Lenita Abouchabake is the Managing Director of Teen Coach Academy, which offers training for educators, counselors, coaches, and speakers to empower and transform teens' lives. As a thought leader, coach, speaker, and former teacher, she is one of the leading voices in the teen education market. Lenita focuses on building influential teen coaches to strengthen support in schools, homes, and communities.
With social media negatively influencing teens’ lives, these young individuals experience higher rates of anxiety, depression, and conflicting social isolation. Accordingly, teen coaching has become a profitable niche market as more parents seek help for their children. How can you build a reliable and scalable business to transform young lives?
Historically, experts maintained teen coaching was an underperforming market and struggled to obtain parental buy-in. With a passion for impacting teens long-term, former educator Lenita Abouchabake built and expanded her coaching business from a supplementary income source to a six-figure career. Penetrating this market requires developing and adhering to a scalable business model and committing to the extended journey. When gaining initial traction, Lenita recommends sharing your business venture with your family and friends and conveying your mission to parents and others involved in teens’ lives.
In this episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell chats with Lenita Abouchabake, the Managing Director of Teen Coach Academy, about growing a teen coaching business. Lenita discusses learning from common coaching mistakes, how she navigates the highs and lows of business success, and her ideal coaching clients.
Dan Kuschell is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He runs Breakthrough3X, a company that gives you instant access to a Fractional CMO Team. Breakthrough3X helps founders and CEOs grow their businesses 3 to 10x and generate more clients daily with a simple system that gets them free from the day-to-day. Dan has owned 12 companies since 1992, building multiple businesses with revenues exceeding eight figures before selling. He is also the host of the Growth to Freedom podcast, where he interviews industry leaders and experts in a variety of fields.
When hosting educational events like webinars or workshops, some leaders commoditize them by overselling products or services. This, combined with an ineffective structure, leads to high-effort events with sparse results. How can you facilitate engagement, value, and participation to generate ROI-producing events?
Serial entrepreneur and business advisor Dan Kuschell has developed a proprietary model involving hosting a series of events with follow-ups to build incremental value. Following the initial event, create follow-up offers with targeted messaging to increase engagement. Over the next few days, replay highlights of the event emphasizing unique client stories associated with your offer. You should also underscore excerpts from the event that answer frequently asked questions. Each stage of the process should include emails communicating your principal offer to foster authentic urgency.
In today’s Growth to Freedom episode, Dan Kuschell returns to discuss maximizing your value proposition during virtual events. He shares case studies on paid event models, the mistakes leaders make when hosting educational events, and how to accelerate ROI for paid events.
Liana Ling is the CEO of AdSkills, an e-learning company offering advertising classes to professionals. She is also the President of Power Up Strategy, which provides business coaching for entrepreneurs. As a seasoned digital marketing expert, Liana has over a decade of experience in the info product and coaching industries. Recognized as one of the top Facebook ad buyers worldwide, she drives results for clients by optimizing their advertising strategies and delivering ROI. With a background in law, Liana has become the go-to advisor for businesses.
As digital advertising evolves seemingly by the hour, marketers and business owners must evaluate copious platforms, software, and strategies. This leads to overanalysis and inaction, consuming valuable time as these professionals become preoccupied with the latest technology. Which advertising strategies should you leverage to streamline your approach?
After uncovering her strengths, leading digital advertising authority and former attorney Liana Ling acquired complementary partners and resources to enhance her performance. If you’re engaging in repetitive tasks or overutilizing ad technology, Liana recommends prioritizing revenue-generating tasks and scheduling time to automate and delegate the remainder. Executing multiple advertising approaches simultaneously without a sound strategy is ineffective. Instead, test strategies separately, analyze KPIs and performance data, and optimize them to scale.
Join Dan Kuschell in this episode of Growth to Freedom as he hosts Liana Ling, the CEO of AdSkills, who shares how to simplify digital advertising strategies. Liana explains how to adapt to the changes in digital advertising, her personal and professional growth journey, and tips for gaining visibility using paid media.
Greg Downey is the Managing Director of Purim Ventures, a strategic management and venture studio working alongside C-suite executives, physicians, and entrepreneurs. With over 25 years of executive leadership experience, he helps startup, growth, and public companies increase sales and market dominance.
Greg accomplishes this by creating capital formation, launching innovative products, and developing strategic partnerships and initiatives that drive revenue and shareholder value. His efforts have generated over $100 million in sales and contributed to two exits, one acquisition, and an IPO.
