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The Mayor of MoneyThe Mayor of Money - AIS Solutions: Bookkeeping. Done Right.In this episode Rick Goldring speaks with Steve Loates and Juliet Aurora from AIS Solutions. Steve & Juliet discuss: - How their business started and their move to the East Coast - Their unique cloud accounting software - How to hire the right people and keep them motivated - And more... Connect with AIS Solutions: Phone: 1-888-575-5385 (toll free) Website: https://aissolutions.ca/ Email: info@aissolutions.ca Connect with Rick Goldring: Email: rick@rickgoldring.com ...2022-05-1929 min
Take Flight – Business Growth Strategies with Business Coach Dan HolsteinInterview with AIS Solutions "Firm of the Future" owners Juliet Aurora and Steve LoatesHear the story of entrepreneur Juliet Aurora who started her enterprise out of pure necessity in the spare bedroom of her house 20 years ago, and how she and her husband Steve Loates grew it into a national bookkeeping firm that has earned Intuit's highest Accolade: Firm of the Future.Along the way, Juliet and Steve had a lot of ups and downs - and eventually grew not only their company, but wrote a book, started a bookkeeping training company, a podcast - and launched a charitable foundation! Theirs is an incredible story, full of learnings...2022-03-3138 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 53: Sandy Dedeian - The Two Most Important Assets For Successful Marketing Are...Gold Nuggets in this Episode: Time is going faster for Juliet. Is it because she’s been stuck in the house with Steve for a year during lockdown? “No matter how much we know, we still fail sometimes.” “There is no such thing as a failure. There are victories and there are learnings. Sometimes what become victories later resulted from our greatest learnings.” “The only people who never fail are those that never do anything at all.” “Always show that thing that differentiates you from other companies, and in most cases other than your product, it’s usually you.” “You have so...2021-05-2039 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 52: Tracey Bissett - Know Your Numbers To Achieve Your SuccessGold Nuggets in this Episode: Steve didn’t ask how Juliet was doing. She’s going to tell us anyway because she prepared an answer. “I don’t think any business owner can really hit their goals unless they understand the financial position of the company.” “I don’t think you need to do your numbers yourself. I think it’s really important to get a qualified bookkeeper that you’re able to communicate with as well.” “The question of, ‘what do you see when you look at these numbers?’ Could start a wonderful conversation that could also lead to education.” “Let’s...2021-05-0637 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 51: Dennis Moseley-Williams - How To Design A Customer Experience Like No OtherGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Time is the ultimate status symbol.” “Clients measure value differently. What we too often call customer experience, when we’re working on customer experience, we’re actually working on customer service.” “Service is designed to save clients time and effort. Experience is about creating time well spent.” “What do the best brands in the world have in common? People don’t buy from them, they buy into them.” “If anyone expects to recover, you must be staging an experience. Your in-store experience has to be worth me paying a ticket to get in.” “Even experiences are commodi...2021-04-2941 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 50: Nicholas Prouten - Startups: Stop Making These MistakesGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet will never get tired of being called the Smarter Woman. “With some entrepreneurs there’s this sort of internal process that goes on of wanting to be a ‘self-made person’. Often times this can lead to people feeling like they have to do everything themselves, but that is such a fallacy. No man is an island.” “When you find the right people at the right place and the right time, magic can happen.” “They think in order for you to be an entrepreneur, you need to have some fancy tech startup. Being an entrepreneur...2021-04-2240 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 49: Brady Dahmer - Say Yes to Everything and Then SucceedGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Keep saying ‘yes’ whether you know how to do it or you dont know how to do it. At some point you will make it if you just keep saying ‘yes’ and faking it.” “To be an entrepreneur, you’ve got to have that persistence, and you’ve got to have those multi-skills and be able to get through a lot of different things.” “Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. It does take a special kind of breed.” “A lot of people who hire designers, or any creatives in general - anything that you’re hiring somebody to create...2021-04-1538 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 48: Kris Ward - Winning The Hour So You Can Win The DayGold Nuggets in this Episode: Today is an almost perfect day for Juliet. Steve wants the credit, but only for the good days... “I believe that your business should support your life, not consume it.” “More often than not, you’re doing a lot of repetitive admin work.” “Start with a virtual assistant, but you want to be purposeful and keep that lane really small, and have it grow.” “Day 1, if