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Nov 7, 2016

Zachary Slayback is an entrepreneur who writes on issues of education, innovation, and philosophy. He is an Ivy League dropout and speaks regularly on education, college, how and why to foster more entrepreneurship, and issues related to professional development. He believes that entrepreneurs are the primary actors of social change.

Zak is also founding team member of Praxis and He was one of LinkedIn’s most influential voices on education in 2015 and has been published at Newsweek, the New York Examiner, the Daily Caller, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Christian Science Monitor, the Foundation for Economic Education’s Anything Peaceful and many other publications. he has also appeared on The Glenn Beck Program and HuffPost Live.

Oct 31, 2016

Tim Chermak is the co-founder of Platform, a digital marketing agency for real estate professionals. He’s also the author of Main Street Marketing and High Hanging Fruit. Tim is passionate about entrepreneurship, marketing, liberty, and Chipotle burritos.

Oct 24, 2016

At 17, Diana was the youngest to be accepted into Praxis, a program for entrepreneurial thinkers with an acceptance rate of about 10%. Within two months after starting, she was hired at MailLift, a handwritten letter service. Within her first month of training at MailLift, Diana took on managing $100k in accounts. The Quarter that Diana joined the team was MailLift’s most profitable quarter ever and Diana led with top sales numbers and now she is managing sales full time for Mail Lift.

When she’s not helping grow a startup, you can find Diana longboarding with friends, walking her two dogs, sitting in a coffee shop behind her laptop, watching The Office or Parks and Recreation, and traveling and adventuring 

Oct 21, 2016

Kylon shares the 5 things he has learned interviewing over 20 Successful Dropouts since the show launched. Here's to 20 more and beyond!

Oct 17, 2016

Today’s guest is Katya Sarmiento - she’s an expert in technology and systems for online businesses. She’s the founder of ReachAndMakeMillions.com which provides done-for-you tech services for successful, booked out entrepreneurs and coaches that want to scale up their business and start earning passive income. 

With her help as Chief Tech Officer, Katya's clients have grown their list by thousands of subscribers in just a matter of a few months, launched telesummits and hosted webinars without tech issues, created multiple passive income revenue streams, and launched modern, high-converting websites and back-end sales funnels that sell. 

She is now on a mission to help other entrepreneurs spend less time making more money and changing the world, so that they can have more time for their personal life and build the business of their dreams.

Oct 14, 2016

This week's FAF is a little different. After an attempt to create a regular episode failed due to a long work day that left Kylon exhausted of all advice-giving-skills, his wife and sister take over the mic and start asking him random questions. 

Oct 10, 2016

Isaac is an entrepreneur, thinker, and communicator dedicated to the relentless pursuit of freedom, and an advocate of self directed learning and living. He is the founder and CEO of Praxis, an intensive nine-month program combining a paid apprenticeship at a startup with personal coaching, professional development projects, and interdisciplinary education leading directly to a full time job offer for those who want more than college.

He is the author of six books, and he is also is the host of The Isaac Morehouse Podcast where he talks about education, entrepreneurship, big ideas, how to put them into practice and how to live free.

When he’s not with his wife and kids or traveling the country he’s smoking cigars, playing guitar or watching sports.

Oct 7, 2016

Kylon has his younger sister, Chelann Gienger on the show to talk about why she dropped out of college to pursue entrepreneurship. 

Oct 3, 2016

Chau has been an entrepreneur for 10 years. In 2005 he co founded Campus Special which was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing private companies in the US for four consecutive years. In 2014 Campus Special was acquired by a public company and Chau moved on to start his current venture, HireWire which is the first on-demand hiring marketplace connecting hourly job seekers to potential employers. HireWire has also raised 3.8 million dollars in funding to date to tackle on demand hiring. 

Oct 1, 2016

Kylon shares an incredibly simple three step formula to help you be anything, do anything, and have anything in a shorter period of time, with less work. It's all about FOCUS.

Step 1:

Clearly define what you want to be, do, and have. Write this down! Get REALLY REALLY clear!

Step 2:

Eliminate anything in your life that doesn't help you achieve what you want to be, do, and have. Also ADD anything that will help you achieve those goals. 

Step 3:

Automate and delegate as much as possible. 

