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Mr. Brown is responsible for the federal, state, and local public and government relations for TuSimple. Working with legislators and regulators on best practices for safety, commercial viability, and policies. He works on building coalitions of industry, OEMs, Tier 1 providers, associations, and academics in the autonomous vehicle industry. Prior to TuSimple, he worked for the state of California, was Vice President at the Mitchell Firm, taught at Oxford University and University of California, San Diego. Jon Panzer is the Senior Vice President of Technology & Strategic Planning at the Union Pacific Railroad. Jon has been an influential leader across UP for the last 24 years. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Transportation industry isn’t as exciting as technology and aerospace. There’s a lot of technology involved, movement, and being more sophisticated with e-commerce as consumers demand an interest change. 2. Get excited about automation. Be open minded. Realize that it is not tomorrow, it will be incremental. As

Kelsey Ruwe is the Chief of Staff at Carson Group, overseeing Talent, Human Resources and Corporate Communications. Currently, she oversees the construction, design and development of Carson’s new $80M headquarters. Liz Ernst is a Training Specialist at Flywheel, working with both the Training & Development Manager and Sales leadership to ensure the Sales team has the tools they need to be successful in their work. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Don’t be afraid of doing things that don’t scale. It’s worth making sure that you keep it as part of your company. 2. Culture means so much. Focus on it. Always listen to your stakeholders. Adapt to it. Favor the stakeholders because if you give them an edge, they will give you a mile. 3. We still need to meet our goals and be productive, just in a different way. We all need to do that by giving each other grace. Visit Liz’s website where you can virtual organization patterns to help flash out ideas in virtual conferences - Miro Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter tak

Keith is a First Vice President of Wealth Management and Family Wealth Director at Morgan Stanley. This designation substantiates Keith's 20+ years of serving the needs of his clients. Bob is a Principal and team leader of the Office Property Division at Colliers International Denver, where over the past three decades, has quickly become one of the top brokers. one of the top brokers in Colorado. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Having personal relationships and sit down face-to-face and having actual conversations through a subject matter matters. 2. Communication platforms could just expand more and more in the future. We’re going to see a tremendous progression with how we communicate in the future. 3. The ability to access real-time data, and use that data to assist clients in making business decisions is paramount today and will be the cornerstone of business moving forward. Connect with Keith on LinkedIn - Keith's LinkedIn Sponsors: Creighton: A degree from Creighton’s Heider College of Business will empower you t

Derek Leathers is the Vice Chairman, President and CEO of Werner Enterprises, a global industry leader. Leathers has over 29 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Have an internal commitment to continuous learning and be open-minded - ask for feedback from other people. 2. Be hardworking in any business you would go into, focus on how many complicated problems you can solve, be visible, foster relationships with people who genuinely care about you, learn from them and spend time with them. 3. Recognize acceptable risks and take them. Connect with Derek on LinkedIn - Derek's LinkedIn Sponsors: Creighton: A degree from Creighton’s Heider College of Business will empower you to think boldly, lead confidently, and shape your future. For more program info, to schedule an appt with an enrollment specialist, or to start an application today, go to Gradschool.Creighton.edu! Electronic Commerce: For a limited time only you can sign up for a 15 minute call to compare cr

Every month we put together an income report to share a behind-the-scenes look at the ups and downs of running a 7-figure business. In full transparency, it’s not easy – but it IS possible. Through hearing about our mistakes, lessons learned, and our wins, we hope to inspire and motivate you to take action in your business with just one step forward every single day. For our full income report, visit EOFire.com/income85, and IGNITE! September 2020 Income At-A-Glance Gross Income for September: $244,274 Total Expenses for September: $25,608 Total Net Profit for September: $218,666 Difference b/t Sept & Aug: +$91,407 % of net profit to overall gross revenue: 90% Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter take hiring off your plate so you can focus on growing your business. Try ZipRecruiter for free at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Electronic Commerce: For a limited time only you can sign up for a 15 minute call to compare credit card transaction and processing fees with someone from the Electronic Commerce team! Vis

Lisa Johnson helps business owners add semi-passive income streams to their lives so that they can work less but earn more. She's also a Mum of 8 year old twins and lives in the UK. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You need a semi-passive and passive income stream to help you earn while focusing on your other duties and responsibilities. 2. It is acceptable to make mistakes because you can learn from them. 3. Even if you are not yet sure of what you are going to do for your passive income stream, start building an audience as early as now. Take the quiz and it will help you identify your keys for improvements to start  your passive or semi-passive income - Cash Calculator Quiz Sponsors: Thrivetime Show: Looking for a business coach who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs just like you to increase their profitability by an average of 104% per year? Schedule your free consultation today with Clay Clark at ThrivetimeShow.com/fire! Electronic Commerce: For a limited time only you can sign up for a 15 minute call to compar

