In this podcast episode, Andy will go through the “Vision Day” routine, which he considers to be one of the most important routines he does every year. This process improves the conventional “resolution” process to help you gain even more insight on your life and goals.

Unlike most webinars and content, this will be 20% content and 80% action. Andy will only be guiding you through a few exercises. The majority of your time will be spent crafting YOUR vision for the upcoming year.

The key to success for a business is in the human relationships that we hold. It could be between founders and managers and staff, as well as in networking and securing work. Decker Cunov is a leader in the ever evolving world of ´circling´, continuing to uncover new ideas and concepts as well as teach those which have already been developed. It is something that Andy and Dane have been training for over a year, and now Decker uses circling, amongst his other skills to help Silicon Valley companies as a consultant to boost their success.

Yanik Silver is a serial entrepreneur. Starting from his one-bedroom apartment and with just a few hundred dollars, Yanik has built multiple 7-figure businesses. Silver is the founder of Maverick Business Adventures, an invitation-only club for high net worth and adventurous entrepreneurs.

Ace bought his first business when he was nineteen. It was an online stock market simulator called CoolWallStreet. After selling it and seeing the benefits in buying a business over starting one, he caught the business buying bug. Since then he has bought and sold over 50 businesses and has helped his clients all over the world buy over 100 businesses!

Think you need to join The Foundation to succeed? You don’t, just follow what this guy did.

After deciding he wanted to kick more people's asses for a good cause (like criminals because he's a cop). Dan decided to learn from one of the best MMA fighters in the world at the time. During that time he needed shirts. So he started TapouT.

Caldwell has been acting and producing movies, including the TapouT Reality Show and The Lionsgate Movie, Warrior and he also hosts TapouT Radio on SiriusXM.

He owns and operates several businesses, Caldwell and Taylor Realty, a Nutrition store, a private investment group and he has two new Startups MentorMojo.com and Givestars.com. A Southern California resident, and proud father of 3, Caldwell now Speaks to thousands every year traveling around the World, inspiring others with his amazing story!

What does the best email marketer have to share? Nothing about email marketing. Listen in to hear about bad ass business stories.

Daniel Faggella is a recognized email marketing expert, entrepreneur, and speaker. Starting his first business in his undergraduate years, Dan began with his second business while attending the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. His expertise lies in targeted marketing strategies and exceptional attention to maximizing the ROI from email.

Listen to best selling author John Warrilow share his findings
after researching over 6,000 businesses. He is also the author of "The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry" and "Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You".

Ben Kovacs is the batman of the entrepreneurial world. During the day, he's one of the top salespeople at Twitter during the day. Would you like to know the mindset behind loving your job, building a non-profit, creating a new niche in the cannabis space and investing in companies? Listen in to get it all from Ben. 

Gabriel Weinberg is a serial entrepreneur responsible for the creation of DuckDuckGo, a search engine that keeps users information private. In this episode, Gabriel breaks down the four essential steps to getting traction for your business. The information in this episode is highly actionable, and a great overview of what you're probably missing as you consider growing your business. 

Need a serious dose of inspiration? Tune in to listen to a vulnerable hour with Dov and Dane. Dov is a bestselling author, with his latest title “Fiercely Loyal” on how high performing companies develop and retain top talent. Dov is a man who has been on a rare journey that has lead him to become a Full Monty Leader. You don’t want to miss this one.

Cathryn Lavery and Allen Brouwer are serial entrepreneurs with vision. We recorded this podcast just a few weeks before they launched their Best Self Journal on kickstarter with incredible results. They were fully funded in 28 hours and doubled their funding in four days with no end in site. Listen to hear the backstory of how this duo put this project together.

Austin Felton is a technologist and an entrepreneur hell bent on helping people take their ideas and turn them into a reality using technology. Having never been employed, Austin started a six figure local IT business at age 18 in Dallas, TX and after two years in business he realized that this particular business didn't align with his life purpose. He then promptly sold his business, dropped out of college and moved to Austin, TX to start a web consulting company. After almost a year of consulting for online businesses and building web apps he saw that there was a need in the market for hosting made just for online businesses. Just recently he started Entrecore, a company that provides hosting and other awesome tools and content for entrepreneurs that already run or want to start an online business.

