Synopsis
EOFire is an award winning Podcast hosted by John Lee Dumas. John interviews Entrepreneurs On Fire 7-days a week! This Podcast is produced for you, the Entrepreneur, Side-Preneur, Solopreneur, or Small Business Owner. If you're looking for inspiration, motivation, and ACTIONABLE advice during your daily commute, workout, or "me" time, John Lee Dumas delivers. Each episode focuses on the journey of a successful Entrepreneur who shares their WORST Entrepreneurial moment and lessons learned, greatest AH-HA moment and the steps they took to turn that idea into success, and ends with THE LIGHTNING ROUND where John extracts golden nuggets for you, FIRE NATION!
Episodes
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Stop Selling. Start Storytelling with Ken Moskowitz: From the 2020 archive
05/05/2023 Duration: 29minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Ken Moskowitz is an accidental pilot, father of five, has fostered 19 kids, is a career creative director turned serial entrepreneur, bestselling author, voice over actor, 3X cheater of death, and a hotel bathroom aficionado. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Focusing on selling sets you up for failure because too many businesses are focused on the conversion. Creating a relationship with your customers is essential. 2. You can find the most valuable feedback from your customers because they will tell you everything that you need to know about your business. 3. Give without expectation of getting anything in return. Tell your story. Use promo code FIRE and get a 15% discount on anything you order - Ad Zombies Spoonsors: HubSpot: HubSpot CRM’s powerful tools will help marketers W
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The Life Changing Benefits of Selling Your Business with Nate Lind
04/05/2023 Duration: 20minNate Lind sells companies like realtors sell homes. He is a business broker at Website Closers, the largest marketplace of $1 million to $150 million dollar Internet, Technology and E-commerce businesses. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If you don't have financials, get them. Get your income, all of your income itemized and categorized in QuickBooks. Get all your expenses into QuickBooks. Make sure that whatever it is you're thinking about selling, it has its own bank account. 2. It's going to be based on profit. If you want to start to get into the leagues where your sale is going to mean a potentially big windfall, then get yourself up to a quarter of a million dollars a year in profit. 3. Buyers will pay only as much as they feel the business is worth in terms of risk. Read Nate’s book for FREE! - Maximum Exit Sponsors: HubSpot: HubSpot CRM’s powerful tools will help marketers WOW prospects, sales teams lock in deals, and service teams improve response times and overall service. Get started for free at HubSpot.com!
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The Role of Authenticity in the Success of a Brand with Lou Panaccione
03/05/2023 Duration: 24minLou Panaccione is the Co-Founder and CEO at OOFOS, the global leader in Active Recovery footwear. He is responsible for setting the company strategy and delivering shareholder value for all stakeholders of OOFOS - and for building the brand and company culture based on its mission to “make yOO feel better.” Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. OOFOS is providing that benefit you get if you are barefoot on a natural surface. 2. If you've got something that you believe can make a difference in the world, you don't need a lot of money to get that started. You just need to take that first step. 3. Anything that you do as you're growing your business, if you make those decisions based on your mission, then people will always make that connection between the experience that they have with you and what you’re saying. Revolutionary OOfoam technology absorbs 37% more impact than traditional foam footwear to recharge your body and reduce the stress on your feet and joints! - OOFOS Recovery Footwear Sponsors: HubSpot: HubSpot CRM’s po
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Building a Network that Multiplies Your Net Worth with Zach Benson
02/05/2023 Duration: 19minZach Benson is the Founder of Assistagram, a company that empowers influencers and Fortune 500 companies to connect with real followers in their target audience. Dubbed “the influencer’s secret weapon” by Entrepreneur Magazine, he has helped influencers such as Robert Kiyosaki, Russell Brunson, and more cut through the noise to accrue millions of new followers on Instagram. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Always try to remember the little things, because the small things matter most. 2. Create a viral strategy that everyone can share. 3. When you're able to do something fast, and you don't think about it too much, and you just decide and make it happen just like that - without asking anything in return - then good stuff happens later. Reach Your Next Level! Connect With Anyone And Create a Life You Love - Reach by Zach Benson Sponsor: HubSpot: HubSpot CRM’s powerful tools will help marketers WOW prospects, sales teams lock in deals, and service teams improve response times and overall service. Get started for free at H
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Teaching Entrepreneurship to Kids with the Tuttle Twins Books with Connor Boyack