KhaazRa MaaRanu is the co-founder of Electronic Commerce. Now a Full Service Payment Provider that helps thousands of entrepreneurs grow and scale their business to unlimited processing. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Understand that there’s someone out there that want to build a long-term relationship with you. They want to help you grow your business, and be in business for the long haul—one way to do that is by knowing your numbers. 2. One of the most important things for any entrepreneur is to know 5 cash flow secrets. One of them is knowing your numbers. If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business. 3. As a full payment service provider, they know what they need to be in order to really serve the clients properly, it’s to be in control of the actual underwriting, risk, funding, and the tech. Electronic Commerce - For a limited time you can sign up for a 15 minute call to compare credit card transaction and processing fees! Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter take hiring off your plate so you

Pat is the founder of The Table Group and author of 12 best-selling books including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. He is considered one of the nations leading experts on leadership, teamwork, and organizational health. And he is here today to talk about his newest model The Six Types of Working Genius. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Nobody should feel bad about wanting to use their God-given talent. We’re here to serve others by using the talents we have. Instead of feeling guilty about that, lean into that. You are meant to do that. Pursue your geniuses. 2. When you figured out what your working genius and working frustrations are, it can change your career and your life. 3. Having you do things outside of your working genius would exhaust you, so its best to limit the amount of exposure to those. Go to Pat’s website and enter promo code FIRE and get 50% off of Pat’s products - Pat Lencioni’s Website Sponsor: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a comple

Whit McCullough is a PowerPoint ninja and the founder of Sharpslide. He’s on a mission to help others share their ideas more effectively and with greater confidence through better presentations. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. As human beings, we want to impress others and we want to be viewed as leaders. 2. Most of us are confident in our content but were incompetent in our presentations. 3. If you don’t have confidence in your presentation, your audience won’t have confidence in you. Visit Whit's site and access Sharpslide 1.0 for FREE! Whit’s website Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Let ZipRecruiter take hiring off your plate so you can focus on growing your business. Try ZipRecruiter for free at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Klaviyo: With the holiday season right around the corner, Klaviyo is ready to help you prepare for the year's biggest ecommerce opportunity! Visit Klaviyo.com/holiday to discover strategies for Cyber Weekend!

Rachael Doukas is the founder of Doukas Media and specializes in generating online marketing success for companies in industries that tend to underestimate the power of digital advertising. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Understand who you’re marketing to. Know their needs and how to help them. Make your campaigns about them to develop trust. 2. Dig deep in your campaigns and see who you’re reaching and what you’re communicating to them. 3. Consistent branding, remarketing techniques, and understanding your audience can build trust through Facebook ads. Want to Grow Your Business in a Predictable and Scalable Manner? Apply for a Free 30-Minute Discovery Call - Rachael’s Website Sponsors: Thrivetime Show: Looking for a business coach who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs just like you to increase their profitability by an average of 104% per year? Schedule your free consultation today with Clay Clark at ThrivetimeShow.com/fire! Klaviyo: With the holiday season right around the corner, Klaviyo is ready to help you p

Scott Lynn is a serial tech entrepreneur that's been collecting art for over 20 years, he brings his passion for tech and art together with Masterworks.io. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Alternative assets are a good way to diversify a portfolio and increase overall returns of a portfolio. 2. Achieving financial independence means a well-diversified portfolio with asset classes that have competitive terms to other asset classes. 3. As long as you are able to wait several years to recognize your returns, it can be a great way to diversify your portfolio for financial independence. Get a free access and have an account setup by telling the membership team that you’re from FIRE Nation - Scott Lynn's Website Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Hiring is challenging. But there’s one place you can go where hiring is simple, fast and smart: ZipRecruiter! Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course that you

Reese Spykerman is a marketing triple threat: a copywriter, designer for more than a decade and business strategist who has helped hundreds of clients scale their brands with high-converting websites. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. A landing page is a valuable tool for any product-based business, because it has the potential to move, and sell your products further so than your main website. 2. Have an effective headline, grab people’s attention, and speak directly to what matters to your customers 3. Your products and its features are not what matters to people, what matter is what your product can transform or improve their life. 10 Common Website Mistakes That Lose You Leads And Sales (And Know How To Fix Them, Fast!) - A Gift For Fire Nation Sponsors: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course that you’ll be ready to put into action! Sign-up for this FREE challenge today at Thinkific.com/fire! Klaviyo: With the holiday season right ar

Tom Teleco is a High Performance Coach, Author & Keynote Speaker … he also has  the privilege  of being a member of the teaching faculty with his wife Tonya for John Maxwell's Global Leadership Company! Where he is able to speak into the lives and equip over 35,000 people in 100+ Countries within that organization. His passion is working with entrepreneurs and leaders on strategic planning and execution to help you CHAMPION YOUR LIFE!" Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Your dream is worthy of you, and it is waiting for you to show up. 2. Your past patterns of behavior or your cycles of success can give you great clues to what you could do next. 3. Reviewing the “Tale Of The Tape” is important because you can use the comparative index to take a look, and evaluate your position in the champion progression path. Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Hiring is challenging. But there’s one place you can go where hiring is simple, fast and smart: ZipRecruiter! Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Thinkific: Join Thinkific

