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Introducing Greg Koberger Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a lady who for many years worked in the corporate environment. He hails from the lovely town of Schaghticoke (pronounced scat-a-coke) in upstate New York. After attending RIT he made the move to San Francisco where he’s worked for Mozilla, and freelanced for a bunch of startups. In fact when Greg interviewed at Mozilla, he was asked where he wanted to be in five years. His answer? Well most of the time you would expect a response in the line of "I want to firmly providing daily value to your customers and stakeholders" or other such waffle. Our guest today instead answered "Running my own startup." Four years and 363 days later, after several starts and stops, years of freelancing, and a failed Y Combinator application, he achieved his goal just ahead of deadline. It proves that the glamorous world of startups are just as prone to failure as they are global success. Interestingly,  early on, Greg discovered a unique team-buildin

Today's guest is a lady who has had many careers in her life, so it will be of great interest to discover if she feels what she is doing now is THE thing. She was a Wall Street Investment banker with a desire for fashion she could wear to work,to dinner,on weekends,and on world travels. She needed the perfect dress that could do it all,but couldn’t find it. So, Sarah made it herself. Inspired to make the most comfortable,versatile,vibrant fashion on the market, Sarah launched Leota in 2011 on the principles of empowerment, size-inclusiveness, and optimism. What began with one perfect dress made on Sarah’s home sewing machine has become a complete women’s fashion collection carried in more than 500 fine retailers globally and at the company’s flagship Boutique in Manhattan. Under Sarah’s leadership,Leota scaled up to become one of the fastest-growing women-led companies in the U.S. How The Dots Joined Up For Sarah Sarah is a 2-time Inc.500 CEO,a Smart CEO Future 50 award winner,has been honoured in Women 2 Wat

Today's episode of Join Up Dots brings you two very different stories from the world of business success. One is from a guy in the United Kingdom who first connected with us at Join Up Dots back in 2015. His name is Neil C Hughes, who runs the Tech Talk Daily Podcast and just recently has hit over 1,000 episodes. The second guy is a chap who first connected with us at Join Up Dots about two years ago, and wasn't in the right position to start building his own dream. Roll on a couple of years and he has now created a million dollar business in just three weeks. Amazing stuff So where do you sit in regards to building your own dream? Ready to play the long game, or wanting to hit it out of the park as quickly as you can?

Introducing Zachary Babcock Zachary Babcock is todays guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a man who is an entrepreneur, business coaching and ex-prisoner who has turned his life around spectacularly. As the founder of Underdog Empowerment, he teaches underdog entrepreneurs to launch, grow, and monetize top shelf passive income businesses and personal brands. But it hasn't been easy and as he says "I had to learn the hard way as I began building my business. It was time to get to work when I got out of prison on October 2nd, 2014. It definitely wasn’t easy. I got into entrepreneurship because I didn’t have many options, plus I liked the idea of betting on myself. How The Dots Joined For Zachary However, it was a struggle, and I barely got by. I did network marketing for 2 years, made almost $2k a month within my first 6 months, but that just wasn’t my thing. My business crumbled and I left after 2 years. At the very beginning of 2017, I became a ‘life coach’. I didn’t make a single penny or help an

Introducing Tim Collings Tim Collings is today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a Brit living in in Australia. Tim started out his corporate working career as many of us do. Constrained by the boundaries of a system Tim quickly realised that the way he thought about things was different to the way the boss wanted things done. Luckily Tim had some great bosses and strong leaders that recognised that his potential for greatness resided not within a system but with servicing clients and delivering on their needs and once he was let off the leash so to speak he kicked goal after goal. However like many successful employees Tim wanted more and ultimately he wanted his own business. All the years within the corporate framework set Tim up nicely to make the transition into his own business. As he says " I spent 15 years working in global corporates both finding my way as a leader, and really feeling the difference between leaders who tried to model the business on themselves rather than those who nu

Introducing Remy Blumenfeld Todays guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a man who believes that life is one big game. We are here to create an amazing life, leave a legacy and do it all with purpose, grace and ease. Spending his day coaching leaders to do just that, fuelled by innovation and creativity his in arenas such as Arts and Culture, media, television, film, fashion and advertising. His clients include directors of national arts organizations, worldwide ad agencies and a wide range of entrepreneurs. Now as most of our guests share time and time again, his working career didn't start with where he is today. Starting his career as a TV presenter in the USA, he launched his first TV Production company out of his bedroom. He sold it eight years later to the world’s largest production company where it became the producer of Big Brother. How The Dots Joined For Remy He has served the board of Endemol UK and later the board of ITV Studios where he was director of Formats. There he was responsible

