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Bernhard Niesner is the founder of Busuu, which sold to Chegg for β¬436m in 2021, making it the largest EdTech Exit in Europe. However, the company almost died 7 years in which marked a pivotal moment for Bernhard, specifically with how he approached startup culture.
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Bernhard was kind enough to share his incredible story and lessons from the rollercoaster ride of Busuu!
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π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
04:19 - Culture Crisis
17:30 - Culture Exercises
21:42 - Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast
32:02 - Team of A Players
38:55 - 100 Rejections From VCs
47:56 - How much to raise?
50:37 - Relationships with investors
58:05 - Evolving our internal chatter
01:02:12 - Success is the struggle
01:05:50 - M&A Learnings
01:17:43 - Post-exit life
01:20:11 - Family : Work Harmony
01:24:10 - What's impossible?
01:28:55 - Unconventional Opinion
01:30:04 - How we can help Bernhard
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Katy Turner is a serial startup founder, investor and advisor. She's wise, cool and also incredibly silly.
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Katy and I have been close friends since I started running Foundrs and we had so much fun in this conversation with topics ranging from...
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro (sillyness)
12:18 - The Human Experience
14:02 - Work Isn't A Family
22:56 - Overcoming conflict aversion
29:06 - Creativity in business
37:14 - Culture
48:04 - How To Solidify Values
53:48 - Foundations Of Stories
01:06:31 - Different 'Why's
01:09:35 - Soren Kierkegaard
01:15:21 - Katy's Best Friend
01:17:44 - What's under your bed?
01:18:52 - Katy's influences
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Julian Metcalfe founded both Pret A Manger and Itsu, which are together worth over $3 billion! That speaks for itself really...
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I visited Julian in the Itsu offices in London where we broke down what it takes to be a unicorn entrepreneur and the operating principles behind building Pret A Manger and Itsu.
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - The Truth
06:29 - Itsu
09:23 - Innovation
13:55 - Being demanding
16:55 - Passion
20:58 - Beauty
23:06 - What's itsu missing?
26:24 - How Pret changed
27:50 - Pride
30:06 - Trust
34:26 - Itsu's values
35:17 - Evolving
38:51 - Awareness
44:32 - Itsu as a startup
46:53 - Butterfly Club
47:55 - Julian's Drive
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Monika Holod has been Head Of Brand for unicorns like BlaBlaCar and Ankorstore as well as VP of Global Brand for OYO (after their $1bn Series E). Since then she has founded a therapy startup called OMA.
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In this zen conversation we cover founder wellbeing, startup branding, and scaling culture.
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
04:50 - What makes a great brand?
07:07 - What questions to ask?
12:03 - Scaling a brand (AirBnB)
15:14 - Hiring cultures
23:50 - Scaling culture internationally
34:04 - Story of OMA
42:55 - Founder therapist matching
53:13 - Psychology of founders
01:01:13 - Pre-therapy work
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Dan Hogan is an epic founder. He co-founded Ember, an automated accountancy and tax startup that recently raised Β£5m and boasts clients including thousands of small business owners and banks like HSBC.
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He's also one of my closest friends, - we clicked at a retreat I was running while at Foundrs (a community of 400 entrepreneurs in the UK), and have since lived together and seen each other's best and worst.
Dan is an incredibly wise, kind and diligent founder (he was originally an accountant after all) so this was a detailed, powerful and hilarious conversation where we dove into:
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:30 - How We Met
05:03 - Ember Story
10:48 - Choosing Cofounders
18:17 - Remote Team Comms
24:18 - Key Internal Documents
37:00 - How To Connect Employees
46:15 - How Vulnerable At Work?
50:54 - Boundaries
59:00 - How To Fire With Care
01:04:02 - Pre-Firing Work
01:08:48 - Founder Resilience
01:10:56 - Building Resilience In Others
01:15:39 - Ember's Fundraise
01:21:09 - Meeting Stripe's Founder
01:23:51 - Shifts In Fundraising Market
01:29:10 - Closing Lesson
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Kike Oniwinde is the founder and CEO of BYP Network, a community of 150,000 whose purpose is to advance the careers of black professionals.
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Kike and I have been friends for years and really bonded over the grief of losing our parents (trauma-bonding is a thing!). Here we have a very real and wide-ranging conversation on...
