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15 Minute Founder Presented by doola:

Brook Hiddink is an entrepreneur and content creator, renowned for his expertise in building online income streams, particularly in the realm of high-ticket eCommerce. As the founder and CEO of Supplier HQ, the largest high-ticket supplier database, Brook helps streamline the process for digital entrepreneurs to find premium products for their businesses. He has also gained significant recognition for his High Ticket eCommerce Incubator Program, where he shares his knowledge and strategies to help others achieve financial success through digital entrepreneurship.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:06 - Unpacking the Real Excitement Behind Achieving Your Goals

02:42 - Goals and Daily Actions for High-Ticket E-Commerce and Supplier HQ

05:45 - What is Dropshipping?

07:15 - The Entrepreneur Journey

10:39 - Money, Fame, Power, Pleasure

11:55 - Taking the Initial Plunge

13:53 - Dealing with Critics

14:24 - $0-$4mil in One Year

16:31 - Morning Routine

17:26 - Systems for Exercise

18:37 - Work/Life Balance

19:09 - An Important Truth

20:21 - Your Entrepreneurial Itch

21:48 - Following Your Passion

22:23 - Biggest Dropshipping Mistakes

23:44 - Rapid Fire Questions

22 February 2024: Donna Benton told Richard and Neil how she built, exited and later on rejoined her brainchild The Entertainer, and the lessons she learned along the way. 
Mahmoud Bartawi sold Under500, a business he built from the ground up, to Kitopi, a $1.6billion unicorn, and is now mentoring other entrepreneurs. 
And can you juggle two careers at the same time? Miguel Angel Polonia can - he's a circus performer and psychotherapist.

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Neurophysiologist and human performance coach, Louisa Nicola is the founder and head performance advisor of Neuro Athletics - a human performance coaching firm that boasts the highest-performing athletes and executives in the world. Neuro Athletics brings science-based solutions to elite performers who want to perform at their peak. Louisa graduated from the University of Sydney Medical School and specializes in neurophysiology. 

Louisa serves on the board of Momentous, Hone Health, Tonal and Klora  

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:29 When did you know you wanted to become a performance coach?

02:00 Evolving into a media platform

03:03 Discovering and evolving your content

04:51 Overcoming challenges

06:01 Training athletes & CEOs to achieve peak performance

06:49 Morning habits of high performers 

10:00 The link between morning routines and achieving success

11:59 Setting goals 

14:09 Best way to approach exercise 

15:40 Enhancing your health to combat Alzheimer’s disease

17:07 Common diet mistakes 

19:12 Maximizing sleep quality

22:33 What’s your morning routine 

24:00 What diet works for you

25:04 Deviating from your routine

26:22 Productivity tips

28:25 Identifying the ideal number of work hours 

30:37 Future goals 

31:33 Money, power, fame, or pleasure

32:06 Exploring personal beliefs 

32:51 Rapid fire questions 

01 February 2024: Gregory Lewis tells us why his business AirDXB is thriving in Dubai.

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Have you ever witnessed a moment where ambition and innovation collide? Uthman Alibalogun, the co-founder of Monocle, an innovative social e-reading app, joins us to share his journey from a Nigerian immigrant to an entrepreneurial innovator in the tech industry. 

Our conversation with Uthman isn't just about technology; it's a deeper exploration of personal development through his experience as a college student at North Carolina A&T, Tech Co-founder, and Graduate Student at UC Berkeley.   Plus, we celebrate the team of Black men behind Monocle as they forge a new narrative in the ed-tech space, fostering pride and a strong sense of community.

Wrapping up, Uthman lays out his vision for Monocle - a tool that promises to weave readers into a tightly-knit shared knowledge and discourse fabric. From its potential in academic peer reviews to chipping away at intellectual stereotypes, Monocle is poised to make waves in the educational landscape. We end on a personal note, sharing Uthman's inspiring climb of Mount Fuji, a testament to how life's unplanned routes can lead to fulfilling dreams. It's a session that's as much about the transformative power of reading as it is about the milestones on the entrepreneurship journey. Join us for an episode that's bound to ignite a spark within, whether you're a book lover, a tech enthusiast, or a dreamer looking to leave your mark on the world.

In this episode, we sit down with Zach Pogrob, exploring his realm of passionate pursuit and following ‘obsession.’ 