you’re thinking of being an entrepreneur, start that team.” “You didn’t start a business to run a business.” “Your calendar is like your time bank account. If you don’t do thi...2021-04-0940 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 47: Joseph Sudhip - How To Create, Capture and Deliver Value In Your BusinessGold Nuggets in this Episode: “A business model is nothing but how an organization creates, captures, and delivers value. How they join together these different pieces in a business is the business model.” “Most entrepreneurs, what happens is they think there is a gap in the market, but they never look whether there is a market in that gap.” “Do business testing. Do a sample business testing to see if your assumptions are correct or not. And then, decide a business model based on that.” “90% of startups fail. Why? It’s because it’s all assumptions.” “A business coach should be lookin...2021-03-2540 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 46: Cheryl Cappellano - Does Your Business Have the "IF" FactorGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Interestingly” is, in fact, a word. Juliet is interestingly excellent. “The only thing that people really respond to in the mail, is something you could eat.” “We guarantee our customers that we will delivery them a 10% success ratio.” “There’s a misconception among entrepreneurs that you only go out of business because there’s not enough business.” Cheryl’s Win-Win-Win philosophy: is this a Win for my customer? Will it be a Win for their target audience? Will it be a Win for Idea Factor? “The time that I was being the technician was zapping my energy to...2021-03-1937 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 45: Karlana Pedersen - Successfully Mixing Art-Media, Life and a CareerGold Nuggets in this Episode: Steve hasn’t had much sleep, but with some extra caffeine, the show goes on! “It’s great that I have a business acumen, and it’s great that I love sales, but I have to have a plan.” “People think it’s so easy to go and sell your art, or your photography, without really sitting down and saying ‘what does that mean, and what is the plan to doing that, and how do you execute it?’ There’s a lot of steps in between the actual creation and the selling that go into play.” “The...2021-03-1236 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 44: Tracy Lamourie - How To Get The World To Hear Your VoiceGold Nuggets in this Episode: “If you’re not out there getting in the media, getting on podcasts, getting quoted in the Star, somebody else in your industry is.” “If you don’t know the art of the pitch and you don’t understand what you’re doing you can burn more bridges than you can build.” “Whatever it is you do, you have expertise, you have knowledge that the mainstream doesn’t have.” “Every success builds on every other success.” “There are so many different forums now, there’s a billion different ways to find your comfort zone.” “Civility in the workpl...2021-03-0539 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 43: Matt Rouse - The Secret To Helping Your CustomersGold Nuggets in this Episode: Steve didn’t ask Juliet how she was today. She’s having a hard day today, and she wants to be at the fireplace with a glass of wine and the dog lying next to her. “Do you know why people think email marketing doesn’t work? One reason is, they are terrible at copywriting. The other is the corporate side of marketing.” “This is the ultimate secret to email marketing: You ask people if they want you to send them a thing, and if they say yes, you send them that thing and you don’...2021-02-2640 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 42: Laurent Notin - How To Be The Best Version Of YourselfGold Nuggets in this Episode: Sarcasm isn’t part of Juliet’s vocabulary. It’s also her and Steve’s anniversary. “There are as many companies as there are entrepreneurs’ personalities.” “Successful entrepreneurs have a purpose.” “Once your purpose is clear, everything else becomes easy.” “Most entrepreneurs want to change the world. That is because they have the purpose that they can have an impact.” “Successful entrepreneurs understand it’s a journey. They understand that making money is not a purpose.” “If you want to build a successful company, you cannot do it by yourself.” “Don’t expect that the reason you started your busines...2021-02-1941 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 41: Dylan Ogline - Focus On Essentials And Delete The RestGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet wants to retire in the Caribbean. “You need to focus on the essential few and let go of the trivial many.” “A little bit of progress across 15 things isn’t really moving you forward to accomplish what you want to accomplish because you’re not moving forward far enough in any of the areas.” “There’s an entrepreneurial spirit in some of us that is not in all of us.” “You need to stop trying to build an airline, and instead drill for oil.” “You don’t have to be the best in the world at drill...2021-02-1237 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 40: Shaun Whynacht - Advice From The Doer of Cool Marketing StuffGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Your brain is not designed to keep you happy; it’s designed to keep you alive.” “When you have more energy because you’re doing your HAPPI, all of a sudden things start making sense.” “Shifting your state of being gives you more energy to do all the things that you really want to do.” “KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid. You don’t need to make it complicated.” “Fun is the first thing that goes whenever we start working on something in life that we’re excited about, and it needs to be the first thing that stays.”