The Thoughtful Entrepreneur

Future-Proof Your Workforce With us today is our guest Matt Cowell, the CEO of Quanthub. Quantum is a data skill platform. Data skills are pretty ubiquitous in the world, we all need them regardless of role. And Quantum has an assessment platform to help companies determine who has data skills if they're interviewing for data scientists, data engineers, these types of roles. They also have an upskilling platform to help organizations build data literacy skills across the entire enterprise; Sales, marketing, operations, finance. QuantHub provides an efficient yet rigorous vetting platform for hiring data/AI professionals and a modern, in the flow of work, learning platform to build data competency across the entire enterprise. Their two-sided solution helps you build an organization with the skills to deliver on the power of your data. which means you’re running a more efficient, profitable enterprise with engaged, motivated employees. Technology is driving our world into the digital revolution, but people are getting left behind. We help companies develop their strongest asset in this revolution: their people. Quantum helps companies leverage the power of their data by making sure their employees have the right data skills. Matt serves as CEO at QuantHub, responsible for leading the company’s strategy, growth, and operations. Prior to joining QuantHub, He spent the last 15 years running product and tech at PE-backed companies, including building a product and engineering organization at Daxko to deliver 10x revenue growth, 7 acquisitions, and 3 enormously successful recapitalizations in just 10 years. While at Daxko, he led the team to deliver the first machine learning/AI solution to the market, predicting customer membership churn and also propensity to donate. Matt fully believes companies are facing a larger skills gap than they realize. The jobs being created today are not jobs employees/candidates are ready to fill. What this means is that companies cannot realize the full potential of their data and are leaving a lot of money on the table in the process. He has a passion for developing authentic relationships with customers to truly understand what drives them, and then crafting creative solutions to their most critical problems. He is the type of person that can walk into any room and befriend anyone in the room, jump right in to solve complex problems, and then give clear directives on what to do next. He has a genuine concern and compassion for the people he is working with and whatever they are working on. Matt is a true champion of design thinking and holds a standard of integrity and excellence — he always brings a fresh perspective to any challenges faced. Matt is one of the best leaders and one of the best product strategists. Matt is a guy who is never satisfied with status quo and will lead any product organization, develop/execute a customer strategy, or even to serve as a leader who is equally comfortable handling product, technology, marketing, or customer success functions. Work with Matt and Create a culture where AI projects are not put on the shelf but are put to work and make business impact that beats the competition. Learn more about Quanthub and what Matt does as CEO on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.  More from UpMyInfluence ✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE. ✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here. ✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

The guest today is Kris Reid, business growth strategist of Ardor SEO Ardor SEO is a predictable, reliable revenue to grow your business. People can’t buy from you if they can’t find you. Most businesses fail, not because they have bad products or services, but because they can’t get enough customers. Ardor developed a simple system to get your message in front of your ideal customers to predictably grow your business. Marketing can be hard, expensive, and you can waste a lot of money. It doesn't have to be this way, if you follow the right system. Their simple, repeatable system gets your words in front of your ideal people, gets them to take action, and become customers. A website is like a business card. A business card doesn’t work if you don’t hand it out. A website doesn’t work if people can’t find it. Kris is a business growth strategist. He is one of the few guys in the digital marketing and SEO space that gets what agency needs and knows how to support the company's strategy. He gives a lot of great information and insight into how your website can be improved upon. The strategy that Kris put together is very exciting. Kris is knowledgeable and proactive, and will take a great deal of genuine interest with a successful outcome. Every business is different, every market is unique, but when it comes to SEO, Kris knows the system delivers every time. He has worked with so many companies in every industry With Guaranteed Results. He will help you build your online reputation, become the ultimate authority of your niche, increase conversions through authority marketing and dramatically increase your business. It’s a numbers world we live in today. From sales numbers to cost per product and conversion rates, a business has to consider specific metrics to stay afloat on the market. A company leader like Kriss in this environment must aim for positive numbers for their business and partners. Over the years, he has acquired extensive knowledge of SEO and its practical application in various industries. With a Computer Software Engineering degree from the Queensland University of Technology, Kriss got a solid technical background as well. Kris aims to offer the most for his clients at Ardor SEO. As a Digital Growth agency, his goal is to give you the tools and information to leverage the World Wide Web and its resources fully. A unique strategy he’s been able to develop is Guaranteed SEO. He can show you weak points in your website’s UI and help clients deliver the right message to their customers when they do arrive through that now more highly visible front door. Building a valuable digital asset does take time, but getting a basic website to perform, generate customers, and grow your business doesn’t have to be an uphill battle. Imagine having a website that works for you. Where you don’t have to go out to find customers, customers find you. Customers seek you out! A website that converts visitors into new customers, day after day, month after month. Focus on what you love and do best, running your business! Learn more about Ardor SEO and what Kris does on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. More from UpMyInfluence ✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE. ✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here. ✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