As a writer, creator, and entrepreneur, Zach Pogrob has amassed over 2 million followers on Instagram and TikTok with his writing and animations. His goal is to motivate people worldwide to reach their goals by embracing their obsessions. 

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:44 What is Obsession

01:45 The Story Behind Obsession

03:11 Long-Term Mindset

04:11 Money, Power, Pleasure, or Fame

05:00 Unlocking Instagram Success 

06:34 Vision for the Future

08:13 Unwavering in the Unpopular

09:53 Work/Life Balance

10:56 Finding Your Obsession

12:06 Dealing with Critics

13:24 Relationship Advice

14:22 Keystone Habit

15:03 Uncovering My Lesser-Known Traits

16:02 What Message Would You Share with the World?

17:05 Rapid Fire Questions

In this episode, we chat with Billy McFarland and dive deep into the world of entrepreneurship.

Billy McFarland is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and media personality. He is the Founder and CEO of FYRE Holdings and FYRE Festival II. Billy is the subject of ongoing television, film, and theatre projects. His unique experiences and insights have made him a sought-after speaker at top television networks, podcasts, and conferences, where he shares his expertise in media, entertainment, marketing, and the valuable lessons learned from his 4 years in prison.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:13 Fyre Festival 1 & 2

00:53 ​​The Original Idea for Fyre

01:12 Organizing Fyre Festival

01:49 Chaos Theory

02:15 Past Businesses

02:43 How You Approach Marketing

03:18 Vision for Fyre Festival

03:58 Money, Fame, Power, or Pleasure

04:38 Habits and Rituals

05:19 Message for Aspiring Entrepreneurs

05:35 A Pivotal Moment

06:07 Entrepreneurs Who Inspire You

08:18 An Important Truth You Believe In

08:57 The Power of Brand

09:33 Most Succesful Marketing Initiative

10:28 Work/Life Balance

10:56 Coping with the Ups and Downs

11:45 Ambition and Drive

13:19 Relationship Advice

13:40 Personal Questions

In this episode we chat with Nate O’Brien to discover what it takes to become a YouTuber, the importance of building a Personal Brand, and how to start investing in start-ups.

Nate O’Brien is an American investor, entrepreneur, and internet personality. He is best known for his personal finance and lifestyle YouTube channel which has amassed 1.3 million subscribers and more than 50 million views. In addition to YouTube, Nate runs Roadrunner VC, a venture fund focused on early stage technology companies.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:27 - Dream Profession for 7 Year Olds

01:35 - Steps to Becoming a YouTuber

02:24 - Hesitant to Start a Personal Brand

02:50 - Going from 0 to 100

03:53 - Becoming a Better Speaker

04:37 - Finding Your Lane

05:27 - Past and Present Motivation

06:00 - Setting Your Milestones

07:10 - From Creator to Investor

08:25 - Getting Started with Investing

09:35 - Optimizing Your Time

10:37 - Know the Founder

11:32 - Best Platform to Build Your Brand

12:45 - Being Obsessed with YouTube

13:21 - Work LIfe Balance

14:00 - Money, Fame, Power, or Pleasure

14:51 - Losing the Love for It

15:50 - What Creator Would You Want to Be

16:31 - The Power of Personal Brand

17:50 - The Pivotal Moment

19:00 - Thoughts on Caffeine 

19:40 - Morning Routine

20:38 - Advice for Starting a Business

21:38 - What Does the Future Look Like

We're excited to have Amanda Goetz on #15MinuteFounder podcast. Join us as we dive deep into the world of entrepreneurship, startups, and innovation. 

What drives Amanda to be a creator on top of her already impressive list of accomplishments? How do we deal with fear in everyday tasks and finally learn from that? Get ready for another insightful 15 minutes and find out more!

TIMESTAMPS: 

00:27 - Incredible Story of Amanda’s Dad

01:59 - Amanda’s Career Path From Founder to Creator

02:51 - Four Idols: Money, Pleasure, Power and Fame

03:36 - Enjoy Life and Have Fun

04:11 - What Would Amanda Tell Her 20-year-old Self

04:58 - What Leads Amanda to Be a Creator

05:30 - Follow the Things That Give You Energy

06:55 - “Success 2.0”

08:10 - Find out Your Pillars of Success

09:05 - Offense VS Defense Strategy

09:36 - Meetings Philosophy

09:58 - “Commute Bath” from Work to Family

11:00 - Try Going Deeper in a Relationship

11:40 - Overcome Your Fear and Shoot Your Shot

12:02 - Say No to Excuses 

14:05 - Find out Where Your Fear Comes From

Ankur Nagpal, the founder of Teachable and Ocho, joins Arjun Mahadevan in our second episode of the 15 Minute Founder presented by doola. 

