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Alan welcomes business coach and CEO of Proven Chaos, Jerry Macnamara, as they discuss the secret to success with one word, Love!  Loving your people and treating them as whole people.  It's the right thing to do.  When you put love first and foremost in everything you do, the result is magic.  His mission is to have more smiles.  Alan inquired as to when was the moment of truth for him.  Jerry explained that it took a community of people to love him when he didn't love himself.  Jerry goes on to say that in his life his motto is, "there will be always room for one more at the table."    As you lead people, it’s all about love and caring.  When people feel at home, you will unlock a level of performance that no one else can unlock.  When people feel cared for by their leader, they will work harder, and better and never leave. Compassionate leadership is leading people into better places.  Finance creates freedom for fulfillment because profits follow great work.  Finding the calm in the proven chaos!  Jerry explains how important it is to realize that business and life are intermingled.  Performance, accountability, determination, and grace are all important along with forgiveness.  These are important factors in the success of an individual and business.  Success without fulfillment is a rip-off!  As this episode ends, Jerry leaves us with words of wisdom, "The highest purpose of life is to live in accordance to your visions, your values, and actions, to unlock fulfillment.
[00:00:00] Love and Business [00:06:10] Love Equals Magic [00:12:00] Rewriting Your Narrative [00:18:50] Compassionate Leadership [00:27:28] Ultimate Superpower [00:35:17] Highest Purpose in Life

Alan welcomes Emily Ford -  Founder of ITFactor with Emily Ford.  An ordinary girl from a small town.  Lots of turbulence growing up.  Wanted more in life like most people.  Sought out mentorship in her early ’20s.  Stepped into leadership at 26, now on a mission, to help ignite people, build skills and mindsets, to help create other leaders.  The world desperately needs leadership. Emily is a serial entrepreneur who wants to help you navigate through the world of business and entrepreneurship.  One of her hardest lessons is learning how to break generational curses.  Grew up in a lineage of divorce and alcoholism.  Broke.  She decided to take ownership of her life and break the patterns of beliefs and addictions.  Once she had great mentors and learned what a great relationship is, Emily went on a mission to heal herself from childhood trauma.  She will not carry patterns, or trauma because she has taken radical responsibility to break the chains.  Alan says we tend to make a lot of excuses as to who, what, and why.    What is the It factor?  The inner section that has shaped you, experiences, passion, personality, and strengths.    The past doesn't have to determine your future.  Step into the new.  Refining ourselves.  Up next is Matt Durham - President of Brandless.- Brandless is about getting products that are exceptional at accessible pricing.  Equal or better than.  Brand less live more! is their motto.  How to make an impact on the world and family. What is the core of the company? Products that you put in your body on your body or around your home that supports wellness.  Health and wellness.  Over the last year, 6 brands, focused on nutrition, personal care, home goods, and green cleaning supplies that are chemical-free, clean beauty.  Mission to make a difference and be better together.  Brandless.com  Highly curated platform.  Better for you, your family, and the planet.  Closing out the show today is Amanda Holmes - CEO of Chet Holmes International.  Ultimate sales Machine.  Amanda relaunched the new and updated version of the book, Ultimate Sales Machine which was written by her father Chet Holmes.  It's considered to be the bible of business and sales.  Amanda added a chapter, or an encore, on how to live a rich and full life.  Through her journey of learning the family business that instead of doing 4000 things, just do 12 things 4000 times.  Later she discovered a letter written by her father that changed everything for her.  "All you need to succeed in business is to be pigheaded, disciplined, and determined", however, Amanda added the final piece to that statement, "All you need to succeed in business is to be pigheaded, disciplined, and determined to be the best version of you." 
[00:00:00] Guest Emily Ford [00:05:54] Breaking Generational Curses [00:12:00] Refining Ourselves [00:18:51] Brandless [00:29:28] Final Chapter of the Ultimate Sales Machine [00:35:33] Best Version of You with Amanda Holmes

