Archive 1 Of Entrepreneurs On Fire

Ameena Falchetto is a serial entrepreneur who has started businesses in the Middle East and France. Five years ago she ditched her corporate suit to share her straight up business and marketing style with the world.

Our guest today might have the most controversial and thought provoking book of the year.   There is huge buzz around Risky Is the New Safe.  Its author Randy Gage joins us for a talk about how the rules have changed and what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur in the new economy.

Entrepreneurship has been Danielles back door approach to having conversations about consciousness. All that fire starting and hustling brought her to a place where she is simply more interested in love, and how to apply it in any given situation.

Gabriel Machuret is a SEO expert, Internet Marketer, SEO professional and a full time Entrepreneur. He believes in people, in dreams, and in passion. He worked as an SEO consultant for over 4 years, helping over 200 clients each year with coaching, link building, and ranking strategies.

Ana never thought Internet marketing would be her career of choice, but when she got her head around SEO, she knew she found her passion. That passion became the centerpiece of her newly popular blog, Traffic Generation Cafe. She is also proud to offer her very special and very thorough blog audits  they dont call her Mad Russian and Tzarina of SEO for no reason you know.

Barbaras credentials include straight D is in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty three.  It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country when she took a 1000 dollar loan to start The Corcoran  Group. She parlayed that loan into a five billion dollar real estate business which she sold in 2001 for 66 million dollars.

After graduating medical school at age 22, Rosh Khan decided he wanted to be an Entrepreneur and founded SocialRank Media from his bedroom in January 2011.  Over the past two years, his bedroom business has grown into a global social media agency. His passionate team at SocialRank Media now work with small and large brands, including the Fortune 500s.  When he's not busy with his agency, he spearheads humanitarian projects in Guyana, South America.

Patrick is the founder of Think Tank, Portland Maines telecommuting hub.   Think Tank is part of a new wave of, shared office space, that is cropping up in cities all over the world.   Think Tank offers a variety of private offices, dedicated desks, conference rooms and shared workstations.  In addition to founding Think Tank, Patrick also sits on the board of Mensk, a stellar non profit arts council that generates public arts programming for the city of Portland.

Andrea is a Social Media Coach, Strategist, and Speaker. She helps Entrepreneurs leverage the power of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn to grow their community and increase their revenue. She facilitates Social Media workshops, Facebook Bootcamps, Facebook webinars as well as one on one coaching and speaking.

Joe Pulizzi is an author, speaker, and evangelist. He is a content marketing expert dedicated to helping companies grow profits by creating better content. In fact, he is one of the founders of the content marketing movement.

Erik does a lot of great stuff online.  Something that I am excited about is his new podcast, Beyond the to do list, which is all about perspectives on personal productivity. He talks with his guests about how they manage their time, prioritize their tasks, and take steps to avoid burnout.

Ric created his dream job, learning and sharing knowledge. He authored the book Social Marketology, a deep dive on social media and process in marketing.  Ric is the co founder and CEO and of DragonSearch, a full service digital marketing agency providing service to wonderful businesses throughout the US.

Stephanie Sammons is founder and CEO of Wired Advisor.com, a digital leadership platform that is primarily focused on the financial services industry and professional services. Stephanie also consults on how to excel at digital leadership, building online influence and trust, and growing digital equity in the age of social media.

Gary is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Selling author who is also a self trained wine and social media expert. From a young age, it was clear that Gary was a businessman. At 8 years old he was operating seven lemonade stands in his neighborhood and by 10 he had moved onto selling baseball cards at local malls.

Woody dropped out of high school at 16, was a millionaire at 26, and was broke by 27. Within five years of being nearly bankrupt, he built a 30 million dollar company. Listen as he tells you his story.

Back to the Roots was founded by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora.  They came across the idea during a class lecture of being able to potentially grow gourmet mushrooms entirely on recycled coffee grounds. Inspired by the idea of turning waste into wages and fresh, local food, they became full-time urban mushroom farmers and back to the roots was born.

PJ is married and homeschools her 8 kids. In 2008 she began a goat milk soap business with her family.  That business now distributes soap world wide and has been featured on the TODAY show and in the Oprah magazine.  PJ has a passion for helping busy moms and reaches out with her podcast, facebook page, blog, and tweets.  Running her business and taking care of her family keeps her very very busy. And she loves it.

Dan is the President of 48 Days LLC which specializes in creative thinking for increased personal and business success. He believes that meaningful work blends our natural skills and abilities, our unique personality traits and our dreams and passions.

Jim loves design, user experience, Facebook development, and problem solving. He uses those skills everyday as CEO for ShortStack.com.  With ShortStack you can create custom Facebook Pages, easily add contests, sweepstakes, video, custom forms, and more. Shortstack is used in over 168 countries worldwide and serves more than 450 million fans on Facebook.

Nathalie Lussier found success as the Raw Foods Witch, where she teaches people about the benefits of raw foods. She has since used her tech, design, and marketing skills to create Natalie Lussier Media where she helps small online businesses get off the ground.