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:06 - Team GB Javellin
09:28 - Mindset 13:12 - Loneliness
14:28 - Mindset Evolution
23:43 - Identity Crisis
25:53 - Dealing with pressure
27:11 - Sports vs Business
30:28 - Achievement Fallacy
33:22 - Lessons From Loss
34:38 - Childhood moulding
39:32 - Ambition Evolution
41:00 - Kike's Uncle Dado
46:50 - Mother Daughter
49:29 - Business as a child
51:51 - Changing Black Narrative
58:06 - BYP's Growth
01:02:20 - How BYP makes money
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James Mitra is the founder and CEO of JBM, a top startup executive recruiter. Since recording this, James sold JBM to Amplified Group after 11 years of building. He's very kind, wise and breaks down hiring into simple terms.
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James and I have been friends for the past couple of years and so in this interview we deep dive into...
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
04:04 - Retained vs Contingent
17:21 - Priority Of Info
25:15 - Candidate Packs
28:05 - Assessment Criteria
33:27 - Our Biases
39:40 - The Whole Process
43:33 - Interview Process
49:45 - Feedback
54:02 - How long it takes?
55:00 - Power of relationships
01:00:19 - Relationship Niche
01:07:27 - What feels risky now?
01:11:20 - James Mentoring me
01:17:00 - Who do you plan to be?
01:22:40 - Kind stories to ourselves
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Sophie is the Chief Sales Officer at the scale-up onefinestay. We have been friends for a couple of years as she started a community of senior commercial leaders called cmrcial, which I helped get off the ground. She has an electric and infectious energy and we go into the nitty gritty of how to build sales teams and processes.
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In this detailed conversation, Sophie and I break down...
π Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:55 - Promotions After Maternity
12:56 - Organisation Superpower
20:38 - Communication Superpower
28:06 - Staying Aligned With Your Gut
30:10 - Being Data Driven In Sales
41:16 - Creating Long Term Mindsets
43:24 - Exceptional Sales People
46:07 - Questions To Personalise A Pitch
47:44 - Difficult Questions
50:24 - Going Niche
53:41 - 80/20 of Defining Your ICP
54:58 - Finding Your Team's Superpowers
59:49 - Personalised Management
01:01:56 - Managing Up
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If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Jack Rogers is a serial founder with deep experience in the B2C space - alongside that he's a legend. A wonderfully real, reflective, and often self-deprecating guy who has been through a lot of hardships and laughs about them. His current startup is called Picnic which is helping people 'reimagine the camera roll', and they have only just started to taste product market fit, 5 years in....
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In this very real conversation, Jack and I break down...
π Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:49 - Tinder Banter Fb Page
04:00 - Hard Things In Consumer Apps
11:43 - TikTok & Our Evolution
23:19 - Ambition Changing Over Time
36:44 - Raising 4 Seed Rounds
39:59 - Keeping Companies Alive
42:49 - Different Leadership Styles
51:52 - Screening for high integrity
55:31 - Bumble's Brand & Culture
01:02:25 - How Much Time On Brand?
01:04:06 - Connecting To 'The Problem'
01:09:57 - Unique Founder Characteristics
01:19:38 - Cancer, Break Up, Failure
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If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Kay Munday is Google's expert communication coach. She works with large corporates as well as startup founders to help them connect with themselves, which she says is the key to becoming a great speaker
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In this very energetic conversation, Kay and I break down...
π Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
02:02 - Names (Kay & Bear)
07:39 - Not fitting in
10:25 - How to find our essence
15:50 - AJ as a case study
20:54 - Timeline therapy
23:45 - Finding the golden thread
26:30 - Crafting your story
28:35 - Your story breakdown
32:41 - Youtube's ABCDs
38:36 - Example Story
43:16 - Simon Sinek (+ so what?)
44:15 - Stories as medicine
48:40 - Labels
55:41 - Where are you judging yourself?
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If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Jamie Mitchell was the MD of Innocent Drinks, Tom Dixon (designer furniture), and now he's a serial Non-Executive Director and Board Chairman.
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Jamie and I met when I advised him on his community of entrepreneurs (called All Together) which was started during covid, connecting volunteer advisors with startup founders.
This was a brilliant conversation about...
π Episode Chapters
00:00 - intro
05:09 - ADHD
24:12 - Great board meetings
28:30 - When should we have a board?
31:00 - Who should we have on our board?
35:00 - What problems do boards tackle?