Lee Cockerell's amazing life journey - hear how Lee overcame adversity early in life to become Executive Vice President of Walt Disney World resorts where he managed 40,000 Disney cast members.

Lee's experience has given him incredible insights into what makes success happen over the long term, and he shares some of his best lessons in this episode.

Jia Jang is on a mission to end the fear of rejection. His findings show that people are much kinder than you think, and on his mission to get rejected, he ended up finding a deep acceptance.

A lot has happened since that dinner table brainstorm on a napkin so many years ago. David is dedicated to growing his company, Voices.com, the online marketplace for voice actors with more than 250,000 people using the site each month with clients like ABC, NBC, Sony, Microsoft and thousands of others.

See how Steli moved to a new country, built a company and then pivoted it into software. In this interview, you'll hear from a very passionate entrepreneur about how he built his company, and what continues to drive him.

From engineer to entrepreneurs, tune it to hear Nicholas Seet’s story of founding Auditude (sold to Adobe) and his perspective on the most important thing that’s happened to entrepreneurship since the internet. 

Learn how Keren pivoted her life after she lost her job, then founded a non-profit that's been honored by CNN, The White House and the State of California. 

Sheri Atwood, Founder and CEO of SupportPay, and #5 of 50 Women in Tech Dominating Silicon Valley, lets Dane dissect her business strategy.  

Ryan struggled in business for years trying to figure out how to conquer his limiting beliefs and achieve personal freedom. After a few tweaks in his mindset, Ryan landed 5 pre-sales in 10 days. Can freeing yourself from limiting beliefs be the key to financial freedom?

Stephen and Robert run a seven figure international business. Listen to hear about how they think about business, partnership, hacking learning and more.

Introducing Frank Fridays, where you will have the chance to watch Frank rip apart and critique sales strategy of top entrepreneurs. 

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Geoff Woods talks about his journey from The Foundation to launching a successful podcast that hit the top 20 list on iTunes Business list. Tune in to find out what minor shift got Geoff incredible results. 

As a professional arbitragere, Jock knows how to buy and sell businesses. Watch to see into this fascinating world.

Dave is a serial entrepreneur and now owns a successful SaaS business. But he got started selling info products to golfers. Tune in now.

Peter has been rocking Amazon.com for the last 5+ years. Watch his episode now.

Watch as Dane answers questions from students in The Foundation.

The ebola virus helped Perry create his most powerful product. What? Yeah... I know... listen in to find out how. Perry is one of the highest paid marketing genius's of all time. This is an episode you'll want to listen to every word of.

After graduating The Foundation... and breaking a record... and hitting $50,000 in sales in 2 months... here's how this lovely couple started from nothing.

In this episode we are featuring 3 Foundation students and their questions on the SFN podcast. If you are looking to get started or hear what it's like to see how we teach and answer questions in The Foundation, now is a good chance to do that.

Dmitry came from Russia, living in salvation army clothes, speaking terrible english, and made his way in America. Listen to this rags to freedom story.

When I mention the word selling, what comes mind? After watching this interview, you'll see how to transform selling into the act of serving.

In this episode, we spend 30 minutes going into scarcity vs abundance and work with Evan on a deep block around it. In this call Evan opens up to more abundance and we share his journey to getting 5 sales in 10 days.

Jesse Elder is one of the happiest dudes I know. He has three secrets and a two step process for waking up happy every single day. Take the happiness pill and watch this interview.

There's one thing I've discovered that has aided me in my pursuit of happiness. I'm going to talk with you today about that.

Clay has taken leadpages from nothing to over 109 employees and 30,000 customers in 2 years. All while being cashflow positive. Learn how he did it.

I've always been fascinated with Walt Disney and J.D.R. Both men changed the world we live in, in different ways. And both of them were worlds apart in how they lived and viewed the world. Listen in to find out their differences.

Fabi has become the go-to tech wizard of her space in Paraguay, using her Foundation skills to launch communities of female entrepreneurs. Watch to see how being in a foreign country is an advantage.

