Thought-provoking discussions about how to thrive as an entrepreneur. No fluff. What is the best way to ask yourself in order to make real progress and find the path that is best for you? What are the best questions to think about the challenges that you face as an entrepreneur while running the business that you started? Rachelle and David use their decades of experience founding and running businesses to help other founders and entrepreneurs with how to think about those problems, so the a ...
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It's impossible to have a meaningful life without a career on your terms - with purpose and fulfillment. Join serial entrepreneurs and career coaches Lennart van der Ziel & Rachelle Leerling in their conversations about work that's 100% YOU and provides freedom, meaning, energy and passion. If you agree that life is too short to do concessions on your career, this show is for you! Each episode contains powerful information that gives you a fresh perspective & concrete takeaways. Expect succe ...
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How entrepreneurs avoid being bottlenecks in their own businesses
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Ever wondered why some businesses hit roadblocks that slow down progress? In this episode, we're diving into how entrepreneurs can (unintentionally) become a bottleneck in their business. What you will discover: How do you differentiate between a bottleneck and just regular delays? Why do these roadblocks even pop up in the first place? Practical s…
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Are entrepreneurs addicted to being busy?
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Do you catch yourself being addicted to being busy? As an entrepreneur, we definitely are juggling a lot of different aspects of business. But being addicted to being busy, is a whole other level. And because you are always (trying to be) busy, you might be missing out on some big opportunities, pivots or important decisions. In today’s episode, Da…
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Entrepreneurs: make a habit of discovering why you're wrong.
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Are you sometimes wrong about something? As an entrepreneur and leader, it is hard to have to admit we aren’t always right. What does that do to our authority? To our decision-making and business direction? Or even reputation in the market? Whilst it is tempting to always look right, it doesn’t serve us. In today’s episode we explore the difficulty…
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What happens when entrepreneurs take things too personally?
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Do you take things personally in business? We are all human, and it can be hard to stay objective when there is criticism or success coming our way. Or when our idea doesn’t get chosen. Or, when we are too invested in what we are building. Taking things too personally can hurt us - and the business itself. In this episode, David & Rachelle explore …
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The entrepreneur's valuable balance between data and intuition
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Are you struggling to strike the right balance between data-driven decision-making and relying on your intuition? What happens if you rely too heavily on either your business’ data or your personal intuition? In this episode, David & Rachelle explore the critical role of balancing data and intuition in decision making. You will discover: - Objectiv…
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Are you able to go on vacation without feeling guilty? Many entrepreneurs are not able to fully turn off their head and disconnect from their businesses while trying to relax with their loved ones. While our high level of feeling responsible is a sign of caring about our cause, it can start to be counterproductive when it comes to taking time off. …
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The ego has a bad rep. However, it is also helping us achieve much in our business. In this episode, David & Rachelle explore the delicate balance between self-assured confidence and the pitfalls of excessive ego in the entrepreneurial realm. What you will discover: - Ego as a Double-Edged Sword: why it’s good & why it’s bad - Why we need our ego &…
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The power of entrepreneur's thinking time
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Do you allocate enough ‘thinking time’? In this episode, we uncover the secret weapon of successful entrepreneurs: time to think. Whilst it often ends up on the bottom of our list, it should actually be prioritized. Thinking time unlocks the power of uninterrupted reflection, strategic planning, and problem-solving. Often, the headspace created all…
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What happens when entrepreneurs are outside their zone of genius?
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At the beginning stages of business, you often work from your Zone of Genius: doing what you love and are great at. The value you add is your company’s gold or even its USP. The more mature your business becomes, the more you might find yourself moving away from it, or even delegating this Genius to others. As you transition towards leadership, you…
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What happens when an entrepreneur's employees don't get along?
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As an entrepreneur, you know that managing a team is never easy. One of the biggest challenges you might face is dealing with employee conflict. So how do you handle employee conflict? How do you make sure things don’t escalate and hurt your company’s productivity, reputation, or culture? On the other hand - when is employee conflict beneficial for…
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What happens when entrepreneurs identifies with their business?
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Is your business your baby? If yes, what does that say about your emotional attachment to your company? And is that a good thing? As entrepreneurs, we are wired to CARE. Care about our business, team, clients, and the outcomes. Unfortunately, many of us take it too far. Meaning we get emotionally attached to what happens in the business. Or worse, …
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The benefits of an entrepreneur's negative attitude.
