Business Growth & Scaling Episodes
Oct. 4, 2019
308: How a lawyer opened an ice cream shop and turned it into a half million dollar+ phenomenon w/ Michael Philippou
Michael Philippou is a former lawyer from London turned ice cream shop owner in Los Angeles, California. He is the co-owner and co-founder of Frozen Fruit Co alongside his wife Victoria, and blogs about his entrepreneurial experiences at MyStartupFriend.com. Follow Michael and his ice cream company on Instagram at @frozenfruitco
Sept. 20, 2019
302: The #1 thing to do to NOT be taken seriously
In today's episode you'll hear about the perils of being viewed as "two in one shampoo and body soap" as an entrepreneur.
Aug. 22, 2019
299: How to ALWAYS identify which strategy works... and doesn't
It's the ever-burning question in entrepreneurship... "will this strategy work for me?" In today's episode we expose the truth about determining which strategies WILL and WON'T work for you.
July 26, 2019
288: Making EVERYTHING aligned in your business
In today's episode you'll hear how EVERYTHING needs to be in alignment in your business to make it work. You'll hear how all six ingredients fit together, and how to bring them all together. If you want to watch the video version of this episode, head over to imetbrian.com/video
July 24, 2019
287: The MAGIC behind successful businesses...
It's easy to look at successful businesses and attribute their success to their blog, or their podcast, or their sweet social media graphics... but in today's episode we'll uncover the magic behind the curtains that makes all of these things work. To watch the full FREE training video, go to imetbrian.com/magic
March 20, 2019
259: How to get ALL the business answers you need from your competitors
In today's episode you'll learn how to use the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Pyramid to gain valuable business insights and accelerate your business's growth using strategic answers from your competitors.
March 6, 2019
253: How Kanchan Singh built a $1m+ cat cafe (Part 2)
Kanchan Singh is the founder and CEO of Crumbs & Whiskers, the largest cat cafe company in the United States, with two locations in Washington DC and Los Angeles. In today’s episode you’ll hear about the strategies that took Kanchan from $0 to $600K in her first year and $1m+ in just her second year of business.
March 4, 2019
252: How Kanchan Singh built a $1m+ cat cafe
Kanchan Singh is the founder and CEO of Crumbs & Whiskers, the largest cat cafe company in the United States, with two locations in Washington DC and Los Angeles. In today's episode you'll hear about Kanchan's start as an entrepreneur and the mindset obstacles and opportunities she faced as she quit her job to start her business.
Feb. 20, 2019
248: Using the entrepreneurs' pyramid to host a successful event or launch w/ Nat Harward & Nate Bagley
In today's episode you'll hear about using the entrepreneurs' pyramid of success to build a fundamentally sound and successful business, and how Nate Bagley combined the elements of the entrepreneurs' pyramid to host his event, Date Night, in Salt Lake City. Today's episode features guest hosts Nat Harward and Nate Bagley.
Jan. 30, 2019
239: The Entrepreneurs' Pyramid of Success + YOU!
In today's episode you'll learn about the Entrepreneurs' Pyramid of Success... and what the most crucial foundation is to make the entire thing work.
Dec. 30, 2018
228: My top 10 reflections from 2018
In today's episode you'll hear my personal and business reflections from 2018... and how they impacted my life and business this year.
Dec. 26, 2018
227: The FIVE documents that handle ALL of my yearly planning
When it comes to yearly planning for entrepreneurs, just five documents shape my own business planning. In today's episode you'll learn what each of the five documents are and how I use them to crush my annual goals.
Nov. 9, 2018
211: $0 to $10K/mo in less than 12 months w/ Nate Bagley
Nate Bagley is an entrepreneur, speaker, and podcaster at Loveumentary.com. Nate has launched a series of events throughout Utah called "Date Nights" and is the founder of the 1% Club, designed to help couples deepen their relationships through positive communication and connection. Visit his website at Loveumentary.com and follow him on Instagram at @Loveumentary.