Would you like to know how to get a Mentor who's bad ass? Andrea is a seriel entrepreneur who makes millions. She was on the Apprentice with Donald Trump, and she has mentors from all around the world teaching her top secret strategies. Her mentors are so big they can't even be named. Wanna know how she got them? Listen now.

Today I talked about one of my favorite men in history. John D Rockefeller. If you're interested in hearing about J.D.R's childhood and how he grew up, and how that shaped him into the man he is, listen in.

Antonio is the first Foundation student in history to get paid to build his SaaS for a customer. In addition, he will be re-selling this product for $500 to $1000 a month per customer. Listen in to find out how he did it.

Abundance is a fancy concept that people have no idea of. How does abundance actually, really work? And how can you consistently create it? Learn the 5 counter-intuitive steps to abundance.

Amar was a past graduate of The Foundation who hustled while on his commute to work. He was building his business while sitting on the train. He has the heart of an entrepreneur. And now... he's free! Wahoo! Listen to the full interview here.

Toronto is a great place to do idea extraction on restaurants. Learn how Steve found 5 to 6 pains, picked one, then dropped it. And what he's doing now.

1,200 students have been through The Foundation. What separates the run-away successes from those who struggle? Confidence. Listen in to learn how you can get that same confidence immediately.

Paul lost his father and brother in a traumatic car accident. He saw their mutilated bodies while looking over the car. In that moment, something happened. He had a transformation, and he's been different ever since. Listen on to see how he gained confidence.

For James Clear, the key to success is by mastering your habits. This can be as little as changing something by 1%. He has successfully built up his blog and sells his products mainly through the popularity of his site and guest blogging. James has always be entrepreneurial and seeks to help other people through his unique ways of thinking.

After struggling in the freight forwarders market, Mario did some soul searching, dug deep, and found his WHY. With his new why... he has found a powerful market, made deep relationships, and is building his new business. See how he did it all...

Why aren't you an entrepreneur yet? Ah... the employee and the entrepreneur. What are the differences between how think? It is vast... and yet... how does this thinking impact people who are starting out? Listen on to find out.

Mary Shenouda believes that the key to success is about being healthy and balanced both in the body and mind. She has helped hundreds of companies gain success through her sales and marketing skills, social media know-how and now through her coaching services. As a coach, Mary first focuses on physical and mental health,  before even beginning to embark on any coaching, a strategy that has proven to be extremely effective for her and her clients.

How do you battle the demons who tell you that you're not good enough to succeed massively? What do you do if you feel fear, anxiety, stress, or anger when trying to start a business? How do you navigate the feeling of being paralyzed... not knowing where to start? This podcast episode has the answer.

Jordan Greenhall is one of the founders of DivX, a company which allows high quality video compression and has changed the face of video online.  He uses his unique genius to give his outlook on life, business, luck and destruction in a way that most people would never have imagined. 

17 Year Old becomes the youngest entrepreneur to join the Foundation. He paid for the program all by himself. He’s a stud. He gets 5 pre sales, and then has to refund them because the idea couldn’t be built. Instead of spending months or years to watch an idea fail, he tested and dropped it in 3 weeks.  Watch this video to learn why entrepreneurship doesn’t have to be risky.

Dan Corkill was the first ever Foundation millionaire. He joined The Foundation with a business which hadn’t yet had a single customer, but came out of it with a new product and new niche and has successfully grown his business to earn over $100K/month. In today’s show Dane is joined by his neighbor, Meesha – a successful entrepreneur himself, to interview this inspiring man. 

Chandler Bolt, an ex-Foundation student, has now written a number of books. He has always been entrepreneurial person, preferring to work for himself than others, but he hit the big time with $192K pre-sales as taught by The Foundation for his business, Student Painters. After writing a book about his experiences, Chandler realized the potential of self-publishing in gaining a passive income and set up his 3 month coaching course to help others benefit as well.

Rohan Gilkesis a serial entrepreneur and has founded a number of companies. He has recently bought the subscription service business, ‘Wet shave club’ through Reddit and through re-branding , re-designing and re-launching, has taken it from $300 per month in revenue to $62K per month in profit in less than a year. Rohan saw the benefits that the business already had and knew that the model works.