 Joining Alan on this episode of Entrepreneur is Sissie Hsiao - Vice President and GM of Google Assistant.   What is Google Assistant?  It’s designed to help busy people.  We want to build a natural and conversational helper to help get things done.  How good is it at recognizing what I am saying?  People don't enunciate well, or have heavy accents, so they are creating programs that will be able to understand all sorts of speech.  Google Assistant is compatible with other Google programs such as Google Calendar.  Can you use Google Assistant in your day-to-day life or is it just made for business?   Sissie says personal and business are merging and Google Assistant gives you the extra minutes needed.  Alan says if we use these tools it's a no-brainer!  Sissie goes on to say that mobile devices are so powerful.  GA is a way to get things done without getting sucked into the “vortex”.  General philosophy on building teams?  Building the right team, pragmatic dreamers, and working with the materials we have available.  Hiring with the right attitude, and humility is one of the things she looks for.  Humble and creative curiosity.  Personal advice?  Deliver real value to people.  Focus on what you are building to make people's lives better.  
Up next is Dennis Houlihan - Former President and Past Chair of NAMM and also former President of Roland Corporation.  Dennis is interviewing from the trade show for Music Products World.  What is it about this business that dominates?  Dennis says the entrepreneurial spirits who crafted the instruments by hand, are what created the backbone of the music industry.  Large companies didn't happen overnight, it took years, and established roots.  Create products that the musicians can use to make masterpieces.  One of the most successful entrepreneurs in the music industry was Laurens Hammonds His first successful creation was not the Hammond Organs but the Hammond Synchronous Clock. NAMM- National Association of Music Merchants began in 1901.  It was started with a bunch of Piano Merchants getting together to ensure pianos were being made correctly and being sold accordingly.  It is the largest trade association in the world, for people who design, manufacture, make, and sell music products all over the world.
[00:00:00] Google Assistant [00:06:23] Daily Use [00:12:22] Creative Curiosity [00:19:43] NAMM Show [00:29:04] Hammond History [00:34:45] What is NAMM

Alan welcomes Coach JC - Mental Conditioning Coach, Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, and Author of Win All Day!  Alan talks about his Aha! moment when he understood business  It's when he lost everything due to arrogance.  Question to Coach JC, "when was your aha! moment?"  He replied, "my breakthrough came when he realized all else failed and have no choice but to reinvent himself!"  Coach JC say's you have to believe in yourself!  Believe that you are a winner and that you deserve to have it all.  He shares about his "Win All Day" book series. Body Transformation, becoming what you want to be,  How to win as an entrepreneur and have success in that realm, Win All Day-for athletes,  Win All Day-Personal Branding, and Fit For Duty, Fit For Life and lastly 6. Playbook for your Life.  After hitting rock bottom, he helps people become the winner to build the life they desire through personal development.  Every single person on this earth was created to win.  With his 5 "focus" keys you will be able to achieve that.  Here you will find the questions that you need to answer before you can achieve all that you want to achieve.
1.  What do I want?  What is my vision?
2.  Why?  What's my purpose?  Why do I want it?
3.  Who am I?  Who do I want to be?
4.  How do I create a winning mindset?
5.  To find out what this is, read his books!
Up next is Chris Martin  - CEO of Martin Guitar.  He is being interviewed at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California.  It is an annual event that is organized by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM), it is the "industry's largest stage, uniting global music sound and entertainment technology communities".  Chris shares that this is the 6th generation of his families legacy.  He shares the struggles and changes that the company had to go through and it's surviving.  Chris explained how "Hawaiian" music during the Pan Pacific Exhibition brought a whole new era with the ukulele.  The Folkboom, and later how MTV unplugged helped turn the tables for Martin Guitars.  Chris explains that acoustic instruments will never go away.
 
