IIP065: Richard Branson, Stale Pizza, And CV Covered In Cheese

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In Today’s Episode You Will Find:

  • The #1 attribute every entrepreneur needs to develop in order to succeed.
  • The biggest mistake first-time entrepreneurs and unsuccessful entrepreneurs make — and how to avoid it.
  • A single piece of advice that our guest has used again, and again, and again, to launch successful businesses, including one he sold to Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.
  • A mind-blowing example of how to turn a rotten situation to a business opportunity (it involves stale pizza 🙂 ).
  • Why (and when) sticking cheese to your CV is a good idea?
  • The best answer I’ve received so far on the show for “what’s one question nobody asked you, and you wish someone did?”
  • Some epic and inspiring entrepreneurial quotes.

My Guest Today: Entrepreneur on a mission

Scott Duffy is an entrepreneur, business consultant, angel investor, author and speaker. And today he joins us because he’s on a mission: to help millions of people create their dreams with entrepreneurship.

To achieve this mission, he founded The Launch Project, a company that helps entrepreneurs launch new businesses, products and services. As an author, he wrote the best-selling book LAUNCH! 90 Days from Big Idea to Market — his blueprint for launching and growing great companies.

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Looking at his career — it might seem like he always had it all:

He worked for huge brands like CBS Sportsline, NBC Internet, and FOXSports.com. Then, he founded Smart Charter, an online booking tool for private aviation, which was acquired by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group.

But like in many other cases, the “2 sentence bio” doesn’t tell the whole story.

In fact, as he shares with us today, he’s been through a lot: nearly dying in a horrific car accident, ending up with no money and no where to sleep but his car in his early days in the Bay Area 1, facing the doubts of his close ones — thinking he’s wasting his time — among other stories.

In fact – the story of how he got his first job in the Bay Area by delivering pizzas and sticking his CV inside the cheese is a true eye opener for the art of being resourceful at all times!

Some great inspiring quotes about entrepreneurship from today’s interview

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  • “The one attribute that successful entrepreneurs need is: a terrible memory for failure” TweetMe
  • “We have to learn to repackage our failures into learning experiences that help us move forward” TweetMe
  • “The biggest mistake you could make is to fail to get started” TweetMe
  • “People that have small visions of themselves can not have a larger vision of you” TweetMe

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IIP062: Leaving Corporate With Your Significant Other’s Support

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What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode

  • How to engage your significant other in your journey from corporate to entrepreneurship: How to address their doubts, fears and rejections, and turn them into your biggest supporters.
  • How to balance learning, planning and doing when making the move from corporate life to entrepreneurship.
  • How to free time to start building your business while still in your day job by smartly negotiating and removing time wasters.
  • The top two misconceptions and roadblocks for people making the transition, and how to avoid them.
  • How to make the transition easier by starting a side business while employed.
  • How to find your WHY and deeper calling.

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IIP059: How Anyone Can Build An Audience And Make Over $100,000 A Month

Note: Click here to download the Audience Building Blueprint (based on what Danny shared on today’s episode!)

Episode Highlights

  • Danny’s jaw-dropping story of how he pitched himself to a CEO of a gaming company with zero knowledge of gaming or programming. (Did I mention the man has balls?!)
  • How to build an audience for your blog: Danny’s step-by-step strategy that you can apply in any market to build your online audience.
  • How to start an entrepreneurial business with no idea and guarantee your success.
  • The #1 secret ingredient all successful people share (and all unsuccessful people lack!)
  • Once you get email subscribers — what to do with them?
  • How to create auto-responder sequences that engage and don’t make you sound like a marketing fart!

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IIP030: With Hope and Fire – Amy Clover’s Journey From Rock Bottom to Empowering Thousands

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How to empower thousands after hitting rock bottom?

What does creating a fitness bootcamp had to do with it?

For someone who’s been battling against clinical depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder for most of her life, Amy Clover rose above all of that and had become a truly inspiring individual – all in today’s exceptionally, lesson-filled interview.

With a mission to empower and help other people overcome the challenges of facing depression, which is keeping them from living a better and prolific life, Amy started the successful and prolific blog – Strong Inside Out – where she chronicles her experiences and advice with her own, unique voice.

Amy Clover of Strong Inside Out
Amy Clover of Strong Inside Out

In this interview, Amy shares her compelling story that propelled her to become an advocate for fighting against psychological ailments and eventually becoming a fitness trainer, which gave way to conceptualizing the 30×30 Project that is happening in 30 cities across Canada and the US, and was funded by the online community itself. Becoming a trainer also became Amy’s source of income – and inspiration.

The 30×30 Project supports TWLOHA (To Write Love On Her Arms) – a non-profit, charitable institution that assists those who are struggling with depression, self-injury, suicide and substance abuse – something Amy wished she had before.

A firm advocate of health and fitness, learn how Amy used workouts with the right reasons, to cope with stress and help others do the same.  Find out what and who inspires her, her top tips for creating a blog that changes lives, and more – only in the 30th episode of Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode — your weekly backstage pass to success!

Episode Highlights:

  • How Amy Clover went from absolute rock bottom (mental ward after suicide attempt) – to becoming a source of hope and inspiration to thousands.
  • How focusing on the benefits you give to others helps overcoming the hardships along your way.
  • The real benefits of working out.
  • How Amy raised $18,000 (!) on IndieGoGo for her 30×30 campaign – and what it was all about?
  • Amy’s tips for starting a blog that changes lives.
  • How nutrition affects your mood and productivity.
  • Why you should attend events like NMX or WDS

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IIP029: Getting Unstuck, Doing The Impossible, And Cold Showers – With Joel Runyon

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Inspiring Innovation Podcast episode 29  Get it on iTunes

Are you fed up with living a normal life, but the life of your dreams is beyond reach and seems impossible to have?

What if you could do the impossible?

Today we are joined by the man behind ‘The Blog of Impossible Things’, Joel Runyon. A few years ago, out of work (again), he started a list of things that were impossible to do and achieve – and did them anyway.

This exclusive and truly inspiring interview takes us through the different reasons why people see uncomfortable situations as obstacles rather than opportunities and creating a mindset shift that will push you to do something you want to do and just do it.

Take away life lessons, mental conditioning, cold shower therapy (see below!) and different ways to do the impossible. Get valuable insights and tips on how to push through the barriers that stop us from living a great life.

Joel Runyon
Joel Runyon

Step away from having an average life. Join us in today’s episode and learn how to do the impossible – only here at Inspiring Innovation Podcast, your weekly backstage pass to success. There’s also an awesome giveaway!

Episode Highlights:

  • From UPS driver assistant getting chased by dogs to doing the impossible and living on your own terms.
  • How to control your story, and use failures to your own benefit
  • Why you shouldn’t do anything where success is guaranteed
  • Cold shower therapy – what is it? Why should you care? Has Joel lost his mind?
  • How to expand your comfort zone and why it’s crucial
  • Our impossible giveaway
  • Joel’s challenge to me – to take 30 freezing cold showers. See video below to find out if I accepted the madness (and why?)

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