41:00 - How to know when the meeting is going well
44:23 - CEO mistakes with their board
49:00 - CEO : Chairman Relationship
51:18 - When should the board fire you?
55:51 - How to nurture board relationships
57:49 - All Together (community)
01:03:49 - Asking for help
01:08:00 - Do world changers love themselves?
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Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Hannah Feldman scaled her company, Kidadl, from 12 to 450 people in two years. In this podcast interview she shares the hard truths of scaling, and the life of a full time entrepreneur and parent.
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Hannah and I have been good friends for years (she was even the catalyst to me proposing to my fiancΓ© - which we speak about at the end) so this is as honest a conversation between entrepreneurs as it gets.
π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - 4 Year Rollercoaster
10:48 - Scale Up Lessons
13:11 - Impactful Processes
19:08 - Measuring Quality : Quantity
21:32 - Culture With Global Freelancers
25:55 - Growing Pains
29:59 - What you can't delegate
34:11 - Interview Qs
37:32 - Juggling parenthood & startups
40:39 - How to keep going
44:49 - Where did you learn resilience?
47:54 - Unlocking fulfilment
51:12- Mental models for home and work
55:15 - Roles split at home
58:23 - What characteristic are you most proud of?
01:00:10 - How Hannah changed my life
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Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Stu MacDonald has built the world's tastiest peanut butter. From auto-immune disease, to accounting, a trip to Argentina, scrappy beginnings and then 8 years of grind to build ManiLife to what is it today.
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Stu has been one of the most supportive people on my content journey and his generosity, openness and wisdom shines through in this interview where we cover...
π Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Wilson's Disease (The 'Fuck You' Driver)
05:16 - Psychosis, Mania, Depression
10:42 - Who Is Stu?
11:40 - Why Are People So Important?
13:38 - Edu, The Supplier
16:51 - Love As A Currency
23:00 - Listing With Holland & Barrett
25:39 - One Favour A Day
27:46 - Balancing Ambition And A Family
32:29 - Doing Things That Don't Scale
41:56 - Interviewing For Care
44:16 - Trickle Down Attention To The Team
45:35 - Balancing Accountability & Care
47:52 - Long Run vs Short Run
52:50 - How To Get Out Of The Way
54:47 - What's Unique About You As A CEO
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Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Margot De Broglie founded Juno, a free app for women and non-binary people to help them become more financially literate. Margot is a very honest and passionate entrepreneur who, in this podcast, shares her relationship with key investors, advisors and her sibling cofounder relationship as well as her relationship with herself.
This is the best summary of the human side of startup leadership I've ever seen.
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Margot and I have been good friends for years so this is as honest a conversation between entrepreneurs as it gets. We deep dive into...
π Episode Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:57 - Sibling Cofounder Relationship
09:30 - Encouraging Employees To Push Back
12:21 - When To Systemise Your Management
16:17 - The Impact of Advisors
25:04 - Vulnerable Investor Relationships
29:20 - Leaning Into Inexperience & Imposter Syndrome
32:45 - Masculine & Feminine Leadership
43:10 - How To Bring Play Into Work
47:18 - Story Of A Human Moment
49:42 - Founders Never Get Positive Feedback
51:32 - How Is Your Mental Health?
56:51 - Founders Are More Polyamorous
01:01:09 - What existential crisis are you going through?
01:10:29 - Who are you outside of work?
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Through my podcast, my videos on Youtube and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Graham Hobson built Photobox for 17 years before selling it for β¬400m. In this deep dive interview he shares crazy stories from that journey and frameworks for building companies.
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Graham and I have been friends for years so this was a deeply personal and educational dive into:
π Episode Chapters
00:00 - Trailer
00:46 - How To Deal With Code Reds
08:19 - Intro
15:03 - Characteristics Of An Entrepreneur
18:48 - Talk To Other Founders
28:57 - Culture Transplant
41:54 - What Leader Would You Have Liked To Be?
45:30 - How Much Can We Push Employees? (& Incentives)
51:52 - Near Death Experiences
57:00 - Was It Worth It?
01:02:00 - Impact On Family Life
01:06:04 - Lessons That Apply To Family & Business
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Why 93% of Entrepreneurs Fail At Content Creation | Dan Murray-Serter
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Through my podcast, my videos on Youtube and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Saasha Celestial-One is the cofounder of a rapidly growing consumer scale-up called Olio (4m users in the UK, 8m users globally).
