The Entrepreneur Next Door 🏡

Meet Lori, the Superwoman of Sales. From hardcore yellow pages sales to pension plans to veterinary sales, medical diagnostics/sleep apnea.  

"Working with children gave me a headache." So four years …

"What type of bagels do you serve in a post-divorce party?" You'll have to listen to find out. 

This is the story of two brothers, twenty months apart, who lost their mother at a young age and were ra…

"I was in an MBA program, my wife was pregnant with twins, and I had a great job and income. My Dad asked me if I wanted to go into business for myself. I dropped everything and did it. "  

There may …

Meet Precious. She's not a tennis player who grew up with supportive parents; she's not Oprah... she's a little girl from a St. Louis hood who, as early as five,  decided she wanted to be a talk show…

Meet Div, a brilliant woman with an engineering degree and two masters (marketing and cyber security). What comes next is not a rapid climb up the corporate ladder but a journey of introspection and …

"I do newsletters."  

Michael, "the newsletter guy" is direct, funny, unpretentious, and proves that when you focus on one thing you're really good at, you'll succeed.  Narrowness is how you get tract…

Everyone wants to get on stage and speak. Most of us are scared s#(#*@less about public speaking but overcome our fear for what we perceive will be monetary rewards that are worth the anxiety and eff…

A successful doctor with medical director-level lucrative positions is asked a life-changing question by his boss: "Bruce, why are you doing this job? You're excited when you talk about people that a…

At nine years old, when a teacher tells you you're an idiot, he's the master authority in your life and so you believe it must be true.  "I knew I wasn't a great reader but it didn't make me an idiot…

"Raised as an entrepreneur, schooled as a scientist, developer by trade, and Founder at heart."

Numaan's earliest memories are of spending time in the back of my father's electronic store; playing wit…

Meet Moritz von Oheimb. He isn't a wiz-kid, he's...well, an entrepreneur that could be your next-door neighbor. Moritz is down-to-earth, smart, strategic, and a hard worker.  When you listen to his j…

Meet Jason Kersch, 4th generation owner of Major Homes Corporation, a family business in the brutally competitive home improvement industry in Queens/ Long Island New York. 

Frank Sinatra ("New York, …

What's it like starting a business at the start of Covid? 

In this episode, we meet Irit, who served as an officer in the Israeli army and later loved managing a book store for fifteen years, somethin…

In this episode, I speak with Anita Toth, Chief Churn Crusher (CCC). While Anita focuses on Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the topic - how to stop customers from leaving- applies to any busi…