Super Entrepreneurs Podcast Shahid Durrani

AI is changing the business world, and those who master how to work with AI effectively are the ones who will benefit the most in the next few years. So, learn from the pioneers how to work with AI to take your career to the next level.
 
In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, our guest Daniel Erickson talks about his AI tool that helps businesses improve their products and he also delves deeply into GPT technology, OpenAI and Google.
 
Who Is Daniel Erickson?
Meet Daniel Erickson, the CEO and co-founder of Viable, an analytics tool revolutionizing customer feedback analysis. With a background in consulting and experience in scaling engineering teams, Daniel has worked with both early-stage startups and established companies.
His passion for finding product-market fit led him to develop Viable's unique approach, leveraging cutting-edge technology like GPT-3 to extract valuable insights from unstructured text data. As a leader at the forefront of human language understanding, Daniel's work is shaping the future of customer analysis and driving innovation in the industry.
How is Daniel Erickson Super?
Persistence is the superpower that got Daniel Erickson to where he is. When someone is determined to achieve their full potential, nothing can stop them. And Daniel is a persistent man with a focused mindset.
 
Shahid’s Key Insight
Shahid is fascinated with AI tools and all the potential they offer. He talks about his experience making music with a new AI that “blew his mind” and the potential uses in the near future. However, he also points out some ethical issues that we might be facing…
 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introductions: Daniel Erickson and Viable (AI Analytics Tools)
04:17 How AI analytics tools work?
06:06 Using AI to solve product issues
10:45 Are AI’s actually smart
13:32 Shahid having a good time creating music with AI
14:46 AI for podcasting
16:00 Creating automations with ChatGPT
17:33 Unethical use of AI
19:18 AI use in medicine
21:14 OpenAI vs.Google
23:04 Daniel Erickson’s Innermost superpower: Persistence
23:48 Final words
 
Pullout quotes:
“In natural language processing, sentiment, uh, charts are things like, uh, you know, you can feed in, say all of your social media mentions and it'll give you some sort of positive or negative score for each one of those.”
“I never start from technology first and then build a product around a technology. I always have a product in mind that I'm trying to build and then find the right technology to build it.”
“You need a large amount of input training data to train these big models up. In fact, GPT-3 has been trained on terabytes of this stuff. Just a massive, massive amount of words have gone into GPT-3 to train it to basically write like a human does.”
“If you're not taking AI into account right now, when you're building a product, you're probably doing it wrong. AI is here to stay, uh, and it is, uh, it is much more capable than it has been in the past, um, and we're just getting started as well. So I think in the future, literally all software will have an AI foundation, not just features tacked on as AI around the outside.”
 
Socials:
Viable: https://www.askviable.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielerickson/
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In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, get ready to learn from a man with 80 businesses and a passion for growth mindset. Kristian Livolsi, an Executive Coach and Entrepreneurship Advisor, shares his expertise in uncovering unknown problems and hidden opportunities in businesses.
 
With insights on owning mistakes, being comfortable with discomfort, and using social media as an entrepreneur, this episode is packed with valuable advice to help you level up your business game.
 
Who Is Kristian Livolsi?
 
Kristian Livolsi is an Executive Coach and Entrepreneurship Advisor based in Adelaide, Australia, with extensive experience in entrepreneurship, innovation, and energetic leadership. He has been involved with 80 companies, advised over 500 businesses, and consulted in 18 countries.
Kristian is known for his expertise in Growth Mindset and his ability to help business owners and c-suite executives uncover the unknown problems and hidden opportunities in their organizations. He is also a speaker who inspires audiences, provides a fresh perspective, and creates connections.
How Is Kristian Livolsi Super?
Kristian Livolsi’s growth mindset is the superpower that got him to where he is right now. He’s an unhinged master of his own reality. Even when he lost everything and went broke, he managed to be on top of the game with his mindset.
 
Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:
 
Shahid highlights in this episode the importance of being authentic and loving oneself to be successful, not just as an entrepreneur.
 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introductions: Who is Kristian Livolsi?
01:22 All business growth is mindset
01:51 Kristian backstory (proper busy, not the kind of busy people lament about.)
03:41 Starting a business with less than $200
05:30 Finding purpose
06:40 Selling all bricks and mortar companies before covid and Kristian’s 80th start-up
08:15 Universities are packed with non-practitioners who only know stuff
13:17 Tony Robins about focus (where focus goes energy flows)
14:33 Your brain is a muscle
15:58 Women have a growth mindset and it’s delightful to do business with them
17:40 Jim Collins concept of the big, hairy, and audacious goals
21:00 Business is not all sunshine and rainbows
22:05 Kristian Livolsi talking about the controversy he got caught up in
26:36 Mindset talk: how to own your mistakes and move on
28:44 Become comfortable with being uncomfortable
29:17 Self-love
30:16 Shahid’s story during covid (threat of losing everything)
33:09 People who went through adversities are teachers
34:43 How to use social media as an entrepreneur
36:17 I’m not your guru (Tony Robins)
38:00 You can just be the average guy/gal
38:30 The theory of relativity says’s we’re energy
39:44 The potential to create a quantum leap as an entrepreneur
42:30 Impacting one person at a time (maybe it’s you)
43:49 Final words
 
 
Pullout Quotes:
 
“It’s not just circumstances (...), it’s the choices we make.”
 