As we come into the new year, it`s time to think about what we want from both our personal and professional lives in 2015. For the last 5 years, Andy Drish has been creating his life plan based around themes, looking over the past and present to create a life plan which allows him to decide what he wants out of life, and getting him into a place of freedom. In today`s show, Andy shows us the process which he uses to create this plan, giving you all the information that you need to create your own plan.

One of the great things about The Foundation is that we are learning the ups and downs of entrepreneurship with you. Sometimes it`s really not easy and we all feel like giving up, but Andy Drish believes that this is all part of the cycle of the rollercoaster of entrepreneurship. By understanding this, we can change our mindsets, embrace it and make it work to our advantage.  

Michael Margolis is one of the world`s best story tellers. His business, `Get Storied` helps businesses to use their unique and real stories to sell products and get investors. He has presented on Ted Talks and South by South West among others and is an expert at crafting stories, which is what engages people.

Sandy Connery is the founder of Connectable, an app for use in Executive networking groups. Having joined The Foundation, she discovered the pain within her own Executive group and got started on working out how she was going to solve it. She`s broken some rules along the way but has always used what she learned in the Mindset modules to make the right decisions for her. Sandy now has three customers across five countries and is growing.

Paul Ryan is one of the founders of Market Slide, a white label website traffic generation firm. Last December, Paul was still working his 9-5 job in corporate America. When he decided that he wanted more out of life, he went about looking for pains and solutions. Paul has now left his 9-5 job, working full time on his business and is loving life.

Andy Drish spent 10 years of his life trying to figure out why he was put on this planet. After reading countless books, attending conferences and even spending 10 days with a shaman in Peru, he eventually began to get it. He came to the conclusion that we all have a unique genius, a reason for existence which is specific to each one of us, and by discovering what our unique genius is, we can lead a happy and fulfilled life in abundance and perfect alignment. 

Have you ever wondered why some people just don’t get you? It’s probably down to different enneagram types. Ben Saltzman uses the findings of an enneagram assessment to help his clients to interact better with the people in their lives, and consequently propel them forward into business success. 

To move from a wantrepreneur to an entrepreneur can be more difficult that it seems. It’s not just about having an idea for a business and implementing it, it’s a complete shift in mindset. Andy Drish and Dane Maxwell help their Foundation students achieve this and in today’s episode, they figure out 5 steps to make that shift.

What changed to make Ryan Fletcher’s commissions go from $8K to over $182K in one year? He studied, and changed and pioneered his approach. Ryan knows everything that there is to know about using great copy as a marketing tool. According to Ryan it’s not about trying to sell something, it’s about changing ideologies.

One of The Foundation’s teachers, Rob Scott managed to turn his life around by experiencing a ‘fundamental shift’. He not only helps The Foundation students in the identity shifting module – the part that helps them prepare mentally for entrepreneurship, but also through his day to day work as a life coach, helping people to see the world from different perspectives and re-write the story of their lives.

Andy Drish’s life has changed beyond recognition over the last few years. He has gone from growing up in a small town in Iowa, through corporate America and then, with a little help from Tony Robbins and Dane, finally ended up starting up The Foundation. Andy believes that his life has changed radically because of his change of focus in his life and discovering that everyone has the potential to create whatever they want in life.

Almost exactly a year after she went part-time, Cat Lavery’s life has changed beyond recognition. Since she joined The Foundation, she followed the process and embraced the concept of idea extraction, developed her product and accomplished $6500 of pre-sales. She has also made $25K through a Kickstart campaign, learned to understand copy and made some great friends along the way.

Ari Weinzweig is the co-owner and founding partner of Zingerman’s – a deli company. Having started off in 1982 with a $20K bank loan, Ari has helped lead the company to be the $50 million company, with a staff of 675 that it is today. Having adopted an open book policy, concentrating on energy management and employee engagement, Zingerman’s has consistently grown and are used as a shining example of how empowering employees works to the benefit of everyone. 

Chris Stevens was another one of the top Foundation students from last year. When he was feeling thoroughly disillusioned with his job as an IT Consultant, Chris attended a conference in an attempt to rejuvenate his work. The opposite happened and he was ready to give up, but when he joined The Foundation, Chris found his ‘why’ and learned how to focus on being happy and fulfilled through his work.

