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Successful Dropout

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Now displaying: October, 2016
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. 

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