...2021-02-0542 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 39: Vernon Brown - Find Your Happi Place And Change Your LifeGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Your brain is not designed to keep you happy; it’s designed to keep you alive.” “When you have more energy because you’re doing your HAPPI, all of a sudden things start making sense.” “Shifting your state of being gives you more energy to do all the things that you really want to do.” “KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid. You don’t need to make it complicated.” “Fun is the first thing that goes whenever we start working on something in life that we’re excited about, and it needs to be the first thing that stays.”...2021-01-2838 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 38: Karen Swyszcz - How Being An Entrepreneur Is Like Rock ClimbingGold Nuggets in this Episode: If you have a set vision or plan in your head, you tend not to pay as much attention to external factors. Karen didn’t have a plan when starting her blog or her podcast, and her philosophy was “start it, try it, and then decide”. This meant she could be more adaptive to the environment. “If 2020 has taught us anything, I think it has absolutely convinced even perhaps some of the non-believers that the ability to pivot is absolutely key to success.” “With respect to your entrepreneurial toolkit, I believe that written...2021-01-2136 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 37: David Peck - Be The Pebble, Create The Ripples, Effect The ChangeGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Everybody is changing the world just by existing and going through their day. It’s whether you’re changing it for the positive, whether you’re changing it for the negative, or you’re just kind of maintaining status quo.” “Of course I need to make a living, and I want to make some money, but I think we need to do it in a responsible way.” “Isn’t everything an opportunity?” The inspiring story of Suon Rottana that David turned into a film. Steve took the decision to change one of the questions. Juliet trie...2021-01-1437 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 35: Richard Maloney - Activate and Engage Your Team For SuccessGold Nuggets in this Episode: “A business is a commercial, profitable enterprise that works without you.” “Companies and leaders need to go beyond traditional training methods to truly engage with their employees.” “Knowledge-dumping is important, but when it comes to culture, leadership, creating influence, and mass movements, it’s the culture that needs to shift.” There are three types of employees in every organization: “Actively Disengaged – they come to work and do less than is expected.” “Disengaged – they come to work and do what is expected.” “Engaged – they come to work and do more than what is...2021-01-0732 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 35: Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates - Reflections and PlansGold Nuggets in this Episode: “As an entrepreneur, no matter what your business industry was, you had some kind of a challenge last year.” “Being an entrepreneur is always a rollercoaster – these past nine months even more so.” Steve has no words to describe the past year. “What 2020 has showed us is the resilience of the entrepreneur, the ingenuity of the entrepreneur, the tenacity of the entrepreneur…” “Every entrepreneur out there should be very proud of themselves. They are the heart and soul of the economy.” “Even if your business wasn’t able to survive it, for whatever reason, as...2020-12-3130 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 34: Jan Cavelle - The Journey of an Accidental EntrepreneurGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet took their puppy for a walk at 4:30am. She thinks the puppy had mixed feelings about that. “A lot of people don’t always share the tough moments; they kind of gloss over it and say ‘it was a struggle in the beginning, but look at where I am now.’” “Entrepreneurs need to hear that it’s not all perfect, and it’s not this front that you see on the news or on social media; that there is so much struggle behind it to get them there.” “I’m all for encouraging en...2020-12-2336 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 33: Marco Robert - Do You Fit the Profile of an EntrepreneurGold Nuggets in this Episode: “The differentiating factor between success and failure in business comes down to systems.” “But you have to remember that businesses are first built on a foundation of human beings.” “There’s always been a difference between being an entrepreneur and being a businessperson. You start a business; you’re a businessperson. An entrepreneur is more in the make-up of who you are.” “If someone offered you the perfect job, doing exactly what you like to do, and the job came with what you considered to be a good salary and benefits package; and if th...2020-12-1741 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 32: Luke Fuller - Lead by Example and Just Go For ItGold Nuggets in this