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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Amber De La Garza. Amber is a coach, trainer, speaker, writer, and host of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast. Her focus is helping small business owners maximize profits, reduce stress, and make time for what matters most by improving their time management and elevating their productivity.

Amber’s work has been featured everywhere from Fast Company to the Huffington Post. She’s worked with companies such as Pepsi, Cartier, and MGM Resorts.

As entrepreneurs, the most precious thing we have is our time and we need to do our best to maximize it and get the most out of it. I’ve asked Amber on to share her best advice, strategies, and actionable tips on how to be your most productive.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneurs are John and Mark Cronin. They are the father-son team that created John’s Crazy Socks, a social enterprise with a mission to spread happiness. They bootstrapped their business into the world’s largest sock store with multi-million dollar revenues and have been named EY’s Entrepreneurs of the Year as well as multiple 30 under 30 awards.

John is not only a business owner, but he has Down syndrome. John and Mark show what people with differing abilities can do – more than half of their colleagues have differing abilities. They have testified twice before the U.S. Congress and spoken at the United Nations. They are sought after keynote speakers, have recorded two TEDx Talks and are frequent guests on network television including appearances on CBS Evening News, Good Morning America, the Today Show, Fox and Friends, CNBC, PBS, the BBC and others. And they show their gratitude through their Giving Back program that has raised over $650,000 for their charity partners.

John and Mark show us that anything is possible if you if you are determined enough and I’m excited to discuss their journey of building a 7-figure company along with the many other lessons we can learn from them.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Brian Biro. Where to start with Brian. He is ranked as one of the top motivational speakers in the world and Top 10 interactive speakers in the US. He has delivered over 1900 presentations around the world over the last 34 years and is a best-selling author of 16 books. If that’s not enough, he has been featured everywhere from Good Morning America to CNN and is a former professional swimming coach building teams ranked in the top 10 in nation.

His latest book is called Lessons from Legends which brings forth the championship formula for success from arguably two of the greatest coaches in history, John Wooden and Pat Summit. The book provides a fresh perspective on leadership, team building, and excellence and how to take the lessons from the locker room to the board room.

I’m excited dig into all this with Brian and share his wisdom from a 30+ year entrepreneur career.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Jothy Rosenberg. Jothy is a two-time cancer-surviving amputee, book author, and serial entrepreneur. Over the course of his 35-year career, Jothy has built 9 startup companies in fields as diverse as supercomputing and cybersecurity and even a TV production company. With two exits of over $100M, Jothy has shown how anyone can use their personal struggles to help them succeed at the highest levels.

His latest book, Think Like a Tech Founder: Anecdotes of an Incorrigible Entrepreneur,” shares hard-won wisdom, from over an 35 year + entrepreneurial journey distilled into essential lessons for founders and CEOs.

Jothy’s story of overcoming adversity to achieve great success is not just inspiring—it’s a roadmap for anyone who wants to reach their true potential and I’m excited to dig on everything with him.

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Many years ago, I introduced a new format that alongside our regular episodes called “Lessons for Hannah.” Hannah is my daughter and one of the main inspirations for the Misfit Entrepreneur. I wanted to have a place where she could go and learn from her daddy and his Misfit friends throughout her life….even after I am gone. If you haven’t listened to the first episode of "Lessons for Hannah," I urge you to as it gives some more background and tells the amazing story of how Hannah came to be in our lives.

Lessons for Hannah are short, very useful, and sometimes comical lessons, that I want to share with you and give to Hannah to help in your lives. Because I want Hannah to have these for her life, I’m going to speak as though I am talking directly to her. These episodes are a lot of fun and if you think there is a lesson that we should include in these episodes, please don’t hesitate to send it over to us at support@misfitentrepreneur.com. We’d love to share it.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Bill Potter.  Bill is a serial entrepreneur and investor with a career spanning over 30 years – including selling building and selling companies in excess of $250 million.  He is the founder of and CEO of Thrive Investors, a firm that helps SAAS and startup companies overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of success.  

Bill’s unique genius is taking startups to a successful exit strategy.  He excels at helping companies get over the plateau’s that can make them stagnant or hold them back from reaching their potential.  And it is these common areas where businesses struggle that I’m excited for Bill to share his wisdom on how to breakthrough and reach new heights as a business.  

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Dr. Patrick Kilcar. Dr. Kilcar has been the Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Personal Development since 1999. His research studies the intersection of risk-taking behavior and emotional intelligence. He is a master trainer in emotional intelligence, certifying professionals to use the EQ-i2.0 (the most valid and reliable self-assessment of emotional intelligence) to assess and evaluate the social and emotional competencies of individuals in a variety of professional venues.

Dr. Kilcar’s work has been instrumental in helping people achieve higher success by understanding and tapping into the power of increasing their EQ. His latest book is called “Leading an Emotionally Intelligence Life: Expanding Your EI to Make Courageous Decisions and Transform Your Life” and I could not think of a better, more important topic to help entrepreneurs than improving in the area of emotional intelligence, so I’m excited to get into it.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Kelsi Sheren. Kelsi is an entrepreneur, author, podcast, host, coach and speaker. Even more importantly Kelsi is a decorated veteran who served on the front lines in Afghanistan.

She founded Brass and Unity, a boutique jewelry and apparel brand that incorporates elements of brass from weaponry into its products. The company donates 20% of net profits to help rehabilitate and soldiers and first responders. Kelsi’s story and companies have been featured everywhere from ELLE, Fashion Magazine, Forbes, GMA, the Today Show, Fox, CNN, and even ELLEN.

Kelsi’s story is inspiring not just to those who learn of it, but for her as overcoming her own challenges after years of war gave her the strength and mission to help veterans overcome the side effect of war such as PTSD, homelessness, and preventing suicide. And she is fierce in her efforts.

I asked her to come on to share her journey, entrepreneur lessons learned, and how to overcome the biggest challenges that life brings your way.

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This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Chris Wright. We’ve had multiple guests on the show talking about the growth of AI and the benefits of it, but what about the potential downsides? In a world where AI can create videos and deep fakes of anyone in seconds or access individual’s data from social platforms and other sources and use it: how do you protect yourself and keep control of your data, personal information, and other valuable online assets? Those are exactly the questions I had been asking myself when I was introduced to Chris Wright.

Chris is a former US Army attack helicopter pilot, entrepreneur, and founder of the AI Trust Council. The AITC is building a pro-human social networking platform that helps users distinguish real from fake online. Its goal is to give users control of their meta data to create passive income and provide a mechanism to help steer the direction of A.I.

The council aims to ensure humans are empowered with the tools necessary to establish trust to build a pro human future. I think this is one of the most important topics for entrepreneurs to understand and find opportunity in over the next decade and Chris is on the bleeding edge, so I asked him on the discuss how we can not only protect ourselves, but also maximize our potential in the age of AI.

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