony Robbins, Russel Brunson, and Jay Abraham. He has mentored over a hundred high-level entrepreneurs from 4 different continents.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Crises are there to remake you.

2. Do the personality tests and find your Zone of Genius.

3. Your identity precedes your destiny.

Check out Mike's website to learn more about him - Meet Mike

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How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World with Dorie Clark: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 16, 2024

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Dorie Clark has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world. She teaches at Duke University, and her new book is called The Long Game.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. If you want to build strong relationships with people, especially with higher profile people, you should not ask for a favor for at least a year; otherwise, they may view it as you just using them.

2. Optimize for interesting - that will help you keep moving.

3. Often many people are giving up too soon; be strategically patient, place your bet and be aware that the results may not come for a while; be willing to persevere while waiting.

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3 Cops Talk with Shaun Ferguson: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 15, 2024

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Shaun is a graduate of The Citadel and former United States Army Officer, serving in Germany & Operation Desert Storm. A Police Officer since 2000, assigned to Patrol, Tactical, Narcotics & Training Units. SWAT Officer since 2003. Duties involved community education, fugitive apprehension, directed enforcement & inter-departmental interdiction operations. He served as a narcotics & vice detective, conducting investigations, in-depth reports, search warrants, subpoenas & testimony for various State's Attorney's Offices. He received numerous awards for individual & team performance. He's been awarded the Medal of Valor. Currently serves in Public Safety management.

MISSION of the show: Three active-duty police officers in the Chicago suburbs, facing the tough subjects, including police brutality, racial tension, rioting, and more. This is a show about opening a dialogue, accepting that something has to be done, and bringing communities together again.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. You can help create an environment where people can go out and make millions becoming entrepreneurs. Be the gatekeeper for people to move beyond and do better.

2. If you're miserable, life's too short to be here. You don't need approval from people just because you've decided to leave something that made you hate life.

3. Listen to the message. Words are words, but you have to dig to see what it is. If it sounds different than what you're used to, it doesn't mean that you're wrong.

Rebuilding Community Trust. Visit Shaun's website to learn more about their podcast - 3 Cops Talk

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Building an Authentic Personal Brand Worth Millions with Misa Chien Nov 14, 2024

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Misa Chien is an authentic leader who is known for inspiring others, and helps people feel less alone and more connected through authenticity and transparency. She now helps Asian American female leaders feels less alone and more connected by building a paid community of over 250 Asian American women, uplifting and inspiring each other.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Success is built on the building blocks of failure.

2. Success comes with a cost and sometimes that cost is losing yourself and your authenticity.

3. Ikigai is a Japanese term referring to something you are extremely passionate about and it is not just a hobby but one that you can make money out of.

Connect to Misa on LinkedIn - Misa Chien The Authentic Asian LinkedIn

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Surprising Sales & Marketing Secrets From An Ex-Stripper with Erika Lyremark Nov 13, 2024

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Erika Lyremark, author of Think Like A Stripper: Business Lessons To Up Your Confidence, Attract More Clients and Rule Your Marketing mixes business coaching with personal branding at The Daily Whip.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. You have to design your product as a service and design your service as a product. You have to get rid of all of the fluff, cut out anything that does not serve an immediate purpose to that product or service.

2. Great marketing is saying the same message 100 different ways, 10,000 different times.

3. Design your products and services with what you would love to buy.

Visit Erika's website, take the bold business quiz, and get a FREE strategy guide - Daily Whip

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Empowerment for the Disabled with Vashaun Jones Nov 12, 2024

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Vashaun Jones is a blind entrepreneur of Fedora Outlier LLC, empowerment for the blind by the blind.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. There is a whole world of income out there that can be made. And you were born as a person that has a disability, but more importantly, you were born with a uniqueness to yourself.

2. Be able to trust individuals to make sure that they're doing the right thing and it's done to the standards that you know you would want in your business.

3. If you are a person that has been overlooked in society, know that there is a uniqueness to you. Know that you have a purpose, a passion. And if you bring that to the world, there's a market out there and you will be able to sell your services and yourself, and be profitable.

Checkout Vashaun's website - Fedora Outlier

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Building the Next Napa Valley, In the HIMALAYAS with Michael Juergens: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 10, 2024

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Michael is a wine expert, author, professor, drummer, international business consultant, founder Bhutan Wine Company, owner SoCal Rum, and Drinking and Knowing Things.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Only do epic stuff with cool people or you won't be able to maximize the ROI of the time you have on this planet.

2. Bhutanese have a concept called "Gross Domestic Happiness" instead of "Gross Domestic Product." They give importance to the happiness of their citizens over any arbitrary economic success.

3. You can't let the risk get in the way of moving forward. What you have to do is monitor the risk and try different ways.

Become the go-to wine person in your friends group in six months - Drinking And Knowing Things

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Re-using Your Entrepreneurial Skills to Build Amazing New Businesses with Doug Goldstein: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 09, 2024

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Doug Goldstein is an investment advisor. He helps people around the world with their U.S. investment accounts. A bestselling author, he recently came out with The Constant Happiness Gratitude Journal.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Have the things around you that make you happy; stop and take a minute to appreciate it. If you're not doing that, you are missing out on the best present that we've all got, which is our lives. If we don't appreciate everything along the way, we're never going to be happy.

2. Find great people and bring them on board. If you have that entrepreneurial spirit, you will come up with a business and there are people out there who want to help you out.

3. Constant gratitude becomes a habit. Anything that you do over and over that makes you smile, you'll just became a happier person.

The Constant Happiness Gratitude Journal

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The Secrets to Scaling a Business with Evan Goldberg: An EOFire Classic from 2021 Nov 08, 2024

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Evan Goldberg is responsible for product strategy and development at Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit. Prior to Oracle's acquisition of NetSuite, Goldberg was CTO and Chairman of the NetSuite board. Before co-founding NetSuite in 1998, Goldberg spent eight years at Oracle Corporation, where he served as a vice president. He was involved in a variety of projects, all focused on making powerful database technology more accessible to users. When he left Oracle, he started mBED Software and built groundbreaking website technology. Goldberg holds a B.A. Summa Cum Laude in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. Stay true to your vision. Stay focused up to the degree that you can.

2. People are settling into new routines. That's were a lot of opportunities live right now that haven't been served by companies in the past.

3. For every business, go back to your customers and see how their life has changed since the pandemic came.

Connect with Evan on LinkedIn - Evan's LinkedIn

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