When it comes to securing funding for startups, many entrepreneurs rely on the antiquated method of developing a business plan and presenting it to venture capitalists. Yet many investors don’t read business proposals, and most early-stage companies don’t qualify for VC funding. So how can you pitch your startup to investors to kickstart growth?
As a business growth strategist and mentor, Greg Downey has developed a proprietary process for boosting company valuation and accessing equity and partnerships. An investor’s role is to minimize risk and maximize ROI, so you must understand your value. This entails identifying your business’ strengths and weaknesses to partner with investors who can complement and offset them. When positioning your company in front of potential investors, establish and resolve operational and financial flaws to increase appeal. It’s also critical to recognize the ideal qualities of a partnership to position your business effectively.
In today’s Growth to Freedom episode, Dan Kuschell hosts Greg Downey, the Managing Director of Purim Ventures, who talks about pitching your business idea to investors for capital. Greg discusses the common mistakes of generating funding, the importance of analyzing investment trends, and how to boost company valuation.
Joe Foley is the Founder, President, and Client Experience Officer at Disk.com, a company providing manufacturing, fulfillment, and shipping services for e-commerce and Shopify business owners. With over 39 years in business, Disk.com ships approximately 10,000 packages a week. Joe has worked with prolific authors, speakers, and leaders focused on creating a global impact. Before Disk.com, he was the VP of Sales at Print Technology.
As today’s sales environment becomes increasingly demanding, companies must have swift fulfillment and delivery capabilities to meet client needs and scale. How can you implement a strategic and reliable shipping system to retain clients and maximize sales?
When managing tight shipment and delivery times, many businesses either expend their resources to fulfill demands or partner with companies that don’t align with their growth objectives. Joe Foley, a leader in printing and fulfillment, emphasizes personalizing the client experience by acquiring a team of experts and collaborating with reputable partners. Disk.com provides 1-2 day delivery services, allowing you to offer exceptional services that encourage more referrals and sales.
In this episode of Growth to Freedom, the Founder, President, and Client Experience Officer at Disk.com, Joe Foley, joins Dan Kuschell to discuss how you can scale using fulfillment and drop shipping. Joe talks about companies’ top fulfillment and media mistakes, the future development of shipping and fulfillment, and how to streamline fulfillment and optimize media.
David Newman, CSP, is the Founder of Do It! Marketing, a revenue acceleration mentorship program for B2B consulting practices. He specializes in thought leadership marketing via seminars, consulting, and coaching programs to help solo consultants and businesses grow their revenues from 50-500% in under 15 months. As a certified speaking professional, David is a member of the Million Dollar Speakers Group at the National Speakers Association. He is also a best-selling author of the Do It! series.
For most entrepreneurs, selling is awkward. No one enjoys cold-calling arbitrary prospects or spamming their network, so some business owners execute an idea without adequate research, targeting, or messaging. How can you sell your services without using antiquated methods?
Believing his services would sell automatically, sales speaker David Newman accrued massive debt after planning a conference in Disney World that drew only six attendees. After exhausting corporate sales strategies, David reinvented the process for solopreneurs. He recommends performing market validation by gaining feedback from your prospects to refine your messaging. Rather than promoting your services, uncover and study your target audience’s specific needs and issues to develop specialized solutions.
In this episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell hosts David Newman, the Founder of Do It! Marketing, who shares strategies and insights from his book Do It! Selling. David explains how to pitch to your prospects and lead a sales conversation and the top sales mistakes made during growth.
Sam Silverstein, CSP, CPAE, is the Founder and CEO of The Accountability Institute, a business consultancy helping executives and entrepreneurs build accountable companies and create sustainable, high-performing cultures. He is an executive consultant on workplace culture and accountability and has written 12 books, including No More Excuses! and Non-Negotiable. As a Hall of Fame keynote speaker, Sam works with entrepreneurs, multinational companies, corporations, and government agencies to drive increased engagement and productivity. As a former executive and entrepreneur, he sold one of his businesses to a Fortune 500 company.
Many executives believe that organizational accountability refers to the spoken agreement with a team member to perform an assigned task. But if you want to embed accountability into your culture, you must make relational commitments to protect employees and foster their growth. Learn the leading secrets to cultivating an accountable culture to improve productivity.