[00:00:00] Coach JC [00:05:09] Believe In Yourself [00:11:31] 5 Keys To Your Kingdom [00:18:52] NAMM Show [00:28:58] The Ukulele [00:34:40] Generational Strong

As the world turns, entrepreneurs are flourishing.  Joining Alan this week is Jason Brown, founder and CEO of Family Central.  Jason started building chains of retail stores until 1999 when he dove into the digital world and started building digitally native businesses.  Though he was successful in building new companies, he also experienced failure.  As the world was changing with so were the consumers and that caused a ripple affect.  However he was given an opportunity to which he and his team spent 4 years building and running a multi million dollar immigration company which helped men and women and their families in foreign countries move to the United Sates.  He helped them make a financial investment and establish their green card.  He then went on to create Persona Nutrition, a personalized nutrition business where you go online, receive free coaching, and get a customized nutrition program of vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements.  Later this company was sold to Nestle Health Science in 2019.  From there he and his team created Family Central, a depository of information that allows communication of your family, cradle to grave.  It empowers your family to be in a secure environment where they can store all kinds of documents such as medical records, ID's, immunization cards, and share with other members, or to be put into a secure vault.  Family Central is helps with global family stress that is caused by chaos.  With the leveraged technology by using Cloud Based tech, it empowers family at their fingertips.  Another feature they offer are Legacy videos, which allows a family member to make a video recording for their loved ones which can be used to say, goodbye, I Love You, or how to handle their assets after they are gone.  Jason was asked to give one sound advice to up and coming entrepreneurs.  Follow your passion, find what makes you happy, focus on it, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you to make it happen.
Up next is Simon Leslie, CEO of Ink, author and motivational poet.  Simon wrote a book called, Equanimity, which basically he describes as remaining calm under pressure.  Simon has faced many failures and changes but through his book, he found his way back.  The book focuses on 52 interviews with messages that resonated with him and later turned into a support line for him.  Powerful messages from kindness, gratitude, health & wellbeing, negotiating, selling, and brain power.  However through the writing of the book he realized that he was a broken human a complete mess.  Yet here he is writing a book on how to live a better life.  So decided to make the second half about his turn around and what he has learned through these interviews that impacted his life.  Alan asked Simon which interviews touched his heart?  The first to come to mind is, Allison Levine, American woman you climbed Mount Everest, and crossed Antarctica.   Her story of determination and her attitude of never say never resonated with Simon.  She just kept putting one foot in front of the other and for Simon, that became his mantra.  There were a few other stories from Adrienne Banker, who spoke of kindness, to Tim Grover who coached Michael Jordan, delivering a power message about having a winning mindset.  So what advice would Simon give, "One foot in front of the other, pay it forward, meditate and be more conscious."
[00:00:00] Organic To Go [00:06:01] Immigration [00:11:30] Cloud Based Legacy [00:18:51] Remain Calm Under Pressure [00:26:57] Powerful Messages [00:33:52] One Foot In Front Of The Other

Alan welcomes Liam Martin - Co-Founder and CMO of Time Doctor, Co-organizer of Running Remote Conference and Co-author of Running Remote Book.  Alan starts the show by sharing how as an entrepreneur the need to control everything comes with the territory, yet at the same time he believes the best work comes from an employee that is able to be motivated and inspired with no time stamp.  Lian says that working remote changed dramatically during COVID.  He explains that a new group of workers merged onto the scene that he calls, Pandemic Panickers.  Liam believes its the largest shift in work since the Industrial Revolution.  With the new fundamental change of how work is done remote, he reminds us that it isn't a place.  It doesn't matter where you work as long as you get it done.  Asynchronous! Liam exclaims is the key along with autonomy.  Not having to directly interact with people by working through a communication system allows an individual to work remote and to have maximum freedom in your life.  Discipline equals freedom.  Freedom allows your people to work on more difficult problems.  To solve really unique difficult issues that move a business forward.  Bureaucracy!  No micromanaging...says Liam.  He goes onto explain the fundamental of a remote business.  1.  Set of processes, creating digital information that can be shared.  2.  Don't have positions, become the operators.  Delegate responsibility.  3.  Automate all of the reporting.  Have the same information available to the employees as the CEO so everyone is on the same page.  Lastly Liam shares the common mistakes of remote business owners.  Don't make working from home turn into living at work.  Divide social space from work space.  Stop requiring or asking for immediacy, it speeds you up but slows the company down, and lastly have team members tied into the same goal.
[00:00:00] Control! [00:06:07] Accountability! [00:11:30] Methodology! [00:18:50] Asynchronous! [00:28:17] Bureaucracy! [00:33:49] Philosophy!