Fail Your Way to Success Anna David

Joe DeMaria is a self-described executive mercenary.

An entrepreneur who got started by hawking candy and soda from his home cupboard on the playground, DeMaria gets called in to help restructure multi-million-dollar companies. But before he found himself being pursued by successful CEOs, he had a business partnership that almost destroyed him.

In this episode, we talk about what he learned from that failed business venture—and how facing what happened was the key to moving past it.
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Michael Richman is a master of self-deprecation, which means that he may be being facetious when he claims he couldn’t get a prom date in high school, despite repeated attempts.
But he can’t deny the phenomenal success he’s achieved since then—including buying up half of his dad’s awning business and growing it to the point that he could have retired when they sold it a decade later.
Now he’s not only a thriving business coach but he’s also MY business coach. And to say he’s brilliant, amazing and hilarious is an understatement. 
In this episode, we discuss how he recovered from a disastrous first year in college, how the first business he tried to acquire cancelled the deal just as he was dropping off the equity check and how these things taught him exactly how to bounce back.
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When you think "convicted felon," you would not picture Craig Stanland.

The "reinvention architect," TEDx speaker and author looks like just about the most upstanding citizen you're likely to meet.

But looks can be deceiving; when Stanland was living a high-flying lifestyle many years ago, he was embezzling money to do it. And he sees his greatest failure NOT as the crime he committed (or going to jail) but what preceded the crime.

Now he helps other people find fulfillment before they reach the point he was at. We get into all of that, as well as his three-step process for bouncing back from failure, in this episode.
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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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