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When we think of successful entrepreneurs, we often envision someone who is relentlessly positive and optimistic. However, some argue that having a negative attitude can actually be beneficial for entrepreneurs. A negative attitude can provide motivation to improve and prevent complacency, among other benefits. By acknowledging weaknesses and poten…
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How boundaries make entrepreneurs more effective
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As entrepreneurs, it's easy to get caught up in the busyness of building a successful business, often at the expense of ourselves and our performance. We people-please and put clients before ourselves just to make it happen. But are we actually being effective? In this episode, we explore what is not having sufficient boundaries costing you - oppor…
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How can an entrepreneur simplify their business?
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Have you complicated your business over the years? While a business starts with 1 great idea & simple processes, we scatter our business in many directions later on. We tend to overcomplicate our business with new strategies, tools, and long processes, and by (still) offering products & services that don’t perform. Most additions are often unimport…
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Why letting employees truly own their job is beneficial to entrepreneurs
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How often do you blame your team for not functioning at 100%? Do you feel too involved in the day-to-day? While it is easy to point fingers and try to control the operations, it is counterproductive. For your business and for you. Leading your team is a skill that needs to be mastered. If you want to spend most of your time working ON your business…
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How an entrepreneur can encourage criticism and alternative views?
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As the leader of your business, often people aren’t honest with you. Yes-nodding might be part of your everyday business life. Or, they are not completely open about how they feel. The people around you have their reasons for not speaking up. Their feedback on your leadership, or your ways of working, might be detrimental to their job. Yet, a busin…
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Why people pleasing as an entrepreneur is bad for business.
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Some entrepreneurs/founders see their people-pleasing behavior as a badge of honor. Giving the investors, team and other stakeholders what they think they need. Yes, sometimes sacrifices (against ourselves) need to be made for the sake of business success. But it shouldn’t be the normal behavior we leaders and entrepreneurs have. While being nice a…
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How can an entrepreneur practically avoid being overwhelmed?
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Are the problems in your business rooted in being overwhelmed? How can you tell? What do you have to decide or how do you make sure that you’re not becoming overwhelmed and justifying it? We know the benefits of being on top of our game: if you are not continually overwhelmed, the work you do, the unexpected challenges and bumps in the road will be…
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How can your 2023 goals survive an entrepreneur's life?
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Much of a founder’s direction can be characterized as “hope beyond reason” (with a nod to Bruce Springsteen for the phrase). But where is hope’s limit? At what point does reason rule, no matter how hard we hope? As founders, we create and develop something that many people would consider out of reach, too difficult, or not worthwhile. But we do it …
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How important is an entrepreneur's mission statement? (LinkedIn Live)
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How do you know where your business is headed? Does the day-to-day demand determine your path? How do you know where to head? Well, you have a mission statement. Right there on the website, with a bold headline and crafted prose. But really, what does a mission statement do? How important is it? Rachelle and David take on this very topic this Thurs…
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How can entrepreneurs communicate vision in everyday actions? (Live)
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Do you sometimes wonder whether the people you work with understand what you’ve laid out as a vision for the business you started? Does what you see and hear day to day reflect what your business is all about? Many founders and entrepreneurs have similar concerns and questions. People are working, but sometimes the direction of that work isn’t head…
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In order for your business to succeed, every employee must be inspired to work to the best of their ability. Right? We are often asked in a variety of ways how to inspire and motivate employees. How do we get them to understand the importance of what we want and what we are trying to do? It’s true that founders and entrepreneurs often have to clear…
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How can entrepreneurs be thankful - and why?
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In this Thanksgiving episode, Rachelle and David discuss the reasons how a founder can be thankful - and why. Everything in the universe is a combination of dark and light, and being able to see both is a superpower when it comes to running the business you started. A new episode is published every Friday. We also go live on LinkedIn every Thursday…
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How can entrepreneurs recognize their own limitations in business? (LinkedIn Live)
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As a founder and entrepreneur, how do you decide what hat not to put on at work? If you don’t have a structure for figuring out your limits and ways to deal with them, you could be flirting with a lot of problems. We are responsible for so much of the business when we start it - sometimes all of it in the first days. But we are not all equally skil…
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How can entrepreneurs work on their business instead of for it?
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As a founder or entrepreneur, how do you know you are working on the right thing? Running a business is a difficult task, but working on the right thing is often more important than just working hard in general. Being able to distinguish and then consciously decide between the urgent and the important is a critical skill for a founder. Sorting that…
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How can entrepreneurs and founders truly rest without feeling guilty? There is no way to make good decisions, day after day, if you are exhausted, overly stressed and unable to focus. The answer is to rest - to spend time away from work, your computer and the associated demands, and to fully engage in something other than work. But it’s not always …
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How can an entrepreneur stay happy during tough times?
