The Business Activist Entrepreneur Podcast: Triple-Bottom-Line Your Business and Life

Listen Here and Now for Access to Our New Wall Street Video Series Join us as we share how to access our new video series titled "5 Truths Wall Street Doesn't Want You To Know." Quotable of the Week: “...Meanwhile, he thinks he's getting shit rich, which he is, on paper. [wink] But you and me, the brokers, we're taking home cold hard cash via commission, motherf*cker!” - Mark Hanna, played by Matthew McConaughey, in Wolf of Wall Street   http://businessactivistentrepreneur.com/5truths

Join us as we share THE most important self-care strategy for the start-up entrepreneur, which is also super important for more veteran entrepreneurs.  We break down the strategy into 5 actionable steps too! Quotable of the Week: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” -Coretta Scott King The compassionate actions of those around you are critical when you're starting a new venture.  To do something great, you need a great community!

Listen Here and Now for 5 Strategies to Transition to Running Your Business During the first couple years, your business runs you.  You live like you've never lived before.  Yet, you can't do it forever.  Join us as we share 5 strategies for transitioning to a more sustainable business. Quotable of the Week: “If your goal is anything but profitability – if it’s to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – you’ll hit problems.” – Michael Porter

Listen Here and Now for 5 Ways to Prepare for an Uncertain Future Facing an uncertain future?  We are very much so!  Most entrepreneurs are.  Here’s what we do to prepare and make the most of not knowing what the next season will be like. Quotable of the Week: “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt The only thing that’s certain is uncertainty.  We want some flavor in our lives but we also want strategies to deal with life’s ups an

Listen Here and Now for How to Have Money in Maturity. In this episode we share three ways to help yourself get motivated to save for your future self.  Will you have enough money in maturity? Quotable of the Week: “Retirement is not in my vocabulary. They aren't going to get rid of me that way.” -Betty White

Listen Here and Now for How To Manage Your Money In this episode we share a tool with its four rules to help you manage your money within your business. As an entrepreneur, you’ve got to know your numbers but you don’t have to hire a CFO… we share how. Quotable of the Week: “I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget.” -Guillermo del Toro

Listen Here and Now for our First Interview Episode... a Money Memoir In this episode we interview Mark Willis as he shares his money memoir. Quotable of the Week - “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.” -- Marianne Williamson

We share the top 5 myths about money that entrepreneurs (and beyond) believe.  Let's do some money mythbusting. Quotable of the Week: “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.” -Henry Ford

We share the top 5 things we wish we knew when we first started our entrepreneurial journey in 2008.  Listen to learn from our mistakes.  This is a great "pick our brain" episode. Quotable of the Week “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” -Plato Full show notes at http://businessactivistentrepreneur.com/025/.

Listen Here and Now for “The people who have influenced me most.” Amanda shares the 3 people who have influenced her most… 2 positively and 1 negatively.  She also breaks down how you can find inspiration in their stories. Quotable of the Week - “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Muriel Strode

Listen Here and Now for "If I can do it, you can do it." Brandon tells his story and breaks down the inspirational lessons from which others can benefit. Quotable of the Week: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain

Listen Here and Now for Our Story about Risk and Wealth Building We break down the 3 phases of our entrepreneurial journey over the last 10 years and how we took risks and built wealth during each phase.  Yes, we believe entrepreneurs can do both risk and wealth building! Quotable of the Week “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” –Franklin D. Roosevelt

Listen Here and Now for our Take on the Many Hats of Entrepreneurship As an early stage entrepreneur, wearing many hats is a necessity.  We share the pros, cons, and biggest lesson we learned about the superhero expectation put on us entrepreneurs. Quotable of the Week “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” -Confucius We hate this quote...

Listen Here and Now for our Scary Staff Issues Episode We share 5 actual stories from our 7 plus years of employing staff.  We share the moral of each story and then 3 of our best tips for employing people. Quotable of the Week “Dogs have owners.  Cats have staff.” - popular saying

Listen Here and Now for our Special Mardi Gras Episode. We share how JOMO and FOMO apply to entrepreneurs and Amanda's best strategy for embracing JOMO within our businesses and lives. Quotable of the Week "Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation."   -William Sheldon