By the year 2025, 75% of our workforce will be millennials. The millennials outnumber even the baby boomers. They are also different than the boomers. As an employer or business owner, you need to understand the differences. The culture that worked in the past may not be the best fit for the new and upcoming workforce.

Today, I’m talking about the changes employers may need to make. Right or wrong, they will need to be aware of what their employees want and create a culture that encourages loyalty and participation. They will need to create an environment where employees feel ownership and have opportunities to give input. They need to feel they are making a contribution and understand the bigger picture.

“If you create an opportunity for the millennials to be successful, your company will be successful .” – Sharon Lechter

This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• Challenges of working with the future generation and workforce retention
• The importance of understanding that times have changed
• Creating an environment where employees feel ownership
• The importance of establishing a system for input

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Dina Dwyer-Owens is the co-chairwoman of the Dwyer Group, a home services and franchise company that her father started. Dina has taken the business to over $1-billion in systemized sales and is inching towards 2-billion. The Dwyer Group supports brands like Glass Doctor, Molly Maid, Mr. Electric and more. Dina and the Dwyer Group were also featured on the television show “Undercover Boss” twice.

Today, we discuss Dina’s Living R.I.C.H. concepts, how her father founded the business based on values and a belief system, and how Dina has taken that concept to the next level. We also discuss one of her newest brands, Neighborly, and all things related to being a dynamic leader and business executive who believes in putting people first.

"The one thing we knew we had to keep going was the code of values and the commitment to the code because it truly was the foundation of our success." – Dina Dwyer-Owens

This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• How Dina’s father, Don, founded their company based on singular focused values
• How she took these values and operationalizing and gamifying them
• How Living R.I.C.H. is about treating people with respect and dignity
• Having respect, integrity, customer focus, and fun while loving what you do

Connect with Dina Dwyer-Owens:

• Dina on Twitter @DinaDwyerOwens
• Create Your Culture Workbook
• Dwyer Group
• Neighborly

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When you’re just launching a new startup company, one of the first things many entrepreneurs begin to think about is how to find funding from investors and financial partners. But, the problem of getting a “yes” from investors often arises due to a few key components that entrepreneurs have mistakenly overlooked.

My guest today is Lauren Flanagan, Founder and Managing Director of Belle Capital USA. She is also the CEO of a strategic advisory firm called SCIO Corp, a company that helps early stage companies prepare to scale, raise capital, and achieve successful exits. I’ve known Lauren for a little over a year and she is filled with knowledge, insight, and understanding of the complexities within the investing industry, as well as the challenges that many startup businesses and entrepreneurs face when searching for outside funding to take their business to the next level.

Lauren joins me on the show today to share her knowledge and insight about some of the key components you should consider before presenting your business or product idea to potential investors, why not all businesses need outside funding, and why building a competent team around your idea is a critical part of showing investors the value of your proposition.

“It’s important that you do as much diligence on your partners as they are going to do on you.” – Lauren Flanagan

This Week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• How to know when to begin raising capital and outside funding
• How to tell when your product is ready to present to financial partners and investors
• Why you need the right advisors – and the type of advisors you should consider
• How to prepare for outside funding
• The importance of creating, protecting, and sharing intellectual property within your plan

5 Value Proposition Questions to Ask Yourself:

1. Who’s going to buy and why?
2. What is the burning problem you are solving?
3. How big is that market?
4. What is the competition like?
5. What is your strategic or competitive advantage?

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Built to Last book by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
• Good to Great book by Jim Collins

Connect with Lauren Flanagan:

• Belle Capital USA
• Email: [email protected]

When was the last time you allowed yourself to be creative? To use the power of your imagination and let your mind explore what could be possible in our world? How does creativity, imagination, and curiosity play a role in the development, growth, and success of our businesses?

In this week’s episode, I’m talking about curiosity, creativity, and imagination, as well as something that we’ve all experienced at one point in our lives: conformity, comfort, complacency, crisis, and chaos. These are all very different things, and yet they are all connected. As business owners, it can be easy to become complacent in our businesses; to become comfortable or used to doing things a certain way. But, once you’ve become complacent, how do you get back on the saddle of imagination and creativity and why is it important to your overall success?