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"How can entrepreneurs stay happy during tough times?" This topic isn't easy to tackle... We all know that business isn't all fun and games. But we should be very aware of the mental states it causes. Are you present with your partner? Are you able to detach from business stress? Becoming emotionally resilient to whatever happens in business is key…
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S2 #4 What is Purpose Really? And How To Find Yours | Lennart's Live Talk
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How to find your Purpose 🔥 Yes! Today I'm talking about Purpose. How to create your daily feeling of purpose with small things and how to find your long term purpose in life. No, it's not another hype word that will go away. It's your why, it is what fulfills you. Life is not just about you right? It's what you do for others that lights you up the …
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S2E4 How my secret Passion for Presenting turned into me becoming an Event Moderator | Tips on how to find your passion(s)
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How I turned a long-lost childhood hobby into a professional gig. In 2018, I was doing work I enjoyed but I was missing the secret ingredient. I wasn't sure what it was, at all. I sought guidance from a business coach. And I did some massive soul-searching. I dug deep into "Young Rachelle" aka my youth and connected the dots looking backward. There…
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S2E3 What is a Professional Passion? How to discover yours with the right questions
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In 2018, I was doing work I enjoyed but I was missing the secret ingredient. I wasn't sure what it was, at all. I sought guidance from a business coach. And I did some massive soul-searching. Back then, I HATED the word 'passion'. But now that I found mine (multiple passions!) and am using it professionally too, I am an advocate for finding your pa…
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S2E2 How We Cracked The Career Formula for Ourselves [this is how to do it]
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Aren't we all flying blind in our careers? Literally, nobody prepares us for work. Or explains how work 'works. When we look back on all our career experiences and sometimes even 'career detours', we lacked so much guidance and self-knowledge. We did some roles that seemed to fit us, only to find out it would be another hit-against-the-wall situati…
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S2E1 Don't Settle For an 'Okay' Career if You Can Get an Amazing One | Real Talk on Society & Careers
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A lot of people say they're 'fine' in terms of work. But honestly, they are afraid to give in on the fact that their career is not what they'd like it to be ideally. They are doing concessions - on the workspace, on the field, on the misalignment with their personal values and maybe they even feel empty as they are not contributing to something the…
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#31 My MASSIVE insights from Tony Robbins' New World New You Challenge | Monday Motivation Talk
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During my Monday Motivation Talk today, I shared many of the insights I’ve gotten from Tony Robbins’ challenge “new world new you”. I wasn’t expecting much of it, to be honest - I thought it would be a bit salesy. But he over delivered big time (note to self: underpromise, overdeliver) and I even bought my ticket to Unleash the Power Within (UPW) i…
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#30 How to stay in Peak Performance & Why Achievement needs Fulfillment | Tony Robbins Challenge
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Okay guys, as you might've seen online - we've been part of Tony Robbins' virtual challenge called New World New You. It was a 5-day event on everything from mindset to identity to energy to health to love to...what not?! It was sooo intriguing. Actually, it was SO good and insightful, we decided to get tickets to Unleash The Power Within (UPW) vir…
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#29 How to Deal with Setbacks & Challenges | Mindset, Tips & Vulnerability
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We all feel a bit down or scared about the uncertainty in the world right now. But that is not an excuse to give up on your life, your dreams and your needs. Even though I usually come across like I have everything in check, I opened up about which things I deal with. But bottom line: I tend to flip them into action quickly. Go listen to this sessi…
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#28 A Year Compass as goal-reaching guidance | How I keep track of my goals
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How do I set my short term goals? I use a Year Compass to set quarterly, monthly and weekly goals. And I evaluate them regularly and update it when a week, month and quarter has passed. In this session, I explain how I do this and how you can do this as well! Want access to the editable PDF Year Compass too? Go www.growtribute.com/community to join…
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#27 Readers are Leaders | practical book reading tips
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January is half-way and I’m about to finish my 4th book of the year. Now, reading for me is purely for soaking up practical knowledge. I don’t relax with a book. I listen to an audiobook when walking outside when running errands or making dinner. In my live session, I share my practical approach to reading books and building a habit. Furthermore, I…
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#26 Daily priming practice to win your day | Visualizing goals
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How you start the day is how you win the day. In this short podcast, Lennart shares his daily morning practice of gratitude, visualizing his goals, and setting intentions for the day. It's his way of priming himself to have a day of results, joy, and alignment. What if you start your day consciously and with a clear direction toward your future? Ch…
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#25 Create a new support group | Change your friendships, change your life this year
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If you want to be inspired, then hang around inspirational people. I have probably mentioned this a dozen times in my coaching sessions. If you feel that a friend, partner or family member is holding you back from taking that leap, then get out. Let me explain. You can create distance, you can choose to stop sharing details of your plans, or you ca…
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#24 Our 90/10 approach to goals in 2021 | Goals Focus is dangerous!