Rich Armstrong is the President of the Great Game of Business and helps established businesses to grow by empowering their employees. Rich’s expertise come into play when businesses reach a state of ‘no man’s land’, where they have grown enough that they need to start relying on other people as an entrepreneur cannot get everything done. Through Rich’s help, businesses can expand organically, ensuring that employees are happy, involved and working towards a common cause.

Katya Dominguez has been through The Foundation program and is just about to quit her job to work full time on her own business. Her career as a successful business analyst wasn’t giving her the fulfillment that she was looking for, so she decided to look for something that did. Having followed The Foundation framework, Katya has found her business growing steadily and is now looking at ways that her business can help her to give back and pay forward.

David Hassell is the founder of 15Five – a company who has developed a SaaS product which helps communication within companies. He is a long term entrepreneur but only really began to feel fulfilled when he started using his skills to change people’s lives. David has concentrated on nurturing the right culture within the company which has resulted in 0 employees leaving involuntarily, and helped his company to grow from strength to strength. 

John Logar is The Foundation’s Number 1 student from last year in terms of sales. He has smashed The Foundation records by selling $120K in his first 6 months and has done this by using idea extraction, listening to potential customers and then helping them to solve their problems. John has fully embraced the idea of pre-selling and is continually using this to grow his business, and his next goal is to rack up multiple pre-sales of 6 figures.

After the success of the 50th episode, Dane and Andy get together again to discuss and debate the concept of alignment. They have both recently been looking into the deeper aspects of entrepreneurship and alignment is a topic that is close to both of their hearts. The idea is that being in a state of flow and alignment means that success and happiness naturally happen in all areas of our lives.

Josh Pigford is the founder of Baremetrics, an analytic platform for Stripe, which he developed last October. He needed analysis software for his own businesses and when he couldn’t find anything which wasn’t extremely complex he decided to build his own. With a bit of help from Twitter, he got his first customer on the first day, and has since bootstrapped to see almost instant success.

Anese Cavnaugh believes that they key to a successful business is all about relationships, and that starts with you. She works with everyone, from teachers, to parents to multimillion dollar businesses, helping them to become better leaders and communicators by thinking about the impact that they have on others. Whether it is about leadership, or being led, the energy that we put out has a massive impact on others, and by having control over this energy, we can have a massive impact on those around us.

Nathan Latka is probably one of the most intelligent people in the world. He is the founder of Heyo, a company who has developed software which helps people to get more fans on social media. Through study and analysis he has built his company to grow from strength to strength and uses his analytical, numbers brain to put the structure in his business and personal life which allows him the freedom to be happy and successful.

Christian Vanek is the co-founder of Survey Gizmo, a company who creates and develops survey software. Christian went from being $120 million in debt at the age of 20 to build his successful multimillion dollar business though bootstrapping and staying completely customer focused. Christian has had to learn how to become an employer and leader, adapt and develop his product according to his customers and most of all, listen.

Julie Arora doesn’t call herself a coach, but helps people re-frame their mindset to help people align themselves and ultimately gain success in both their business and personal lives. Andy has been working with her for over a year and she has helped him to completely change his life. He went to her with the quest of working less but getting higher results and has managed to use his alignment and flow to achieve this. Julie believes in following feelings, growing by subtracting and appreciating, and lives by her philosophy that strategy can only get you so far, and after that it’s alignment.

Tai Lopez reads a book every day, is a member of MENSA, loves salsa dancing, has a 5000 book library and is responsible for 12 multimillion dollar companies. He lives next door to Cameron Diaz and Katy Perry, and he credits all of this through his study of life. Tai swears by the idea that the most important things in relating with other humans is to be interesting. Through his life studies he has applied the concepts he has learned to his business and this has resulted in his great success and ability to help others in their own successes.

Joel Gurin is the author of the book and website Open Data Now, as well as being involved in gov.lab at New York University and opendata500.com. He is an expert in the world of open data and how this can be used by entrepreneurs as well as already established companies to create, develop and grow. Open data – data which can be freely accessed by the public is becoming an important tool for entrepreneurs in creating new business opportunities.

