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Quote of the Day: The only pain that matters at the end of the day is your pain   We can only do what we want to do. So many times we get caught thinking that we need to be like somebody else or do what somebody else does. All this different things come because we are so busy trying to get validated by other people, right? How often have you said "Hey man, I want to run this by you. I have this idea for you" Think about that! How many times have you done that. But at the end of the day, why does their opinion matter. If you have an idea , why didn't you start it? Why are you worried about someone elses opinion. Why do you have to go on the internet just to see how others are doing it before you do it?   - You are going to do it your way. But now, you are watering down yourself trying to fit in a mold or on a blueprint of someone else. Stop worrying about anybody else's opinion. Stop checking for other people. Stop trying to do other things like other people. Do it like yourself. Focus and get clar

Guest Speaker Rochelle Sodipo Washington Graphics Designer Branding Expert   5:15 Well, some of the few ways is change of perspective because when somebody comes to you and they say "This is my baby", right? And I like to tell people, business is not bae. But, even though we look at it that way, its not! If you come to me like "Hey, my brand needs help. I need to give it an identity so that people know that it belongs in the right industry and that people are gravitating towards my ideal market, my ideal client." I help them shift their perspective on what it means in being in this business. 15:00 This woman wasn't formed till 2014, when I got on an operating table. I had my double vasectomy, I had my ovaries removed at the same year my mother died of breast cancer. The reason why I had vasectomy and had the ovaries removed cause my mom told me she had breast cancer, so I took the test to find out if I had the genetic mutation cause my grand mother and my great grandmother also had breast and ovarian

Quote of the Day: Your lack of resources do not determine my value   I was in Lisa Nichols last week. If you don't know Lisa Nichols, she is an amazing woman. But, she was on this movie called the Secret. Its a movie of attraction. If you are not familiar with the law of attraction, the law of attraction is a mindset that is basically saying "Whatever you put your focus on in this world, you will be able to attract and manifest into your physical life."   So, the first time I met Lisa was on that movie and ever since then I started following her. I was familiar with her, but I was following her and I was able to go to the conference. We go to the VIP day and she was speaking at the VIP day and she was talking about pricing and she said "A lot of times, people charge less than what they are worth. You tell these people, if somebody ever tells you that your prices are too high or they get mad and say I can't afford you. This is what you say to them, your lack of resource do not determine my value." &n

Special Guest: Curtiss King Independent Musician Entrepreneur   5:00 You know, information that was actually good. Not just some random guys from this random state making a blog post that went viral.It really was a need for great information. So, I started sharing on youtube and grew it. In about a year, I grew it from 3k to now 30k. And millions in views total. Its just wonderful to be able to squeeze those numbers out of a very niche market. 15:00 When I read Go Giver. I was like, this is what I need to do in order to seek my fulfillment. I'll tell you when I saw that the same feelings that I would have got from having a pack stadium of people screaming my name and singing my songs. It was the same feeling when I have my youtube and people are saying, you man you've just changed my life. Thank you for the information as know one have ever done this the way that you explain it… 25:00 They developed a website and they made all type of productions available like .wave .mp3. What they call track out a

Quote of the Day "Live everyday with intention"   If you are to go to a store and you didn't have a grocery list of what you want to get. You wouldn't really know what you want to get from the store. But, if you were to go to the store and you were to get something. And because of you knowing exactly what you are going to get, you wouldn't be wasting time. And that time you did not spend, it time spent wisely. I think the same thing goes with the quote.   Topic of the Day:   Let us say you have a gift of ability. It is something that come very very easy to you. You do this thing very very easy, for others it is extremely hard, extremely confusing. You do not know how to do it, but you know it is extremely important.   Now, would you pay that person to teach you to do that? Would you hire someone to share that value?   A lot of you guys are sleeping on your gifts. And what do I mean when I say that? A lot of people have this gifts, but because you do it effortlessly you do not value th

Shayla Smart Coach   3:00 I am a coach and I am a lifestyle business owner. So that means, I am in business. I am very big on the lifestyle business, be living, being free. Knowing that we only get one life and I take that very seriously and my way, my claim to the lifestyle I want to leave is by having a business that makes enough money to support my lifestyle. So, I want other women to know that it is very possible to make a whole lot of money and to have anything and everything you want in life. And I am very much subscribed to the all you can have thing, I am very rebellious on that point where people would say "You can have it all, but not at one point in time" and so I really believe you can have it all anytime, if that is what you want. 13:00 So, I kind of ease out of that. But since 2011, we are talking now to somewhere about 2014ish - 2015ish. So in 2011, I am still not doing a lot of online then. I even end up giving baskets business, like an actual physical product business.Took me really w

Quote of the Day: The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said - Peter Drucker   If you were to ask a someone, what is wrong with my car? And the person said, this is what's wrong with the car. This is what I am doing. Maybe the radiator men, but we may need to keep it for a couple of days. It maybe around $800, but I am not sure.   They just said a whole bunch of nothing. They didn't answer what is wrong with your car. They could have just simply said "Not sure yet, I will let you know once I find out." But, they gave you a whole run around making you more confused.   Now, how many times has this happen to you in your life? How many times has it happen to your entrepreneurial career? That has happened so many times to me when I didn't know any better and I wasn't able to recognize it. But now, definitely it is important to know what people haven't said. If you learn how to understand what they don't say, you will realize the true answer to your question.   If you w