01/05/2023 Duration: 25minConnor Boyack is the president of Libertas Institute and author of the massively popular Tuttle Twins children's books, which have taught millions of kids the ideas of a free society. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Intentionality is what matters. Don't assume your kids are going to follow in your footsteps. 2. You would think that kids these days are getting exposed to the entrepreneurial mindset, abundance, hard work, personal responsibility... But the narrative and the actual teachings in school and on social media are quite the opposite. 3. The type of people who end up as teachers in schools typically don't have an entrepreneurial mindset. They have a very bureaucratic, rule-following type of mindset, which is often in significant conflict with thinking entrepreneurially. Teaching Kids Critical Thinking. Get the Tuttle Twins Books! - Tuttle Twins Books Sponsors: HubSpot: HubSpot CRM’s powerful tools will help marketers WOW prospects, sales teams lock in deals, and service teams improve response times and overall s
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Made to Win: How to Turn Your Passion and Grit into Success with Jim Markham: From the 2020 archive
30/04/2023 Duration: 24minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Jim Markham is an award-winning serial entrepreneur with an innovative mind and passion for his craft. He started as a barber charging $1.50 a haircut, and made the jump to salon owner, celebrity stylist and creator of a haircare empire that includes 5 brands including PureOlogy Serious Color Care (which he sold to L’Oreal in 2007 for $280 million) and his current venture, ColorProof Color Care Authority. Together his companies account for $1.2 billion in combined retail sales. Jim recently added author to his list of accomplishments, publishing his first book called Big Lucky – a hybrid memoir and entrepreneurial self-help guide designed to help spark your entrepreneurial fire. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If someone you admire is making more money than you in the same pro
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Mastering the 4 Strategic Shifts to Sustain and Grow Your Business in Today's Challenging Economy with Andy Goldstrom: From the 2020 archive
29/04/2023 Duration: 26minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Andy Goldstrom is 2X Inc. 500 Business Owner, consultant, author, and professor who helps entrepreneurs achieve similar success in both good and challenging economies. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If you can identify a set of changing needs in today’s market and execute, you can grow your business against the toughest of odds. 2. Great leadership is needed more than ever. You can inspire by doing your homework, looking ahead, communicating well and trusting your team. 3. Midcourse Advisors leverages the success of 2X Inc.500 Entrepreneur Andy Goldstrom to help business leaders focus on the right pursuits with the right tools and methodologies to scale and grow their businesses effectively and efficiently. Sign up for your FREE strategy assessment, order Andy’s new book Gro
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The Simplest Online Business with Ann Sieg: From the 2020 archive
28/04/2023 Duration: 30minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Ann Sieg's training has impacted hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to achieve online success all while working from home. But nothing has matched the rapid success of her e-commerce students. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Grow Entrepreneurs is like parenting. It is a nurturing process, and it is best done by demonstration in real life opportunities. 2. Business is the sport of non-athletes. There is an extremely high level of athleticism in business. Just like sports, you have to strengthen yourself for your journey. 3. Have the courage to pursue your dreams because there is help and support out there for you to achieve them. Discover how to set up an automated "hands off" e-commerce business you can operate from anywhere in the world - Register Now: Flipping Product
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Mistakes Parents Make When Their Kids Invite Them Into Their LGBTQ+ Worlds with Dr. Lulu
27/04/2023 Duration: 25minDr. Lulu is a Nigerian-born queer, former US Air Force Lt. Col, disabled veteran, semi-retired pediatrician, 3-time TEDxSpeaker, 7-time bestselling author, youth suicide prevention activist, LGBTQ+ youth advocate and mom of a transgender young adult who lives in, and agitates the governor of Texas. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. We have to look at what we're doing to these children and how we're trying to cause something that's good and otherwise should be celebrated become something that is bad and almost a burden on the child. 2. LGBTQ+ persons became synonymous with the word closet. The idea was you hide this aspect of your life, you pretend it doesn't exist. We hide it in a place where no one will find it, which is what we do with closets. 3. Inviting in is about empowerment. It's about owning your ship as it were, that this is who you are and you have no apologies, and you’re only going to invite others into your space if you find you them worthy. 7 Mistakes Parents Make Even When They Want to Accept, Affirm &
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The True Meaning of an Architect with David Supple
