Amy Porterfield is the go to person in our circle for when we want to learn how Facebook can help a business grow, but before she ever got into Facebook she used to work with Tony Robbins. (Yes, that Tony Robbins.)
Amy Porterfield is the go to person in our circle for when we want to learn how Facebook can help a business grow, but before she ever got into Facebook she used to work with Tony Robbins. (Yes, that Tony Robbins.)
Gary Arndt runs one of the largest travel blogs in the world: Everything Everywhere. He has been traveling the world non-stop for seven straight years, posted a picture online everyday for six years, and was just named Travel Photographer of the Year by Society of American Travel Writers.
Josh Shipp has been public speaking since he was 17. He toured with Bill Cosby when he was still a kid, used to be on MTV's Total Request Live, and just recently had his own TV show with Oprah's executive producer.
Andreea is a serial entrepreneur. In 2007 she founded the eco-friendly inspirational t-shirt company Tees for Change (which she later sold), in 2011 she started helping other entrepreneurs dream big and launch & grow their product businesses at Launch Grow Joy, and in 2013 she founded Soaps to Live By.
Benny Lewis can speak over a dozen languages, has been traveling full-time for over a decade, and runs the travel/language learning website Fluent in 3 Months. Over the past five years blogging he has built up an audience of half a million readers a month, spoken at TEDx multiple times, and nearly 20,000 subscribers on YouTube alone (with almost 3,000,000 views).
Natalie Sisson left an 8-year career in corporate marketing, communications and brand management for the vast uncertainty of starting a business. It wasn't easy, as you'll learn in this founders story session with Natalie. She shares how dark things got (at one point being hours from not being able to pay the rent) and what finally clicked to make her current life and business possible.
Jenny Blake is best known for her blog and book Life After College, which helps 20-somethings do bold things and find direction during a critical phase of life. But Jenny is much more than the author of Life After College. She's a highly paid speaker, a career coach and an NYC yoga instructor. Jenny gave up a highly visible career at Google to do her own thing and follow a lifelong dream of leading and speaking.
Steve Kamb is the founder of Nerd Fitness, a massively successful online community which helps desk jockeys, nerds, and average Joes level up their lives. In this founder story Steve shares how he got started, calling out the most important pieces of his journey from depressed corporate drone to the vibrant, charming and nerdy independent entrepreneur he is today.
Sahil Lavingia is the founder of Gumroad, a start-up based in San Francisco that is making accepting payments as simple and easy as possible. (Watch out Paypal.) In this founder story find out why he left Pinterest (when he was employee #2) right when it was gaining popularity to start Gumroad.
Betsy and Warren Talbot are a recovering 40-something Type-A couple who spent their 20s and 30s climbing the corporate ladder only to realize it wasn't the ladder they wanted to be climbing. In October, 2010, just shy of their 40th birthdays, the couple sold everything they owned and left their lives behind to see the world. They're still traveling today.