Description- Matt McLellan talks with Kodi Lovelace the Team Lead at Absolute Nutrition and Matt Miller of Matt Miller Coaching, about Personal Progress, Self Awareness, and Accountability Partners.Highlights (2:30) Matt Miller draws a great comparison between the benefits of coaching in sports and business. (4:00) Matt Miller talks about the benef…

Description Matt McLellan and Toni Eberhart talk about managing expectations Highlights (02:50) Matt talks about his propensity to set very high goals (like a lot of us tend to do), specifically high goal in high school at one time to want to break the 4 minute mile in track and field. (6:30) Matt tells about his experience with his first salaried …

Description Megan Nivens-Tannett talks about her experiences in the marketing industry that led to her launching her boutique marketing firm Flourish Highlights (03:10) Megan talks about her motivation for launching Flourish after her experience working with local HSV engineering firms who often did not understanding basic marketing concepts (much …

Description Scott Gillaspie talks about how his life experience has led him to launch his startup Incentive Financial Highlights (02:25) Scott points out a great idea from 12 Rules for Life – a rational mind can be trap because you over-rationalize every possible outcome. You can’t know every possible outcome so you’re better off taking a leap of f…

Cole Rickles talks with Marshall Schreeder, Jr. about his experiences and his role as EVP of Corporate Development at Discovery Life Sciences Highlights (03:53) Marshall describes what Discovery Life Sciences does. They support medical research (drug development + diagnostic development). (11:00) Marshall talks about how finding a process that is i…

Description Matt and Toni talk with Jorge Lima about founding and operating Civil Axe Throwing with his wife Erin. Highlights (04:45) Jorge discusses the difference between a boss and a leader. A leader moves with his team to do the hard work to be successful. A boss may watch from a distance. (8:30) Jorge talks about how he has used his experience…

Description Matt and Toni talk with Brandon Kruse about the importance of obsessing over your customers. Highlights (00:58) Matt and Brandon explain how a “sure thing” doesn’t exist even though it appears that way to an outsider. (3:18) Vetting opportunities is hard. Entrepreneurs tend to be optimistic and tend not to share their real struggle runn…

Description Matt and Toni talk about the perks of entrepreneurship. Highlights (01:50) Matt describes why he started Absolute Nutrition in the first place. (2:50) Toni talks about how she now feels "unemployable" after being a business owner and decision maker for so long. (4:50) Expectations vs. reality about expected freedom of time as entreprene…

Highlights (01:32) Grit is not choosing the easier path because long-term you're actually going to be more satisfied with the decision that you made. (08:05) Cole explains the impact of having entrepreneur parents are entrepreneurs (see the academic paper listed below with data on this subject; children are 1.3-3X more likely to be entrepreneurs wh…

Matt talks with Michael Carroll, Lacey Reinoehl, and Jarrod Parkes about mobile app development and solutions. They discuss the common options and features in app design, and cover the importance of determining scope of work and managing expectations with the customer desiring the app. Highlights (2:50) Lacey talks about process to define minimum v…

Toni and Matt talk with John Thornton about the Business Assistant Microloan via The Catalyst Center. Brandon Kruse and Trey Sharp joins Toni and Matt to talk about their experiences in selling a business. Highlights (00:57) John Thornton summarizes the benefits of a Business Assistant Microloan (typically $5,000-$25,000) available to startups, ear…

Matt, Toni, and Trey Sharp talk about how to succeed as an entrepreneur while still thriving in your relationships with family and other non-business interests.

The team talks with Kevin Fernandez about the advantages gained and lessons learned from entry-level jobs and early-stage opportunities.

The team talks with Kevin Fernandez about the importance of giving back to those around you and the power of the Law of Reciprocity.

Matt, Toni, and Trey Sharp discuss negotiating tips and strategies. Areas covered include: dealing with vendors, buying/selling businesses, buying a car, and even negotiating in marriage.

Toni, Matt, and Brandon Kruse talk about setting goals, the difference between "traditional business" and high growth "tech startups", and the power of persistence.

Toni and Matt are joined in this special episode by Brandon Kruse, founder/CEO of CommentSold to discuss all aspects of serving customers in the modern market. Topics discussed range from handling customer problems, how to measure customer satisfaction through surveys, properly qualifying customers to avoid problems in the first place, and more.…

In this episode, Matt & LJ talk again with Andy McCloy about how and when to evolve in your tactics & strategies and how to change with the market and the times.

In this episode, Matt and LJ talk with Andy McCloy of Body Creations about how to develop a habit of learning and improving and the importance of being an eternal learner.

You've often been told that networking is important. "It's not what you know, it's who you know" and "Your network is your net worth" are common quotes. But, how do you actually network with others and build your personal circle? For most of us, it doesn't come naturally, and it's not taught in school. Matt and Toni talk with networking guru Kevin …

The team talks with Kevin Fernandez about the Power of Persistence and Kevin shares the story of how he almost gave up right before hitting his goal.

Brandon Kruse of CommentSold joins Matt & Toni to talk about managing relationships in entrepreneurship, thinking about competitors, the power of an abundance mindset, and his favorite downtime hobby at Huntsville West.

Matt, Toni, and Trey talk tips, tactics, and routines to get motivated and stay that way. The team also talks about the power of great customer experiences and how key customer experience is to achieving success in the current market.

The team discusses how to deal with frustration as an entrepreneur, the importance of confidence/humility, how to balance confidence & humility, and when & how to ask for and/or offer help.

We discuss reflections on the 3 years of CoWorking Night, the positives, negatives, and things to considers in working with partners or co-founders, and how to network and find new people to grow your circle.

We discuss how to deal with burnout, how to get out of a rut, how to handle failure, the importance of making it hard on yourself to quit things you really want to do, and how to manage, train, and lead people.

In this episode, we discuss tools & tactics to get more things done, goals in entrepreneurship, and how to continually learn and improve yourself and your business.

Matt, Toni, and Trey discuss how to get new ventures off the ground, the pitfalls of being a perfectionist, how to go from idea to perfect product, when/why to bring other people into your idea, and how to invest your time.