025 Talented Tabla Maestro & Entrepreneur Ehren Hanson

Happy New Year! Your Living Wealthy Partners Derick and Meghan share their unique methods for setting business goals for 2016. But first, a “Drama in Real Life” story about our website’s Big Hack! As always, we’re here to give ready-to-implement “how to’s” from real-life business stories, so we share the 6 Steps to Fixing a Hacked Website. This is a must-listen for anyone with a web presence—and if you don’t have one, they’re great tips for how to set yours up.

In the spirit of Living Wealthy in 2016, we look at our year-end practices for building success, making connections, and starting the New Year productively and prosperously.

Not sure how to network, or why? Meghan shares a simple trick for networking events that will revolutionize how you represent your passion and gain you more clients and referrals with your very next event! 

What can a Theme do for your year? Derick shares his methods and past themes, to show you how setting a theme for “what, where, when and how” will authentically move you toward being your “Ideal Person / Entrepreneur/ Partner” through action-based plans. What are the leading and lagging indicators that you’re on the right path?

To get the most out of this Episode, check out our Character Diamond course in Episode 36: “How to Launch Your Business and Build Your Brand.”

Our theme this year is providing more “How to’s” for entrepreneurs and business owners; we have new guides coming through the Podcast, and exclusive tools for Newsletter subscribers. Sign up now on www.elwpodcast.com to download the first: our Ultimate Production Tool!

Stay tuned: we have more listener-request content and expert advice on the way!

Today's episode is our holiday gift to you! In Episode 53, we examine how wealth is created, to answer questions that burn in the minds of every entrepreneur: 

Is it work or investments that make you wealthy?
What are the 5 characteristics of self-made millionaires?
What are the key questions that I must ask myself, in order to make my own roadmap to wealth?

We start this episode by visiting a 20-year study of 1,500 middle class Americans. By completion of the study, about 8% (83 out of 1,057) had become millionaires. We share what themes about wealth arose from this incredible research.

To learn more about this study, listen to Episode 35 with Garrett Gunderson. His book, "Killing Sacred Cows," features an article about this study: "The Millionaire Study Summary" by Stephen Palmer. 

Continue listening to hear how you can avoid the financial pitfalls that create stagnation and the wealth-suffocating scarcity mindset.

Listen now, to start 2016 with a winning, prosperous perspective!

Jann Mirchandani is the founder of Westchester Marketing Cafe, a Certified Women Owned Business and a cornerstone Marketing and Web Development resource for Westchester County (just north of Manhattan and the Bronx). Jan started this venture in 1999, with a ton of experience in the field but without much startup planning. She operated for six (!) years on word-of-mouth, no-marketing-whatsoever client procurement. After that healthy amount of testing, developing and refining Westchester Marketing Cafe's focus, Jann unleashed her marketing expertise and grew the company into one of the most respected and trusted marketing firms in the area. 

We at ELW Podcast are thrilled to join Jann in an extensive look at a universal moment in business growth: the moment you decide to go digital (and the many moments when you consider upgrading your digital presence).

What should you handle yourself? What should you outsource? What platform(s) should you use? Where do you turn when you have a question at 3am? What should you look for in a good web development company?

Wonder no longer! Episode 52 shows you how to leverage your digital resources, to level the playing field with the "big dogs." Tune in for one of our most informative, immediately applicable interviews yet!

Nadine Cino, LEED AP, is known for her irrepressible entrepreneur spirit. It’s no surprise that the story of TygaBox™ includes wild twists and turns and a memorable cast of characters! You will love this episode, and you will learn from this episode: we guarantee it!

Nadine is an impassioned sustainability thought leader, speaker, and writer. Over the past 20 years, as the Chief Executive Officer & co-Inventor of Tyga-Box Systems, Inc., Nadine, along with her partner, Marty Spindel, has transformed the moving and storage industry. Their invention, the Tyga-Box System, has helped companies significantly reduce moving costs by 30% and packaging impacts to people and planet by 100% by replacing cardboard boxes with the innovative, reusable, and efficient Tyga-Box System.

We at ELW Podcast have sincere respect for her method of helping the planet with the client-friendly, “Jerry Maguire - show them the money” approach. Nadine promotes her sustainable product by offering an economic benefit. This is a priority about which any triple bottom line enterprise must still be crystal clear.

Currently, Nadine is excited to be bringing Tyga-Trax, the moving industry’s first electronic asset tracking system, to the marketplace. Tyga-Trax is poised to be an assets management game changer, as it is the only system in the world that is hands-free, scan-free, host-free, and completely mobile!

Nadine is honored to be the recipient of the following awards: · 2008 IFMA Associate Member of the Year Award · 2013 International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge Award · 2014 Winner of a New York SmartCEO Brava Award Recently, Nadine has been an invited Speaker at the following industry conferences: · 2014 Sustainability Forum, organized by Global Sustain · 2014 Innovation Forum , organized by CoreNet NY · 2014 IWEC Conference, organized by IWEC Nadine is also a regular contributor to the New York Real Estate Journal on sustainability.

