The Solopreneur Hour Podcast with Michael O'Neal

My friend of over 30 years stopped by today to talk about his journey with violence, being overweight and how an almost fatal accident shifted his entire life. http://instagram.com/christian_bizzotto This episode is brought to you by http://found.com/solohour

In this episode, we dive into the exhilarating world of auto racing as we join Justin Bell, the son of the legendary race car driver Derek Bell, on his journey from the racetrack to the broadcast booth and his current podcast, “Life with Legends.” Justin Bell’s captivating career and deep-rooted passion for motorsports make for an enthralling conversation as we explore his racing career, his transition into broadcasting, and his highly anticipated upcoming podcast, “Drive to Wynn,” focusing on Formula One in Las Vegas. Episode Highlights: * Introducing Justin Bell: * Justin Bell, son of the renowned race car driver Derek Bell, shares his unique upbringing surrounded by racing legends. * From an early age, Justin developed an undeniable passion for motorsports and embarked on his own racing career. * Racing Journey: * We delve into Justin’s racing career, from his early days in karting to his successful progression through various motorsport disciplines. * Justin shares thrilling anecdotes and highlights from his time on the track, racing alongside some of the most iconic names in the industry. * Transition to Broadcasting: * After his racing career, Justin seamlessly transitioned into the world of broadcasting, bringing his insider knowledge and charismatic personality to motorsports enthusiasts worldwide. * We explore Justin’s experiences as a commentator and analyst for prestigious racing events, sharing behind-the-scenes stories from the broadcast booth. * “Life with Legends” Podcast: * Justin’s current podcast, “Life with Legends,” takes listeners on an intimate journey through the lives and experiences of racing’s most iconic figures. * Each episode features in-depth interviews with legendary drivers, mechanics, and other influential individuals, offering unique perspectives and untold stories from the world of motorsports. * Upcoming Podcast: “Drive to Wynn”: * Our conversation concludes with an exciting preview of Justin’s upcoming podcast, “Drive to Wynn,” dedicated to the electrifying world of Formula One in Las Vegas. * Justin provides insights into the upcoming season, interviews with drivers, team personnel, and explores the cultural impact of bringing Formula One to the entertainment capital of the world. Don’t miss this captivating episode as we join Justin Bell in celebrating the legacy of racing, uncovering untold stories, and igniting the thrill of motorsports. Tune in to “Life with Legends” and get ready to hit the road with “Drive to Wynn” for an adrenaline-fueled exploration of Formula One in Las Vegas.

Today’s show is about an innovative young entrepreneur that was a freeskier, and had a LOT of experience with drones.  Charlie Cannon lived in Utah and had been around drones for many years, because of his hobby of freeskiing. When Covid hit, he decided to white label drones from Alibaba, and EXO Drones was born.  On this episode we talk about how anyone could do what he did, and create a side hustle…or more!  

If you’re like me, tax time as a solopreneur can be really daunting. It’s in our best interest to find the right kind of write-offs to maximize our profit, but it can be VERY arduous and confusing to reconcile our year of eating out, travel, business purchases, etc.  That’s where http://found.com comes in. From her 10+ years at Square, Lauren Myrick had first hand experience as to what solopreneurs really needed out of a bank, so she founded FOUND, which caters to all of the weirdness we need as solo practitioners.  Try Found yourself and get $25 refunded after your first $100 purchase.  Use promo code “SOLO” at registration.

Travis King from https://landflipsecrets.com stops by to talk about flipping land vs. flipping houses.  Less red tape = greater profits.  It’s also a far easier facet of real estate investing to get into.  Dig in…this one might surprise you! Visit http://travisking.com or: Free 7 Day Land Flipping Challenge https://thelandflippingchallenge.com Free Informational Webinar https://landflipsecrets.com Land Flipping Course http://landflippingmastery.com

Hey, our ol’ pal Shane Sams (http://flippedlifestyle.com) stops by to talk about a newfound love of public speaking, the “back of the room” sale, and how to scale your business using courses and live events. Shane Sams is one half of the dynamic duo behind FlippedLifestyle.com. Shane and his wife Jocelyn are a real couple making their entire living selling digital products online through membership websites. Former teachers, Shane and Jocelyn built a business that allowed them to quit their day jobs, spend more time with their family, and earn passive income online. They have created multiple 6 and 7 figure businesses online based on memberships! Their mission is to help other families build and grow successful online businesses through their Flipped Lifestyle Podcast, Flip Your Life community and their blog at FlippedLifestyle.com Website Address: http://flippedlifestyle.com Favorite Social Media Platform Address: https://twitter.com/shane_sams A freebie from Shane! https://flippedlifestyle.com/solohour