“Where focus goes energy flows.” -Tony Robin.
 
“You’ve got to fail often, you’ve got to fail quickly, and you’ve got to learn from that.”
 
“And if you want to rise up, if you want to stand up, the only person you've got to stand up to is yourself. No one else, right? You don't need to prove anything to anyone else.”
 
“One thing that I have learned in life is it doesn't matter how old you are. There is always something you can learn from someone regardless of their age.”
 
“Become comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
 
 
 
 
Socials:
 
Kristian Livolsi: https://kristianlivolsi.com.au/
Business Growth Mindset: https://businessgrowthmindset.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristianlivolsi/?originalSubdomain=au

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. This is a phrase that we often hear in the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast because it’s very wise and true. Being coachable and willing to learn and overcome your weaknesses is the first step to success.
 
Join us in this episode to find out Shahid’s backstory, Lucas & Kal’s contribution to society, and a heartwarming message from a grateful father, whose 13-year-old suicidal kid found meaning in life after being coached.
 
What is MSM?
MSM is a foundation dedicated to empowering young athletes to succeed in their sport and life by providing mental health and performance resources. Their focus on mental health and performance skills gives young athletes a competitive advantage both on and off the field.
 
Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:
Shahid highlights the importance of being “coachable.”
 
Chatting with Lucas and Kal was a delightful experience for Shahid because he was never asked about how he got to this point in his life after he received his mentorship and became a certified mindset consultant.
 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introductions: who are Lucas Zeiler & Kal Maadi and what is MSM?
01:10 Mental strength coaching for young athletes
03:15 Mind and body are one and the same
06:19 Finding true potential and unblocking limitations
08:44 Mindset is everything
09:45 Shahid’s story with the inside-out paradigm and how he became a mindset coach
12:17 The inside-out paradigm
13:10 Why it’s important to be coachable
16:12 You have to be coachable for this to work
17:09 Mindset is a game-changer
18:13 Strategy isn’t enough (the Five F’s)
21:00 The biggest gratification for a coach
23:21 Saving a 13-year-old suicidal kid with coaching (fathers message to coaches)
26:50  The equation of good and growth
17:37 Final words
 
Pullout Quotes:
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
 
“Mind and bod are one and the same.”
 
“. It's impossible to help someone change who doesn't want to change, who doesn't acknowledge that change is necessary or positive for that matter.”
 
“I started realizing the inside-out paradigm, then I started working on that, and I started taking control of the thoughts, feelings, and actions. It became more clear. When that clarity happened, I put willpower, you start practicing, practice, practicing. The transformation that happens then is that when you start looking at things, your perception completely changes.”
 
 
Socials:
The MSM Foundation: https://www.themsmfoundation.org/our-story
Lucas Zeiler: https://www.zeilertrainingacademy.com/
Kal Maadi’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kal-m-b0b93a184/
 
Shahid is muted for a bit 26:55 to 26:55)

Being an entrepreneur means having to work in contradictory businesses that have nothing to do with each other. However, since entrepreneurship is about loving the process and having the abundance mindset, working in multiple industries that have nothing to do with one another is part of the fun.
 
In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, our guest Nikki Corson has a delightful conversation about entrepreneurship, eyelashes, and the power of having mentors. 
 
Who Is Nikki Corson?
Meet Nikki Corson, a powerhouse serial entrepreneur, speaker, and podcast host, who has made a name for herself in the business world. With her Prissy Nikki brand, she has successfully launched and grown multiple ventures.
As a philanthropist and mother to two teenage daughters and two fur babies, Nikki is a true inspiration to those who aim to excel in both their personal and professional lives.
How is Nikki Corson Super?
Being stubborn and open to learning from failures is what got Nikki to where she is. Success isn’t a path that’s paved with roses; it’s not all sunshine and rainbows.
 
Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:
Shahid highlights the importance of embracing failures as part of the journey toward success.
 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introductions: Who is Nikki Corson (Prissy Nikki)?
00:58 Having contradictory businesses
02:22 Wanted to become a princess, but had to have a plan B
04:00 Taking that plunge into the unknown
05:48 Being blinded by workaholism and perfectionism
07:40 Mindset is everything
08:15 Pay the dumb tax
08:50 The success tax
10:13 The intricacies of beautiful eyelashes and doing business
14:00 Number one strategy to grow
18:10 Social media stimulates impulse buying
19:28 Innermost superpower: being stubborn and failing a lot
21:32 Learning to love the process of being an entrepreneur
24:07 Final words
 
Pullout Quotes:
"(Entrepreneurship), it really takes passion, dedication, and being good with numbers.”
“You know, I think whether entrepreneurs really think about this or not, I might make you think about it now, but I think if anyone's going to truly be successful, it's going to start with being crazy enough to think that you can.”
“I have personally seen a lot of entrepreneurs get hung. We end up being workaholics and perfectionists, and we end up down in the trenches. And when you're in the trenches working. you lose that vision. You lose the ability to kind of look from a bird's eye view and see all the moving pieces.”
 