Special Guest: Joseph Wilson Attorney Mogul Mobility   2:40 I actually enjoy and you're right, there is the big stigma that a lot of attorneys and law firms are uptight. Actually, the first law firm that I worked was very much like that. I was a white collar law firm, decent corporate law firm, I will be the only black attorney in the office in Atlanta, which is crazy. So, for the past 2-3 years, I have been doing work where I was actually representing individuals who get injured in motor vehicle accident, commercial motor vehicle accident as well. 12:00 I am a former ball player, my partner was a former professional ball player and so it was a natural transition. We have this relationship with guys who used to whoops and guys who are up and running hoopers that are going to play overseas. They are going to play in Israel, in Germany, in Italy. So, I got certified as Fiba Sports Agent last year. So, what we do is we help American players get jobs overseas. That is our job as sports agency. 22:15 My

Quote of the day: I demand the best. Sleep is forbidden. If you work for me, you have to roll how I roll. I am not really human, I am like a machine. - P. DIDDY   "I demand the best!" Hey, there is nothing wrong with demanding to be the best at all. There is nothing wrong with demanding the best. "Sleep is forbidden", I don't go with no sleep. Cause when you say sleep is forbidden, what it really means is don't chill and play more than you work. It doesn't mean no sleep. How do you expect to operate if you do not sleep. How do you expect to have a clear mind with no sleep, right. You have to understand what this quote means.   Next thing," if you work for me you have to roll how you roll". There is nothing wrong with that cause when you work, you have to follow the rules. "I am not really human, I am like a machine" What I have learned is that those who are successful, there aren't humans… they are super human. They are like machines because the have really demanding schedule at all times. So, when

  Special Guest Angela Lauria Author   3:20 I actually started working in college when I started working in the publishing community which was back in 1994, like million years ago and I worked on my first book about espionage so I was in the BC Area. So the job is to follow spies and write books about them, which was superfun. Work on both finance and technology and lots of good stuff. 13:00 What I learned with our authors is, if they go for ghost writers even if they dictate book on their own. They are still not getting sales from the book because they have not become the person that their ideal reader would buy from. So, a lot of it is money coaching and mindset work, and sales training and business coaching and book strategy and how you become the person that is irresistible that you have clients begging to work with them. 23:00 We bought a huge castle. It has conference facility, it has a ballroom where I do all my events. And as we move into the castle, I noticed that my client base is gro

Quote of the Day: It is simply not enough to have great ideas, focus and discipline, you also have to be the kind of person who would turn out the naysayers. - Malcom Gladwell   You can have the greatest discipline in the world, wake up at 4am and put in the work. Have all the ideas, the million dollar ideas, you have focus. But, if you allow people to get inside your head and tell you no and you can't do it. Then you are slipping. You are going to lose. If you tell people this, you care about what they think about and they are a naysayers. Here is what will happen. They will make you not believe in yourself. They will make you believe that you can't do it. They will tell you, you shouldn't. They will be putting all this different lies in your head and I am telling you right now. It's not a business, it is not cool.   So you can have all the discipline, you can have all the ideas, you can have all the focus. But, if you allow naysayers to cross the barrier of what you are going to entertain. You Los

Special Guest: Temitayo Osinubi 4:30 Like a lot of people, when I went to a certain make money from home or home based business. That type of turn. That lead me to head long in the warm embrace of Amway. Amway was my first and I did that full rocket work. I have been there, you name it. Through it all, I did develop a good business acumen, so even if it didn't work out for me financially… those around me would stick me out for help with their business venture. 14:00 .. You are most likely responsible for your moves. That being said, in my experience there is a little bit more into what it really boils down too, is being sick of watching people getting scammed. Especially younger and older people taken advantage of because there aren't really sophisticated enough and didn't know how to separate the opportunity from the optimism. 24:00 It's hard to make a living off of a $20 book. I'll just put it out there. This is a difficult thing to do. But, if the $20 book brings you a client then you know $20 CPA b

Quote of the Day: "Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist." ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power   This quote is deep and some say it is vendictive. Some say it teaches you how to manipulate people and use people. But, what I have learned is that this entrepreneurship thing, this life thing is a jungle. And since it is a jungle, you have to learn how to operate in the jungle so that you don't get eaten or swallowed by your prey. And because of that this book is very important. This book definitely teaches you how to not get taken advantage of. It teaches you how to protect yourself  and don't give anyone a chance to gossip. Don't ever do anything that is going to make people gossip about you or question you. Cause the second you do that, it is a wreck. It is your life's artwork. Your reputation is your life. Your reputation is what represents you.   Everyday, every people should know