Episode: “With a good team you can be anywhere.” “The important lesson for all of us as entrepreneurs: it’s always a work in progress.” “It’s not about technical skills. It’s obviously important to have a qualification to do what we do, and the knowledge and some experience with the body, but really it’s all about the soft skills.” “Most entrepreneurs at some point or another, regardless of who they have behind them, have felt like they have been on their own.” “With a great attitude and a willingness to learn, it doesn’t matter if you’r...2020-12-1039 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 31: John Laurito - How To Be A Great LeaderGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Most people don’t like to step outside their comfort zone, but when you do, it opens your eyes to different things.” “Leaders in any type of organization that are large and effective, they somehow make their people feel a different feeling of importance, attention, that they matter – that it’s not just the numbers.” There’s not only one formula to be a great leader. “The best entrepreneurs are the ones that have a powerful ‘why’.” As a leader, how you feel reflects in how your team is going to feel. Sometimes, for entrepreneurs that’s...2020-12-0337 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 30: Jeff Paikin - Building Your Business One Brick at a TimeGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet was stressed out by planning and organizing Steve’s birthday dinner. Steve doesn’t recall being stressed at all – he does, however, remember the good wine. “If I were to crystalize what I consider to be my most important challenge, it was the ability to do what my parents did for me – to provide that unbelievable education in a way that I never knew if things were good or bad for them.” “Whether it’s more profitable or not is not always the issue. Sometimes doing the right thing is how we define success.”...2020-11-2438 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 29: Boni & John Wagner-Stafford - How To Build Your Business While Sailing The OceaGold Nuggets in this Episode: Boni and John now live in Mexico – sometimes on land, and sometimes on a boat. All while running a successful business. “We do not like to stay in one place for very long.” “While we were driving to our corporate jobs in downtown Toronto, I did the math on how much time we were spending in the car in our commute to work. Not including sleep time (factoring only productive time), we were each spending 8 weeks a year in the car.” Boni and John got rid of most of their material belongings...2020-11-1938 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 28: Salma Burney - How To Work Off The Grid And Love ItGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet loves the part of the show when Steve calls her the Smarter Woman. “Do what you do best. Outsource the rest.” You’re not in competition with others in your industry. “We work together. We’re not in competition. I can only help so many people, and another person can only help so many people.” You don’t have to use a Virtual Assistant every day, or even every week. “That’s the nice thing about a Virtual Assistant – it’s when you need them.” “It’ll be better to have a Canadian Vi...2020-11-1230 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 27: Nicole Santer - How To Pivot Your Business In A PandemicGold Nuggets in this Episode: “Sometimes when you’re young and in business, you’re a bit naïve to the whole process of starting up a business and how difficult it is to win customers.” “Try to recognize your strengths, and play on your strengths. If you know you don’t do something well, then get someone else to do that, and you focus on what you do well.” “Sometimes things don’t go according to the way you plan, so you need to be able to adapt, move, and pivot.” “Those entrepreneurs tha...2020-11-0636 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 26: Mike and Gaby Grinberg - Partners Mixing Business with PleasureGold Nuggets in this Episode: “When you are business partners, it’s almost like you’re married. You’re both trying to grow something together.” On running a business remotely: “It’s not for everybody, and it’s not just a matter of technology. In terms of being successful, one of the biggest things is operationalizing asynchronous communication.” – Mike “Look at all the key operations and key functions in your company, and put together a playbook for that. Having a repository of playbooks and instructional videos that employees can go to, as a remote worker, is so...2020-10-3043 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 25: Victoria Marshman and Dani Kagan - Embrace Your Weirdness and Go For ItGold Nuggets in this Episode: In a partnership, you have to make sure that your partner brings something to the table that you don’t have. “When you go into business together, it’s a marriage and it’s for the long haul.” “The biggest lesson is, we did not wait. I think that’s a big differentiator for any entrepreneur who’s getting by to thriving. We didn’t wait. We didn’t over-plan. We just went for it.” “At the end of the day, you could have a really basic room full of people, but it’s real...2020-10-1538 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 24: Travis Bell - Separate Your To-do list from your Bucket listGold Nuggets in this Episode: “A bucket list is a tangible life plan, where