Seeking Financial Magic On the show with us today is Michelle Cooper, CEO of Alchemy Accounting. Alchemy Accounting is a straight-talking, numbers-loving bookkeeping and accounting firm dedicated to entrepreneurs who demand clear, easy-to-understand, accurate financial information to make powerful decisions at every stage of their business. Whether you are starting, growing or scaling your business, we support you with the right services. Their goal is to end suffering for entrepreneurs when it comes to their bookkeeping and accounting. They believe too many entrepreneurs struggle with their business finances. Alchemy Accounting wants you to feel proud of running your business and positive even if you feel your numbers aren’t good enough right now. There is no need to feel disempowered, lost or alone when it comes to financials. It doesn’t have to be hard! If You are a mission-driven, purpose-driven business owner with big dreams. You to have it all with the help from Alchemy Accounting. Michelle is powerhouse entrepreneur; High priestess of profit, Accountant, Business Coach, Speaker, Mom, Adventurer and world traveler, Straight-talker, and Big-hearted. Too many entrepreneurs struggle with their business finances. She will help you sort out your financial chaos so you can proudly run your business. Ultimately, she ends suffering for entrepreneurs around financials and money help you fall in love with your numbers. Her experience includes more than 20 years of working in business strategic growth and 20 years of working with taxes, financial strategy and analysis in high-pressure, fast-moving environments. Michelle has worked on the frenzied European trading floor for a top bank. Created tax and strategy plans in the hallowed halls of international tax and audit firms. Architectural firms, food and beverage and manufacturers have turned to her to help them go from red to black. Ten years ago, She opened Alchemy Accounting and Bookkeeping after working with high-profile, passion-driven entrepreneurs who were successful on the outside, but, behind the scenes, their business financials were a mess. Worse, when they met with traditional accounting firms, they said they felt judged, shamed or embarrassed about their financial disorganization. Michelle Won’t judge! She educates about your business finances – and keep it simple! By working fast, staying in touch regularly and returning calls. Michelle is here to help. If your business is thriving and doing great. You’re a success! Now it’s time to get your finances on track too. Grow your wealth. Stay profitable. Imagine: Your business accounting is current; Your books up to date; Your tax worries resolved. Michelle does not just talk about financial peace of mind – she will deliver it to you. Her approach being straight-talking, honest, transparent with a dash of tough love as needed. She’s not going to sugar coat anything when it comes to your business financials, and will always have a custom action plan ready to go for you. Bookkeeping and accounting is what she does best, so you can focus on what you do best. So, if you need peace of mind and confidence in the financial foundation of your business. Michelle will straighten out your finances, get you on track and give accurate, detailed financial records. In a Judgement-free, easy-to-understand, simplicity and customized Business – these principles you want. Learn more about Alchemy Accounting and what Michelle does as CEO on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. More from UpMyInfluence ✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE. ✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here. ✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