Justin Sloan runs http://sloan-capital.com, an investment firm focused on large real estate deals that can be syndicated to multiple investors, providing a turn-key investment strategy that consistently outperforms wall street. Pacesetter and innovator are two words that perfectly describe Justin Sloan. Justin is a business-oriented and highly driven entrepreneur who is passionate about investment and asset management. Justin ventured into the world of business at the age of 20 when he took every penny in his bank account and started his first cell phone retail store with himself as the only employee. After months of working every day open to close, the business was able to hire the first employee and eventually grow into a large chain. His experience in business and exposure to management equipped him with valuable skills in financial management, market analytics, and opportunity arbitrage. As the cellular stores grew, Justin focused on diversifying his investments mainly into real estate before retiring at the fresh age of 32. After two years of complete boredom, it was time to get back to what Justin does best, helping businesses grow. Over the past several years, Sloan Capital has began syndicating real estate deals to outside investors and has made sizeable venture investments in more than a dozen companies.Justin is highly knowledgeable in all things business, and his undeniable passion is what sets him apart from the rest. Having built companies from the ground up, he understands the details that go into establishing a successful firm and the resources required to help in scaling it while still maintaining the small things that make it stand out. His hard work, diligence, resourcefulness, and flexibility make Justin the right individual to spot and execute on opportunities.

Do you want to invest in real estate but don’t want to go through the entire process?  Patrick Grimes is your guy.  He’s the head of Invest on Main Street. https://investonmainstreet.com/ Get Patrick’s book for FREE! investonmainstreet.com/book About Patrick: A native Californian, Patrick is an avid traveler, mountaineer, kite surfer, and adventure sports enthusiast. He currently lives with his wife in Honolulu, Hawaii. Patrick Grimes is a design engineer and CEO and Founder of Invest on Main Street, LLC. His real estate holdings include general partner ownership of a multifamily and single-family real estate portfolio valued over $146M, including 1,950+ units across the southeastern United States and Texas. He has been active in real estate investment since 2007, including purchasing land and distressed assets, renovating them, and stabilizing them for long-term cash flow. To scale his real estate portfolio, Patrick moved from single-family to multifamily investing and founded Invest on Main Street, a private equity firm specializing in multifamily value-add projects in emerging markets. Through Patrick’s company, Protomation Systems, LLC, he contracts with machine design firms to conceptualize, design and build one-of-a-kind manufacturing automation and robotic systems primarily for the medical device, EV and aerospace industries. He co-authored an Amazon #1 best-selling book, Persistence, Pivots and Game Changers, Turning Challenges Into Opportunities. His co-authors included the lead guitarist of Def Leppard, host of The Real Estate Guys Radio Show, NBA/NFL championship coaches/players, and other entrepreneurs and actors. Patrick holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of the Pacific and an MBA and a Master of Science in Engineering from San Jose State University.

Dan Martell is a national treasure.  His new book “Buy Back Your Time” is available Jan 17.  Order now at http://buybackyourtime.com. FREE Resources from the book: www.buybackyourtime.com/resources Find Dan on the Socials: Instagram / Youtube @DanMartell  Tiktok @DanVMartell The Buyback Principle: Don’t hire to grow your business. Hire to buy back your time

Today’s guest has Given 4 Ted Talks, written 33 books, and is an absolute machine.  (Like…may actually be a machine.  Lol) He is the Founder of Work on Your Game, Dre Baldwin. You won’t believe the amount of productivity he achieves with his strict, disciplined approach.  This is what you get when you wake up at 3:30 AM to begin your day! Check out Work on Your Game Live in Miami, Feb. 3-4. Workonyourgame.live Dre Baldwin is owner of Work On Your Game Inc. A 9-year professional basketball player, Dre teaches productivity through Mental Toughness, Confidence and Discipline to athletes, entrepreneurs and business professionals. Dre’s past clients include Nike, TLC, the NBA, Finish Line, Wendy’s, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, and STASH Investments. Dre has been blogging since 2005 and started publishing to YouTube in 2006. He has over 7,000 videos published, with daily content going out to his 131,000+ subscribers and being viewed over 42 million times. Dre speaks, coaches and consults business professionals on mental toughness, confidence and discipline. He has given 4 TED Talks and written 14 books. Dre’s Work On Your Game Podcast is ranked in iTunes Top 200 Education broadcasts. A Philadelphia native and Penn State alum, Dre lives in Miami.

