The Entrepreneur Next Door 🏡

My name is Zev Asch; welcome to The Entrepreneur Next Door Podcast. I've spent my entire career in what I call "the trenches of small business and entrepreneurship." I spent three decades as a successful corporate marketing executive in small and family-owned businesses, an academic career as a Graduate Marketing Professor and director of Entrepreneurship and leadership at Touro University Graduate School of Business, and over a decade as a business transformation coach.

As an avid podcast listener, I've always craved one that features unknown, grounded non-celebrities and entrepreneurs who can be my next-door neighbors.

Join me for intimate, unfiltered conversations with everyday people who took a leap into entrepreneurship and openly share their journey from failure to success. I spend hours preparing for each interview and asking intimate and challenging questions; one insight can make a profound difference in your business or life.

Finally, I promise that my podcast will never be used as a platform for me or my guests to self-promote. I strictly prohibit it and ensure each guest understands before being featured on my show.

My goal is to ensure that every episode delivers at least one insight that can help you improve your business or one aspect of your personal life.

Listen, subscribe, and share this channel with my thanks.

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Update frequency: every 11 days
Average duration: 59 minutes
Episodes: 84
Years Active: 2022 - 2025

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[65] The Game-Changing Impact Of Gen-AI On Marketing Sales & Customer Service

This quote sums up Vikram Ekambaram's fascinating journey: "I hated computer science, so when I graduated, I got an MBA in Marketing and thought I wanted to be in marketing and sales. I hated sales, …

01:15:06 | Mon 22 Jul 2024

[64] Stop Online Fraud from Ruining Your Business

Businesses, especially small businesses, rely on online lead generation and transactions. They also recognize (sometimes too late) the impact and opportunity cost of fraudulent leads on their busines…

01:02:03 | Tue 09 Jul 2024

[63] From Small Village To Entrepreneurship: An Inspiring Journey of Resilience

This is an inspiring story of a woman who rose from poverty in her village to being dubbed the "Shakira of Asia" and voted Diva by Asia Life Magazine. Dona is known for her talents as a singer, songw…

00:52:33 | Fri 05 Jul 2024

[62] How Fitness Beat Cancer

Life was great; Rebecca married the love of her life, her business was growing, and then cancer showed up unannounced. "You have terminal ovarian cancer and seven to ten months to live."

Rebecca Lynn…

01:03:59 | Tue 21 May 2024

[61] Giving Voice To Thousands Of Small Business Owners

Terri Alessi-Miceli, President and CEO of HIA-LI, shares insights on the Long Island small business community, which has 100,000 businesses, of which 90% employ fifty or fewer people. Terri emphasize…

01:02:28 | Thu 16 May 2024

[60] The man who transformed #Pickleball Into A Thriving International Sport

Can a sixty-five-year-old woman beat a 30-year-old man in #Pickleball?

Meet Seymour Rifkind, one of the original Pickleball entrepreneurs. He shares the real, firsthand story behind the game's origin…

01:01:46 | Thu 04 Apr 2024

[59] From Submarine Naval Officer to leadership coaching

Tom Sicola takes us on a captivating journey from his days as a submarine naval officer, where he learned the invaluable lessons of teamwork and purpose, to the corporate world, where he witnessed fi…

01:00:59 | Wed 03 Apr 2024

[58] Your child will never speak. I proved them wrong.

Nichole Daher, founder of Success on the Spectrum, shares her personal connection to Autism and her journey of starting the first ABA therapy franchise in the US. Nicole emphasizes the need for emot…

01:02:26 | Thu 28 Mar 2024

[57] The Royal Restroom Empire

David Sauers co-founded Royal Restrooms, a luxury portable restroom trailer company. David focused on marketing to the event industry and offering a cleaner and more pleasant restroom experience. He …

00:56:44 | Tue 19 Mar 2024

[56] How Family And Heritage Drives Entrepreneurial Success

Join Sam and Hal Zeitlin in captivating stories as they share their inspiring entrepreneurial journeys. Coming from different backgrounds but sharing a Jewish heritage, they discuss how collaboration…

00:55:21 | Mon 04 Mar 2024

[55] Level Up Your Marketing Game: Play To Win With Smart Bets!

This podcast is for you if you're an entrepreneur or a small business owner, especially a SaaS founder. This is a raw and honest discussion about marketing. Justyna Ciecierska-Göçeryan (Justi) and I …

01:05:30 | Wed 21 Feb 2024

[54] The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success: Shift Your Mindset From Wealth To Purpose

If you loved Simon Sinek's "Start With Why" talk, this is the street-smart version from a young Israeli entrepreneur.

Itay Forer dove into entrepreneurship as an Israeli student living in New York Cit…

01:04:10 | Thu 25 Jan 2024

[52] Teen Prodigy: Meet The 16-year-old Entrepreneur Making Waves!

You may not have heard of Moldova, a small country of only 2.5 million that borders Romania and Ukraine. It is unlikely that you have encountered a young man as ambitious and inspiring as Cristian Fr…

00:56:19 | Thu 11 Jan 2024

[51] STEVE WARE: "I Never Set Out To Help Anybody Other Than Myself."

Have you ever worked for a company that had an active program to improve the well-being of its employees? I'm not talking about just a standard medical plan but ongoing resources that help you deal w…

01:12:54 | Tue 31 Oct 2023

[50] Jesi Stracham: "I am very lucky to just be a paraplegic."

On January 18th, 2015, a devastating motorcycle accident changed Jesi Stracham's life. She was twenty-two years old.

"The last thing I remember is everything going black. And then, at some point, I s…

01:05:44 | Wed 11 Oct 2023

[49] Curtis Matsko: From Sobriety to $120+ Million Entrepreneurial Success

Your search is over.

If you're a business owner or a startup founder who has yet to find the formula for successfully growing your business while maintaining a happy work-life balance.

Cutis Matsko, …

01:01:13 | Wed 27 Sep 2023

[48] Chad Brown: How To Spot Patterns That Get In The Way Of Success

In this episode of the Entrepreneur Next Door, you'll meet Chad Brown, who became an entrepreneur at fifteen and found his calling after multiple pivots in his career.

"Fathering teenage girls is one…

01:02:53 | Tue 26 Sep 2023

[47] Pia Wendelbo: Humanizing how business is done

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