Peter Shallard is the shrink for entrepreneurs. He was our first ever interviewee and helps guide hundreds of entrepreneurs through the maze of business and personal challenges that they face. Having seen it all in the world of business start-ups, Peter is in a great position to offer advice for those beginning their entrepreneurial career as well as helping those with already established businesses, by filling their capabilities gaps, embracing failure and learning to minimize procrastination. 

Bryan Franklin and Jennifer Russell are gurus in the world of psychology around entrepreneurship and leadership. Being entrepreneurs themselves and by using their in-depth knowledge of what is needed in the mindset of successful entrepreneurs, they are able to make a huge impact in helping in the prosperity of many businesses. Bryan and Jennifer offer invaluable advice on how to train minds to bring business success whether it is from the start, or an already established business.

In the 50th episode of the Starting from Nothing podcast, Dane and Andy chat about what they have learned in terms of the mindset of being successful both in business and in personal lives. Through the many people they have met, helped and been helped by, they have been able to build up a clear and concise picture of the psychology of a successful entrepreneur and show how they have used this information as a tool to grow and develop The Foundation.

Billy Murphy didn’t stay in his first ‘real’ job after college for very long. He left shortly after he joined to become a professional poker player. When the game stopped being fun, he quit and built a poker coaching business and this was when he really honed in on his risk calculation skills. Billy is now a serial investor in businesses and he has devised his own risk calculating strategy which guides him in investing and business start-ups.

Ben Krueger is the founder of ‘Authority Engine’ – a company who helps small businesses conceptualize, create and maintain their own podcasts. After working in a small media company, he figured out what he really wanted out of life set about learning the skills he needed and quit his day job. Ben now runs his ‘Authority Engine’ company from wherever he wants to be in the world, and is trying to strategically grow his company while maintaining the high quality that he always offered.

Brandon Nolte has published over 50 books in the last year. Having decided that he wanted to take the leap into entrepreneurship he found his particular niche in looking for pain points in niche products. He went on to publish mainly audio and eBooks via Amazon to help people in their pain points and has now created systems and procedures to help him to build his business in creating content to help with niche products.

Jaime Tardy is a self-confessed geek. She is a business coach and hosts her own “Eventual Millionaire” podcast. Having seen her business go from strength to strength she has released her own “Eventual Millionaire” book. Jaime spends her days talking to successful business millionaires, building beautiful relationships and helping others in the process.

Dane and Andy have formed a great, successful partnership in their work and formation of The Foundation. Having both started out as budding entrepreneurs, they learnt some of the lessons of entrepreneurship which they now teach others through The Foundation. Having met through a mutual friend and mentor, they formed the perfect partnership, which has built The Foundation to what it is today and helps it go from strength to strength.

Dan Norris is the co-founder of WP Curve, a 24 hour WordPress support company. He left his job in corporate Australia to start working freelance. After a series of failed business ideas, Dan dreamt up the idea of WP Curve and hasn’t looked back. He now runs a success business while supporting and spending time with his family.

Chris Chidgey is the founder of bgbisland.com, a mobile app company. He quit his corporate America job after ten years in the pursuit of becoming a location independent entrepreneur, and began his career designing and building mobile apps — without knowing anything about design or writing code! He now spends his life traveling the world and is about to launch his new app diagnostic software product.

Roger Sholanki is the founder of Book4Time, a company which develops and supplies management software for spa, health and well-being companies. Roger has more than 20 years experience in developing niche software for the retail, health and well-being, and hospitality industries, and is an expert pitcher to big corporations. From starting up his own business in 1992, Roger has managed to maximize his potential and now, as well as running `Book4Time’, also advises other entrepreneurs starting out in the business world.

Charlie Hoehn, author of “Play It Away — A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety” talks about a subject that most entrepreneurs never talk about — stress and anxiety. Having built up his career to be very successful in his field, Charlie was becoming increasingly sick. Suddenly one day the realization hit him that he had a problem with anxiety. His cure? To play, to enjoy life, and to spend time looking after himself.