As a solopreneur we all start somewhere. Sometimes we start with a topic we know a lot about, sometimes we see an opening and we go for it, learning along the way. Our guest for today saw an opening to serve his audience in a simpler, more effective way than email: a membership site. Chris Farrell of Help My Business joins us for episode 383 of The Solopreneur Hour, live from Traffic and Conversion in San Diego. On this show we chat about why he chose to build a membership site, how he got into online marketing in the first place and whether or not he’s always been unemployable. More About Chris Farrell As you’ll hear on this episode Chris is a Londoner. He was born and raised in East London – hence the cockney accent! Until his early 30s he worked in radio and wasn’t the least bit entrepreneurial. He had always had a good job and was working for “the man”. By 32 he was the mid-morning DJ on the #1 radio station in London. But there was always something he couldn’t wrap his mind around: how did people make money online, travel the world and run successful businesses? Was it actually legitimate or was it smoke and mirrors? So in 2008 he got started in the online marketing world to see for himself. He knew nothing about that world, and knew no one! So initially he tried to do it all himself, and learned everything he could. You’ll Also Hear: * Was Chris always unemployable? * Why it’s important to say yes. * The power of gratitude in shifting your mindset. * How do you know if you truly understand something? * What is his take on the level of professionalism in podcasting today? * And so much more! Since then of course he’s realized people can and do make good money online through legitimate businesses, his being one of them. Even though it is fairly simple to do so, it isn’t easy. His advice to get started making money online boils down to three simple steps: 1. Find a profitable niche. Figure out where people are already spending money and then choose one area to focus on. 2. Build a list of people interested in that area. Simple: find people who are interested in what you are selling, and get them on your email list. 3. Market to them with products related to their interests. Contact them with offers and opportunities about products they are interested in, or related to their interests. Those are the steps Chris took to get started. He created his own products because he couldn’t find many products he was passionate about. While doing so he built his list, and then marketed to them with offers on those products. But he also realized it would be more valuable to people if he built a membership site where he could continue to create products and add content, rather than emailing them constantly. So that’s what he did. He built a membership site all about internet marketing. He shared with his members what he was learning firsthand, what he loved and what he was passionate about. His success has continued to grow from there. On today’s episode we cover many other topics from men’s fashion to music to podcasting. In particular Chris shares his view on the state of professionalism in podcasting today. He explains more on the show, including why just having the equipment doesn’t make you a professional podcaster any more than having a bicycle makes you an Olympic cyclist. He is a definitive source on what it takes to succeed behind the mic and in the online world. Listen in to hear his wit and wisdom on the 383rd edition of The Solopreneur Hour! QUESTION OF THE DAY: What could you build a membership site about? Let us know in the comments below! Do you enjoy this podcast? If so, could you please 

Great chat today with the founder of StreamAlive, Lux Narayan (luxnarayan on twitter) Name Place Animal Thing on Amazon About Lux Narayan Lux Narayan believes that “So, what do you do?” is a tough question to answer and should certainly not be answered with the current title on your LinkedIn profile. In 2021, he published “Name, Place, Animal, Thing”, an Amazon bestseller- to help people answer this dreaded question. He enjoys mining the intersections of various spheres of life and work, speaking of which… He is the CEO and a co-founder at StreamAlive, a category-defining, fun and engaging web application that helps livestreams and live events on Zoom, YouTube Live, in-person, and everything in between literally come alive. With the ability to plan, track, increase, and analyze engagement simply through the live chat, StreamAlive’s goal is to help presenters and creators move their audiences from bored-away to blown-away. Prior to founding StreamAlive, and prior to a creative and personal break, Lux was a co-founder and the CEO at Unmetric right up to their acquisition by Cision, the world’s largest “earned media platform” that’s now a part of Platinum Equity, a $20bn+ private equity group. He is a perpetual learner of “stuff’ — from origami and molecular gastronomy to stand-up and improv comedy. He enjoys reading obituaries and has given a talk on the TED main stage – on lessons from 2000 obituaries. This talk has been viewed over 2 million times and translated into every majorly spoken language.

Today’s chat is with Lauren Tickner from Impact School. Lauren and I have a fantastic, candid conversation about how she has pivoted over the last few years from being a fitness influencer to a bad ass young female entrepreneur with a global reach. Lauren is so on top of business and social media trends that if you follow her and deconstruct what she’s doing, your business will absolutely grow in the process. Impactschool.com

Today’s guest was well on his way to being an MLB pitcher when fate intervened.  He took his passion and focus for baseball and put it into the most valuable skill in marketing:  Copywriting.  A card-carrying Metallica fan club member, Troy Ericson is one of the premier copywriters in the world, and a badass guitarist to boot.  Check him out at http://troyericson.com Join his emailing list at FAQemail.com

Stefan Georgi is one of the most sought-after copywriters in the world, and the creator of the RMBC method. To see examples of his killer copywriting, pop over here:  http://stefanpaulgeorgi.com/subscribe Stefan Georgi is considered one of the top direct response copywriters in the world. Since he started copywriting in 2011, Stefan’s words have grossed over $700MM in sales. When not working, Stefan spends his time with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Eden. He also loves watching sports, playing golf, being outdoors, and is an avid reader.