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PROVIDING AIRCRAFT APPRAISAL SERVICE On today's episode of the show we're joined by Jason Zilberbrand, President of VREF. VREF is one of two authorized books for aviation, similar to what Kelly Blue Books offers for aviation. They provide software, and then print a book every quarter. VREF is aviation’s most trusted valuation guide and data source since 1994 providing valuations on all fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, engines as well as a comprehensive reference on all modifications, upgrades and maintenance expenses. VREF is the official valuation guide of AOPA, and the only SaaS cloud-based valuation platform in aviation with over 7000 assets tracked daily. Jason got started in business through his family, who owned an aviation insurance company in 1994. He was offered to take over the operations of the business of VREF and jumped on the opportunity. He then restarted the software development, rebranded, and rebuilt the company. He continues to build out of passion for the Aircraft Industry. Bringing a 27-year-old company that had no real infrastructure and turned it into quite a business. If you want to build a business super quick, you got to have a really strong web presence. He is considered an expert in aircraft valuations, appraisals, and aircraft transactions, and his background is diverse with knowledge in technology and aviation. Jason is a true leader in terms of market knowledge and an innovator in terms of conducting business. He has a deep desire to succeed in anything and everything he does. Using out of the box thinking has allowed him to develop strategic and personal relationships within the industry from Aircraft OEMs to high-net-worth individuals When technology is changing, and nothing happened for years, Jason adapted with the industry. Now, there is talking about alternative power plants, Aircraft are changing. Materials are changing the way that their manufacturers are changing. Having a database that has been built to handle alternative power plants. If you rely on data to make key decisions, VREF has over 25 years of proven historical data. Jason has improved the system to have information more accurate to the current market with regular updates, which is extremely important in today’s economic environment. He likes to look at how many aircraft are coming out of operation. Paying attention to those numbers because there's a direct correlation to fleet size and active aircraft and operation. And then how many are on the market and how much that data changes day to day really does direct for a lot of it doesn't directly influence the data, but there's definitely a correlation between aircraft values and demand and scarcity. Isn’t it fascinating to see how many planes get removed from active service every day? Faced with new challenges every day. By taking over a new business, technology changing, markets crashing, finding staff with this ever-changing world. Jason has overcome many obstacles. He was able to recognize a lot of weaknesses, a lot of things over the years that could be done better. With such a small industry, Jason has helped VREF appraise several thousand aircraft, individual and fleet, with values in excess of 300 Billion Dollars   Learn more about VREF and how Jason become the Business Owner on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.   More from UpMyInfluence ✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE. ✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here. ✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

Ethical Business Coaching On the show today is Josh Biro, the founder of The YogaPreneur Collective. The Yoga Premier Collective is the culminating concept of over a decade of coaching yoga entrepreneurs all over the world. The Method is the ethical way to grow a sustainable yoga business you love while creating maximum impact in your community. Created for yoga business owners by yoga business owners, this method will help you break through your profit plateau and take a paid vacation while your business runs itself within a year. After growing up in a yoga family and then managing and building yoga Studios, ultimately owning his own studios and then selling them, Josh and his family went traveling full time. They were able to start working with Studios all over the world online and yoga entrepreneurs online. He is one of the most sought-after business coaches in the yoga industry, and is obsessed with studying the difference between studio owners who are killing it, and those who are just getting by. Josh thrives on the satisfaction of knowing that he’s helped a do-good entrepreneur have more time to themselves, more money to affect change, and ultimately, more freedom to live the lives they want to live. Your business is positively impacting your community! And when you consider the hours, passion and effort that you put into it, you deserve to be fairly compensated. He has realized that when you run any small business, it's very isolating at the top, you might not have the acumen resources tools necessary. And although information is readily available, filtering what information is specifically useful for your business takes a lot of effort, and then it goes back to that accountability. Sometimes you just need someone in your corner. Josh has a belief in the product and sees the power in himself and the people that he teaches. He wants to amplify that. He believes it's the most efficient way to have a larger impact on the local community and ultimately the world. He helps studio owners build sustainable businesses that will stand the test of time, and produce thriving communities, packed classes, and consistent profits. He focuses on the long-game work with you closely to help you realize your goals Do you feel like you’ve plateaued, or if this last year has thrown you for a loop and you're trying to figure out how to get back on your feet? Josh and The Yoga Premier Collective is working on exactly that. Spending all your time at the studio isn’t sustainable. You’ve invested so much you’re determined to see it succeed. But are you making time for your own practice? Do you take time away for you and your family? If you want to be able to relax and enjoy your life as a yoga studio owner, you need to work with Josh Biro. Most yoga business owners open up because they're passionate about yoga, but they lack the training and tools to grow their business. Josh will reignite your passion and give you the strategies to turn your business into a well-oiled machine so you can change lives and have a life of your own!   Learn more about YogaPreneur Collective and what Josh does as founder on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur. More from UpMyInfluence ✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE. ✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here. ✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

