Entrepreneurs Living Wealthy | Motivation & Strategies for Small Business Owners‪!‬ Derick Van Ness and Meghan Pope

Happy New Year! Your Living Wealthy Partners Derick and Meghan share their unique methods for setting business goals for 2016. But first, a “Drama in Real Life” story about our website’s Big Hack! As always, we’re here to give ready-to-implement “how to’s” from real-life business stories, so we share the 6 Steps to Fixing a Hacked Website. This is a must-listen for anyone with a web presence—and if you don’t have one, they’re great tips for how to set yours up.

In the spirit of Living Wealthy in 2016, we look at our year-end practices for building success, making connections, and starting the New Year productively and prosperously.

Not sure how to network, or why? Meghan shares a simple trick for networking events that will revolutionize how you represent your passion and gain you more clients and referrals with your very next event! 

What can a Theme do for your year? Derick shares his methods and past themes, to show you how setting a theme for “what, where, when and how” will authentically move you toward being your “Ideal Person / Entrepreneur/ Partner” through action-based plans. What are the leading and lagging indicators that you’re on the right path?

To get the most out of this Episode, check out our Character Diamond course in Episode 36: “How to Launch Your Business and Build Your Brand.”

Our theme this year is providing more “How to’s” for entrepreneurs and business owners; we have new guides coming through the Podcast, and exclusive tools for Newsletter subscribers. Sign up now on www.elwpodcast.com to download the first: our Ultimate Production Tool!

Stay tuned: we have more listener-request content and expert advice on the way!

Today's episode is our holiday gift to you! In Episode 53, we examine how wealth is created, to answer questions that burn in the minds of every entrepreneur: 

Is it work or investments that make you wealthy?
What are the 5 characteristics of self-made millionaires?
What are the key questions that I must ask myself, in order to make my own roadmap to wealth?

We start this episode by visiting a 20-year study of 1,500 middle class Americans. By completion of the study, about 8% (83 out of 1,057) had become millionaires. We share what themes about wealth arose from this incredible research.

To learn more about this study, listen to Episode 35 with Garrett Gunderson. His book, "Killing Sacred Cows," features an article about this study: "The Millionaire Study Summary" by Stephen Palmer. 

Continue listening to hear how you can avoid the financial pitfalls that create stagnation and the wealth-suffocating scarcity mindset.

Listen now, to start 2016 with a winning, prosperous perspective!

Jann Mirchandani is the founder of Westchester Marketing Cafe, a Certified Women Owned Business and a cornerstone Marketing and Web Development resource for Westchester County (just north of Manhattan and the Bronx). Jan started this venture in 1999, with a ton of experience in the field but without much startup planning. She operated for six (!) years on word-of-mouth, no-marketing-whatsoever client procurement. After that healthy amount of testing, developing and refining Westchester Marketing Cafe's focus, Jann unleashed her marketing expertise and grew the company into one of the most respected and trusted marketing firms in the area. 

We at ELW Podcast are thrilled to join Jann in an extensive look at a universal moment in business growth: the moment you decide to go digital (and the many moments when you consider upgrading your digital presence).

What should you handle yourself? What should you outsource? What platform(s) should you use? Where do you turn when you have a question at 3am? What should you look for in a good web development company?

Wonder no longer! Episode 52 shows you how to leverage your digital resources, to level the playing field with the "big dogs." Tune in for one of our most informative, immediately applicable interviews yet!

 

Jill Richmond has a rich history of food industry related start-ups. She is currently the Co-founder and COO of Kraver (a food discovery app that will blow your mind while it indulges your every craving) and previous CEO of Cheftabl. Prior to these projects, she developed successful pop-up restaurants with numerous notable chefs. Put plainly, Jill knows how to build a business around a good meal, and we're thrilled that she's moving her talents to mobile technology.

 

In this episode, we talk with Jill about the incredible app, Kraver, and the principles behind her team building strategies. We also talk about leveraging small successes quickly to create more growth, as well as the inevitable moments when life gets in the way of entrepreneurship and tough decisions must be made. This episode is perfect for anyone facing a crossroads in their enterprise and wondering whether to take on a limited-time project, double down on a massive undertaking, or step away altogether. It's an absolute must-listen for anyone developing an app!

 

Jill began her career as a marketing and branded-content development expert, and has over a decade of experience in this field. She is currently focused on food and lifestyle industries and is recognized as an expert on the food & tech ecosystem for companies like Sourcery and United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC).

 

She has earned a reputation as a strategic and creative thinker in the commercial aspects of sponsorship, amplification, research and advice to start-ups, entrepreneurs and institutions, and has a strong track record of creatively and strategically positioning clients for maximum market impact.

 

Her skills help brands cultivate online and offline communities and utilize social media to increase consumer advocacy and drive purchasing behavior. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, BBC, Modern Luxury and Spectator. 

 

Degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University College of London and Rutgers College.

Nadine Cino, LEED AP, is known for her irrepressible entrepreneur spirit. It’s no surprise that the story of TygaBox™ includes wild twists and turns and a memorable cast of characters! You will love this episode, and you will learn from this episode: we guarantee it!

Nadine is an impassioned sustainability thought leader, speaker, and writer. Over the past 20 years, as the Chief Executive Officer & co-Inventor of Tyga-Box Systems, Inc., Nadine, along with her partner, Marty Spindel, has transformed the moving and storage industry. Their invention, the Tyga-Box System, has helped companies significantly reduce moving costs by 30% and packaging impacts to people and planet by 100% by replacing cardboard boxes with the innovative, reusable, and efficient Tyga-Box System.

We at ELW Podcast have sincere respect for her method of helping the planet with the client-friendly, “Jerry Maguire - show them the money” approach. Nadine promotes her sustainable product by offering an economic benefit. This is a priority about which any triple bottom line enterprise must still be crystal clear.

Currently, Nadine is excited to be bringing Tyga-Trax, the moving industry’s first electronic asset tracking system, to the marketplace. Tyga-Trax is poised to be an assets management game changer, as it is the only system in the world that is hands-free, scan-free, host-free, and completely mobile!

Nadine is honored to be the recipient of the following awards: · 2008 IFMA Associate Member of the Year Award · 2013 International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Award · 2014 Winner of a New York SmartCEO Brava Award Recently, Nadine has been an invited Speaker at the following industry conferences: · 2014 Sustainability Forum, organized by Global Sustain · 2014 Innovation Forum , organized by CoreNet NY · 2014 IWEC Conference, organized by IWEC Nadine is also a regular contributor to the New York Real Estate Journal on sustainability.

On Episode 49, Kim Grustas teaches us how to 'turn off the noise' so we can save time, communicate efficiently and, best of all, hear where our genuine good sense and experience wants to take us.

Kim has been in the natural products industry for 20 years. Prior to launching Good For You Girls in 2007, she owned an advertising firm that specialized in sports nutrition and beauty. Having been involved in the industry before green was “cool”, Kim has first-hand knowledge of where the industry has been and recognizes exciting trends for the future.

Her own daughters were the inspiration for Good for You Girls, because they were both born with asthma and allergies. Natural was a way of life for her family, but as her daughters got older and their needs changed she could not find any products she felt were safe, age appropriate or effective for them.

Girls today face so many challenging issues, and Kim believes that dodging toxic chemicals should not be one of them.

First and foremost, Kim is unyielding when it comes to protecting her daughters and wants other moms to feel comfort knowing that Good For You Girls products will help their daughters navigate through some of life’s most challenging years by building confidence and fostering self-love.