The Business Generals Podcast | Helping You Maximize Your Entrepreneurial Dreams - Every Single Week

Mark Barnes is a long time educator, bestselling author, founder of Times 10 Publications and the creator of the Hack Learning Series. Mark is the author of six education books and has co-authored Hack Learning’s Flagship Book: Hacking Education: 10 Quick Fixes for Every School. Reaching nearly 5 million people every month on Twitter, on twitter handle @markbarnes19 – Mark is one of education’s most recognizable engagers, a popular keynote speaker and education presenter! Super pumped to dig more into Mark’s story so Ladies and gentlemen please help me welcome Mark to the show!! Mark discusses how his companies generate over 70% of revenue from books, how to build a brand around your book writing so your audience keeps coming back for more. ------ Book recommendation for entrepreneurs:  1. Drive: The Surprising Thing About What Motivates Us - Daniel Pink 2. WIll it Fly - Pat Flynn >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/markb >>> Legacy: To be remembered as someone who made a real impact on education who changed the outdated approaches in education especially how we assess learning, de-emphasising the traditional grading system and creating a conversation about learning, as well as shifting the conversation of homework from a "drill and kill" approach but to go home and want to extend upon the learinings from school because students want to learn, to make learning fun for students – Mark. Best way to connect: @markbarnes19 on Twitter #hacklearning on Twitter www.hacklearning.org

Shayna Oliveira is the founder of www.EspressoEnglish.net If you want to improve your English, but you’re busy and you don’t have much time to study you go to Shayna, she been doing this since 2012!! I am super pumped to dig more into Shayna’s story so Ladies and gentlemen please help me welcome Shayna to the show!! Over six million people have visited her website since January 2012! And more than 80,000 students have signed up to receive Shayna's English tips by Email. Shayna's has over 14 products on her website, she says no need to drive to an English school… at Espresso English the lessons come to YOU – delivered directly to your e-mail address, you can take the lessons online or download them. Shayna discusses how to build a large list online from scratch, creating your first online course, how to pre-sell your products, a typical sales funnel for an online course including tips, we also talk about all the lessons learnt and failures along the way. ------ Book recommendation for entrepreneurs: 1. The One Thing - Gary W. Keller (what one thing will have the biggest impact for you?) 2. Running Lean - Ash Maurya >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/shaynao >>> Legacy: To have an impact as a teacher and as educator, helping others learn, inspiring them to learn the English language, inspiring them that they can pursue their business dreams and have a meaningful life – Shayna. Best way to connect: www.espressoenglish.net Shayna's Business website www.entrepreneursinmotion.com Shayna's Podcast  

Lisa shares her passion and her love for organization and the freedom an organized life brings. Lisa runs a successful professional organization services business, Lisa's also a blogger and a podcaster. As a former teacher, throughout this episode Lisa makes the complicated manageable with er step by step presentation style. Key Takeaways: 1] Understand the organizational phases of life. 2] Identify the unique organizational challenges you’ll face in each phase of life. 3] Make a plan to get organized. Book Recommendation for Entrepreneurs: 1. The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber 2. Generations - William Straus >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/lisaw >>> Legacy: People put memories into storage and save them for the next generation but I want to help people pull out those memories and share them at the holiday times and relive those times with their families and not just put them in a box for a future generation – Lisa. Best way to connect: https://organize365.com/start  

Tanya worked as a Finance Specialist in Canada until coming to a cross-roads in her professional career life, and after a series of events she decided she would plunge into her own home based entrepreneurial business which has evolved into a very successful online business and we are going to hear all the juicy details on this show so Ladies and gentlemen please help me welcome Tanya to the show!! Tanya took a home based business in direct sales and network marketing from the traditional model to a successful online business using blogging and content creation. Book recommendation for entrepreneurs:  1. The 4 Hour Work Week - Tim Ferris 2. Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/tanyaa >>> Legacy: I want to have a family that looks up to their parents for inspiration and know that they can do anything that they want in life – Tanya. Best way to connect: www.tanyaaliza.com

David is an experienced technology entrepreneur, strategic thinker and advisor, philanthropist and not-for-profit innovator, public speaker and writer. 26 years ago David founded Billing Bureau and built it into the premium provider of billing services to Australian tier-2 and tier-3 telecom carriage service providers. He is now expanding & reinventing it to meet the needs of the evolving subscription economy! Ladies and gentlemen please welcome David to the show!! Book recommendation for entrepreneurs: 1. The E-Myth - Michael Gerber 2. The Lean Startup - Eric Ries >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/davidw >>> Legacy: To be remembered as a good person who did all that he could to help others, because that is an important value in my life, being a giving person – David. Best way to connect: www.davidwerdiger.com  