Focusing on Loan ForgivenessWith us today is Aaron Smith, the Co-Founder of SavySavy is a fintech that helps people better manage and understand their student loan debt. The TurboTax for your student loans. Savy will be there for you to help throughout the 5 to 15 years it might take you to pay down your student loans. Savvy is offered as a benefit for employers, for membership groups and financial institutions that are trying to help their constituents and customers and employees address student debt. Using innovative technology and a team of thoughtful industry leaders, they help loan borrowers discover new repayment and loan forgiveness options. The student loan debt crisis is postponing the American Dream and the rules to reduce payments and forgive debt are so confusing that the public agrees the system is broken. Savi is a social impact technology founded by long-time student loan experts and advocates. Working to solve the pressing student debt crisis affecting 47 million borrowers by helping them discover new repayment and loan forgiveness options.Aaron Smith is a long-time student loan expert and advocate with experience in the intersection between higher education and financial technology. He co-founded and served as the original Executive Director of Young Invincibles, one of the largest and most impactful youth advocacy and policy non-profits in the country.He feels that borrowers everywhere should be able to manage their debt, lower their payments, and find a path to student loan freedom. Aaron is passionate about creating honest and effective financial technology that helps every day, working class people. He believes that people shouldn't spend their lives buried in student loan debt.Student loan payment is your second largest monthly payment after your rent or your mortgage, It's a big deal. Aaron understands that student loan debt is not like other types of debt. He has found a way for you to set your monthly payment based on your income, and will help you figure out the strategy around your repayment. Savy is going to help if there's any issues or challenges you have, to help you stay on track and monitor your loans over time.Do you need to find a Path to Student Loan Freedom? Savi identifies the best loan repayment & forgiveness programs based on each user's unique financial picture and goals. Savi is on a mission to help with their cutting-edge financial technology that makes it easier. Aaron is very outcome-driven, always going above and beyond in the pursuit of positive impact.Don’t get discouraged and throw yours hands up. If you ignore your loans, it’s only going to hurt your credit debt, and is going to continue to accumulate through interest. You're only going to fall further and further behind. Aaron is here to help stay on top of all the changes, and help you see where the opportunities are. The program helps achieve meaningful savings both in monthly budgets and in the overall cost of debt. Get back your life today by being debt free.Learn more about Savi and what Aaron does on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.More from UpMyInfluence✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

Podcast strategyToday we're joined with our guest Jeremy Enns, founder and CEO of Counterweight Creative.Counterweight Creative a podcast production and content amplification agency specializing in helping health and wellness entrepreneurs create podcasts and become the go-to authorities. There’s more to launching a successful podcast than hitting record and waiting for listeners to show up. While podcasting is more competitive than ever, Jeremy has developed a podcast launch framework to help you create content that resonates deeply with your target audience and get your show in front of them right off the bat.Jeremy stated out by traveling the world for years. Doing record production and music part time, started discovering the world of online business and realized music production is a little difficult for recording in Studios with people remotely. He was a huge fanatic about podcasts at the time was able to pivot into that. Podcasting was continually taking off every year. When Jeremy first Pivoted back in 2015, podcasting was really starting to gain traction on a bigger level and he really quickly and easily found a bunch of clients and was able to go full time on that and hit the roadJeremy’s mission is to help support each and every member of his team in being and becoming their best selves every single day. By running regular workshops to help in their personal growth, weekly co-working sessions, quarterly visioning & goal setting meetings and supporting each other personally as well as when it comes to the work we do. He wants to develop team members to the point where they have the skills, experience, and mindset to open up more opportunities elsewhere, but choose to stay because they’re bought into our culture and the people who create it.He has designed a podcast agency around the principle that people brought together around a common goal can change the world. This belief flows through our decisions about who is hire on his team, the clients he works with, and who he partners with.You are the expert when it comes to your subject matter, but don’t know the ins and outs of consistently delivering it to your audience? Jeremy will work with you on everything from content strategy to booking guests to audio post-production, content repurposing and social media management. He is there for you to take the tedious tasks out of the production process so you can focus solely on your zone of genius: Serving your audience.He’s on a mission to teach everything I know about podcasting marketing, growth, and monetization for free. The opportunity is not to funnel information to our listeners but to take you on a journey of shared discovery.If you've got a podcast you're looking to take to the next level or you're just looking to get started in the wide and wonderful world of podcasting, Jeremy would love to chat and talk through what it would look like to go from where you're at now to getting the results you want.Learn more about Counterweight Creative and what Jeremy does as founder and CEO on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.More from UpMyInfluence✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