our career or business plan should fit in to our life plan – not the other way around.” “What is the point of having a bucket list if we’re not going to try to do some of it?” “There is no someday. There is no perfect time. We don’t know how long we have left. What are you waiting for?” “It’s about having people experience more of what brings them meaning, purpose, and fulfilment, before they get given a use-by date.” “A business should provide yo...2020-10-0946 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 23: Rebecca Mountain - How To Make An Impact First Then Money Will FollowGold Nuggets in this Episode: “You don’t have to be a millionaire to be wealthy.” Entrepreneurs need to find the balance between income and impact. “Learn and help learn.” Rebecca went through the learning process herself, learnt from it, and experienced it, and she is now helping others go through that transformation as well. Many entrepreneurs are in a fixed mindset where they compare themselves to others, are afraid of losing money and customers, and give themselves labels. “You know you’ve made serious growth when you’re able to teach pe...2020-10-0100 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 22: David Childs - How To Align Yourself, Your Team and Your BusinessGold Nuggets in this Episode: Many entrepreneurs think that because they haven’t been to college that they can’t be successful. It’s the grit and the belief more than anything else that will get you to where you want to be. David facilitates executive teams with his HSDO (High School Drop Out) designation. David isn’t interested in studying your competitors and understanding what they’re doing. “When you’re going in to help a client, you don’t care what their competitors are doing.” The fundamental flaw in the brandi...2020-09-2400 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 21: Laura DiBenedetto - How To Break Old Habits And Build Your DreamsGold Nuggets in this Episode: We are all misled about what the real definition of success and happiness is. The truly happy and successful people are those who are content with how much they have. They’re great leaders, and they inspire others. Many people go through life, get to the finish line, and realize it’s the wrong finish line – that everything they worked toward, and thought they wanted or needed in their lives, is not what they really wanted or needed. Laura gives some advice to young entrepreneurs, and she briefly describes the six habits...2020-09-1700 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 20: Grace Gong - Plan Your Venture So You Can Get The CapitalGold Nuggets in this Episode: “If you never ask the question, the answer will always be ‘no’, and if you never knock on the door, it will never open.” If you’re looking for a venture capitalist or an investor, it’s important to not only focus on the monetary side of what they can offer you, but also the resources in their network that could add to your business. Grace tells us the three things that investors look for in a business. If you’re a good entrepreneur, the idea doesn’t matter as much as the team that will b...2020-09-1000 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 19: Brenden Kumarasamy - How to be a Great Public SpeakerGold Nuggets in this Episode: The art of presentation is always fundamental to business owners. The first step to mastering public speaking is to shift the conversation about why the fear of public speaking exists. We’ve been conditioned to view public speaking as a responsibility, a chore, and as something we don’t enjoy, as opposed to using public speaking to make an impact and to scale ideas that matter to us. The greatest speakers present the same presentation hundreds of times. You can have an unlimited number of passions, but you only have a limi...2020-09-0400 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 18: Andrew Brown - It’s All About Planning for the Long GameGold Nuggets in this Episode: Juliet, the smarter woman, used the word “lawyerly”, and Steve remembers getting into trouble for using the term. They’re going to have to resolve this off air. Andrew says you need a team. It’s not about you. The culture of an organization matters. Culture is not easily transferable, or purchased. You can’t just take it off a shelf. You’re going to be more successful when you can focus on the result that your services are bringing. “Your kids don’t need your money, when they’re young they just need your time.” I...2020-08-2800 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 17: Jeff Bullas - How to Build a Tribe of 850,000 FollowersGold Nuggets in this Episode: Jeff’s experience around the world includes social media, marketing conferences (including digital), and influencer conferences How organic growth is going to be at the whims of an algorithm and the algorithms could be a Google SEO algorithm. The trend that organic reach of social media is becoming very low. The need to build landing pages where you give away something for free, like an e-book or a webinar. Why we are facing the battle of the algorithm and what we can do about it. How many people may benefit playing the long ga...2020-08-2000 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 16: Elaine Slatter - This is the Difference Between Male and Female EntrepreneursGold Nuggets in this Episode: Easy and Powerful Steps to Branding Your Company The way to