Episodes

7/8/19

"Starting an Amazon Business w/ Adam Hudson" | #120

In this episode, Miro talks with Adam Hudson, a successful serial entrepreneur. Author of “Primed - Your Guide To Building A Thriving Amazon Business”, went #1 on Amazon in 6 countries. Over a 25 year career, Adam has started 21 different companies across a range of business sectors. In 2005, he co-founded one of the first crowd-funding platforms in the world, which raised over one hundred million dollars for startups before taking it public in 2008. In 2011, he moved to the US and started a small animation company in Hollywood, California. The business quickly grew to doing over 400 animation projects a year for some of America's top companies including Cisco, Volvo, Canon, the World Bank, UNICEF, McDonalds and Mastercard. He sold that business is 2015 and returned to Australia. Today, Adam owns 4 separate companies around the Amazon ecosystem. He began teaching others to sell on Amazon in 2015 and since then, his students have generated more than five hundred million dollars in sales, making his course one of the most successful in the world when measured by student earnings. His Amazon training events have been attended by thousands of people from more than 40 countries, and have included keynote speeches by thought leaders such as former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. Adam has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc Magazine, Newsweek and has appeared on NBC, ABC, Sky Business News, Fox and Times Square Today. He’s also been interviewed on Focus TV, the Brian Tracy show, Moving America Forward with William Shatner and he has co-authored a book with US broadcasting legend, Larry King. In 2017, Adam was invited to speak at the United Nations in New York City, where he addressed business leaders about social entrepreneurship and how his companies have made giving a core value from day 1. To date, Adam’s company’s have made almost 10,000 interest-free loans to entrepreneurs in 3rd world countries. In addition, they’ve funded free eye surgeries for thousands of blind people in Indonesia and they recently gave $265,000 to purchase a new mobile eye-surgery clinic which is expected to facilitate more than 50,000 surgeries during its life span. New Episodes Weekly: <a href="https://www.bossed2boss.com">Bossed2Boss.com</a>

6/4/19

#111 - "Breaking Business Barriers" Live @ Thrive

In this episode, Miro is recording in Las Vegas at Thrive Business Conference. He linked up with the Breaking Business Barriers crew. They talk business, how to keep a multi-member partnership sane, and overall insight into how personal connections seem to translate into business relationships... sometimes. Open Media Source is a Digital Media and consulting company owned by Dr. Joseph Kaye, Brandon Straza and Brent Duhaime (Do-hame). They co-host their flagship podcast called Breaking Business Barriers that focuses on someone's career decision - a fork in the road. Typically, these are very difficult, career crossroads that if a wrong decision is made, it could be a long road to recovery. The guests range from "C" suite leaders, business owners/entrepreneurs, etc. Brent Duhaime (last name pronounced Do-hame). Brent is a 30 year veteran in finance, financial services and other service related businesses. He's owned and operated various businesses since his days growing up on a farm in South Dakota. Brent can easily be found on LinkedIn as well as the other social media outlets. Dr. Joseph Kaye started his career in academia along with mental health. He began to find a new passion in life that included bringing expertise in the digital market to small/medium sized businesses. Doc brings a deep thinking thought process to the Breaking Business Barriers show. You can find Doc on Instagram under Joseph Kaye. Brandon Straza, also known as the Real Naked Agent, is a partner with his Sister in a company called American Option Insurance. Brandon and Doc have worked directly together for the last several years. Brandon and Brent have worked together over the last 20 plus years in various capacities. You can find Brandon on Instagram under realnakedagent. Stay tuned for more fresh content covering Thrive in the next few days.