#36 How to Build a Brand on Social Media with Scott Aaron

How to Build a Brand on Social Media

#36 How to Build a Brand on Social Media, host William Glass sits down with Scott Aaron, a best selling author, business coach, and speaker. Together they discuss the keys to building a strong personal and business brand on LinkedIn through human-centric approaches. Scott opens up about his struggles building multiple 6 figure businesses and how he was thrust into entrepreneurship at the age of 18 when his father was sent to prison for insurance fraud. You’ll come away with a number of tactical and strategic advice you can implement in your business today. 

Scott Aaron’s Bio

Scott Aaron is an internationally acclaimed online-marketer, best-selling author, podcaster, and speaker. He specializes in converting traffic, creating residual income using LinkedIn, and building personal brands. Fully immersing himself in learning LinkedIn and social media strategies, Scott quickly gained traction as a leader in generating big results for other entrepreneurs, online business owners, and business coaches.

Scott is passionate about helping fellow entrepreneurs achieve success while building their own network organically and without complicated and costly marketing tactics. People-focused and result-driven, Scotts strategic approach to teaching others how to create wealth online is a game-changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.

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#35 Finding Your Purpose and Living an Authentic Life with Austin Walker

#35 Finding Your Purpose and Living an Authentic Life, host William Glass sits down with Austin Walker, co-host of Purpenthicity, a certified life coach, and technology sales executive. We dive not only into Austin’s backstory and where his focus on living a purpose-driven life comes from. But discuss his experience as a Black man navigating corporate America and growing up in a predominately white neighborhood. We discuss where the blend of personal finance, education, and opportunity coincide to incite change.

Austin Walkers’s Bio

Austin Walker is a passionate, enthusiastic, & relentlessly optimistic force. He strives to make a distinct impact on all whom he encounters. Austin is the son of a Super Bowl Champion and a proud alum of the University of Maryland where he played collegiate football. Austin played in 49 of 50 career games as a walk-on who earned a full scholarship for the Terrapins. Austin’s college football experience cemented the grit, work ethic, and raw passion that oozes from his spirit.

By day Austin is a sales leader for Avanade, the world’s leading Microsoft service implementation partner. There he liaises with Fortune 500 businesses to facilitate the utilization of technology as a competitive differentiator to drive sustained growth. While he enjoys working with senior business leaders to support organization growth, his true passions lie in fostering personal growth & development. Austin has a passion for supporting people in finding their purpose to be the best versions of themselves.

For Austin, 2020 and beyond is dedicated towards purpose identification and alignment. His sole focus is to uncover the most important question we all must answer, what am I here on Earth to accomplish? Living a purpose-driven life is tied closely towards his hyper intentional pursuit of personal growth & learning. Austin strives to be a resource to support others on their purpose journey. He’s enrolled in Accomplishment Coaching, a program that trains ontological coaching methodology. In addition, Austin co-hosts a podcast called Purpenthicity with Deric Cahill. The title of the podcast blends the word purpose and authenticity together representing the purposed driven life.

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#34 How To Go From No Industry Experience To Sales Management In Under 2 Years: Over Quota Guest Appearance

How to Go From No Industry Experience to Sales Management in Under 2 Years

Now on today’s episode, How to go from no industry experience to sales management in under 2 years, I sit down with Jay Webb on his podcast Over Quota. If you remember Jay was on episode #29 Flipping the Script: Sell Your Way Out of Anything. Jay probes deep into my backstory and we talk about all things sales. You’ll get actionable advice on how to set goals and overachieve your sales targets. William left his lucrative sales career to start Ostrich a FinTech platform whose mission is to improve financial well-being globally.

Jay Webb’s Bio

Jay Webb is the Founder of the j. David Group,  which helps rapidly growing software companies hire sales leaders and salespeople.  He’s also the host of “Over Quota”, which is a podcast that features his exclusive interviews with CEO’s, Sales Leaders, and top Enterprise Software Salespeople about the keys to their success and what, in their opinions, separates the best salespeople from everybody else.

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Ostrich is a personal finance app that curates information specific to you and uses the power of positive social accountability to help you define, set, & achieve your financial goals. Additionally, check out Ostrich’s Shares for Shares program where you earn shares of Ostrich stock for sharing the platform with your network.

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#33 Where People Fall Short with Ben Sampson Founder of WeHero

#33 Where People Fall Short, host William Glass sits down with Ben Sampson, Founder of WeHero. Ben shares 7 tips for finding product-market fit and how he’s applied them across his own businesses. In addition, we dive deep into Ben’s current endeavor WeHero, the early mistakes – teaser it involves an illegal very addictive narcotic – and how the team overcame that pitfall as well as adapted their business model in the age of Coronavirus. Engaging and actionable, you are going to truly enjoy today’s episode with Ben Sampson.

Ben Sampson’s Bio

Ben Sampson founded his first company in high school, selling organic athletic apparel throughout California. Soon after Ben founded his second company, Soul id, focused on developing social media solutions for athletes and was ranked as one of the fastest-growing brands in the sports industry by NBC. Ben was selected as a member of the Thiel Summit as one of the top entrepreneurs under the age of 20. With Soul id Ben went on to win the North State Future Four Business Competition and was a recipient of the Rawlins award, CSU Chico Entrepreneurship Leader award, and was awarded the Entrepreneur of the Year by Innovate North State. In 2019, Ben started, WeHero. WeHero gives companies the solutions to accomplish their social mission through powerful giving and volunteer programs to create a better culture, a better brand, and a greater social impact.