“Let’s just shed that cape of conformity; that cape of complacency, and replace it with a cape of your super power.”

This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:

• Why it’s important to step out of your comfort zone
• Why you should allow yourself quiet time to think and imagine
• How imagination can help you develop new ideas, new product or services, and new solutions
• How unleashing your imagination and creativity can significantly impact your business

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It’s never been easier to publish a book than it is today. In the past, the primary way to get published was to find and pitch your book idea to a publishing house or start your own publishing company. Although publishing houses are still a viable option to get your book published today, the internet has made it incredibly easy to get published without the need of a major publisher assisting you.

In this week’s episode, I’m going to share a few of the many ways you can publish your book idea, the pros and cons of each, and share why it’s important for you to figure out your marketing strategy to sell your book regardless of which publishing option you choose.

This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:

• The five big publishing houses still available today
• The pros and cons of working with big publishing houses
• The hard reality of publishing, promoting, and marketing your book
• The benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing
• The pros and cons of self-publishing eBooks
• How to get your books distributed to book stores
• Understanding the pros and cons of co-authoring and co-publishing
• Working with Indy publishers

Resources Mentioned:

• Random House
• Penguin Publishing House
• McMillan Publishing House
• Hachette Publishing House
• National Book Network
• Ingram Book Distributors

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Being a good storyteller can significantly impact your business. Whether you are sharing how your business got started or explaining how something works, you often express your thoughts and ideas through telling your story. When it comes to telling your story, it’s important to keep in mind the medium you are using. Whether it’s writing a book, blog post, or article, or sharing your story with an audience through speaking engagements, presentations, or podcasts, knowing how to connect and inspire your audience is critical to telling a good story.

On today’s episode, I’m discussing the differences between sharing your story through writing verses speaking and how to paint a picture for your readers through the words you choose when writing your book, article, or blog post.

The better storyteller you can become, the more effective you are going to be.

This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:

• Keeping the message you want to get across to your audience at the top of your mind
• Relating to your audience through your writing
• Using your own life experiences to add the emotional element that your audience desires

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Whether you’re selling a book, a product, or a service, the three-legged stool analogy applies. In a business sense, this means that one leg is the product or service you are selling; the second leg is your platform, and the third leg is you.

On today’s episode, I want to share with you some of the top reasons why you should write a book and how the three-legged stool analogy applies to writing, publishing, and selling your book. I also want to explain how becoming an author can help you establish yourself as an authority and expert in your industry, the benefits of co-authorship, and the techniques you can use to get your book written and published.

It’s never been easier, or more important, to write a book.

This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:

• How writing a book establishes credibility, authority, and expertise in your space
• How to generate ideas for the content of your book
• The various ways to write your book
• Identifying what works best for you to get it done
• Structuring your book
• How your book title impacts readers
• Taking your wisdom and inspiring action from your readers
• Using the power of the question in your writing to inspire reader to act
• The importance of celebrating your accomplishments

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Dragon Speak

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Michael Lechter and I have been married for 38 years. We have built global businesses together including the children's talking book company, the Rich Dad organization, and now the advice we are giving on Napoleon Hill. Michael is an attorney and an expert on intellectual property. 

Today we talk about intellectual property and some of the misconceptions that people have. We talk about the difference between trademarks, patents, copyrights, and even trade secrets. He breaks down the various types of intellectual property and how each one can be used. We also discuss the best way to protect your intellectual property by using a combination of tools. 

"You’ve got to have a plan, start out keeping intellectual property in mind and consciously build intellectual property assets into your business." - Michael Lechter

This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• Protected trade secrets and taking reasonable efforts to keep the secret
• Invention, creating something new, and protecting it with a utility patent
• Design patents and protecting the way things look
• How trademarks protect our reputation and good will
• atents need to be done correctly and are even written into the Constitution
• How copyrights protect literary works and expression
• Interactions between design patents and developing a trademark

Learn more about patents from Michael Lechter:

• Essential Components of Successful Business

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Statistics show that 8 out of every 10 new businesses fail within the first 18 months, but no one ever talks about why so many new businesses fail so soon after they launch. To have a successful, thriving, sustainable business, you need more than just passion and talent. I’ve talked a lot about the power of association – the power of your network. What many new business owners do not realize is that as your business grows and evolves, so should your network and those you associate with.