What’s the trade-off between focusing on your career versus spending time with family? Why start a new company after a successful exit? What are the common misconceptions of being a founder versus being an investor? Hear what Ankur has to say about this and more!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:18 - How Did Ankur End Up in America

01:30 - Focusing on Career or Spending Time with Family

02:15 - Starting a New Business After a Successful Exit

04:00 - Focusing on Product or Focusing on Distribution

05:08 - Over 50 Employees Can Suck

06:05 - No Money Spent on Marketing

07:50 - What Drives Ankur Nagpal

09:23 - How Ankur Constructs His Day

10:15 - Most Productive Environment

11:56 - The Illusion of Work in a Startup

13:01 - Building Relationships with Customers

13:56 - Founders vs Investors

15:32 - Being a Better Investor

16:20 - Biggest Piece of Relationship Advice

18:55 - The Fear of Hitting Send

20:50 - Canvas of Your Life’s Work

We had an amazing time sitting down with Sahil Bloom to discover how to work on the right things by making positive life changes and improving your environment. What drives Sahil Bloom? What are his top performing traits to succeed? What is Sahil's morning routine? Find out all of this and more in our first 15 Minute Founder podcast!

TIMESTAMPS:

00:04 - Podcast Introduction

00:22 - Sahil Bloom’s Story

02:55 - Working on the Right Things

04:33 - What Drives You Now

08:40 - Top Performing Traits

10:47 - How to Make Positive Changes

14:18 - Sahil’s Morning Routine

15:25 - Improving Your Environment

17:11 - Breaking Up with Friends

18:48 - How to Get Out of a Rut

20:29 - Working Hard is Risky

23:12 - Biggest Relationship Advice

The trio of co-founders from Sleuth – Dylan Etkin, Founder & CEO; Don Brown, Co-Founder & CTO; and Michael Knighten, Co-Founder & COO share their unique experience founding a company with three co-founders & navigating the division of responsibilities with mutual trust / respect. We also cover the challenges & opportunities of moving to a small startup from a large, high-growth org; what Sleuth’s early-day decision-making process looked like; frameworks for avoiding the “at bat” trap while iterating; hidden work elements; paradigm shifts regarding deployment tracking; and more.

ABOUT DYLAN ETKIN

Dylan Etkin (@detkin) is CEO & Co-Founder of Sleuth, the leading DORA metrics tracker. As one of the first 20 employees at Atlassian, Dylan was a founding engineer and the first Architect of Jira. He has led engineering for products at scale in Bitbucket and Statuspage. He has a masters in computer science from ASU. He’s a bit of a space nut and has been seen climbing around inside of a life-size replica of the Mir space station in Star City Russia.

ABOUT DON BROWN

Don lives and breathe software - wearing developer, architect, and manager hats for over 20 years. He was an early Atlassian architect for over 10 years working on products including Confluence, HipChat, and Atlassian Cloud. Don is currently the co-founder and CTO of Sleuth, a DORA metrics tracker. He has spoken at conferences including DevOps World, JavaOne, and Devoxx.

ABOUT MICHAEL KNIGHTEN

Michael built Atlassian’s cloud offerings from the ground up, following stints at Apple and PGP, eventually running company-wide strategy and operations, and helped take the company public in 2015. With a deep background in product and finance, he now runs go-to-market and finance at Sleuth.

ABOUT SLEUTH

Sleuth is an Engineering Efficiency platform that provides a complete and accurate view of your DORA metrics - giving you visibility into bottlenecks and tools to automate workflows. Sleuth works by integrating with your entire toolchain - from issue tracker, source control, CI/CD, feature flag, incident tracker, to observability tools - to provide the baselines, context, and insights you need to improve efficiency.