conceptualize and create the best ever online platform Easy Ways to Create Video Content and How to Share It. Essential ways to get your business online especially in the age of COVID19 Essential, Powerful Tips to Maximize LinkedIn For Business Elaine Slatter is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to achieve their goals. With over 30 years of experience in marketing, sales, customer service & small business ownership she understands the challenges facing business people today. She can help small businesses get...2020-08-1300 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 15: Christel Wintels - Networking is About Giving Now So You Can Gain LaterGold Nuggets in this Episode: Appreciating the opportunity to serve the community and meet with so many different people and successful business owners is a blessing. The level of independence would be someplace that be lot more comfortable Women tend to much more create collective groups of other women. So it's easier to ask for help. How Christel was one of the very first assistant directors as they call them, then who had been a member who was a member of BNI.The universe is sending us a message. One of the exciting things is behavioral styles and...2020-08-0600 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 14: Charles Matthews Jr. Talks About Being Confident In Your CraftGold Nuggets in this Episode: A lot of people don't plan on doing a certain entrepreneurship. It just drops into your lap. Appreciating the opportunity to serve the community and meet with so many different people and successful business owners is a blessing. Mentors love to help you.The importance in dealing with the questions that we usually don’t think about because of the business in running businesses. Women tend to much more create collective groups of other women. So it's easier to ask for help. Understand that collaboration is a key thing in business. The universe is...2020-07-3100 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 13: Rick Goldring - Make Sure You Ask Yourself These Hard QuestionsGold Nuggets in this Episode: Being an entrepreneur is great because you often do have control of your time and your actions. Appreciating the opportunity to serve the community and meet with so many different people and successful business owners is a blessing. Why Rick’s focus is on wealth and risk management planning for business owners, including doctors and dentists. The importance in dealing with the questions that we usually don’t think about because of the business in running businesses. Understand that to enter the world of an entrepreneur involves many different things, managing of your team...2020-07-2400 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 12: Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates - Season 1 Recap and HighlightsGold Nuggets in this Episode: When building a team, your new team member should be someone that you would invite over to your house for dinner. Just because you’ve heard someone say something previously, doesn’t mean if you hear them say it 10 months from now that it won’t resonate with you. You can get something different out of it because you’re in a different place. Steve has set his goal to finish his coffee table quote book this year. An entrepreneur should never love a product or service, they should love problems and solving them. In...2020-07-1700 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 11: James Mulvany - How To Grow Your Audience Through Podcast and RadioGold Nuggets in this Episode: When you're running a business, as shallow as it sounds, you need to look at the financials. You've got to keep trying new things and pick yourself up, brush yourself down and just get on with the next project. You're not ready to go fully and start your own podcast to begin with appearing as a guest or an expert on other podcasts is a great way to kind of dip your toes and see if it's for you Every guest you interviewed generally will share it with their audience too. So...2020-07-1000 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 10: Nir Bashan - How To Unleash Your Creativity And Increase SalesGold Nuggets in this Episode: All the analytics in the world cannot tell you what to do when you're trying to sell something, and yet the market is buying something else. I think that sometimes when we get stuck it's because we have learned either in school or through experience to look at that problem in one way and one way only, and sometimes just having a little creativity can help you look at it in a different way that inspires you to come up with a solution. Creativity is something that we're...2020-07-0900 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 9: Blaine Bertsch - How To Avoid And Cure Cash Flow ChallengesGold Nuggets in this Episode: Businesses need to understand where they're going, understand their numbers, keep an eye on things, and get help from pros like you guys, that is how you can thrive long-term and how you can make decisions that make sense. Growth is one of the most dangerous times for a business, extreme growth, especially, because you have to have capital there. You have to be able to build. You have to be able to grow, and it can be honestly out of control, and businesses can run out of cash so quickly. 