Parents Making Profits

Latest Episodes:

Sometimes when you lose, you WIN Aug 24, 2022

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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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You know we LOVE dad jokes. Submit your dad joke here and it might get featured on the show!

Lesssssssss go! 🚀

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.

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

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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.

If you're feeling the podcast, please subscribe on your fave podcast player, rate it, and leave a review. Also, please share it on social media.

We LOVE dad jokes. Submit your dad joke here and it might get featured on the show!

Lesssssssss go! 🚀

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.

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

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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?

If you're feeling the podcast, please subscribe on your fave podcast player, rate it, and leave a review. Also, please share it on social media.

We LOVE dad jokes. Submit your dad joke here and it might get featured on the show!

Lesssssssss go! 🚀

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.

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

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

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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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Increase Your Productivity With Our Favorite Apps Jul 13, 2022

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

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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.

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

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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! 🚀

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

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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. 🚀

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

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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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