Startup Dad Headquarters Podcast: Father | Entrepreneur | Family | Leader | Coach

Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who can be an ideal customer. Tom helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and solopreneurs get featured on leading podcasts their prospects are already listening to. He then shows them how to turn listeners into customers.

Adam Binder is an innovative entrepreneur, web designer, blogger, life-long student, teacher and father. He is dedicated to assisting businesses in achieving growth through new initiatives and the design and marketing and business development programs.

Jay Samit is a best-selling author and is a lead technology innovator who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups. He’s sold companies to Fortune 500 firms, taken companies public and partnered with some of the world’s biggest brands.

Jay Forte is a business and motivational speaker, as well as a certified CEO, family and leadership coach. He's also an author and a nationally-ranked thought leader. Jay combines talent, strength-based and mindfulness tools to help people to discover, develop and live what is best in them to achieve exceptional personal and professional results.

Robert Hartline is the founder of Call Proof, and as a serial entrepreneur, he’s built his businesses to a point where they generate $24 million in total revenue. His expertise around sales and automated follow up sequences help hundreds of entrepreneurs and salespeople.

Simon Granner is an independent financial advisor. He and his team help high-performing entrepreneurs reach financial freedom. /

Russ Ruffino is the founder of Clients on Demand, the most reliable client attraction system in the world. Russ built a multi-million dollar business helping experts create simple, strong and repeatable marketing and sales processes that attract the perfect client at the perfect price, anytime they want. Russ is a proud father and a true lifestyle entrepreneur, only working 20 to 30 hours a week.

Dennis Brown is a LinkedIn marketing and social selling expert, consultant and speaker who has built three multi-million dollar companies during his career as an entrepreneur. His companies have ranked by Inc. Magazine 6 times as one of the fastest growing companies in America. He's also the author of "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful LinkedIn Users" and lives in Clarence, NY, with his wife and two children.

Joel spent the majority of 90’s in radio and TV business. He currently hosts the ReLaunch Show (#1 podcast on iTunes N&N). His #1 bestselling book “Finding your Voice” was featured on TV near 50 times.  Joel’s also a Huffington Post and Success.com Contributor.

Tanel Jappinen (TJ) is 31-year- old former sales manager and salesman.Originally from Estonia, Europe. He worked 11 years for US-based corporation and built $1M+ sales organization before leaving that job in October 2015 to stay home and build his online platform. Tanel is married and a new father of a baby girl. TJ is an entrepreneur dad who shares his journey on fatherhood as well as his recent leap into full-time entrepreneurship.  He also shares why he decided to take the leap and what he has learned so far.  Here are some of the key points Tanel shares in this episode: How putting your family first can provide the clarity you need to taking the leap How sales and entrepreneurship can go hand in hand Having a financial cushion before taking the leap The importance of a supportive spouse Building a business based on fatherhood Managing your time on your business and your home life Managing tasks Monitoring expenses, investing in self-education and spending wisely Becoming a dad was a very influential exp

James Jenkins is the founder of Soko Village and ProSoft Consulting Inc. He owns real estate properties and advises for a capital investment company. James is a husband, and a new father to a baby girl.

Carey Green is a Christ-follower first of all, husband second, and Dad and Grand-pop third. His online business pursuits have taken him from $0 to over $250K in just over 3 years. He has many online money makers but the main bread winner is Podcast FastTrack, an audio editing, show notes, and production service for busy podcasters. Carey is an entrepreneur dad who shares his journey from the pulpit to owning and operating multiple online businesses.  In this episode, Carey shares his love for his family, his growth into entrepreneurship and the highlight reel of his successful businesses. Here are some of the key points you will learn from Carey: Keeping everything in the right perspective by putting people first The importance of communication with your spouse Finding your niche and being flexible when things don't work out Why building a business can't happen overnight, but in the end it will all be worth it Knowing the difference between what you are passionate about versus doing something you enjoy Embra

Daniel Gefen just loves life and is a husband and father to three little ones. He's always been driven to better himself and help others along his journey. He started a call answering service and a virtual office business almost 7 years ago and fully automated it. As a result, the residual income allows him to focus his time on doing what he loves: hanging with his family, playing tennis, picking successful entrepreneurs' brains on his podcast and helping others achieve success. 

Chris Guillebeau is the best-selling author of The Happiness of Pursuit, The $100 Startup and other books. During a lifetime of self-employment, he visited every country in the world, 193 in total, before his 35th birthday. Every summer in Portland, Oregon, he hosts the Word Domination Summit (WDS), a gathering of creative and remarkable people. You can connect with Chris on Twitter, his blog, or your choice of worldwide airline lounges

"If You Stay Ready, You Don't Have to Get Ready!" Eric Thomas In this Episode, I share two quick stories with you and in one of those stories I share how I received a FREE ticket to the Social Media Marketing World 2016 Conference in 6 days.  Mentioned: Eric Thomas: Speaker | Author Mike Stelzner of Social Media Examiner Gary Vaynerchuk Chris Guillebeau Jaime Masters [Tardy] Resources:  The Clock, The Mind, The Compass Guide The $100 Startup Born For This

Michael Stelzner is the founder of Social Media Examiner, author of the books Launch and Writing White Papers and the man behind large events, such as Social Media Marketing World and Social Media Success Summit. He is also host of the Social Media Marketing podcast, founder of the Social Media Marketing Society and host of the weekly Morning Social Media Marketing TALK show. Most importantly, he's a husband and father to three beautiful young ladies.

Top 3: #1 Single Biggest Struggle StartupDad Face Energy Focus Funding / Validation   A few answers to Question #1 on the Survey: Managing my energy. A few years ago I would have said time, and as a father of 6, time management is still a daily challenge. But I've found that managing my energy and focus is really the only solution to time. I can separate myself and have all day to tackle ideas, but if my energy is low, it will be largely unproductive. Lack of energy is the hallmark of raising small children, the thing we parents all tend to have in common. If you're like me, you listen to something like The Miracle Morning and think - that's great - I could totally get up at 5am and take an hour or two to myself. And I did... for years. It's really not that hard once you get going and have momentum. But as a parents of young children again, we're often up at 11, 1, 3 and 5am feeding babies or soothing bad dreams. What's lost as a business owner is not necessarily time, but the energy the next day to make t

Bryan Flanagan began his career as a delivery boy for IBM Corporation. A dream born in 1972 became a reality in 1984 when Bryan left the corporate world to pursue his passion for teaching and training.  Since that time, he has interacted with 4,096 groups, traveled 3,330,972 miles, and trained 731,451 people.  And, yet, he claims his future is still ahead of him!

Scott Anthony Barlow is the Founder of Happen to Your Career, a company that helps you stop doing work that doesn’t fit, figuring out what does and then teaching you to make it happen! He has been helping people develop their careers and businesses for over 10 years as a Human Resources Leader, Business Development Expert, and Career Coach. With over 2000 interviews worth of experience from his HR career, Scott interviews others telling their story of finding work they love on the Happen to Your Career Podcast.  Scott and his wife Alyssa have 3 children and live in Moses Lake, Washington.

With more than a decade of customer-facing service and traditional ad agency experience, Andrew Ledell launched Done For You Tech—the Digital Marketing Agency You Can Afford—about a year ago. Andrew's mix of project management skills, unwavering commitment, online marketing street smarts, country boy charm and a deep bench of talented, creative team members make him your one and only choice when it's time to make your biz look amazing, both online and off. Married with 2 Kids daughters 11 and 2...   Andrew's Website: Done For You Tech