The Proven Entrepreneur
It can feel lonely to be an entrepreneur. With so much on your plate, it is easy to lose focus because of all the details. At times your personal, family &/or professional lives can feel like they are falling off the tracks.
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The Physicist Who Sold Everything to Learn What Really Builds a Business | Randy Lyman (opens the original)
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He had the degrees. He had the patents. He had built not one but multiple eight-figure companies from the ground up. By every measure that business school teaches, Randy Lyman had already won. So why did a brand new truck he waited eight months for feel like nothing at all after two days? That question sits at the heart of this conversation between host Don Williams and physicist turned entrepreneur Randy Lyman on The Proven Entrepreneur Show. Randy spent decades doing everything the right way.
The Franchise Matchmaker: How Melissa Lewis Helps Entrepreneurs Buy the Right Franchise the First Time (opens the original)
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Most people who buy a franchise fall in love before they ever run the numbers. And by the time they realize their mistake, they've already signed the check. On this episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show, host Don Williams sits down with Melissa Lewis, known in the industry as The Franchisologist, for a conversation that every entrepreneur, aspiring business owner and corporate professional thinking about their next move needs to hear. Melissa has spent over two decades matching people to franc
Not Your Fault, But Your Responsibility: Jon Benson on Selling With Truth (opens the original)
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He was 280 pounds, fighting fourteen different illnesses, and just thirty eight years old when his heart nearly stopped for good. Nobody watching him back then would have guessed that the man on that hospital bed would go on to write some of the most persuasive words the marketing world has ever seen, words that helped everyday business owners sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of products and services. This episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show brings host Don Williams face to face wi
From Architect to Agency Leader: A 22 Year Lesson in Delegation and Trust | Jarrod Lopiccolo (opens the original)
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A ringing phone. A five o'clock deadline. A tree lighting ceremony his kids were waiting for. On this episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show, host Don Williams sits down with Jarrod Lopiccolo, co founder of Noble Studios, for a conversation that starts with a single choice and ends up rewriting how he leads his company today. Twenty two years ago, Jarrod and his wife started Noble Studios as a creative digital agency built on family values, though never on nepotism. Since then it has grown into
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