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How can you make 2021 your best year ever? In this video Lennart & I discuss a goal-setting method that actually works (unlike resolutions). It gave us the power to reinvent ourselves and our lives in the past years. We also share our personal 2021 goals in areas of finance, health, and business. And we will ask you a question to step 1 year into t…
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#23 Mind-Blowing Approach to Reaching Your 2021 Goals
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Here is my mind-blowing approach to my 2021 goals If you want to crush your ambitious goals, then watch this first Monday Motivation talk to get started 💥💯💪 In this episode, you will learn 1. How I changed my mind about goal-setting (used to hate it) 2. Which goals I had for 2020 and how I reached them 3. My crazy, awkward and refreshing approach t…
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#22 Reflecting on 2020 | 360-degree approach + FREE Workbook
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The last year has been a h*ll of a ride. Most of us just want to move on to 2021 for a fresh start. But let's close the lid on 2020 first and leave the old behind. In this short LIVE we share how to reflect and how 2020 was for us. We will finish off with a GIFT to guide you through an entire reflection experience. Head over to www.growtribute.com/…
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#21 Goal-Setting for 2021 Done RIGHT | Method + Questions
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When it comes to setting goals, you have to take 6 key elements into account. Spoiler alert: setting good, ambitious yet achievable goals is done by asking the right questions. Lennart and I have been setting goals for years now (Lennart 5 yrs, Rachelle 3 yrs) and we have some amazing results for 2020. We wanted to move abroad. CHECK We wanted to w…
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#20 How to excel through personal development
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This week, on our podcast Rachelle and Lennart discuss personal development - what it means, it's importance, and issues with how it's perceived. What does personal development mean to us? It's about improving yourself holistically to realize the potential that you have. It starts with asking yourself some real questions - Who do you want to be? Wh…
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#19 Living your purpose with Roel Vogels the Founder Scenario Cards
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Welcome to the latest episode of The Growtribute podcast! This week we are interviewing Roel Vogels, founder of Scenario Cards. Roel started off as an architect, with a great passion for the design aspect rather than the technicalities of architecture. After exploring in this field for 3 or so years, Roel found that this technical dominated field w…
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#18 What does it mean to manage my personal finances?
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In the newest Growtribute podcast episode, Rachelle and Lennart are finally back together discussing personal finance and its importance in this day and time! A lot of put personal finance, aka. money, in the same category as work. But what a lot of us forget, is that while you get your money through your work and career, what you do with your mone…
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#17 How to align your mind and physique with Olivier Malafronte from PocketConfidant
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This week in The Growtribute Podcast, Lennart interviews the French tech entrepreneur Olivier Malafronte! Already as a child, Olivier was always on the search to invent and create something new, with also a strong interest in human skills development, training and psychology. Olivier is quite the traveler - born in the south of France, he was conne…
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#16 Growth hacking your business and life with Ewoud Uphof from Polaris Growth
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In this week's podcast, we have Lennart interviewing Ewoud Uphof and having a raw and real discussion about growth hacking - in all areas of life. Ewoud is a growth marketing expert and conducts personal experiments to optimize 1% every day. He co-founded Polaris Growth, an e-commerce growth agency and advises scale-ups on growing faster. Beginning…
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#15 How to help a friend or family member in a depression - Sophie Schmeets - Founder of MaskerClass
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This time, the Growtribute podcast is about Mental Health & Depression, as part of our 4 core themes Health. And therefore I invited Sophie Schmeets. Apart from her work as a Jr Project Manager at the Buitenboordmotor Foundation, Sophie is the founder of Maskerclass. In 2017-2018, Sophie went through a depression. After recovering, she found her pu…
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#14 Consciously Disconnecting in a Digital World with Rosanna Fanni
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Rosanna, a Digital Communication graduate, crossed the Atlantic by sailboat, which took her 17 days. In that period, she had no internet connection, unearthed by the shenanigans of the world. She learned tremendous amounts from being disconnected! Since then, she has been a primary advocate of meaningfully using digital and when to consciously disc…
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