Parents Making Profits

27 - Two books to help you be a better founder and human Oct 19, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James talk about two of James' favorite books that he thinks can help you turbo-charge your marketplace-based business and help you be a more effective giver.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, which is currently in Techstars Austin, to get early access to the co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

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26 - To Hell With Ageism Oct 11, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James are big mad about people who are ageists and they discuss why you are more likely to be successful as an entrepreneur until the age of sixty. Sixty!

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You know we LOVE dad jokes. Submit your dad joke here and it might get featured on the show! Oh, and we read a dad joke this week from Devin Creek of Luna and Devin’s Cozy Home Stays.

P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, which is currently in Techstars Austin, to get early access to the co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

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25 - Stop Majoring In The Minors Sep 26, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James tell you how to focus on what's important so you can stop majoring in the minors.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get early access to the co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

24 - 3 Tips To Turn Your Mentor Into a Sponsor Sep 16, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James tell you how to turn your mentor into a sponsor because sponsorship is where the real opportunities lie for you!

Here's the link to the Harvard Business Review article, How To Build a Great Relationship With a Mentor mentioned in the episode.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get early access to the co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

23 - Entrepreneurs Have More Faith Than You Sep 09, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James talk about why entrepreneurs have more faith than non-entrepreneurs.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get early access to the co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

22 - How You Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome Sep 01, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James help you overcome imposter syndrome.

We hear from Allison Byers, CEO of pitch deck platform Scroobious, and Brandon Brooks, Co-Founder of VC firm Overlooked Ventures, as they share inspiring stories about how they overcame imposter syndrome and had great results.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get notified when they launch their co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

21 - Sometimes when you lose, you WIN Aug 24, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James inspire you with a story to help you reframe your thinking about losing because often the things you think are losses end up being wins for you.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get notified when they launch their co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

20 - Learn how Mac The VC raised $10 million using Twitter DMs Aug 17, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James talk with Rarebreed Ventures' Managing Partner, Mac The VC who tells us how he used Twitter to get 1,100 meetings in 90 days and raised $10 million for his first venture fund.

We also talk about what the challenges are for underestimated founders and emerging VCs raising capital in the current fundraising environment.

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get notified when they launch their co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

19 - Our #1 tip for you to build your personal brand Aug 09, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James talk about Mario's #1 tip for you to focus on if you want to build your personal brand. Can you guess what it is?

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P.S. If you're a tech entrepreneur and are looking for a co-founder, visit James' startup, Kabila, to get notified when they launch their co-founder matching app.

P.P.S If you want to learn how to get brand sponsorship dollars for your business (Mario raised $4 million in brand sponsorships), sign up for Mario's course here.

18 - How you can get people to say YES Aug 01, 2022

In this episode of the podcast, Mario and James help you learn how to get people to say yes to your proposals.

We mentioned the pitch deck platform, Scroobious, to help you create your investor deck.

And here's the Hustle Fund VC YouTube video about creating pitch deck slide titles.

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17 - How you can avoid the toxicity of hustle culture Jul 24, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James are inspired by a Good Housekeeping article about the toxicity of hustle culture and share tips for how you can avoid it.

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16 - Increase Your Productivity  With Our Favorite Apps Jul 13, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James share their favorite apps to help you be more productive and more effective in your business.

But first, the guys shared the amazing news that the Parents Making Profits podcast is now inside the top 100 Entrepreneurship podcasts in ten countries around the world - after only launching three months ago! Thank you, everyone, for listening!

Here’s a list of the apps covered in this episode:

Dubb.com - videos to increase engagement conversions.
Veed.io - Add subtitles and branding to your videos.
Descript.com - For all-in-one video editing.
VideoAsk.com - A tool to collect feedback from users for testimonials and more.
Capcut.com - Shoot & edit videos on your phone for social media sharing.
Typeform.com - A beautiful way to ask for information.
Relayed.ai - A new asynchronous conversation tool for two or more people.
BeFocused Pro - An app that helps you be more productive using the Pomodoro technique.
Miro.com - A great brainstorming and whiteboard collaboration tool.
Scripted.video - An easy-to-use teleprompter app.

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15 - Launch The Damn Thing Already (part 2)! Jul 09, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James go through the rest of the Inc. Magazine article's list of excuses people make for why they can’t launch their business, product, service, course, or whatever.

After these two episodes, we hope you are inspired to push past the obstacles - real and imagined - and launch the damn thing already!

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Here's the Inc. Magazine article that inspired this two-part series.

CORRECTION:

In this episode, James attributed a quote to Paul Graham, but it was actually Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn founder, who said it.

14 - Launch The Damn Thing Already (part 1)! Jul 01, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James go through a list of excuses people make for why they can’t launch their business, product, service, course, or whatever.

It turns out some people have all the excuses in Excussissippi. Spoiler alert: The guys are not here for it!

If any of these excuses sound like something rattling around in your head, we hope that by the end of this episode and part two, you’ll be encouraged to stop making excuses and launch the damn thing already!

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Tally ho! 🚀

13 - The proper way for you to ask for an introduction! Jun 24, 2022

In this episode, the guys give you advice that is easily worth $100K to you!

