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The Small Business Millionaire podcast teaches you the secret small business strategies that the most successful entrepreneurs use to build profitable and growing businesses, and then, the magic formula for creating personal wealth beyond your greatest dreams. Our blog host, Jeff Wiener, ran a profitable and cash-flow positive business for 288 months in-a-row, including managing through three recessions, and sold his 50-employee small business in 2017 for 8-figures. Jeff will guide you throu ...
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Heads' Tales

Grateful Dead of the Day

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Heads' Tales aims to capture stories about people's experiences with the Grateful Dead. From going on tour to trading tapes to meeting Heads in Botswana, we will record, save, and share the rich and varied memories that people have of getting on the bus and having the Grateful Dead as an instrumental part of their life. Heads' Tales is a production of Grateful Dead of the Day.
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Following a heavy metal phase in junior high, Joel discovered the Dead in the late eighties. And since then, he has, in his own words, “spent an unfathomable amount of time collecting, listening to, and obsessing over all things Grateful Dead.” That obsession included taking in a healthy number of shows and amassing an impressive tape collection in…
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You may know Joel from our Facebook page, where he has been a major contributor over the years. If not, you will quickly find out on this episode that he is a knowledgeable and passionate Deadhead who listens to tapes all day long while working hard in his studio building beautiful handmade art deco furniture. Joel has been a Head since the mid-70s…
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Our guest this week, Teri, grew up Mormon listening to The Cure in Salt Lake City. In her early twenties, her ex-husband turned Teri onto the Dead, in time to catch her first shows at the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl in '93. But it was not until a Brown-Eyed Women the next year at the Desert Sky Pavilion that she really got on the bus. Cue up our latest ep…
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Winterland in the 70s, the hiatus shows, and Egypt 1978 are just some of the greatest moments in the history of the Grateful Dead that our guest this week, Don Defenderfer, experienced in the flesh. Margaret and I were thrilled to listen to his intimate and captivating stories and were just as floored by his heartfelt insights into the music and cu…
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Margaret and I are excited to get a new episode out after our unintended hiatus. And we are even more pumped because in this episode we sit down with Max Wiener, a long-time contributor to Grateful Dead of the Day. Max has written over ninety reviews for the site, though he is a young Head at just 23 years old. And while he has only been on the bus…
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In this episode, we spend some time with Tom Ribe, a long-time Head who grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and now makes his home in Santa Fe. In between, he lived across the West and saw the Grateful Dead throughout the region. Tom talks about hanging with the band before the 1983 run at Santa Fe Downs, braving a nasty blizzard to get to a show in…
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This week, we catch up with Chris Todt who grew up in the Philadelphia area and first got turned on to the Dead by the In the Dark album. But it would not be until college that Chris really got on the bus, seeing his first show, with that incredible Unbroken Chain breakout, on March 19, 1995. In the episode, we talk about all this and more, includi…
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This week, we catch up with Chris Stone of Grateful Photo. Growing up in the Bay Area with a penchant for photography and the Grateful Dead, Chris went to several dozen shows and shot some incredible photos of the band at several of them. We discuss his experiences with the Dead, his photographic practice, and how the band beyond description has in…
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In this inaugural episode, we introduce the Heads’ Tales podcast and host Margaret LeJeune interviews Jeffrey Kosiorek, one of the founders of Grateful Dead of the Day. Heads' Tales home Grateful Dead of the Day home Support us on Patreon! Show notes Links to things mentioned in the podcast: Grateful Dead of the Day mailing list Survey about the fu…
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Yes, of course, it's challenging work to become a millionaire, especially if you're wanting to achieve that elusive goal by the age of 30. BUT, if you're a younger, budding entrepreneur, there are some things you can do while you're still young in order to position yourself for wealth so that by the time you reach 30, you'll have a net worth of $1 …
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Why do so many people spend and waste their money? Even those who have won the lottery? The answer to that question is the same as why most people live from paycheck to paycheck and don't even have 4 weeks of an emergency fund put aside. Most people have a poverty mindset. And there's a difference between a rich vs poverty mindset. The poverty mind…
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Matt Cohen started Ripple Ventures in 2018 and already has more than 10 successful investments under his belt. In the episode we discuss how he got started in angel investing, what he’s typically looking for in an entrepreneur and company, the overall success rate of startup businesses, what a unicorn looks like, and much more. If you’re an early-s…
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You can use your business at the core of your wealth-building strategy, but, there’s an art to developing real wealth outside the day-to-day operations of your business. The risk of relying solely on your business, and not investing outside of your business to generate your wealth is that should something happen to your business, or should it becom…
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In last week’s podcast, I interviewed Andrew Henderson from The Nomad Capitalist. At the end of the interview, Andrew and I got to speak about business in general, and some of the challenges of growing a business. We discussed managing bureaucracy, managing people, creating a vision, The Peter Principle, building and managing a team of people, and …
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I’m a proud Canadian. I enjoy living in the country and all that it has to offer including the education system, the infrastructure, the healthcare (more or less), and most importantly, my freedom. Freedom of speech, of association, and my right to vote. I’m now in the later stages of my career though, so the thought of leaving Canada isn’t really …
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In order for you, the entrepreneur, to expand your business, you need to get comfortable with taking risks, but, taking risks isn’t about making ad hoc decisions, it’s about educating yourself, mitigating the downside, making a decision to proceed or not, and then, executing as flawlessly as possible. Taking risks is at the heart of building a thri…
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Every business and every person eventually reaches a ceiling. They grow just so far, and beyond that point, they need to pivot to reach the next level. It’s often difficult to tell when you’ve reached your ceiling. It’s not like there’s a little birdie up there telling you what to do next. Nor do you have your life plan written in a book that you c…
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One of the things that prove the most challenging for an owner in building a sales team is the difficulty in letting go of sales, and for a good reason. Sales are what keeps the doors open, lights on, bills paid, and profit in your pocket. Sales are generally the one thing most business owners do well. You started your business, you know your produ…
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The small business startup mistakes I review in this podcast are two of the most common entrepreneurial mistakes that I see most entrepreneurs make when they open their business. And both, are potentially deadly to the small business. There's a reason that something like 80% of new businesses don't make it past their first five years in business, s…
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Many people want to climb the wealth ladder and make it to $10 million or more in wealth (the same as a decamillionaire). Most people ARE NOT willing to take the risks required in order to get there. You see, the psychological emotion of fear of failure exceeds most people’s motivation to succeed, and consequently, most people don’t take the necess…
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Why did you start your business? If you started it because you are passionate about the industry you’re in or that you’re excited by the prospect of running and growing a business, that’s enough of a “why” to keep you going past the early business-year struggles. If, on the other hand, you decided to start a business because you’re looking to becom…
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Building a successful business takes a lot of work. Not just hard work, but, and maybe even more importantly, smart work. In consideration of that, what are the things that a new business owner MUST do BEFORE they launch their business? For starters, you need to have a business plan. And this document isn't just something you're going to prepare an…
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Are you an entrepreneur so busy with the needs of your business that you haven’t had time to think about a proper asset allocation strategy? Does worrying about what to do with your business profits keep you up at night? Do you wish there was an easy strategy to building massive wealth with your small business? What you need is a proven quick busin…
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Are you a small business owner looking to expand your business, improve profits, and ultimately, create wealth? My name is Jeff Wiener, and I'm a life-long serial entrepreneur. I ran a profitable, cash-flow positive business for 288 months in a row. At 49, I stepped down as President of the company, semi-retiring, so I can spend time mentoring entr…
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