25/04/2023 Duration: 29minDavid Supple is the CEO of nedc in Boston, Architects who Build and Lift Spirits with Spaces. He is a Tufts graduate. He is an author, humanitarian on a mission to unite those that create the built environment. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. The divisiveness and polarization that we are left with today is really from the misinformation. 2. Dig in and uncover until you have a satisfactory answer. 3. These gentlemen who changed the history books to make it appear that the architect and the builder were separated throughout time to raise their social status because it benefited them also changed the history books to deny African's legacy of classical architecture because it did not suit their ends. Everything You Were Taught About the Origins of Classical Architecture... IS. A. LIE. Get David’s book for FREE! - Classical Architecture's African Roots Sponsors: FranBridge: Many EOFire listeners have launched franchises in a variety of industries outside of food – and FranBridge Consulting has guided them to these premier o
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How to Eliminate Family Life Crashing & Burning for CEOs, Business Owners, & Executives with Leo Simpson II
25/04/2023 Duration: 19minLeo Simpson is a 6X Author, an Adjunct Professor of Business, and the Family Business Life Mastery Coach. He helps CEOs, Business Owners, & Executives eliminate family life crashing and burning. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Family life and business life are meant to be teammates, not opponents. 2. Create focus. Attain clarity about family life and business life. When you understand them as independent dynamics that actually have a dependency on one another at the same time. Then you can understand why they feel one another and why they actually create flow. 3. When you are positioned to achieve mastery and you start leveraging these keys. What happens is you understand the value of not only what your treasure is, but where that treasure lies. 9-Day Transformation Challenge. Setup a call with Leo - Team 3L Sponsor: HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious tasks, keep track of all your deals in one place, and make sure your whole team has access to the same data. Get started for free at HubSpot
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5 Steps to A High Converting Page with Alisha Conlin-Hurd
24/04/2023 Duration: 19minAlisha Conlin-Hurd is the co-founder of the post click agency - Persuasion Experience. After launching 450+ landing pages & sales funnels, she uses her PX System to uncover why people buy, and creates Golden Hippo Offers to convert more traffic, and persuade more people at scale. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. The answer to scaling is not pouring more ads. It's about your post click experience. 2. If you're saying the same boring nonsense that your competitors are saying because a lot of companies copy their competitors, then you're not going to stand out from the noise. 3. A lot of people in their marketing, they're brainwashed and obsessed with their ads. The point of the ad is just to get the click. Everything that happens post-click, that is really what makes you all of your money. Unlock proven formula to create high converting landing pages that convert your traffic into 13% - 346% more leads & sales - Persuasion Experience Masterclass Sponsor: HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious
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Small Business Survival Guide with Jairek Robbins: From the 2020 archive
23/04/2023 Duration: 35minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Jairek Robbins is a performance Coach, Entrepreneur & Bestselling Author. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Keep your finances tight, keep on reviewing your finances, and cut down excess expenses. 2. Have clarity. Look at your numbers daily. 3. Focus on the most important thing that you need to do to keep your small business going. Get Your Small Business Owner Survival Guide & Attend The Upcoming Online Training! - FREE 9-Week Course Sponsors: BELAY: If you’re looking for highly vetted, US-based fractional virtual contractors, then check out BELAY! Learn how to reclaim your time and save 15 hours per week by mastering the powerful tool of delegation. Text FIRE to 55123 to get started! HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious tasks, keep track of all
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The 6 Pillars of Building a 7+ Figure Online Business with Scott Oldford: From the 2020 archive
22/04/2023 Duration: 32minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Scott Oldford is a mentor, advisor & investor for online businesses scaling past 7 figures. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If you are in the right place at the right time, and if you work on your mastery and skill, and you have the right systems in place, then your ability to get to 7-figures and beyond will happen at some point. 2. List out your challenges every week - and fix them. 3. By being patient, you will find yourself on the right path; it will allow you to create a successful business, and become a successful entrepreneur. Visit Scott's website to learn how he can help you! - The Nuclear Effect Sponsor: HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious tasks, keep track of all your deals in one place, and make sure your whole team has access to the sa
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Income Report for March 2023: Japan, Reflecting, and more!