70% of businesses...2020-06-2600 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 8: Vincent Valeri - How To Avoid Conflict In A Family BusinessGold Nuggets The best job you can have in your life may be working for mom and dad, but the toughest job you're probably going to have in your life is working for mom or dad. In order for a family business to succeed, you must plan with the family, not for the family. If the family can unite and build a shared vision that everybody contributes to, the business benefits, the ownership team benefits. So by default, the employees, the community. The trickle-down effect is tremendous when that family is rowing in the same direction. Our guest, Vincent Valeri is...2020-06-1900 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 7: Michael Ly - You don’t need resources or skills. Just hunger and desire. You don’t need a lot of resources to start your entrepreneurial journey. You can literally start with nothing. Your desire to succeed must be self-created. It will not be given to you. Facing adversity is a strength in your life, and so we shouldn’t spend our lives trying to get that adversity to go away. Our guest, Michael Ly, is a serial entrepreneur. He is the founder of Reconciled, an online bookkeeping and accounting service, Humanly, which provides on-demand HR solutions for entrepreneurs and Saasable, an online app for business owners to help them keep track of their recu...2020-06-1200 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 6: Bob Izsak - Sometimes to succeed you need to pivot and adaptGold Nuggets It’s not about the answer. It’s about the process. If you don’t nurture your network you’re not going to survive. The best book to read is the one closest to you. Read everything you can Our guest, Bob Izsak, Founder of Izsak Consulting, a 20-year-old boutique consulting firm that helps to build and grow professional services firms. Song by Adam Vitovsky / CC BY 3.02020-06-0500 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 5: Clayton Oates - How to Create a business and design a LifeGold Nuggets It is not enough to be passionate and do what you love. The world must also want what you are offering. Entrepreneurship is about helping others by adding value or creating value where there was none before. Everything we do has a price. It is either moving you towards your goal or away from it. If you are open to hearing and listening, there will always be something that will impact you in some way. Our guest, Clayton Oates, Founder of QA Business in Australia is a twenty-year entrepreneur and self-professed “small business enthusiast. 2020-05-2900 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 4: Rachel Fisch - Not the typical journey of an entrepreneurGold Nuggets You need to ask yourself, how can I give value, use my intellect and help people The entrepreneurs that are most successful are the ones that if they don’t know the answer, they at least are vulnerable enough to say “I don’t know, but let me ask somebody.” Don’t do the stuff you hate to do. Get somebody else to do that, because there is someone else that loves to do that and would do a better job than you and probably spend less time doing it. Our guest, Rachel Fisch, Product Evangelist at Sage has an ent...2020-05-2600 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 3: Dan Holstein - Working In Your Business Is Like Junk FoodGold Nuggets For many business owners, it’s like the duck on the pond. Everything looks smooth on the surface, but below the feet are paddling like crazy. Whatever challenges we are going through now, once they get solved there will be a new set coming at you because that is how we grow. A business is a collection of systems run by great people. Our guest, Dan Holstein is a Business Coach with Kaizen Performance. During our conversation, we discuss Dan’s entrepreneurial journey, what made him get into business coaching, the importance of cont...2020-05-1300 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 2: Shrad Rao - How To Build the Business You Want to Work AtGold Nuggets A new team member should be someone that you would want to invite over to your house for dinner. An entrepreneur shouldn’t love a product or service. They should love problems and solving them. Don’t over plan. As an entrepreneur, it is usually best to execute and then iterate. Our guest, Shrad Rao, CEO and Founder of Wagepoint, a payroll software company with a remote team of over 70 people, always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. During our conversation, we discuss building a remote team of people you love to work...2020-05-1200 min
Smart Man, Smarter Woman PodcastEpisode 1: Juliet Aurora and Steve Loates - Who We Are And Why We Started This Podcast For EntrepreneursWelcome to the first episode of Smart man Smarter woman - a podcast for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs. In this episode we introduce ourselves, share a little about our own entrepreneurial journey as well as outline why we started this podcast for small business owners and what you can expect in future episodes. Song by Adam Vitovsky / CC BY 3.02020-05-1000 min
Friday Night Live with Accountants Andrew Wall & Brad Celmainis2019 #29 Bookkeeping, Hiring, & Other Topics with Juliet Aurora & Steve LoatesMichael Ly, Hector Garcia, & Andrew Wall talk with special guests Juliet Aurora & Steve Loates about bookkeeping, hiring, and other great topics. #cloudaccounting #bookkeeping
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