On this episode, Michael and Matt break out their magnifying glasses and plaid Sherlock Holmes caps as they launch a live investigation into how speakers and entrepreneurs like you should think about additional savings.
This is one of those drinking-water-out-of-a-firehose episodes that’ll make you say, “Oh, wow, there’s so much I didn’t know I needed to know.” Michael and Matt uncover and share a ton of useful information that will open your eyes to new ways to make financial decisions and think about your money.
For related episodes, resources mentioned in this episode, and the transcript, visit: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e6-what-to-do-with-additional-savings/
Whoa, what’s this? A bonus episode? Huh? Wha? That’s right. Welcome to the very first episode of Steal the Show: Michael’s Soapbox, our brand new bonus episode series. On this episode, Michael takes on one of the biggest questions that most aspiring speakers grapple with early in their careers: “What if what I’ve done in the past isn’t good enough to get me speaking gigs now?” The answer? It doesn’t matter what you did before. Drawing on inspiring real world examples and the research he did writing The Referable Speaker, Michael breaks down what meeting planners look for in a speaker—and how YOU can get the gig, even if you don’t think you’re “qualified.”
For the a list of resources mentioned in this episode and the transcript, click here: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/it-doesnt-matter-what-you-did-before/
On this episode, we investigate an innovative way to think about your business: as your own, personal family bank.
Any business owner or aspiring entrepreneur can benefit from thinking of their business in these terms. We discuss what that shift in perspective means and the implications it can have for your business and future. Plus—and maybe most importantly—we break down how to actually do it.
You can (and quite possibly should) set up your business as your own personal family bank. This episode gives you the why, when, and how of it all.
For links to resources mentioned in this episode as well as the trascription, visit https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e5-turning-your-business-into-your-own-family-bank/ .
Uh oh. There’s that word. “Debt.” It’s a little scary, isn’t it? Well, go ahead and tap the play button, anyway—this episode will help put your mind at ease.
On this episode, we talk about things that you and your business can do right now to start increasing cash flow. (And who doesn’t want to do that?) And yes, we also discuss that dreaded thing known as “debt”...but what we have to say may just help you pick up a few key strategies for paying it down.
You’ll finish this episode feeling a little more reassured and with a few new ideas about how to increase your cash flow and pay off your debts.
For the episode's transcript and links to Michael's books check out: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e4-increasing-cash-flow-through-savings-and-efficiency-plus-debt/
On this episode, we take a hard look at a tricky question: “How should I set up my business?”
As speakers and entrepreneurs, we want to make sure we’re doing everything we can to set our businesses up for success. But that doesn’t mean we’re not susceptible to confusion, bad habits, outdated ways of thinking, or just plain old anxiety—we are. And those things can hold us back.
Drawing on our own personal experience as entrepreneurs (plus Matt’s invaluable expertise as a financial services professional), we make sense of some of the most daunting internal challenges small business owners face in this episode. Anybody, anywhere who interacts with money can learn something valuable from this, so whether you employ dozens, just yourself, or nobody at all, this episode will give you a peek behind the curtain at what successful small businesses and businesspeople do to help themselves thrive.
Click here for the transcript and episodes of the Steal the Show podcast, and resources mentioned in this episode: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e3-setting-up-your-business-operations-personal-operations-and-bookkeeping-for-financial-success
On this episode, we decode the previously impenetrable ancient language known as “business jargon.” Like your own personal Rosetta Stone, we plunge headfirst into the deliberately confusing language of business and break it down for you piece by piece.
Click here for the transcript and other episodes of the Steal the Show podcast: https://StealtheShow.com/podcast/s4e2-how-to-speak-the-secret-language-of-business-jargon/