Nick Cavuoto is a speaker, entrepreneurial mentor, and personal brand expert who believes the future of business centers on relationships & authentic connection. This refreshing approach has made him a sought-after mentor for today’s top experts, Fortune 500 brands, and thought leaders. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Understand that people are not buying products and services, they are buying you. 2. You can build an authentic personal brand by being real and raw. 3. You only have two options, either you stay comfortable where you at right now or you go all-in on yourself, your calling, your brand, and make a conscious decision to take a bold step forward so that you can achieve the highest version of who you are. Check out Nick’s website and get the help that you need to Become The #1 Influencer In Your Audience - Nick's Website Sponsor: Thrivetime Show: Looking for a business coach who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs just like you to increase their profitability by an average of 104% per year? Schedule you

Amith is the founder of rasa.io - a company that makes it incredibly easy for any business to send a great newsletter. rasa.io is a platform that is easy to use and automates the steps in creating a newsletter to allow anyone to send a fantastic newsletter on a frequent basis. In addition to making it easy, rasa.io uses AI to personalize the content for every reader automatically which results in much better performance. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. The problem companies have today, whatever brand, is people forget you. It’s extremely easy in the world we live in today to be forgotten. 2. Curation is the idea of getting the best possible content , not just about your product or your company, but also circles surrounding your topic. 3. Every business needs to be connected on a high frequency basis, or else, you’ll be forgotten. Visit Amith’s website and get a special offer - Amith’s website Sponsor: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online c

Building and protecting wealth has been a life-long pursuit for Jude H. Wilson. Through his guidance, he has provided his clients with the clarity and direction needed to successfully achieve their definition of financial freedom. Jude H. Wilson has earned an MBA and his Certified Wealth Strategist (CWS®) designation. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. The higher the rates go, it takes away your ability to create a better life for yourself, and your family. 2. You should have a complete financial plan. 3. Taxes are currently on sale, you should be moving money from dollars that will always be taxed to dollars will never be taxed. Buy your taxes on sale today. Get the 5 Things That You Need To Know About The Situation and Some Actions That You Can Take Today - The Entrepreneur Action Plan (None existent website) Sponsor: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course that you’ll be ready to put into action! Sign-up for this FREE challenge today a

Meredith Viguers equips Entrepreneurs to break through their limiting beliefs, develop the right team to put systems in place that allow them to grow more profitably with less of their own time. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. Letting go of the thought that someone else has to do everything the way that you do is a freeing thing, and understand that by building the right team your business can thrive, and often you will find better ways to grow your business. 2. You can be open to growth after you accept the responsibility, and you are willing to let go of a known good for a potentially great unknown. 3. As an entrepreneur, if you are willing to change your mind, develop your people, and get out of the way, you can have a massively successful business with less of your time. Get your FREE PDF about the 5 Mind-Blowing Mistakes That Small Businesses Make While Hiring - Mpoweredyou Website Sponsor: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course

John is the CEO of Ignite Visibility, which is a 3x Inc. 5000 company, John is also an expert digital marketing consultant, Search Engine Land Search Marketer of the Year, Author, Film Producer And Teacher at UC San Diego. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. There’s so much abundance online and many ways to drive revenue and leads. If you’re not there, you’re making a huge mistake. 2. Building new business and getting new business is easy. It’s just a matter of putting in time and get the framework in place. 3. Know your audience well, invest time to make sure you really understand your customer, and have a unique value proposition to get them into the system. Get John’s book in Amazon - The Forecaster Method Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Hiring is challenging. But there’s one place you can go where hiring is simple, fast and smart: ZipRecruiter! Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Klaviyo: With the holiday season right around the corner, Klaviyo is ready to help you prepare for the year's biggest ecommerce oppor

Jeff Ditsworth is a corporate executive three years into his ten year plan to leave life on the road for more time with his family, no corporate bureaucracy, and financial freedom. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. You can grow a business while working a 9-5 job. It’s about managing your time and attention. 2. The amount of fun that you can have working in an industry that you’re passionate about, makes it not a work. It becomes a hobby that pays you. 3. You don’t have to invest significant amount of money in inventory and marketing. You can allow the sales to fund your future growth. Visit Jeff’s website and enter the code FIRE NATION to get a discount on getting a combo equipment for fly fishing - Jeff Ditsworth's website Sponsors: Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course that you’ll be ready to put into action! Sign-up for this FREE challenge today at Thinkific.com/fire! Thrivetime Show: Looking for a business coach who has helped thou

Ali Katz is the CEO and founder of 3 companies, New Law Business Model, Eyes Wide Open Life, and the Family Wealth Planning Institute. All 3 of these companies are in service to each of us finding our right role as creators of the next economy. Top 3 Value Bombs: 1. If we look back in history, we can make wise decisions around what to do now to be prepared and have the opportunity—a shift into a next level of possibility and growth for ourselves. 2. Get deeply connected with your resources. Bring them closer to home. 3. True legacy happens when you are alive. Check out Ali's website. Know what you need in order to build your life and income - Eyes Wide Open Life Sponsors: ZipRecruiter: Hiring is challenging. But there’s one place you can go where hiring is simple, fast and smart: ZipRecruiter! Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at ZipRecruiter.com/fire! Thinkific: Join Thinkific’s first ever 5-day Course Challenge and walk away with a complete blueprint for your online course that you’ll be ready to put into action! S