Building trustJoined with us today is Hany Fam, Founder & CEO of Markaaz.Marquez is the world's first and only platform to connect every business on the planet. Marquez is your trusted go-to network to find pre-verified partners and customers and monitor business updates – all in one place. It was started specifically for small businesses to help small businesses connect with each other, and connect with big corporations. The reason being that small businesses were really struggling.Hany believes small businesses are the backbone of not only the global economy, but communities worldwide. ​That’s why He’s combined the best of talent and technology to create the world’s first platform dedicated to protecting and growing small businesses. ​​He’s there to help you build a more trusted network of suppliers so you can have reliable cash flow and ultimately get back to what’s important: your customers and your business.​ By putting your trust in Hany, he’ll help save you time and money, and make your money go further. After all, you started your business for a reason: to help your customers and to earn a living. ​​By getting verified and engaging with verified suppliers, you can get back to business. Markaaz is an easy-to-use network that can be accessed from your desktop and mobile to find, monitor, and soon pay partners. You can search through 100 million+ business listings, all in one place. Through those listings, you can see your partner’s and customer’s business profile and monitor their business information, including number of employees, years in business, key contacts and business credit risk score and business credit risk class. Soon you will receive real-time alerts, so you know exactly when their status changes.Hany held global leadership roles in business transformation, value creation and technology, gaining depth of experience in payments, B2B platforms, enterprise partnerships and SaaS. Under Hany’s leadership, Mastercard Track was launched, the first and only global trading platform connecting every supplier and buyer on the planet to simplify and automate the exchange of payments and related data. The values will make you feel comfortable to do business with them. Authenticity by helping each other to be their best selves. They have Loyalty being a team in the good and the bad. They have so much Determination and an amazing Impact of doing well by doing good.Hany understands how many hours a business owner spends searching the internet to find new partners, suppliers, and customers. With the pandemic and global supply chain disruptions, he knew there had to be a way to do business more safely and efficiently. He started Markaaz to reduce structural inefficiencies in the market. The platform not only protects you from fraud, but helps you stand out, and improve your cash flow. He is creating a game changing platform and is passionate about turning visionary concepts into commercial successes. Hany believes in a world where all businesses have equal and inclusive access to opportunities, resources and financing, and making that happen right here. With Hany, you can confidently make the best decisions for your business.Learn more about Marquez and what Hany Fam does as Founder & CEO on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.More from UpMyInfluence✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.

EXCITE. DELIGHT. IGNITEToday's guest is Gerry Foster, Brand Strategist of Gerry Foster Branding.Gerry Foster Branding help service-based business owners who offer expertise - skills, talents, and abilities - create a big brand, and a strong message that sells, so you can excite, delight, and ignite your market. They help owners who continually struggle to attract great clients by clearly setting you apart, elevating your credibility, crafting a juicy brand promise, tagline, and more. In the end, they make your marketing stronger!Gerry helps you accelerate what you're wanting to accomplish by making sure your brand is different and superior to your competitors to drive more 'Grade-A' clients to you. He wants to help you stop feeling disappointed or ignored by developing a highly distinctive, exceptional brand that will vastly improve your online marketingHe will help strengthen your brand by increasing its perceived value to the world, eliminating any uncertainty about how to make it stronger, or confusion about how to get noticed. As well as put an end to you feeling upset by helping you get more clients through an unrivaled brand promise and emotional-based messaging that spotlights the special advantages you offer. Gerry will help you create and implement a world-class brand that provides a wonderful experience no one else does by making it as interesting and appealing as possible to speed up salesGerry’s presentations, training, and coaching are not about doing more of the same, maintaining status quo, or playing small. He wants to assist, guide, and support owners who are willing to flip the script, go to the deep end of the pool, and turn the tables in their favor. He believes this can be attained by creating brands so unexpected, so profound, and so striking … blessings to owners can only multiply over time.As a Brand Strategist, Gerry specializes in working with service-based business owners who want to stand out, get noticed, & be desired so they can have more impact and make more money. He’s the creator of the Big Brand Formula, a proven 3-step guided system he uses that enables his clients and students to ‘find the rhythm’ of their brand for greater success. From this system, they have been able to transform what they offer into magnificent, high-performance brands. Strategic branding is the only work he’s done in his entire adult life! He’s dedicated his life to creating brands that people can fall in love with, cherish and value.Gerry is not in this to make money; he is here to put something out into the world that you will find invaluable. Are you ready to take your business to the next level? He makes it easy to work with him and makes you think outside the box. With his marketing strategies being top notch in defining who you are as a business. He will give you a competitive advantage over your competitors. If you choose to work with Gerry, you will generate more business because your branding strategies will be well defined. He is committed to your success.Learn more about Gerry Foster Branding and what Gerry does as a Brand Strategist on this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur.More from UpMyInfluence✅ We are actively booking guests for our DAILY Entrepreneur Success Podcast. Schedule HERE.✅ Are you a 6-figure consultant? Let us fill your sales schedule and move you to 7-figures. Learn more here.✅ Check out our free Authority Transformation Masterclass.