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SHOW NOTES:

• The story of Michael connecting with Don & Dylan @ Atlassian (3:21)
• Background behind Sleuth & connecting as three co-founders (6:46)
• How Michael, Don, & Dylan identified that they were working on the same problem but from different angles (8:59)
• Don’s key considerations for joining Michael & Dylan (11:48)
• The dynamic of having three co-founders while building Sleuth (14:16)
• How they delineated roles / responsibilities (16:10)
• Why respect is a foundational tenet that avoids overstepping roles (17:18)
• Strategies for navigating the product hand-off to new team members (20:01)
• Hidden work elements Michael identified while clearing the decks (23:03)
• What the early building process / decision making was like (25:50)
• Frameworks for avoiding the “at bat” trap while iterating (29:45)
• Sleuth’s paradigm shift around deployment tracking (32:38)
• Surprising insights / feedback that led to Sleuth’s new direction (34:41)
• How they established a repeatable channel that gets more customers (36:11)
• Mindset shifts when moving from a large, successful company to founding a startup (38:50)
• Rapid fire questions (40:20)

LINKS AND RESOURCES

• Game of Thrones - A series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin that chronicles the power struggle for the Iron Throne among the great Houses of Westeros following the death of King Robert.
• The Books of Earthsea - Ursula K. Le Guin’s series of fantasy books set in the fictional archipelago of Earthsea and centers on a young mage named Ged, born in a village on the island of Gont.

This episode wouldn’t have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:

Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-Host

Jerry Li - Co-Host

Noah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/

Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan’s also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/

Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/

The Perfect Stress Podcast will be on hold for the near future.  I want to thank you so much for listening and supporting this podcast, and hope that it provided some value to you.  I hope to restart the podcast at some point once the MyStressAlarm app has good traction.

Please follow https://www.facebook.com/PerfectStress for updates on this podcast and  https://www.MyStressAlarm.com/

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PLEASE READ:  The Perfect Stress podcast does not provide medical or nutritional advice, nor is it a substitute for medical or nutritional advice, and is not intended for the prevention, cure or mitigation of a medical condition or disease. This podcast provides information only. Please consult a physician or nutritionist for advice.

Vacations can be expensive, especially in an inflationary economy.  But your mental health is quite important too.  In this short episode I offer my two cents on how to maximize the benefits of vacation and keep stress in check between vacations.

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Die Crowdfundingplattform «wemakeit» verkauft gerade aktuell Aktien an die Mitarbeiter:innen und an die Community und ist damit nicht alleine. Auch international gibt es viele Start-Ups, die diesen Weg als Geschäftsmodell wählen.

Damit kommt einerseits Geld in die Kasse, andererseits bestimmt die Community so über die Zukunft des Unternehmens mit. «Magazin»-Autor Hannes Grassegger hat sich diesen Trend angesehen und sich gefragt, weshalb sich Unternehmen dafür entscheiden, worum es bei dieser «Exit to Community»-Strategie überhaupt geht und was das für uns alle bedeutet. Mirja Gabathuler ist Host dieser Episode.

Der ganze Text von Hannes Grassegger ist hier zu finden (ABO): 
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It's inevitable that at some point in our lives, personal and otherwise, we're going to need to partner with someone, and that could be a huge source of stress if you don't go about it right.  Check out this week's episode to get my two cents on the topic.

*Please note that there will be no episode the week of June 20th so that I may recharge :)

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PLEASE READ:  The Perfect Stress podcast does not provide medical or nutritional advice, nor is it a substitute for medical or nutritional advice, and is not intended for the prevention, cure or mitigation of a medical condition or disease. This podcast provides information only. Please consult a physician or nutritionist for advice.

There are a million and one excuses for putting off fixing an issue, not tackling it head on, but in almost every case, the benefits outweigh the short-term hassle…by a lot!  Acute stress vs chronic stress.  Tune in to get my two cents on the topic.

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PLEASE READ:  The Perfect Stress podcast does not provide medical or nutritional advice, nor is it a substitute for medical or nutritional advice, and is not intended for the prevention, cure or mitigation of a medical condition or disease. This podcast provides information only. Please consult a physician or nutritionist for advice.

Taking vacation is not counter productive, and helps working within your constraints so you can sustain a satisfactory  rate of progress on your goals.  Check out this week's episode  to get my two cents on the topic.

*Please note that there will be no episode the week of May 30th so that I may recharge :)

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PLEASE READ:  The Perfect Stress podcast does not provide medical or nutritional advice, nor is it a substitute for medical or nutritional advice, and is not intended for the prevention, cure or mitigation of a medical condition or disease. This podcast provides information only. Please consult a physician or nutritionist for advice.