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Saasha and I have been friends for years so this was a very real and educational deep dive into cofounder relationships, scaling challenges, and juggling personal life struggles with the demands of a scale-up.
π Episode Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:44 - What Does 'Getting Old' Mean To You?
03:28 - How Does That Impact Your Leadership?
06:17- ABF (Always Be Fundraising)
08:54 - Weaving Values Into Everyday Life
15:31 - Top Of Funnel Experiments
17:40 - Impacts on User Experience (UX)
20:40 - Olio's Community
23:52 - How To Test Cofounder Relationships
29:53 - How To Nurture Cofounder Relationships
35:50 - Staying Aligned With Cofounders
42:49 - Company Vision Iteration
49:06 - What Feels Ambitious For Olio?
53:08 - Founder-Led Brand
56:30 - Transparency With The Team
01:00:19 - Managing A Divorce & Running A Startup
01:05:10 - Saasha's Husband Mat
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Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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James Grant is the cofounder of My Tutor, an online tutoring startup, and in our interview he shares the highs and lows of startup hiring, structuring of rapid team growth, and how leaders must evolve as the business grows.
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π Video Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:58 - Lessons From Pole Vaulting
06:17 - Scientific Hiring Process
15:58 - Hiring Failure Story
18:53 - How To Nurture Employees
23:17 - Evangelist Employees
26:48 - Different Leadership Stages
30:28 - James' Progression Plan
32:28 - Invest In Your Network
34:14 - Covid Journey
40:27 - Growing Pains
45:00 - Investing In Your Leadership Team
50:25 - Cofounder Relationship
56:47 - The Step Into Parenthood
59:17 - What Is Balancing To You?
01:03:38 - Marriage Teamwork πΏ
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πββοΈ WHO AM I?
If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building. Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Rachel Carrell is one of the most methodical, and intuitive hiring experts. She's CEO of the highly acclaimed Koru Kids, where they're building the world's best childcare service.
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Rachel and I have been friends for years and this was a very real and educational deep dive into culture, hiring and the nuanced challenges that CEOs face.
π Chapters
00:00 - Intro
03:00 - Effective Teams
08:00 - Culture of Feedback
20:00 - 3-Word Check Ins
26:00 - Decision Systems
30:40 - Assessing for Values
34:00 - Hiring Process
48:15 - Getting Lots Of Candidates
51:00 - Our Biggest Unsolved Mystery
01:03:35 - What Is Success For You?
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πββοΈ WHO AM I?
If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Discover some of the common startup myths, and a deep insight into the life of a founder in this raw interview with Sho Sugihara.
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Sho Sugihara is a serial founder who has through both Entrepreneur First and Y Combinator. He's raised millions in funding, he's had a cofounder divorce and he's smoothly transitioned out of his first business.
Our interview is a deeply honest dive into:
π Chapters
00:00 - Intro
02:47 - Stepping Down As A Founder
12:54 - Delegation & Burnout
26:56 - Get The Right People On The Bus
30:34 - Navigating Cofounder Break Ups
36:16 - Skill Of Surfacing Tension
40:43 - How To Build Trust In Your Team
48:00 - Purpose, Vision, Mission Setting
56:24 - How To Get The Best Talent
59:39 - Product Market Fit Definition
01:04:35 - Is The Chip On Your Shoulder Yours?
01:11:58 - Connecting With Our Fun Side
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πββοΈ WHO AM I?
If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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Dan is a serial entrepreneur, content creator, and community builder. He's started a number of businesses, has over 50m downloads on his own podcast (Secret Leaders) and has >500k followers across socials.
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In this episode we deep dive into:
π Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - How much money?
08:13 - Personal Brand Process
22:00 - Content Goals
25:20 - Balancing Inputs and Outputs
29:20 - How much should you invest?
36:15 - My Foundrs Chapter
53:20 - 10X Your Investment Potential
59:00 - Who Are You As A Father?
01:04:30 - Managing Priorities Changing
01:10:20 - The Awareness Parents Need
01:12:00 - Losing His Dad & Fatherhood
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π€·ββοΈ Who Am I?
If we havenβt met before - Hey π Iβm AJ, a serial entrepreneur and community expert who believes that company building should be viewed more through the lens of relationship building.
Through my videos here on this channel, my podcast and my writing on Linkedin, I share stories of successful entrepreneurs and evidence-based strategies and tools to help you create the most sustainable and fulfilling business - giving you a life of freedom!
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