Oct. 19, 2018
202: How Jenny Watzka did $40K in sales in her first 3 months as an entrepreneur
Jenny Watzka is a strategic business coach who generated $10K in revenue in her first month in business, and closed over $40K in sales in her first three months. As a long-time listener and fan of the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur Podcast, Jenny reveals the exact things she focused on to go from wanting to be an entrepreneur to exploding out of the gates as a successful location-independent entrepreneur.
Oct. 17, 2018
201: The truths about the business of BLOGGING
In today's episode you'll learn the difference between having your blog be your business versus having your blog as a part of your business.
Oct. 3, 2018
195: How a tennis coach built an online empire w/ Ian Westermann
Ian Westermann has gone from a tennis coach to launching and running the world's largest tennis instructional company, with over 30m views on YouTube and over 100,000 subscribers, with thousands of tennis players around the world buying his programs and courses. In today's episode you'll learn how he got started from scratch and built an online tennis empire.
May 25, 2018
185: How a former high school teacher got 3m+ frequent flyer miles and travels the world for free w/ Travis Sherry
Travis Sherry is the co-founder of The Paradise Pack and Location Indie, a community of traveling entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Extra Pack of Peanuts, one of the top travel hacking resources online. He’s racked up over 3 million frequent flyer miles! His mission is to help you travel the world spending next-to-nothing and to sustain it by building a business around something you enjoy.
May 14, 2018
180: The ONE ingredient that you're missing
Season 3 is here!! In today's episode you'll learn the ONE ingredient that you're [likely] missing in your business and life, and by missing that one ingredient you're missing out on real success.
March 16, 2018
176: Growing a successful social media agency w/ Ashley Ryall
Ashley Ryall is Founder and Chief Strategist at UntapSocial, a content strategy consulting firm out of GreaterBoston supporting sales and talent teams with content and social strategy for better lead generation. Sales execs lean on Ashley to coach their teams on how to leverage content for faster prospect meetings and she partners with heads of talent acquisition to empower employees to be online brand ambassadors. She's a national speaker on all things social media for sales, content for though...
Feb. 7, 2018
165: If you don't know this number, you can't make smart decisions
In today's Strategy Wednesday episode you'll discover the single most important metric when it comes to marketing and growing your business: Lifetime Customer Value.
Nov. 27, 2017
152: Thinking bigger... and high ticket... with Michael Baptiste
Michael Baptiste is the founder of High Ticket Freedom and Co-Founder of Banana Wave BananaMilk. Michael now helps entrepreneurs from all across the globe dream bigger and helps them find ways to package up their expertise into high ticket offers that people pay thousands of dollars for.
Nov. 20, 2017
150: Patterns of successful entrepreneurs w/ Clay Clark
Clay Clark is the former United States Small Business Administration Entrepreneur, a contributing writer for Entrepreneur Magazine, the business partner of NBA Hall of Fame Basketball Legend, David Robinson, the founder of Thrive15.com, the owner of 9 different businesses and the co-founder of 5 kids. Since 2002, Clay Clark and his companies have been featured in Forbes, Yahoo! Finance, Bloomberg, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine and countless publications while he has been the entertainer, s...
Oct. 27, 2017
141: How a life-long 9 to 5er started a food company with customers from all around the world w/ Valerie Milovic
In today's episode you'll learn how Valerie Milovic went from being a lifelong corporate employee to starting Better Than Coffee, an alternative energy bar company based out of California that has customers from all across the world... without Valerie needing a team or ever touching inventory.
Oct. 6, 2017
133: How thinking like a non-profit can lead to rapid business growth w/ Ryan McCarty
Ryan McCarty is an author, speaker and the co-founder of Culture of Good, Inc. Prior to this role, Ryan worked 25 years for non-profits, and then as the director of customer and employee relations at TCC, a Verizon retailer with over 800 stores in 38 states across the nation. This culture guru is no stranger to empowering employees through a powerful company movement. Building upon the success of his award-winning program that inspires employees, ignites positive change in the world, and impacts...