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• Traveling the world as a photographer
• Documentaries through photos
• Freelancing and not settling

Suzette Munson created Love 41 as an online retail business with a mission to give 100% of profits to orphans, widows, and street kids in Africa.

After traveling to Rwanda about one year ago, Suzette couldn’t sleep at night thinking about the people she met. It was so overwhelming that she had to do something abou it.

Instead of creating another non-profit, Suzette created a business that would give not 1% or 10%, but a full 100% of profits back to people who could benefit from the money.

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• Traveling the world as a photographer
• Documentaries through photos
• Freelancing and not settling

Charlie Grosso is a world-traveling photographer and has been a commercial photographer for over 10 years. She grew up in Taipei which inspired a current project called Wok the Dog. It’s lead her to 22 countries and she has 19 left before she finishes the project.

Charlie used to be advertising focused and now focuses more on documentaries.

At 18 years old, Charlie got herself into photography and hasn’t settled for doing anything she doesn’t love.

“Freelancing is not the thing for you if you’re not ok with uncertainty.” – Charlie Grosso

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• Creating a podcast network with 2 million page views per month
• Landing promo on Oprah, CNN, and more
• Partnering to grow a business

Mignon Fogarty created the Quick and Dirty Tips network and hosts an online show called Grammar Girl since starting in 2006. It was early in the podcasting world but Mignon still thought she missed her golden window of opportunity.

Mignon started the Grammar Girl podcast because it was her hobby. It was so popular that she expanded the network and brought on other experts to create their own quick and dirty tips shows.

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• Walking 3,400 miles across America
• Following a dream
• Name your own price for Nate’s book

Nate Damm seems like a normal guy, until you learn he just walked 3,400 miles across the United States. The Atlantic to the Pacific. Delaware to California.

Why?  Well, Nate wanted to see America and do it in a slow way. He also wanted to inspire people to pursue big dreams of their own.

Before the trip, Nate had a girlfriend, a job, pets, and an apartment. Listen to hear how how he planned his trip and just went for it.

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• Selling wool clothing in the summer
• Overcoming marketing challenges
• Getting out of the commodity market

John Fernsell is founder of Ibex Outdoor Clothing, a company he launched with a co-founder in 1997 in White River, Vermont. Ibex makes natural, wool clothing for year-round use. I’ve been a fan for the past decade and routinely wear their clothes in harsh mountain environments around the world.

John worked as a stock broker for 12 years before getting serious about his own thing. He felt more comfortable in wool in the 70′s even though it was more scratchy.

Wool is still known to be scratchy and uncomfortable, so I asked John how Ibex overcomes those marketing challenges. They also do a great job competing with high-tech man-made polyesters.

At $100 for a light-weight hooded sweater, Ibex clothing certainly isn’t a commodity. I asked John what story he’s telling through Ibex in order to build an engaged community.

“We make the best product we can make for the price.” – John Fernsell

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• One picture every day of America’s mountain
• A project so good people spread it without his help
• Marketing a five pound book which retails for $99
• Working with traditional media

The Pikes Peak Guy stops by my studio for an entertaining and very informative behind-the-scenes look at a project that started with taking hundreds of pictures every day of America’s mountain: Pikes Peak.

His real name is Shaun, but he explains why he didn’t bring his real name into the project. He knew that, if the project was a good one, it would stand on its own. People would spread the word based on the merit of what he was doing and not because of who he is.

You’ll find the Pikes Peak guy to be just like you and I. In his words, he’s “an ordinary guy trying to do something extraordinary.”

Shaun works for a company but is a business guy by heart. He has the flexibility to do projects like this on the side, but you’ll come to find out, he’s really working two full time jobs.

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• Gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur
• How to become CEO when you start from the bottom (and do it by the time you’re 32)
• How to find something to invest over 10,000 in (you have to love it)

Ryan Blair went from gang member to multimillionaire entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of ViSalus Sciences. At twenty-one years old he established his first company and has since created and invested in multiple start-ups.

In just over a year, Ryan took ViSalus from $600,000 to $10 million per month. Just two years after doing $600,000 per month, the company is now doing $40 million per month!

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• Working with a team in other parts of the world
• Making business more human
• A system for generating ideas

Rob Hatch has been working with humans for over 20 years. He’s the COO of Human Business works which serves businesses around the world. It’s awfully easy to become lonely when you’re running your own business, especially if you don’t have employees. Rob’s team is helping combat that feeling.

Ten years ago, Rob was building childcare centers in fitness clubs when he reconnected with a childhood friend, Chris Brogan. Chris persuaded Rob to join his team and help run a few of his companies.

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