In today's podcast episode we look at a couple for emails that we have received in the Join Up Dots headquarters over the last few weeks. You see so many people listen to a show like Join Up Dots and actually never ever do anything to make a change in their lives. They get trapped in either making the wrong commitments to change, or even worse never making them in the first place. Well today's show starts with a guy from Australia called Simon. As you can see from his email below, Simon make a commitment to have a beer with the host of Join Up Dots within two years. And guess what...he made it happen "Hi David, Have been listening to JUD for a little while now and I must say thank you very much for delivering such a brilliant show to us. I finished today’s Healthy Living episode with Dr Phil Carson and sat there in my car thinking to myself, David has really nailed all of this, the intro, outro, all of it, just brilliant. I have a long back story, but I won’t bore you with it, however due to your podcast, you

Todays guest is a lady who has had many careers in her life, so it will be of great interest to discover if she feels what she is doing now is THE thing. We first spoke to her back on episode 287 of Join Up Dots and it was certainly a powerful episode. Born in East Chicago Heights, Illinois she was reared in rural Hart Michigan. After beginning college at Eastern Michigan University, she returned to her roots in Chicago where she began a federal career with the department of Housing and Urban Development. And then it seems strange to see it from an outsiders point of view, but it was during this time that she became a protégé of Grammy Winning Songwriter and Arranger, Eugen Record and had three releases under the name the Chilites. But her life has been one of contrast as away from the glamour of musical output, she has for 35 years worked in civilian government service, seven years as a labor leader, and as a national negotiator. She is a lady that knows how to get her point across and can make a difference

Introducing Tom Libelt Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast has had a very interesting story to where he is today. Starting his life in Poland, he learned from a young age how to sell and negotiate business by getting haggled by Russian vendors. His family moved from Poland to the US to escape communism, and his parents took any job they could to survive. This was a huge learning curve for him, and seeing his parents work their tails off truly motivated him to never want a job. He didn't care what it was as such, but certainly the drive to earn his own cash, scaled his earning potential and living the life of his dreams was now his to work towards. And that is what he did, moving forward as an entrepreneur, publisher, salesman, and one of the top Polish hip hop artists. All of these hustle and online commitment allowed him to move where he wants to be across the world, leading him to Chiang Mai, Thailand. How The Dots Joined For Tom He now runs Smart Brand Marketing and We Market Online Course

Kelly Dinardo is today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast who quite simply has hit that spot when life is business and business is life. When you see her state "I keep expecting to be told to get a real job. In the meantime, I’ll travel the world with my yoga mat, interview future royalty and experiment with skiing uphill." then you know that she is doing things her own way. As she says "I am the author of several books, including Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique and Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom beyond the Mat. I am the host of the Living It podcast, which explores yoga concepts by talking to compelling people in the health/wellness and yoga world. And I am the owner of Past Tense yoga studio in Washington, D.C. As a freelance journalist, I specialize in exploration – whether it’s internally through yoga and meditation, physically through health and fitness, culturally and socially through profiles, or the myriad ways travel brings all of that to

Katherine Liola is today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast and is a guest has a different way of looking at our finances. She is the co-founder of Concentric Private Wealth, based in North Virginia, a financial planning company with a difference. She doesn't believe in budgets. She doesn't believe that giving your children money is always the best thing to do. She doesn't believe that all financial advice is right for all people. As she says "There’s more to financial planning than pre-made forms and plugging numbers into an automated tool. We prefer to discuss your goals, of course – but dive a little deeper, talk through your situation, and fully understand why you make the choices you make. So we begin with a conversation. You’re investing for specific goals, life milestones, dreams you’d like to play out. The deeper our understanding, the better we can ensure your financial well-being. So as you can see this is going to be a different episode of Join Up Dots for sure. So whe

In today's episode of Join Up Dots David Ralph talks on a series of wide ranging subjects as you would expect. He does have a lot of time to fill after all. So as you will hear on the show, he discusses why obsession is great and leads you to being as good as you can get at. Why you should really find a thing that the world sees you as being an expert in. Why a personal brand is the key to the majority of success that you can get online. But first, lets start with answering a few questions that have been taken from emails received at Join Up Dots headquarters over the last few months. Question One Dear David, loving the show my good man. It keeps me company on long drives through Northern Alaska for my work. Can I ask you a question "What is the number one piece of advice that you give your children everyday" and do they listen to you? James Cenerzon Question Two Mr Loverman, are you really as sexy as you keep on telling us? I was inspired by your recent vacation you took to I believe America. I cant imagine

Introducing Curt Mercandante Curt Mercadante is an international speaker, coach, trainer and disruptive entrepreneur whose mission is to save the world by helping people fight for lives of freedom and fulfilment. And one thing for sure his life looks very different from what it once did. Back in the day he was a man on a mission to create success in the manner that the world said was success. He was in the midst of running an extremely successful public relations/advertising agency and landing one big client after another. You move around a lot in that walk of life. Regular flights to catch meetings…conference calls and follow-ups…managing the collective anxieties of a demanding clientele base. His family was growing and so was his bank account. Mercadante did what he could to embrace the little moments that matter whenever they cascaded into view, but he also had to contend with the next thing: the next meeting, the next fire to put out, the next brand to promote. A carousel ride that continued in seeming pe