As an accountability aficionado, Sam Silverstein says that by maintaining a commitment to support team members, you can inspire them to advance their performance. Building a culture of accountability requires identifying your value narrative, purpose, and mission through a comprehensive system. This should occur on both an individual and organizational level and the values should be created holistically to define the culture’s full scope. Leveraging tools to quantify productivity is also essential in developing this framework.
In today’s episode of Growth to Freedom, Sam Silverstein, the Founder and CEO of The Accountability Institute, joins Dan Kuschell to talk about how organizational accountability benefits company cultures. Sam shares how to implement accountability to deliver value, how he differentiates his methodology in the market, and the core mistakes of measuring accountability.
Jill Lublin is a master publicity strategist, international keynote speaker, and 4x best-selling author. With over 200 global speaking engagements, she empowers audiences through interactive keynotes, seminars, and training programs on publicity, networking, and influence marketing. With 25 years of expertise, Jill has been featured on the stages of Tony Robbins, Mark Victor Hansen, and many others and has been recognized by ABC, NBC, and other media outlets as a regarded publicity expert. She also trains and consults with executives, sales teams, and marketing departments in Fortune 500 companies.
In the landscape of social media, influencers, and personal branding, one overlooked promotional strategy is public relations. Contrary to widespread belief, PR is not outdated. So what are the benefits of this medium, and what tactics can you leverage to advertise and grow your business?
PR authority and connoisseur Jill Lublin endorses the approach as a monetization strategy that generates trust, visibility, and recognition by targeting your audience’s defined needs. Traditional advertising methods involve placing emphasis on companies’ products or services. With PR, you must develop unique, precise, and relevant messaging to elevate your impact. Jill advises garnering media acclaim by contacting local networks to share your story and drive relevance.
In today’s special segment of the Business Breakthrough Spotlight on Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell invites Jill Lublin, a PR strategist, consultant, speaker, and author, who shares her secrets to generating valuable publicity for your business. Jill discusses actionable PR steps any company can implement, how to leverage PR for maximum business exposure, and common PR mistakes.
Dan Kuschell is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He runs Breakthrough3X, a company that gives you instant access to a Fractional CMO Team. Breakthrough3X helps founders and CEOs grow their businesses 3 to 10x and generate more clients daily with a simple system that gets them free from the day-to-day. Dan has owned 12 companies since 1992, building multiple businesses with revenues exceeding eight figures before selling. He is also the host of the Growth to Freedom podcast, where he interviews industry leaders and experts in a variety of fields.
Do you want to raise your prices and attract high-level clients? Are you consistently booking mediocre customers? It could be your messaging.
According to Dan Kuschell, marketing messages are often convoluted and dull. This is because many founders structure their messaging like a lecture instead of a compelling sales pitch. To deliver a concise, direct message that generates prominent clients, Dan says to pose a question that introduces a universal need or problem, then explain how your business addresses it.
In today’s episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell discusses how to position your marketing message to attract quality clients. He also shares how Breakthrough3X helps businesses generate leads and clients and provides information about Breakthrough3X’s networking event.
Brad Sugars is an entrepreneur, bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the #1 business coach in the world. Over his 30-year career, he has become the CEO of more than nine companies and is now the Owner of the award-winning business and executive coaching franchise ActionCOACH. Through his coaching style, Brad helps entrepreneurs and business owners expedite success and achieve impactful results.
Scaling your business to a billion dollars while freeing yourself from your entrepreneurial responsibilities may sound like a catch-22. This is because business owners often lack the appropriate strategies to grow to the next level. Tune in to learn how you can structure your business to scale.
According to Brad Sugars, building a multibillion-dollar corporation begins with a vision. Conceptualizing a growth goal allows you to develop a strategic business plan, foster a team culture that promotes professional development, and expand your customer base. To achieve your growth goals, you must diversify your business into additional markets. When you franchise your company, you can delegate executive roles to operational partners who understand your objectives and can carry your legacy.
Join Dan Kuschell in this episode of Growth to Freedom as he hosts executive coach Brad Sugars to talk about creating a billion-dollar business plan. Brad shares his 30x growth plan, the secret to entrepreneurial success, and advice for acquiring and managing franchise partners.
Dan Kuschell is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He runs Breakthrough3X, a company that gives you instant access to a Fractional CMO Team. Breakthrough3X helps founders and CEOs grow their businesses 3 to 10x and generate more clients daily with a simple system that gets them free from the day-to-day. Dan has owned 12 companies since 1992, building multiple businesses with revenues exceeding eight figures before selling. He is also the host of the Growth to Freedom podcast, where he interviews industry leaders and experts in a variety of fields.