On Episode 49, Kim Grustas teaches us how to 'turn off the noise' so we can save time, communicate efficiently and, best of all, hear where our genuine good sense and experience wants to take us.

Kim has been in the natural products industry for 20 years. Prior to launching Good For You Girls in 2007, she owned an advertising firm that specialized in sports nutrition and beauty. Having been involved in the industry before green was “cool”, Kim has first-hand knowledge of where the industry has been and recognizes exciting trends for the future.

Her own daughters were the inspiration for Good for You Girls, because they were both born with asthma and allergies. Natural was a way of life for her family, but as her daughters got older and their needs changed she could not find any products she felt were safe, age appropriate or effective for them.

Girls today face so many challenging issues, and Kim believes that dodging toxic chemicals should not be one of them.

First and foremost, Kim is unyielding when it comes to protecting her daughters and wants other moms to feel comfort knowing that Good For You Girls products will help their daughters navigate through some of life’s most challenging years by building confidence and fostering self-love.

Sandi Webster is a powerhouse entrepreneur with an incredible career. She knows exactly what your business needs--AND how to build flexible work schedules into your model. Create an employer and employee-friendly work environment that allows you to hire better talent than you ever imagined!

Sandi Webster is a principal of Consultants 2 Go, LLC (C2G) – a certified, minority, women-owned, management consulting firm that provides marketing and analytics consultants on an interim basis or as an outsourced project to Fortune 500 companies in the Financial Services, Telecom, Insurance – and now Pharma -- industries.  The award-winning C2G is on the Inc. 500|5000 Fastest Growing Companies in America list for three consecutive years.

Both Sandi and her business partner, Peggy McHale, and their team are past employees of Fortune 500 companies who now utilize their vast marketing and analytics knowledge to service the needs of their large and mid-size clients. Her consultants are senior executives who have left the corporate world because they needed more flexibility than a corporation allows, and new college grads who want to explore new opportunities before committing to a specific career. Most need little or no training and can hit the ground running. Sandi, and her employees, specialize in developing targeted segmentation and complex analyses for new products and services that allow creative positioning in untapped markets, thereby creating customer awareness, stimulation, usage and retention. Now, their employees are across the US and C2G has offices in New Jersey, New York, Florida and Texas. 

A regular speaker to women and young ladies, Sandi fulfills her passion of ensuring that women are fully prepared for business by sharing pertinent, relevant information on working in corporations as well as entrepreneurship and currently has about 15 mentees.  She participates in the NAWBO-NYC Mentoring Program and the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce’s International Women’s Enterprise Council. Among her awards, she is a past awardee of Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence’s Make Mine a Million $ Business award, NJ Biz Top 50 Women in NJ, and has been featured in Money and Essence magazines.  In 2009, she co-authored Black and White Strike Gold, a book of 52 nuggets designed to help other small business owners grow their businesses to the million dollar mark.

Sandi holds an MBA in Management (International) and a BS in Marketing. She is a member of C200, NAWBO, NAFE, Women’s President Organization and both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Chambers of Commerce. In her spare time, she volunteers with The Carter Burden Center for the Aged in Manhattan, walk for American Cancer Society as well as supports scholarships and food programs for underprivileged children in Jamaica, West Indies.

Michael DiCroce is a blogger, patriot, fitness enthusiast and personal finance expert. Michael is Co-Founder of Hold Fast the Iron, a lifestyle organization dedicated to helping others pursue a life well lived by encouraging them to think differently about fitness, finance and what is important in life. Having faced mounting health issues and piling student debt, Michael dropped out of graduate school and set out on a mission to create a better path based on the positive habits he believes are the key to optimal health, financial freedom, a stable marriage and a life of peace and happiness. Michael is a graduate of Colorado State University and holds a BA in Economics.

Sonya Genel joyfully embraces the power of yoga, not only to heal and transform the body, but also to heighten human consciousness and create a radiant life. We embrace Sonya's real-world, 'use-them-now' insights, as we discusses intuitive decision-making, fearless business building, and running your enterprise the way you run your life.

Sonya is an accredited yoga instructor, artist and solopreneur who is mastering the mission of blending personal passion with enterprise. 

Whether your at the "early CEO" stage of performing every role and relishing in every possibility, or feeling fear around your own (perfectly normal) limitations, Sonya's incredible perspective, total faith in trusting yourself and calm acceptance of success or struggle will help you look at your efforts in a new light. 

Asit Parikh is many things, but in our minds he’s first and foremost an innovator and visionary.

In today's episode he shares all of his background in business on the show, but he also talks in depth about a passion project that I think might be one step toward changing the world. He and his family have created a house that has a net positive in energy…

In other words, its not just green building or environmentally friendly construction; it actually produces more energy than it consumes. Meet the creator of the 'Tesla of Homes' and hear about working with family, making career changes, and developing new technology in a world that's used to doing things the same old, single-bottom-line way.

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