21/04/2023 Duration: 33minEvery month we put together an income report to share a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of running a 7-figure business. In full transparency, it’s not easy – but it IS possible. Through hearing about our mistakes, lessons learned, and our wins, we hope to inspire and motivate you to take action in your business with just one step forward every single day. For our full income report, visit EOFire.com/income115, and IGNITE! March 2023 Income At-A-Glance Gross Income for March: $157,349 Total Expenses for March: $18,030 Total Net Profit for March: $139,319 Difference b/t March & February: +$8,181 % of net profit to overall gross revenue: 89% Sponsors: Thrivetime Show: Is this your year? Visit ThrivetimeShow.com/eofire to see how Clay Clark’s business coaching has helped thousands of entrepreneurs to dramatically increase profitability! HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious tasks, keep track of all your deals in one place, and make sure your whole team has access to the same
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From Corporate Salesman to Online Fitness Coach: One Man's Quest to Bankrupt the Industry that Scammed Him with Richard Fearn
20/04/2023 Duration: 21minRichard (Richie) Fearn went from being a successful multinational salesman to an online fitness coach, determined to help entrepreneurs and salesmen avoid the fitness industry scams and achieve lifetime results. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. When you get people the massive results and confidence to know that they now know how to sustain and maintain their trajectory after working with you, they become walking billboards for your brands 2. It is vitally important that you’ve got something to give to the world and that you are in the best shape to go out and serve those people. 3. Most people want to be rewarded for everything they do. They wake up and they want people to serve them. And this goes in every facet of your life. The people who win, the people who are truly happy, are the ones who go out and live life as servants of others. Get access to special bonuses for Fire Nation! - Ready Anywhere Fitness Sponsors: NetSuite: Take advantage of their special financing offer today! Defer payments of a full NetSuite impl
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Move Over Wood and Nails, Stack Homes is Disrupting the Construction Industry with Sumner Douglas
19/04/2023 Duration: 22minSumner Douglas is a serial entrepreneur and previous early stage focused VC. He is the driving force behind BoomStartup, a top 10 ranked accelerator. His previous founder roles include Saasuma, GlassView & Vutiliti. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Modular construction simply means factory-built homes. It means homes that are transported to the site and then installed on a permanent foundation. 2. Affordable housing and the housing crisis in general is one of the biggest crisis that we face. The modular home solution and factory-built, high quality and sustainable buildings can really solve one of the biggest issues that we face. 3. Start a new company in the market that was ripe for disruption. The way that we produce in modular really has the potential to largely disrupt the housing market and to solve a lot of the different problems that we're facing. We build modular homes for modern life - Sumner’s Website StackHomes Sponsors: HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automate tedious tasks, keep track of all
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Why Top CEOs Should Work 2-Hours a Day with Siimon Sander
18/04/2023 Duration: 23minSiimon Sander runs a portfolio of profitable internet businesses, including AboutHire, Oscar Hamilton, and PodcastWise. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Calendar audit is a good place to start. If you truly are feeling overwhelmed, there's a good chance that you’re burnt out or you just have too much on your plate. 2. If you find yourself supervising too often, you're probably hired the wrong people. 3. Be extremely mindful, every single hour, how you spend your time. If you're not, you won't be able to spend more time with your friends. You won't be able to spend time with your loved ones, with your partner. The video hiring platform you'll love - AboutHire Sponsors: FranBridge: Many EOFire listeners have launched franchises in a variety of industries outside of food – and FranBridge Consulting has guided them to these premier opportunities! Sign up for a free consultation with Jon - or get a free copy of his book, “Non-Food Franchising” - at FranBridgeConsulting.com! HubSpot: HubSpot’s all-in-one CRM helps you automat
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How to Use the "Micro Book" Method to Write a Business-Building Book in Less Than 90 Days with Jessica DeBry
17/04/2023 Duration: 23minJessica DeBry is the author of Author Entrepreneur: The 5-Step Blueprint for Leveraging a Self-Published Micro Book to Maximize Your Impact, Become the Go-To Expert, & Build a Six-Figure Business. She teaches female entrepreneurs how to use her innovative Micro Book Method to write bestselling books that catapult their business. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Write that book. The world needs your story. No one can benefit from your book and from your stories and from your strategies if it's living inside of you. 2. When we're going through something tumultuous, it really causes us to sit back and reevaluate things in our life. 3. Being a bestselling author brought automatic authority, credibility, connection and visibility. The book catapults the business. You don't need the super successful business first to get the permission slip to write the book, you need to give yourself permission to publish the book. Get an EXCLUSIVE bundle for Fire nation! - EXCLUSIVE bundle for Fire Nation Sponsor: HubSpot: HubSpot’s all
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You End Up Where You're Heading: The Hidden Dangers of Living a Safe Life with Jimmy Rex: From the 2020 archive
16/04/2023 Duration: 33minFrom the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2020. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Jimmy Rex is an adventurer, entrepreneur, networker, and author of a new book "You End Up Where You're Heading: the hidden dangers of living a safe life." Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. People choose to have a safe life because they feel comfortable with it; but you can expand your horizons and see the bigger world. 2. Human brains are wired to sense what is comfortable or what is uncomfortable; unfortunately, your brain does not know that society is safer now. 3. The true beauty of life is looking at yourself and going forward without expectations. Do whatever you want to do; you only get one life and it is your life. Take that unsafe path and explore your journey. Check out Jimmy's site to stay up-to-date on his book launch date and pre-order availability - You End Up Wher