101 – 15Five CEO David Hassell
David is on the move, recording the show from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Today’s chat is with Entrepreneur David Hassell. Get your pen out…tons of nuggets in this show! David Hassell is a serial entrepreneur presently engaged in launching 15Five, a SaaS product that helps companies surface problems, celebrate wins, discover great ideas and stay tuned in to morale. It does this by gathering feedback from every employee on a weekly basis and bubbling up the key points. See http://15five.com He recently served as President of the San Francisco chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO, http://www.eonetwork.org), an International network of entrepreneurs who each have businesses with annual revenues in excess of $1mil, and was named “The Most Connected Man You Don’t Know in Silicon Valley” by Forbes, who has also featured him as an expert on entrepreneurship. In 2004, he co-founded Kite Adventures, an adventure travel company offering guided downwind tours and pro-coached kiteboarding camps in northeast Brazil. http://www.kiteadventures.com. He is also co-founder of Endai Worldwide, a NYC-based Internet marketing and services firm founded in 1999, and served as the company’s CTO through 2006. Endai has been recognized on the Inc 5000 list of fastest growing private companies in America. http://www.endai.com. David holds a BSCPE in Computer Engineering from Tufts University, resides in San Francisco, and is an avid kiteboarder and skier. In his spare time, he likes to help entrepreneurs and their executive teams discover their company’s ideal strategy. http://discoveryourstrategy.com Connect with David Hassell https://www.facebook.com/15FiveInc https://twitter.com/dhassell/...
100 – Screwing up to WIN with Dan Martell
Dan Martell is a serial Entrepreneur who’s aha moment at one of his darkest moments and launched Dan to become a successful entrepreneur, angel investor and mentor many start up companies. His current company www.clarity.fm has a goal of positive impact on 1 Billion people in the next decade. After one person saw in him, something that he had not seen in himself, he began his journey that he thanks some great people and a little luck for. At 18 he started a biz and failed At 20 he started another biz with borrowed family money and failed At 24 he started again when he realized that he wanted to create something bigger than himself and succeeded. Along the way he has learnt some very important life and business lessons. Below are some of his tips for success that he shares on the show. First: Screwing up is normal – When you are screwing up it does not mean that “You’re a Screw Up” “Your not a screw up, your just screwing up” When starting out: Find someone mentors who have recently done that thing that you want to do next, spend time with them and model them and what they are doing that is creating success. Then you can prove to yourself that it’s not that hard and that they are not as smart as you first thought they were. You’re not supposed to know the answers, as entrepreneurs we are not meant to know the first time, be a beginner first Remember one of my favorite sayings “Every Master was Once a Disaster”. All things are possible, A person just has to decide – In the end Its just a decision. Asked for some specific for some of his big aha’s, Dan shared these pearls of wisdom: When you have that feeling that you should do something, simply say F*@*k Yes or Heck Yes and start moving forward – Take Action Today. Stop talking about it and move your ideas forward. Understand the Knowing-Doing Gap (When you know inside that you should do something and just continue to sit on it) – So just DO IT. Embrace uncertainty and ignorance, in the beginning and often along the journey you will not know so make uncertainty your friend Perspective: Ask not if your worthy of your goals, ask if your goals are worthy of your life – Its not “do I deserve to have these things” the better question is “are these things worthy of me investing my life into them” Surround yourself with the right people, the people that will PLUS your ideas. Surround yourself with people who will...
096 – Getting Busy Living
David Shares his dance with life and death, and some things that he does in order to have a very healthy and extremely friendly relationship with death. He also shares something that you can do for your family and loved ones in preparation for an untimely demise. This show is really a celebration of life itself, and a call to all Kickass Life Practitioners to grab death by the waist, wink in its eye and begin to dance through life! Are you subscribed to the show yet? Here’s a direct subscription link (This will open iTunes): itpc://feeds.feedburner.com/thekickasslife The Belize Island Trip in July is SOLD OUT! Visit us on http://www.davidonfacebook.com and leave a message if you want to be added to the wait...
087 – 7 Tips for Overcoming any Obstacle (David back from Kilimanjaro)
David’s first day back from Africa and summiting Kilimanjaro (19,370 feet) with 50% Oxygen and -19 Degrees, (brrrrrrrr) shares how he and his team used 7 strategies to conquer their inner mountain and conversely conquer Mt Kilimanjaro. David shares how he met and overcame his own inner demons and his private encounter with the reality of facing high altitude as he lead his team past a body of someone who never made the trip back home, passing away just one hour from the summit. FREE Mindset Training Download: http://www.thekickasslife.com/free Link to Share on your Facebook wall: http://www.thekickasslife.com/pod Link to TKL Facebook Page: http://www.davidonfacebook.com...
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