Sep 26, 2016

Jake is the author of the book Off The Beaten Trail which comes out September 38th, 2016. It's an inspiring memoir about his journey leaving college and backpacking through Central America. He's a a social media strategist and blogger at Launchbox 365 which is an organization dedicated to bridging the gap between millennial and managers in the work place. He has an incredible story to share and he is definitely a world changer!

Sep 23, 2016

Kylon tells a compelling story on why you should never let go of your dreams.

Sep 19, 2016

William McCanless is a high-school dropout with no college education that accidentally became a high-converting direct response copywriter and online marketer after being fired from every normal job he's ever had. Currently living in Thailand, traveling the world, and trying not to drink too much with doe-eyed Swedish backpacker girls, William is currently making the transition from reference-only copywriter, only known in small high-paying circles, to product creator and teacher. In the next month, he'll be debuting a brand new high-end course called The Dark Art of Copywriting: Embracing The Power of Persuasion in which he'll teach the driving psychology behind what makes copywriting work and how to use this power for your business, personal life, and social interactions

Sep 16, 2016

Kylon invites his wife on the show to talk about the big mistake they both made regarding her education and what they learned from it. Beware not to do the same! 

Sep 12, 2016

Omar is the co-founder of the $100 MBA, one of the largest alternative business education platforms online. He's also the host of the iTunes Best of 2014 podcast The $100 MBA Show. The $100 MBA show has delivered 700 lessons and counting to over 50,000 daily listeners. Omar is also the co-founder of WebinarNinja, an all-inclusive, easy to use webinar platform that allows you to create a webinar in 10 seconds flat. He also loves 80s music and high-fives. 

Sep 9, 2016

This week on Fast Advice Fridays we take a look at Rob Galvin's up and coming Digital Entrepreneur Career Fair where you will have access to over 40 successful online entrepreneurs and learn what it takes to build a career online. No, you don't have to graduate college and work a 9 to 5 office job. You can make a great living online, working from anywhere, setting your own hours, and being your own boss. Let the people who are already doing it teach you how! Get your free ticket at degreefreecareers.com 

Sep 5, 2016

Shane's entrepreneurial journey started in 2006 when he dropped out out of university. He went from offline business in the hardware market, to e-commerce, to affiliate niche sites, and from hungry and desperate, to well fed and successful. Now, he created and sells software and information products for a living. He's sold thousands of copies of his products and he's built up a business from absolute scratch to 7-figures and beyond. 

Sep 2, 2016

Kylon discusses just-in-time learning, what it is, what it isn't, and why it's valuable for you if you want to succeed without a degree.

Aug 29, 2016

Jonathan is the COO and co-founder of Jebbit, a digital marketing platform focused on post click engagement allowing marketers to create mobile interactive content. He was also the youngest person on the Forbes 30 under 30 2015 list. He has been a guest speaker at numurous events and conferences including Ad Week Europe and North America, Digi Day's Agency Summit, the NAB Digital Futures Summit, and 4A's Transfromational Summit. In his spare time, Jonathan is also a frequent marathon runner. 

Aug 26, 2016

In this episode of Fast Advice Fridays Kylon explains the meaning behind the phrase "stay hungry, stay foolish", and why he believes it is essential to being a Successful Dropout.

Aug 22, 2016

Daniel is an entrepreneur dedicated to creating and building success through e-commerce. His focus and expertise is selling on the Amazon platform. Together him and his business partner Ryan have built a massive e-commerce empire focused on selling their own brands through Amazon. They also created a website; ryananddaniel.com in order to inpsire and coach other entrepreneurs who are interested in getting into the e-commerce space. Daniel and his business partner have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Pat Flyn's Smart Passive Income. 

Aug 19, 2016

Kylon shares valuable advice about the four things you should do before you drop out of college to work on your businesses or idea. If you can check these four off, you will have more confidence, less stress, and a better chance of success. 

Aug 15, 2016

Joshua overcame 8 failed startups by reading over 120 books about marketing, business, psychology, and philosophy...all in ONE YEAR! The following nine months he published his writing in over 16 publications, wrote a best seller about Facebook marketing, and helped run several successful Kickstarter campaigns and facilitated hundreds of relationships as the President of San Diego Digital Marketing Experts. He is now managing growth at UpOut which is a subscription service for live events and he's the organizer of San Francisco Growth Marketers. 

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