Freedom or Bust‪!‬ Joeel & Natalie Rivera

David transitioned from a career in sales after being inspired by a series of events that showed him the power of the mind. His hunger to learn how the mind worked and how changing our thoughts and beliefs could change our lives lead him to become a Master Trainer in Hypnosis and the first Association of NLP Accredited Trainer in the world. He created a successful life coaching business before life coaching was a thing and has taken what he has learned over 30 years and has trained over 55,000 people from over 40 countries through his award-winning, dynamic and innovative online and in-room coaching programs.

Joeel and Natalie are particularly excited to be helping David share his inspirational story with their listeners because David’s training program had a profound effect on their lives. During a period of long-term illness, while Joeel was bedridden, they enrolled in David’s Neuro Linguistic Programming online training, and what they learned about the power of their own minds helped them turn what some would say is a curse into a blessing. Today, the three are collaborating to continue to spread David’s powerful NLP and Coaching strategies through a Certification program through Transformation Academy.

David’s powerful storytelling and sense of humor make his story truly inspirational and fun, and his authenticity, passion for contribution and willingness to embrace uncertainty, and make him a world-class teacher to us all.
Connect with David: www.davidkey.com

A love of learning and a fascination with how the human mind, body and spirit work lead Flavio to receive degrees in both philosophy and biomedical engineering. While studying degenerative diseases and teaching at the university in his career, Flavio simultaneously went on a profound spiritual quest into his own mind and beyond. When he was introduced to hypnotherapy for the first, he experienced personal transformation, and as he continued to study the field he became intrigued by the impact hypnosis had on the physical body. He began practicing hypnotherapy in 1996, where he offered a unique and pioneering approach, bringing together his scientific understanding of the human body and his training and experience with deep inner workings of the subconscious and unconscious mind. He opened the Hypnotherapy and Counseling Center in Miami, Florida.

Flavio helps people connect their "outer" with their "inner" selves, so they can achieve their purpose and materialize their dreams.
Connect with Flavio at: https://www.flaviolife.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flaviob.success/
YouTube (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/user/hypnoservice

In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Chris Haroun and discuss the democratization of education, getting paid to teach what you know and love online, following your passion, and LIVING LIFE ON YOUR TERMS! You’ll learn why Chris, a successful venture capitalist and an award-winning MBA professor, reinvented himself at every level—including leaving behind his successful career in investing to embrace a new frontier—online education—which he has referred to as the New Wall St.
With a career that spans Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and Accenture, as well as his own start-ups, he has worked with investment and business leaders, such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and the CEOs of many of the largest technology companies.
Today Chris is a full-time online instructor—but not through traditional university education—instead through 45 of his own online courses. An MBA graduate from Columbia University himself, he is now famous for his top selling business program “An Entire MBA in 1 Course”, which takes students beyond the theoretical and practical frameworks taught in business schools by teaching crucial lessons and practical applications to real world problems.
He has shared his powerful, practical, and revolutionary business and life wisdom with more than 500,000 students around the world and his courses have been profiled in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & on other business news websites
In addition to creating online courses, Chris spends his investing in EdTech and contributing to educational charities. He believes that all problems in the world can be solved through education—check out his recent TEDx Talk on this topic.
Connect with Chris: http://harouneducationventures.com

Noor challenges her clients by asking “How can you look your children in their eyes and tell them to go for their dreams if you don’t go for yours?” But the truth is she went on her own journey to get to the place where she is now: running her dream business AND being a stay-at-home mom.

As a young adult, Noor fell into the trap many of us have experienced—people squashed her dreams of (in her case of becoming an actress) by telling her it wasn’t possible—and she listened. But she knew she couldn’t join the corporate rat race—and so she went into the resort business as a holiday rep, which allowed her to travel the world. After 6 years of adventuring her biggest dream came true—she became a mum! She moved back to the UK and ended up in a job she hated. During maternity leave she tried to start several businesses and failed. She also found life coaching and felt like she finally found what she had been looking for! But she put it off because she didn’t feel worthy. She had to go back to the job she hated, but she was determined to be with her daughter. So, on her second maternity leave for baby #2 she quit her job and went all-in, creating a thriving Amazon product business! But deep down she knew this wasn’t her calling, and she finally gave herself permission to become a life coach and empower other women to go for their dreams!

Today Noor is a mother of 3. Her energy and enthusiasm for life is infectious and her all-in, no-limits, no-BS attitude is what makes her such a wonderful role model for life coaches, entrepreneurs, and parents because she challenges us to believe that you really CAN have it all!
Connect with Noor at www.ThisIsYourDream.com

Jason and Tamera Dion are a husband and wife team who have reached over 100,000 students in 189 countries through their online courses and books. Jason’s experience is in the cybersecurity field and as an instructor at the University of Maryland, while Tamera was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled their two children. At the end of 2016, Jason discovered online courses and decided to create his own courses and give it a try. Within a year the business had exploded and Tamera decided to come alongside him and take over the production side of the business. Since partnering together, each contributing their strengths and helping each other overcome their weaknesses, their small training company has experienced tremendous growth.

The semi-passive income from their new venture has opened up a new world of possibilities for them, including their plans to take advantage of their financial freedom and location independence to travel the world in a couple years when their children will graduate high school and Jason will fully retire. As a family business, they love teaching their two children, who work for them, about the power of entrepreneurship. Their courses are found on Udemy.com, Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning, Safari Books, and their website DionTraining.com.

In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview entrepreneur Mike Gandia. While earning a degree in robotics and aerospace engineering, Mike was simultaneously plotting his escape from the high paying career he hadn’t even started yet. Being a finalist in the NASA NewSpace Business Plan competition foreshadowed his entrepreneurial leap to come. After a couple years working for Boeing, Mike turned his AirBNB side hustle into a fully automated business that replaced his income and he escaped the rat race at only 25. Today, Mike runs King Street Stays, a short-term rental and professional tenant company with properties throughout South Carolina and Florida, as well as teaches people how to create their own AirBNB empire through his online training program. And, now he is using the freedom he created to follow his passion, which is marketing, through his digital marketing agency CMF, where he can apply his engineering mind to marketing analytics, customer purchase behavior and sales psychology.
Mike’s willingness to take risks and do whatever it takes to live life on his terms, combined with his passion, authenticity, and heart, make him a powerful example to aspiring entrepreneurs, both young and old alike.