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Episode #059: A Conversation with Business in Blue Jeans Author Susan Baroncini-Moe

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Susan Baroncini-MoeSusan Baroncini-Moe is a business and marketing strategist, and a Guinness World Records® titleholder.

She regularly speaks to audiences of all sizes and has shared the virtual stage with business giants like Michael E. Gerber, David Meerman Scott, Bob Burg, Larry Winget, and Chris Brogan, among others.

She and her businesses have been featured in Redbook Magazine, USA Today, MSN Living, Inc., Fast Company, Investor’s Business Daily, Yahoo Finance, and American Express Open Forum.

She is also the author of Business in Blue Jeans: How to Have a Successful Business on Your Own Terms, in Your Own Style. Business in Blue Jeans is a comprehensive, how-to guide for starting and growing a successful business in the way that suits you best.

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Bonus Episode: Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull [Audio Summary]

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Creativity Inc. – Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull with Amy Wallace

Ed Catmull is the current president of both Pixar and Disney Animation Studios, and was co-founder of Pixar in 1986. In addition to being a successful manager, he has also contributed many important tools in computer graphics and animation.

Amy Wallace is an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine as well as a correspondent for GQ.

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Episode #058: The 7 Day Startup with Dan Norris from WP Curve

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dan norrisDan Norris is a passionate entrepreneur with an obsession for content marketing, writing 250 blog post in the 12 months that led up to his launch of WP Curve.

Last year, Dan was voted Australia’s top small business blogger by Australia’s largest business magazine, Smarter Business Ideas.

Dan is the co-founder of WP Curve, one of the world’s fastest growing WordPress support companies. WP Curve provides unlimited small WordPress fixes 24/7 for a flat monthly fee.

Dan is also the author of the the new book The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch. As the title suggests, Dan says too many entrepreneurs are overthinking their startup launch. It can really been done in 7 days and Dan Norris is the guy to show you how!

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Episode #057: Improve Your Focus, Boost Your Energy and Make the Most of Your Time with Erik Fisher

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Erik FisherTo say today’s guest and I have a lot in common would probably be an understatement.

Erik Fisher is a podcaster (check), speaker (check) and coach (check). In the past year, he has added Productivity Author to his list of accolades (maybe author will be something I too can add one day).

Erik’s speaking gigs include Podcast Movement (August 2014), a conference I was also fortunate to speak at, as well as this October’s Social Media Success Summit and 2015’s Social Media Marketing World.

And, Erik became an author last fall with the release of the first in a three part series on goals called Ready Aim Fire!: A Practical Guide To Setting And Achieving Goals (Beyond The To Do List Book 1).

This year, Erik and co-author Jim Woods, have followed it up with the release of Hit The Mark!: Improve Your Focus Boost Your Energy Make the Most of Your Time (Beyond The To Do List Book 2).

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Episode #056: Mike Michalowicz on the Profit First Formula that will Transform Your Business into a Money-Making Machine

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Mike Michalowicz

By his 35th birthday, Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies.

Confident that he had the formula for success, he became an angel investor…and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Ouch!

Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the “Profit First Formula”, a way for businesses to ensure profitability from their very next deposit forward.

Mike is now running his third million dollar venture, is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal; is the former MSNBC business make-over expert; is a popular keynote speaker on innovative entrepreneurial topics; and is the author of The Pumpkin Plan, and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, which BusinessWeek deemed “the entrepreneur’s cult classic.”

His latest book is called Profit First: A Simple System to Transform any Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine.

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