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The weekly podcast with serial entrepreneur, Dave M. Lukas, devoted to giving you incredibly useful and unique insight from the world's top entrepreneurs with a focus on their non-traditional methods for achieving success, their Misfit side. Misfit was created to give YOU the breakthrough entrepreneurship strategies and actionable advice to accelerate your success! The show's open format and Misfit 3 concept, combined with Dave's intuitive and engaging interview style quickly uncover each guest's key tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can start using in their lives right now. Learn more about the show at www.misfitentrepreneur.com and become a member of Misfit Nation by signing up for the Misfit Minute, the FREE weekly email with specific resources from the week's "Misfit 3," and actionable tips and items from the world of Misfit Entrepreneurs. It is delivered every Friday to your inbox!
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The weekly podcast with serial entrepreneur, Dave M. Lukas, devoted to giving you incredibly useful and unique insight from the world's top entrepreneurs with a focus on their non-traditional methods for achieving success, their Misfit side. Misfit was created to give YOU the best, actionable advice to accelerate your success!

The show's open format and Misfit 3 concept, combined with Dave's intuitive and engaging interview style quickly uncovers each guest's key tools, tactics, and tricks that listeners can start using in their lives right now.

Learn more about the show at www.misfitentrepreneur.com and become a member of Misfit Nation by signing up for the Misfit Minute, the FREE weekly email with specific resources from the week's "Misfit 3," and actionable tips and items from the world of Misfit Entrepreneurs. It is delivered every Friday to your inbox!

Sep 25, 2024

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Dane Espegard.  This conversation today holds a special place for me as Dane is division leader for Vector Marketing.  Some of you may know Vector or even worked for them as they are the company behind Cutco knives.  I have talked about this before, but I initially cut my teeth in selling and paid for my college selling Cutco.  Everyone that works for them is a contractor building their own business, whether a salesperson, district, division manager and so on.  To get to running a division means you are one of the best at developing people, especially young people.  And over 2 decades, Dane has built a division that has sold over $51 million in cutlery!  A $50+ million-dollar business selling knives primarily through high schoolers and young adults.  If you can do that, you are doing something right.  So, you can understand why I’ve invited Dane on the show to share his secrets for building a great business and organization.  

It's great timing too as he has released the book, The Dream Machine: A Leader's Guide to Creating Teams of High Performers Who Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes.

To see the full show notes and Misfit 3 for this episode, go to www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com.

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Sep 18, 2024

This week’s Misfit Entrepreneur is Talia Boone.  Talia is the founder of Postal Petals, a floral industry startup that is changing the entire industry.  Now, here’s the interesting thing, Talia founded the company in the middle of the pandemic and lockdowns.  If you remember, businesses like that were shut down and for many, the last thing on their mind was getting some flowers.  But Talia bucked the trend and created a new model that thrived during that time and continues to today.

How did she do it and go on to build such a great company re-inventing the way flowers are bought?  Well, it’s those lessons and principles that I want to dig in with her in this episode.

To see the full show notes and Misfit 3 for this episode, go to www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com.

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Sep 11, 2024

I am changing things up this week. I had an episode ready to go, but was on a long run yesterday, a 15-miler getting ready for next Ironman and as I like to do, I listen to podcasts or audiobooks. I popped on Steve Siebold’s book How Rich People Think and I have to say, I forget how great this little gem of a book is.

This book is a treasure trove of insights into the mindset of the wealthy. There over 25 of them and I was running, I thought, I’ve got to share some of this with the Misfit Audience! So, I’ve gone through it and picked out the top 10 lessons I believe are crucial for anyone looking to elevate their financial success and build wealth. But as I mentioned—these 10 lessons are just scratching the surface. Siebold packs this book with so much more. I highly recommend reading it in full because there’s no substitute for learning straight from the source.

So, what’s this book all about? It’s about the difference in thinking between the rich and the average person. It’s about breaking down limiting beliefs, taking control of your financial destiny, and reprogramming your mind to think like the wealthy.

To see the full show notes and Misfit 3 for this episode, go to www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com.

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Sep 4, 2024

Many years ago, I introduced a new format that alongside our regular episodes called “Lessons for Hannah.” Hannah is my daughter and one of the main inspirations for the Misfit Entrepreneur. I wanted to have a place where she could go and learn from her daddy and his Misfit friends throughout her life….even after I am gone. If you haven’t listened to the first episode of "Lessons for Hannah," I urge you to as it gives some more background and tells the amazing story of how Hannah came to be in our lives.

Lessons for Hannah are short, very useful, and sometimes comical lessons, that I want to share with you and give to Hannah to help in your lives. Because I want Hannah to have these for her life, I’m going to speak as though I am talking directly to her. These episodes are a lot of fun and if you think there is a lesson that we should include in these episodes, please don’t hesitate to send it over to us at support@misfitentrepreneur.com. We’d love to share it.

To see the full show notes and Misfit 3 for this episode, go to www.MisfitEntrepreneur.com.

Show Sponsors:

Are you looking for a vehicle to help you in your financial and retirement goals that offers:
• Guaranteed, predictable growth and retirement income?
• Tax-free retirement income?
• More control over you money?
• And built in inflation protection?

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