Sarah is an award winning serial entrepreneur and investor in startups, having cofounded 8 companies alongside her husband, Finn Kelly. Following several successful exits, she is currently the CEO of Wealth Enhancers (Gen Y financial advisory firm) and Grow My Team (global recruitment). Sarah is also a speaker, blogger and the author of Get Rich Slow! Ladies and gentlemen please welcome Sarah to the show!! Book recommendation for entrepreneurs:  1. Built to sell - making sure your business has saleable value and not just 100% reliant on you. 2. Good to Great - another great book! >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/sarahr >>> Legacy: To show people that you can live whatever life you want to live, that anything is possible for you regardless of how or where you started and especially love helping people take care of the personal finances and help them start and grow their businesses – Sarah. Best way to connect: @SarahRiegelhuth on twitter or www.sarahriegelhuth.com

Vasavi is a freedom strategist who is obsessed with helping you achieve the FREEDOM in all that is you. An Ivy League graduate, a certified coach, a qualified vegetarian chef, best-selling author of Succeeding in Spite of Everything. Featured on TV, Radio, numerous online shows and magazines, ladies and gentlemen please welcome the legendary and boisterous Vasavi Kumar! Works one on one with entrepreneurs either budding or seasoned, helping them align their business with their personal values or budding entrepreneurs who are at the beginning stages and figuring out their business model, pricing and helping them get out into the market place. Recently launched a new business, Soul Special, meaning full merchandise that matters, with the first product being a gym tank top with the message “No Shame” in line with suicide prevention month, donating part of the proceeds to National Alliance of Mental Illness. Book recommendation for entrepreneurs: Conversations with God – Neale Donald Walsh >>> Free Show Highlight Reel Reveals... All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is download and take Action! Free download: www.businessgenerals.com/vasavik >>> Legacy: I want to be remembered for being an honest human being that people could come to for an honest response, as a person of integrity who was trustworthy – Vasavi. Best way to connect: vasavikumar.com/focusedaction

Trav Bell is the "bucket list guy”, the world's number one bucket list expert. He's a self-appointed "bucket-list-ologist". Trav has obsessively studied the bucket list phenomenon and blended the world's best positive psychology principles to create his own unique life philosophy. He has designed a life around his bucket list and now helps Bucket listers is all over the globe creative and cross off theirs. “Well the thing is my business is my life and my life is my business and I don't believe in work life balance it's all one of the same really. I mean we just spoke off line. I'm going to do a big keynote talk in Africa. But I'll be over in Africa for three and a half weeks climbing Mount Kilimanjaro so that is my life.” Best two (three) books for entrepreneurs * The E-Myth – Michael Gerber. * The 4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris. * Screw Business as Usual – Richard Branson. >>> All the tips and highlights of today's interview...All you have to do is  jump onto: www.businessgenerals.com/travb >>> Legacy: I hope that I help people with a philosophy of how to live their life, how to re-prioritise their life to concentrate more on their life than their work and to help people live a regret free life – Trav. Best way to connect with Trav: thebucketlistguy.com https://au.linkedin.com/in/travbell

Daniel Mumby 'That Startup Guy' is the Co-Founder of Start-up Foundation a start-up accelerator for professionals. A speaker, writer, and investor in 'disruptive innovation‘; an ex-corporate professional who has founded, built & launched 15 ventures.  

John C.H. Perry has co-founded five start-ups with three successful exits and having mentored others to do the same John knows what it takes to develop, start and grow.  

Rex is the CEO and Founder of WebTrim a SAAS business servicing the car-body shop industry. Trained as a Chartered Accountant Rex shares how he transitioned out of Corporate into owning a successful software business.  

David is the founder and managing Director of Paladin Group – a multimillion dollar diverse group of companies. David sits on advisory boards and committees of recognised corporate brands, he also travels the world as a sought after speaker and lecturer.  

Bunmi is the founder and CEO of Megalines Insurance & Risk Advisors based in Melbourne Australia, he is an award winning insurance expert, a speaker and a leadership coach.

Andrew Ford is the founder of Social Star, a personal brand marketing agency specializing in building online brands for individuals and businesses in order to e-ttract more career and business opportunities. Andrew spent many years working for large global corporations, leading their social media and online strategy. In this interview Andrew shares how he has built multiple income streams through consulting, coaching and speaking all centred around the core business of building people's personal brands, which includes helping them build websites, profiles, photography, writing and brand promotion. Andrew has found that most entrepreneurs, are their business, and their brand is their company's brand especially at the initial phase so he helps clients build their own brand, while they build their business brand. More info at: https://www.businessgenerals.com/andrewf/ Contact Andrew: www.socialstar.com.au To your success! Davis