Fail Your Way to Success Anna David

There are charming and wonderful people, and then there’s Matt George. He was an early client at Legacy Launch Pad and one of my favorite people that I’ve ever worked with.

This isn’t just because he’s an amazing soul whose life mission has been to help people.

It isn’t just because he’s so warm and wonderful to be around that he attracts mentors like the original “Shark” Kevin Harrington and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Marc Victor Hansen.

It’s all of that and more.

In this conversation—where he perhaps gives Legacy Launch Pad too much credit in his journey to success—we discuss how to use failure as fuel and how even founders of $100 million companies deal with the same sort of frustrations we all do.
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Sharon K. Gillenwater never expected to sell the company she founded for $25 million.
 
But that’s exactly what happened to this former working-class kid when she and her business partner sold her baby, Boardroom Insiders, in 2022.
 
Of course, it hasn’t been one smooth ride to the top.
 
That journey has been rife with challenges that Gillenwater so eloquently describes in her just released memoir, Scaling with Soul: How I Built and Sold a $25 Million Tech Company Without Being an A**hole, which I’m oh so proud to say that Legacy Launch Pad has published.
 
In this episode, we talk about her many peaks and valleys, starting with when she only realized she didn’t know what the seventh-grade class secretary did once she was elected to the position through realizing that she had the luxury of failing because of what her family had done for her.
 
Get all that and more in this episode and you can grab Sharon’s spectacular new book here.
For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.

Ami Kassar once had a big, fat corporate job. Corporate suites at sporting events and a sweet, comfortable life.

Then that company went under.

While, as a nationally renowned expert on access to capital for entrepreneurs, he advises people to take time to figure out their next move, he instead started his new business the day after he was fired.

What started with a revenue of $13,000 a year has now turned into MultiFunding, a company that works with entrepreneurs with revenue between one and $20 million on growing their businesses.

And yet there have been failures along the way—times where he, metaphorically, struggled to keep the lights on. Still, he looks at entrepreneurship as a triathlon, where you’re sometimes going to feel elated and sometimes like you have to vomit.

In this episode, he shares about how his biggest failure has been a lack of self-care, why being able to tolerate risk is a key to success and why adapting to circumstances is the key to overcoming failure.
For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.

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.
For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.

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.
For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.