In today’s competitive buyers’ market, customers are becoming increasingly savvy, and their purchasing decisions are evolving. So it’s not enough to merely sell your services. Imagine if you could sell more by selling less.
Business advisor Dan Kuschell says that by adopting an interview strategy instead of a sales approach, you can acquire more clients and maximize sales. With this strategy, it’s crucial to recognize selling as a method of helping customers achieve results. You can utilize an interview setting to influence customers emotionally to employ your services to solve their most pressing issues.
In today’s episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell discusses how to boost sales by modifying your selling strategy. He also explains how to build a buyers’ culture and the true definition of selling.
Dan Kuschell is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur, and angel investor. He runs Breakthrough3X, a company that gives you instant access to a Fractional CMO Team. Breakthrough3X helps founders and CEOs grow their businesses 3 to 10x and generate more clients daily with a simple system that gets them free from the day-to-day. Dan has owned 12 companies since 1992, building multiple businesses with revenues exceeding eight figures before selling. He is also the host of the Growth to Freedom podcast, where he interviews industry leaders and experts in a variety of fields.
Are you struggling to generate a steady flow of sales, leads, clients, or all of the above? What if it were possible to escape your daily operations and scale your business simultaneously?
According to Dan Kuschell, this is not only possible but practical. His exponential business growth system helps you implement consistent, sustainable processes that drive sales and allow you to focus on growing — or even exiting — your company. You can transform your business for optimal impact by identifying a vision, developing a custom lead-generation strategy, creating collaboration opportunities, hosting education-based events, and optimizing your systems.
Join Dan Kuschell in today’s episode of Growth to Freedom as he talks about how to maximize leads, conversions, and sales. He also shares business growth case studies and his exponential business growth system.
Natasha Miller is the Founder and Chief Experience Designer at Entire Productions, an Inc. 5000 event and entertainment production company that specializes in experience design. As an Inc. 5000 entrepreneur, author, and speaker, she helps other business owners scale, grow, and optimize their companies efficiently. Natasha is the author of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble bestselling memoir, Relentless and teaches master classes in memoir writing.
What if you could tell your life story to transform yourself and inspire others? Every entrepreneur has a story to tell, yet many feel they’re not worthy or that their experiences are too mundane to resonate with anyone.
Natasha Miller affirms that everyone’s story is interesting and unique. On the surface, her memoir appears as a stereotypical “rags to riches” tale, yet the authenticity with which she conveys each complexity has influenced countless entrepreneurs with similar experiences. A carefully crafted memoir can not only alter your life but can also help you create content to market and scale your business. Natasha’s masterclass, Roadmap to Your Memoir, has a distinctive documentary framework that can help you dig deep into your past experiences to forge a path to success.
Listen to this episode of Growth to Freedom as Dan Kuschell hosts Natasha Miller to talk about writing a compelling memoir. Natasha explains her inspiration for writing Relentless, how to repurpose book reviews to create valuable content, and three actionable steps for writing an impactful story.
Steve Sims is a speaker, consultant, coach, author, brand designer, and podcast host. He founded Bluefish Concierge, the world’s first luxury concierge firm that delivers high-level personalized travel, transportation, and cutting-edge entertainment services to corporate executives, celebrities, and professional athletes. As a world-renowned speaker, Steve has spoken at Harvard, the Pentagon, and Fortune 500 companies, teaching entrepreneurs the art of communication. He also authored Go For Stupid and Bluefishing.
When it comes to setting and achieving goals, do you find yourself settling for fewer than you originally wanted? What if you could attain even the most impractical goals?
According to keynote speaker Steve Sims, you can. In fact, the only thing stopping you from achieving your overly-ambitious goals is you. He encourages entrepreneurs to remain curious and converse with themselves regularly to replace self-doubt with confidence. By training your mind to stay open to every possibility and capitalizing on new opportunities, you can go for stupid and achieve comically insane goals.
In today’s episode of Growth to Freedom, Dan Kuschell hosts coach, author, and speaker Steve Sims, to talk about achieving ridiculously audacious goals. Steve shares his inspiration for writing Go For Stupid, how he coaches entrepreneurs to set and achieve ridiculous goals, and the common mistakes business owners make while achieving these goals.