Special Guest: Alexis Davis Social Media Expert   3:00 Social media is my thing...I feel like I am that person in my friend group that people come to, to ask questions about this new features on Instagram or why Facebook is doing this. And people also ask me questions about the new iphone, so people coming to me asking me questions. But, then whenever the subject switches and I still want to keep taking they are like. "Alexis, we are not talking about this now. Get out…" 13:00 Prime example of how you can come up with a good idea and get people to back you. You know how to spread the word on social media and you have a company. A company that is teaching social media is just the different things you can do this days. 23:00 Asking your network to repost things for you, whether that is in your Instagram story or Instagram page, their Facebook page. Just getting the word out about what you are trying to do in organic way, that will do a lot for the beginning. 28:00 I love reddit! I feel like there ar

Quote of the Day: Just because you are not making progress, does not mean you are not making progress.   So for example, let us say you said "I want to be an entrepreneur today! I want to have a successful business" So, what do you do? You start going on Youtube, you start reading book and doing all this stuff. So let us say you are reading a book.So you read two books and your bank account is still the same. You do not have a business yet and customer. But you read the two books in two and a half weeks. So, you read those two books and you are not progressing financially. But, that doesn't mean you are not making progress mentally. Does that make sense?   Topic for Today: How to Multiply Your Income   -This is very practical and anybody can do this.   Step 1: Get clear on what you are offering. If you do not know what you are offering, you cannot clearly relay it to your customer. Step 2: Once you know what you are offering, then offer only that one thing. So you know how much it is and h

Special Guest: Mario Jovan Shaw Founder of Profound Gentlemen   2:39 Profound Gentlemen builds a community of male educators of color who offer a profound additional impact on the lives of boys of color through social emotional learning and creating a cradle to career pipeline. Our goal is really all about attention for male educators of color in establishing career pipeline for boys of color. And so, more specifically.. What does that look like and how does it work? We have staff members that we call impact leaders who facilitates co-work of no more than 20 gentlemen and they help those guys to grow… 13:00 In order to be in a work like this, around racial justice issues, you have to have longevity. So, sometimes it takes for me to make those drastic decisions when you can see it. You know the full picture. 23:00 … part of a huge network and they heard about me teaching one to actually be a part of our diversified recruitment team. So, I went through 12 interviews. I went to Chicago, twice. It was h

Quote of the Day You'll never be truly free, until you are in the position to say NO.   It doesn't matter if this is a relationship. It doesn't matter if this is a business opportunity. It doesn't matter if this is about a job. Where ever may be, I need you to understand this. Think about the client, let us say you are a service based entrepreneur. You don't want to work with this client, but you just have to say yes just to make money. You are not truly free.   Think about the time you have to say yes and you do not want too. You were not truly free. You are not truly free. The only time you are free, is when you are able to say NO!   When I was in the military, I had to do things or say yes that I did not want too. I was not free! But, I remember when I made the decision to get out. There are times that I said No to things and I was free. I was liberated, I was happy because I knew that one of the most popular thing on this planet is the ability to say no to something. Because when you say NO

Special Guest: Bola Ibidapo Non-profit Queen "Change the world or die trying"   2:45 I truly believe that I am placed on this earth for a bigger. I have to find my end goal. What is the end goal in that? When you can impact other people, you are leaving a legacy. That will be a ripple effect way beyond you..My hope is when I leave this earth, people will say Bola change my whole way, the way I think talk and go. 13:00 You are a leader. Throughout Highschool I took on leadership position. The first black homecoming queen and I think that was all I have to do with someone believing me and I eventually believe that in myself. I just wanted to continue to influence and may a difference. 23:01 That is what I had to do with the queen talk. Not to bounce back to to far, but the same thing you know bouncing to different cities but not walking back. Cultivating our mission in different city, the Queen Talk is in Texas and we have advocates, this is why I was able to grow my influence. I have teachers and coa

Quote of the Day: If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller   This is about being trailblazer, at the end. This is what life is about, this ia what entrepreneur is about. Done that before, make new paths and new opportunity for other people, you got to trailblaze your way. Stop doing what somebody else has been successful at time and time again. Where is the excitement in that. Do you get excited doing what 9 people have already accomplished? Or do you get more excited when you see someone who have done something that is completely out of the ordinary and made a killing off of it and is helping other people too. What is more legacy base? Going down the same path or making a new path and creating new opportunity. That is what the quote was saying.   What is accepted success? Going up the company ladder, going up the corporate ladder. Go getting a degree and a better job, like that is accepted success. But, w

Special Guest: Stacie Walker Entrepreneur   3:30 I never ever thought I would be in this place today. I never grew up with entrepreneurial influence. I go to school and get my education, get a career till I retire. Up until 2008, I work many many different jobs because either I quit or got fired and don't get me wrong. I was great at whatever I did, but I got bored and I feel like I didn't fit in. I thought there was something wrong with me for a long time because I just cant figure out why can't I be like Joe or Jane that has been in the company for some x amount of years? Arrive work on time? I was the one that either got fired or quit. 14:00 I don't work 14 hrs a day. I work 3-4 hrs a day. I travel more and go figure, I make more money this time around. So, it's all a mindset thing. I have to ship the way I am thinking, but I think the biggest factor in knowing when to slow down and when to take a break, is you got to listen to your body. You got to be really aware of the relationship that you have