Socials:
 
Prissy Nikki: https://prissynikki.com/
Roof Crafters: https://www.roof-crafters.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolecorson23/
Life Amplifies Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-amplified/id1579408779

Thinking about franchising your business is a sign of abundance and good fortune. It’s a sign that you’ve been doing a great job for an extended period of time and now you’re reaping the good results. However, you don’t just jump into franchising before knowing what you get yourself into.
 
In this new episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, our guest, Joe Soltis is the right man to tell all you need to know to franchising your business with great love and care.
 
Who Is Joe Soltis?
Founder of ChoiceLocal, which is a unique company with a peculiar business model, Joe Soltis specializes in helping businesses expand with great success. Basically, he’s the man you turn to if you want to create a strong brand presence and expand your business locally or even nationally. His secret is love, care, and always documenting the recipes for success.
How is Joe Soltis Super?
 
Joe Soltis’ love and care for his surroundings and people he interacts with is essentially what makes him super. Carrying yourself on such a high level of consciousness always yields good results and spreads more positive vibes. It’s a formula, among others, for success, a necessary one.
 
Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:
Shahid Durrani appreciates having guests like Joe Soltis who genuinely come from a place of love, which is something that you can hear in their tone of voice and demeanor. With such genuine care and a humble attitude, it’s rare that you don’t get along with others… 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introduction: Who is Joe Soltis
01:44  What is ChoiceLocal?
05:58 How to franchise your business?
08:30 How did McDonald's Franchise?
10:14 The first thing you need before franchising
15:00 The hottest industries now (Home Service?)
17:13 The recipe for success as a franchise
20:29 Innermost superpower: Genuine love and care
23:40 Why Shahid loves Joe and people like him more than anyone else?
26:44 Final words: Check with Joe
 
 
 
 
 
 
Pullout Quotes:
 
“Once you have this proven recipe for success, it needs to be documented. You need to have robust training on it. It needs to be written out, do video training.”
 
“Everything I ever needed to learn, I learned in kindergarten.”
 
"Yeah, so true, you know, it's People, once they start realizing that there is some, there is a tremendous amount of power behind being this way (caring about others), both science and theology, (prove that) you know, there's something behind it, that when you're good and you're habitually not playing a front.” (...) like really from your heart, (...) I'm just saying, experientially, my own life is just transformed ever since the focus went to others.”
 
 
 
Socials:
ChoiceLocale:https://choicelocal.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesoltis/
LinkedIn (ChoiceLocale): https://www.linkedin.com/company/choicelocal/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/choicelocal/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/choicelocal?lang=en
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/choicelocal
 

When we hire people, we often do so with a bias. That’s why it’s important to establish a business culture that helps you automatically find the right people for the right roles.
 
In this episode of the Super Entrepreneurs Podcast, Sue MacArthur explores the issues that she deals with and solves concerning establishing a business culture.
 
Who Is Sue MacArthur?
Sue MacArthur is a leader at Strategic Talent Management, where she has developed the national recruiting practice. She has extensive experience in human resources and operations, with past leadership positions at companies like Westin Hotels and John Hancock Financial Services.
Strategic Talent Management focuses on assessing company culture and individual challenges to increase productivity, minimize turnover, and unlock potential. Their services include hiring and recruiting, succession planning, coaching and development, and HR consulting.
How is Sue MacArthur Super?
Sue is a great problem-solver, especially when it comes to dealing with people challenges and hiring. She has established her business model around the ability to “scan the souls of people,” which is something that’s impacting countless businesses to become more successful.
 
Shahid Durrani’s Key Insight:
Shahid highlights the importance of making sure you’re not blinded by your bias when hiring the right people for the right roles.
 
Chapter Stamps:
 
00:00 Introductions: Who is Sue MacArthur
02:39 Interviewing (expectations vs. reality)
05:02 Being biased when you hire someone people
06:00 Being aware of your bias
07:00 How to hire correctly (bad hires cost a lot)
09:40 Overcome your people’s challenges (build company culture)
12:00 The problem with too much cohesion in the workplace
13:22 The benefits of building a strong company culture (the Soul Scanner)
15:25 Successions (is the Junior up to the job)
17:30 Innermost Superpower: Problem solver
18:17 Some all-stars are only all-stars for one team
20:36 Final words: helping businesses find the right people
Pullout Quotes:
"Bad hires are really expensive.”
“Be aware of your bias. Understand that you’ll naturally gravitate to people who are similar to you, but aren’t necessarily the best for the role or team.”
“Too much cohesion is not a good thing (...) because you have collective blind spots.”
“Some all-stars are only all-stars for one team.”
 
Socials:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suemacarthur/
Strategic Talent Management website: https://strategictalentmgmt.com/our-team/