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How to Become Permanently Profitable with Mike Michalowicz

By Meny Hoffman // Let's Talk Business, Podcast // 4 min read

What if, rather than you serving your business, your business served you? What if you could turn a profit from your very next deposit? And what if you had the power to guarantee that profitability?

In this week’s episode of the Let’s Talk Business podcast, serial entrepreneur and bestselling author Mike Michalowicz shares his simple cash-management solution that helps businesses break the day-to-day struggle for survival and become permanently profitable immediately—no matter their size, industry, or how much debt they carry.

If you’re ready to transform your business from a cash-eating monster to a money-making machine, check out Mike’s interview below!

Defining Your Why with Dean Mercado

By Meny Hoffman // Let's Talk Business, Podcast // 5 min read

If you’re a small business owner, you obviously want to create a profitable company. But have you ever stepped back to ask – really and truly – why you want to be financially successful? The ability to answer that question might be the difference between prosperity and failure.

It’s one thing to want to make money; it’s quite another to think about why making money is important to you. Dean Mercado, the Founder, and CEO of Online Marketing Muscle and Best Selling Author of The MINDStretch: 49 Inspiring Insights for Business Breakthroughs, suggests that answering this question may be the key to growing your business more than you ever thought possible. Join Meny as he and Dean talk about why the “Why” matters, Dean’s recommendation that a small business owner should make himself unnecessary, the secrets to finding a good business coach, the importance of having an accountability partner, and much more.

The Art of Being Remarkable in Your Business with Guy Kawasaki

By Meny Hoffman // Let's Talk Business, Podcast // 6 min read

What exactly is a Chief Evangelist? In business, we’ve embraced the idea that customers can be evangelists, but it’s important to remember that employees and business builders can be evangelists too. Our guest, Guy Kawasaki, is the Chief Evangelist at Canva, a title that he explains can only work if the product can change the world—or at least a significant part of it. He’s the host of the Remarkable People Podcast, an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley), author of 15 popular books, and an adjunct professor of the University of New South Wales. As a former revolutionary at Apple, Guy popularized the concept of evangelizing in the technology business, and his ideas behind this concept have spread like wildfire.

Why You Should or Shouldn’t Choose Entrepreneurship with Jeff Hoffman

By Meny Hoffman // Let's Talk Business, Podcast // 6 min read

Have you ever asked yourself, “Am I really cut out for entrepreneurship?” Honestly, most of us have. While entrepreneurship seems to be synonymous with freedom, independence, and designing your destiny, being a successful entrepreneur takes perseverance, humility, and is a lot more than what meets the eye. This week, our guest is Jeff Hoffman, the inventor of the airport boarding pass kiosks, Billionaire co-founder of Priceline, worldwide motivational speaker, and bestselling author. He now dedicates his life to helping people around the world, like you and me, truly reach their dreams.

In our interview, Jeff discusses his work teaching entrepreneurship around the world. He incorporates his journey and goes on to talks about the important traits a business leader must have, and why entrepreneurship may or may not be for you. Finally, he speaks about scaling a business and how leaders can be more agile in a fast-paced world.

Tune in now and get inspired to be the best entrepreneur you can be. Listen and enjoy!

How to Become Permanently Profitable—with Mike Michalowicz

By Meny Hoffman // Podcast // 5 min read

Exciting things are happening at the Let’s Talk Business Podcast! We’re looking forward to launching our next season and will be implementing incredible tweaks and changes, so be sure to stay tuned. Until then, we’re bringing back some of your favorites from the legendary Season 1. For the next few weeks, we hope you enjoy these oldies but goodies, and we’ll let you know as soon as we are ready to launch the next season!

SPECIAL EPISODE: An Exclusive Interview With Our Host, Meny Hoffman—Part 1

By Meny Hoffman // Podcast // 10 min read

In today’s special episode, we turn the table on Let’s Talk Business host Meny Hoffman as Chava Shapiro puts him in the hot seat.

As many in the business world know, Meny is the CEO of Ptex Group, an award-winning branding, and marketing agency, and the Founder of the Let’s Talk Business (LTB) platform, a movement to provide entrepreneurs with the powerful tools they need to grow and thrive. In the first part of this interview series, we will find out about the history of Ptex Group, as well as what Meny is all about and what his goals are.

Are you ready to learn, grow, and lead? Be inspired by his story right here.

The Six Essential Traits of a Successful Entrepreneur—with Gino Wickman

By Meny Hoffman // Podcast // 15 min read

You want to start your own business. But there’s a lot on the line. You have to ask yourself difficult questions. Do I have what it takes? Is it worth it? And how do I do it?

This interview has been months in the planning, and I’m so excited I can finally share it with you all. I had the honor of interviewing Gino Wickman, creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and the Founder of EOS Worldwide. He is a bestselling author of several books, including Traction and most recently, Entrepreneurial Leap: Do You Have What It Takes To Become An Entrepreneur? Gino founded Entrepreneurial Leap with the mission to give people the tools to decide whether entrepreneurship is the right path for them and how to go after their dreams.

In our interview, Gino and I discussed his journey in developing the EOS system and what he has learned is the most important mind shift a leader must make to make their organization successful. We discussed entrepreneurship—the six essential traits of every entrepreneur, how to identify whether entrepreneurship is in your DNA, and the different ways that one can pursue the entrepreneurial path.

If you’re currently an entrepreneur, thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, or wondering if entrepreneurship is right for you, I encourage you to give this one a listen!

How to Build and Scale a Creative Agency—with Jason Swenk

By Meny Hoffman // Podcast // 15 min read

Agencies are often really good at what they do, but they struggle at creating the right systems for scaling, generating a steady pipeline, hiring a team and providing the right tools and resources for their team to be successful. Luckily, this week’s guest, agency advisor, mentor, and author Jason Swenk, knows a thing or two about scaling an agency. He grew his own multi-million dollar agency for 12 years before selling it, and now he teaches other agency owners the exact systems and framework he used to do so, helping them grow from zero to eight figures.