Beyond your passion, talent, and network, though, your personal plan for your business can often be the determining factor of whether your company grows successfully – or becomes another statistic. On this week’s episode of the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life podcast, I want to share with you some of the critical components that you should be considering when planning your business for success.

This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• Your business plan is a living document
• The three reasons many businesses fail
• The importance of assessing and reassessing your business plan
• The importance of “getting in touch” with your ideal customers and creating a feedback loop
• Creating your company’s value proposition
• Differentiating yourself from your competitors
• Being a great leader to your team and customers
• Tying in your revenue model with your business model
• Understanding the timing of your revenue

Tips for Planning Your Business for Success:

1. Have a living business plan
2. Assess – and re-assess – your plan regularly
3. Create a feedback loop with your customers
4. Understand your unique selling proposition
5. Review your materials to make sure you are communicating your product’s benefits – not features
6. Be a leader that other people will look up to
7. Review your numbers

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Have you ever looked at your career and thought to yourself: “This is not where I want to be; I have a greater purpose in life.” Many professional women come to a crossroad in their career where they feel trapped in their job, wanting to escape, and find their true purpose in life. My guest today is Ali Brown, dubbed the entrepreneurial guru for women by Business News Daily. Like many aspiring entrepreneurs, her story started in the business world – working for various companies but simply feeling miserable.

Today, Ali joins me on the show to share her story, why she decided to leave her regular 9-to-5 job to become a freelance copywriter. She shares how she built up the credibility to become a nationally known public speaker, and why she is so passionate about empowering other women to find the success and freedom they deserve.

“Success for women right now is having choices. There’s no right or wrong way to do this.” – Ali Brown

This Week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• How she got started as a freelance copywriter and why she pivoted her business.
• Her experience on The Secret Millionaire show and how it transformed her life.
• Why it is important for entrepreneurs to learn when to say “no,” and when to say “yes” to new opportunities.
• How getting involved with your local media can help you refine your message while building contacts and connections to your audience.
• Doing things that stand out and seen as being bold are great ways to get media exposure.

Ali’s Words of Wisdom for Aspiring Entrepreneurs:

• Review your core values.
• Give yourself permission to make a shift.
• The biggest barrier in your way right now is that you don’t trust yourself. You need to trust that you know what is right.
• When you step up and into your highest good, it will have a ripple effect on yourself, your business, and others. It will inspire others that need to be inspired.

Connect with Ali Brown:

• com
• Ali Brown on Facebook
• Glambition Radio

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Have you ever had to make an important decision so you sit down with your pen and paper and write a list of pros and cons? When you’re making that list, you’re likely asking yourself dozens, if not hundreds, of questions – but are you asking yourself the right question?

Creating a pros and cons list can sometimes be helpful, but what if your list of pros is just as long as your list of cons? What do you do, then?

Fear is often the factor that stops potentially great entrepreneurs in their tracks even before they’ve taken that first courageous step into entrepreneurism.

On today’s episode, I’m talking about one very important question you should be asking yourself if your trying to decide to start a business and become a successful entrepreneur – the question of “Why not?” What is stopping you from living the dream life you want for yourself and your family? Why are you letting it prevent you from reaching your true potential? And how can you turn those fears into the courage you need to find the associations and create opportunities for success?

“There are no failures. There are only learning opportunities.”

This Week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:

• Looking at mistakes and failures as lessons learned through experience.
• You need to know your “why” because that’s your passion, but you need to ask “why not” to motivate you to move forward.
• Finding associations that compliment your talents to create a driving force to achieve a common mission – together.
• Collaboration and building strategic alliances is the “name of the game” in business today.
• Sometimes you can turn an obstacle into an opportunity.
• You don’t need a huge team. You need great associations and the right team members with the right skills.
• The number 1 stumbling block for entrepreneurs reaching the success they deserve – is fear.
• How to turn your fears into motivation and faith.
• Invest in yourself and your future.

Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Resources:

• Outwitting the Devil book by Sharon Lechter & Napoleon Hill

The Takeaway:

Ask yourself:

• Am I still tormenting myself over a mistake that made me feel like a failure?
• What can I learn from that mistake?
• Why not forgive myself?

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