WeHero’s mission is to empower 10 million people with the tools to give easily and impactfully.

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#32 Beyond Profit: Ethics in Business with Sophia Sunwoo, Serial Entrepreneur

#32 Beyond Profit: Ethics in Business, host William Glass sits down with Sophia Sunwoo, Founder of Ascent Strategy to discuss the biggest pitfalls she sees entrepreneurs make and how to get out of the extreme bootstrap mindset. Sophia highlights some of the key differences between leading a for-profit and a non-profit business and how if you can raise money in the non-profit world you can sell just about anything. In addition, Sophia and I discuss ways to empower female entrepreneurs and other marginalized groups including people of color.

Sophia Sunwoo’s Bio

Sophia Sunwoo is the founder of Ascent Strategy, where she helps female founders ranging from artisans to health coaches get their companies off the ground. Sophia is a 3x startup founder — she sold her first company when she was 22, helping scale the brand to 250 retailers worldwide and attract celebrity clientele before her exit. Sophia’s second business helped bring clean water to over 76,000 people in India and Cameroon has been recognized by Forbes, African Business Review, and ELLE Magazine.

Sophia is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, a Fred Alger Finance Award winner, named one of the world’s 100 most inspiring women by Salt Magazine and Diageo, and is a Forbes 30U30 All-Star Alumni.

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#31 The Side Of Startups We Don’t Talk About with Jeff Wald Founder of WorkMarket, Author of The End of Jobs, & Angel Investor

#31 The Side of Startups We Don’t Talk About, host William Glass sits down with Jeff Wald, Founder of WorkMarket to discuss the dark side of entrepreneurship, the future of work, and much more. This conversation is jam-packed with actionable advice and stories from Jeff’s own experiences building multiple successful companies. Jeff’s book, The End of Jobs is now available on Amazon. 

Jeff Wald’s Bio

Jeff has founded several technology companies, including WorkMarket (acquired by ADP) & Spinback, a social sharing platform (acquired by salesforce). Jeff began his career in finance, serving as MD at activist hedge fund Barington Capital Group, a VP at Israeli venture firm GlenRock and various roles in the M&A Group at JP Morgan. He is an active angel investor and startup advisor, as well as serving on numerous public and private Boards of Directors.

Jeff holds an MBA from Harvard University and an MS & BS from Cornell University. He also formerly served as an officer in the Auxiliary Unit of the New York Police Department. Jeff is the author of The Birthday Rules and The End of Jobs: The Rise of On-Demand Workers and Agile Corporations. He is also a Producer of the Tony Award Winning Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Slava’s Snowshow, and the full-length feature Inez & Doug & Kira which has won best picture at various film festivals. Jeff is a regular writer in Huffington Post and Forbes and speaks widely at conferences and on television on startups and labor issues.

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#30 Driven To Succeed With Judah Longgrear, CEO & Co-Founder of Nickelytics

#30 Driven to Succeed William Glass sits down with Judah Longgrear, Co-Founder & CEO of Nickelytics who is an entrepreneur through and through. From buying a coffee shop for $5,000 at the age of 19 to starting Nickelytics which just finished the TechStars mobility program in Turin Italy. We go deep into building a tech company, raising money, pivoting, and having to deal with the backlash.

Judah Longgrear’s Bio

Previous to his most recent entrepreneurial endeavors, Judah enjoyed significant success in the corporate world while setting strategy, leading diverse, cross-functional teams, creative problem-solving, and building partnerships as a business development executive at companies like Salesforce, Netapp and Gartner. 

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#29 Flipping The Script: Sell Your Way Out Of Anything with Jay Webb, Founder of J. David Group & Host of The Over Quota Podcast

#29 Flipping The Script: Sell Your Way Out Of Anything, host William Glass sits down with Jay Webb, Founder of the j. David Group & Host of The Over Quota Podcast. An enthralling conversation we go deep into understanding what drives Jay, going all in, and Jay’s LAID philosophy of taking action. 

Jay Webb’s Bio

Jay Webb is the Founder of the j. David Group,  which helps rapidly growing software companies hire sales leaders and salespeople.  He’s also the host of “Over Quota”, which is a podcast that features his exclusive interviews with CEO’s, Sales Leaders, and top Enterprise Software Salespeople about the keys to their success and what, in their opinions, separates the best salespeople from everybody else.

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#1 Welcome to Silicon Alley – Entrepreneur’s Journey

Pilot – This is the welcome episode of the Silicon Alley podcast where you will be introduced to host William Glass a budding FinTech entrepreneur. The Silicon Alley podcast takes you through the entire journey of an entrepreneur, starting from the idea phase. This episode introduces you to your host, the upcoming guests, and stories you’ll hear along the way.

If you are an entrepreneur or an aspiring one, you’ll enjoy this welcome episode to the Silicon Alley Podcast.

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