Mario and James tell you the biggest mistake you are probably making when trying to get introduced to someone you think will help your business, and they give you the money tip for how to properly connect with people on LinkedIn.

Here's the link to the article Mario and James mentioned that teaches you how to write a forwardable email introduction.

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Ad Astra. 🚀

12 - DadPreneurs Up! Celebrating Father's Day Jun 17, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James have two listeners share an inspiring story from their DadPreneur journey. Plus Techstars co-founder, David Cohen, talks about how his dad inspired him to help so many entrepreneurs.

The stories are from:

Doug Fox - Fox Brand Marketing consultancy
Kevin Thai - Three Circles Studio Photography
David Cohen - Techstars

Mario also put James on the spot for a dad joke and James did not disappoint. If you like dad jokes, go back and listen to episode one with Daymond John from Shark Tank, where James got into a dad-joke-off with Daymond.

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And join our new community at parentsmakingprofits.com, where we can go deeper on the topics that matter to you.

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11 - What investors are thinking before they cut you a check! Jun 10, 2022

In this episode, Mario and James share answers from three prominent venture capitalists (Brad Feld, Foundry Group, Elizabeth Yin, Hustle Fund VC, and Neal Sáles-Griffin, Techstars Rising Stars Fund) to the question of what they think is more important when making an investment, the team or the idea? And how important is the passion of the entrepreneur for their idea?

Some of the answers are not what you think.

If you like this episode, please subscribe and tell your ParentPreneur friends about us.

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10 - Who is more helpful when starting your business? Strangers or friends & family? Jun 02, 2022

As a parent, being an entrepreneur hits differently. If you don't have support it can hurt. But does more support come from strangers or family and friends when starting your business? And which helps us be better entrepreneurs? We take some calls and your thoughts on this hot-button issue. Plus Mario goes off and catches James by surprise with his aggressive opinion.

09 - 4 tips for you to be an effective ParentPreneur May 25, 2022

Mario and James give you tips to be an effective ParentPreneur. Why?

Because juggling parenting and entrepreneurship can be a little nuts.

The guys give tips for how you can:

Be more present with your children.
Turn your customers with problems into advocates.
Not get sucked into the toxicity of hustle culture.
Improve your mental health.

08 - How to Get PR Without a Publicist (Part 2 With Tactics) May 18, 2022

In this episode we give you the tactics to get PR without a publicist. And James reads the email he sent to Mark Cuban that Mark responded to.

07 - How to Get PR for your Business Without a Publicist! May 13, 2022

Get tips from James and Mario on how you can get PR for your business and brand without a publicist. Getting publicity the right way can accelerate your credibility in the marketplace, bring you new customers and create bigger opportunities.

06 - How to build a profitable community for your business and brand! May 05, 2022

Build a brand by creating a community of like-minded customers and advocates of you and your business. Community is deeper and better than just posting on social media. In this episode we speak with the CEO of Mighty Networks, Gina Bianchini to learn the right ways to launch a successful community. Gina has raised over $60 million in funding and we uncover 3 main tactics:

top ways for you to launch a community
the easiest way to get members engaged
the framework for charging to build a profitable community

05 - Neal Sáles-Griffin, Managing Director of Techstars Chicago talks Venture Capital & Investing in Underrepresented Founders Apr 27, 2022

Neal Sáles-Griffin is an entrepreneur, teacher, and non-profit leader. He co-founded the first beginner-focused in-person coding bootcamp, and most recently ran for mayor of Chicago. He's currently the Managing Director of Techstars Chicago Powered by J.P. Morgan and the Techstars Chicago Accelerator, and is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering where he teaches entrepreneurship. On this episode we speak about the color of entrepreneurship, investing in Black women, and other underrepresented founders.

04 - Get paid brand deals to grow your biz! Part 2 Apr 20, 2022

Brand sponsorship deals is a way to generate revenue for your business or idea. It's non-dilutive and you don't have to take out a loan or pay money back. Companies are looking for new ways to get their message out there and many entrepreneurs are in a position of influence and/or have an audience/customer base. That audience/customer base is important to brands and their marketing efforts.

This episode is part 2 of the conversation on paid brand deals to grow your business. In this episode you will hear:

How Mario got FedEx office to find an extra $38k for a pitch he delivered
How to negotiate and close deals effectively
The number 1 mistake many people make when pitching their ideas
What goes into the pitch
And why the 11 minute discovery call with the right questions is the best way to begin the pitching process

03 - Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine Apr 14, 2022

Special guest Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief, Entrepreneur Magazine, Podcaster and Author of "Build For Tomorrow." We discuss pitching the media, how to get on the TODAY show, how not to pitch him for articles for your business and we get into why being unique and knowing what truly makes you unique is a super power for growing your business and building your personal brand as an entrepreneur.

02 - How to get brand deals to grow or launch your business! Apr 07, 2022

01 - Daymond John of Shark Tank Mar 23, 2022

Daymond John of FUBU and Shark Tank talks mental health, entrepreneurship, the metaverse, self-doubt and his regrets.

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00 - Trailer and brief backstory on your co-hosts Mario Armstrong & James Oliver Jr. Mar 22, 2022