Introducing Kat Byles Kat Byles is today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast and is a lady who has been on quite a journey. She is a Business and Creativity Consultant with 25 years experience working with entrepreneurs, change makers, creatives and global brands. Only those that are truly making a difference including Homeless World Cup, Nike, UEFA, Vodafone Foundation, Good Energy, Beyond Sport, Eric Cantona, Desmond Tutu, Colin Farrell and Lewis Hamilton. In 2000 she founded Authentic PR, providing communication with integrity for businesses with a positive purpose, as featured in The Guardian, The Times and Director; and for 6 years was the Global Communications Director, Homeless World Cup, which she grew from 20 to 70 nations positively impacting 250,000 homeless people. She generated well over $25 million in media coverage and was executive producer for Kicking It narrated by Colin Farrell selected for Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals and sold to the US sports TV channel

In todays podcast episode we reveal three stories of success that has occured through the Join Up Dots podcast. All of them are very different, but lead to a realisation that success is already within you. You dont look for success outside of your area of experience, but you look for it in whatever you can do best. You see more and more people start thinking that they have to create something new and exciting. This is as much for them as it is for their customers. as they see what they normally do as something boring or not needed. "Why should anyone want this thing" they cry out to the world "Its easy...i can do it just like that" However the truth is very very different indeed.

Do you ever have days or times when you would rather pull the duvet up over your head and let the world just get on with it? You either cant be bothered, or more likely you are doubting yourself and you think that you arent enough for what the world wants from you? I know that I struggle with this a lot and in this podcast episode I share a graduation speech from one of the creators of the global hit movie "Frozen" Jennifer Lee gets up and addresses a bunch of eager graduates as to the daily struggle that she has everyday to believe in herself and bring her talents to the world. As you will hear for years she fought against really putting herself out there, until she got a grip of herself and stopped allowing the doubts to freeze her to the spot. And as we know success came rappidly after that decision was made, ane every small child in the world would walk around singing "Let It Go" as loudly as they could. Its brilliant to see and its also brilliant to hear as without her inner belief increasing we wouldnt

Introducing Ramesh Dontha Ramesh Dontha is today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast is a man who thinks the world is doing things wrong. He is the author of the brand new book "The Agile Entrepreneur, The 60 Minute Startup" - A proven system to start your business in 1 hour a day and get your first paying customers in 30 days or less" Bold and exciting statement, so let's hear what he has to say. As he says "I know you’re well aware that would-be entrepreneurs get bombarded with all kinds of business advice all day, every day. It’s like all they have to do is add “self-employed” to their Facebook profile, and they start seeing ads for webinars and expensive training that they’re told they “must” enroll in to be successful.  Not to mention that most of them have never started and grown a business before, and as they try to figure it out, they can’t see the forest for the trees! That’s why I am publishing a book my book. I think there's a better way for sure" So has he gone through

Today's podcast comes to your ears a bit later than usual. This is because I have been away on a five week vacation travelling around America with my family. During that time I learnt so much in regards to peoples desire to "Not have" a business, but how to live a life with no hassle or restrictions. It's not about having the business that excites people, but its about spending time with the family, watching Netflix on a Monday morning and still have the bills paid. So in this episode we talk about the early steps you can take to make this dream come true. We talk about making the bridge to cross to financial freedom as small as possible. Enjoy!!

Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots business coaching podcast is a Husband, Father of 3, Entrepreneurial Businessman, Coach, Consultant and constantly learning how to evolve into the Greatest Man I can be… As he says "I am passionate about helping Men release their Past Limiting Beliefs, Influences and Emotions so they can lift the weight of the World from their Mind and Step into the Man they want to be Mentally, Physically and Spiritually... After 20 years trying to “Have it All” in life,  I found myself feeling unfulfilled, unhappy and thinking their was something was wrong with me...  I hit rock bottom abusing Alcohol to numb the pain.... End of 2015, Greg and his wife were packing up our lives to move back to Australia. They had just spent two years living in Singapore – where he was stationed to setup a US company in South-East Asia. They made the decision to move to an area where they had never lived before and they had big plans to start my own business after 20+ years in Corporate. How The D

Introducing Kathleen Ann Today's guest joining us on the Join Up Dots podcast is a lady who for many years worked in the corporate environment. Building someone else's dream wasn't hers and she had to do something about it. So heading into the world of "doing it herself" she became an entrepreneur and well and truly smashed down those corporate walls forever. Kathleen Ann is known as the “Money & Marketing Champion” for heart-centred women entrepreneurs (and enlightened men!). She is the Founder of ‘Power Up Your Marketing’ and holds multiple Money and Marketing Coach certifications. Niching down tightly she now works with service based women business owners to help them create and grow financially successful businesses based around their passion and unique brilliance. Her marketing expertise and insight have helped women around the world to stand out and position themselves as the expert in their field. But this is just part of her business building strategy as she also helps her clients to move away fro