Fail Your Way to Success Anna David

Kevin Anderson never meant to get into the publishing business after growing up in a small town in Canada before getting his PhD and graduating summa cum laude from Harvard and starting a tutoring company. Nevertheless, that tutoring company transitioned into what is now a massive publishing company that employs 30 writers and editors that have collectively worked on over 200 New York Times bestselling books and sold over 100 million copies of books by people like Brene Brown, Simon Sinek and Jen Sincero.

But just because he looks like someone who’s never experienced a day of failure, Anderson is the first to admit that he’s had his fair share—including clients who were incensed when the books his company wrote didn’t sell to traditional publishers.

In this episode, we talked about how trying to do everything for your company is asking for failure, the importance of finding people with different strengths than yours and why you have to let go to move on, among other things.
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The founder of the Innovation Women speaking platform, she also owns the companies Innovation Nights, Carlton PR + Marketing and Lioness Magazine. 
 
She does what she does because she’s tired of seeing the same “male, pale and stale” speakers on stage at events. But she’s hardly against men—she says, in fact, that she’d welcome any man that wants to join a website called Innovation Women. 
 
In this episode, we not only dove into how to get paid speaking gigs (the short version: kill it at free conferences so that people ask you to come deliver the same speech at their company) but also how she learned the most from a failed startup, finding out she had to deliver a TEDx talk two days before the event and why she started Innovation Women because she was “pissed off.”
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David Trent, a wealth manager who exited his company very comfortably and is now a speaker, business coach and soon-to-be-author, isn't only a master of acronyms. 
 
He's also someone who can compare the time he failed when coaching his son's second grade basketball team to the sort of failures he had when launching (and exiting) his business. 
 
In this episode we discussed how self-development books can help you overcome failure, why logging your successes and failures at the end of the day transforms your perspective and what it's like to fail every day.
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Tamar Hermes doesn't look like someone who struggles with self-confidence. A successful real estate investor, bestselling author and founder of a thriving mastermind, she seems to take life by the proverbial horns.

But she's the first to admit that she's been held back by a fundamental lack of belief in herself. So how has she conquered that—and what lessons can she share with the rest of us about it?
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When you meet James Prince, you don't necessarily think "former criminal defense attorney." But that's exactly what he was for eight years before he became a wealth manager in Dubai.
 
Yet Prince doesn't see the time he spent in his former career as a waste. That's because he sees every detour—and failure—as something he would have paid money to learn.
 
While you're going to find out how to turn your entire attitude about failure around by listening to this episode, here's a fair warning: I talk about me at least half the time. That's because James and I were doing a simul-record—a term I just made up to describe when two people interview each other so they can each release the episode for their individual podcasts.
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Heidi McNulty seemed to have it made. After building up her net worth to over $10 million and retiring at the age of 35, she was ready to pass along everything she'd learned about finances to others.

Then the unthinkable happened: her husband, during a bout with PTSD, shot himself in front of Heidi and their children.

That's when McNulty understood why her financial stability was so important: that it allowed her the time and space for she and her children to heal. Now she helps people with both wealth building and mental health.

In her new book, Buying Time, McNulty walks readers through her journey and shows them not only how they can build wealth but also how they to survive—and thrive—in the worst of times.
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