Establishing Your Empire Podcast by Daran Herrman

The Startup Mentor

Maia Donohue

2021

PODCAST #039

Over the last decade Maia has been working with early stage founders and brilliant mentors around the world. He realized that getting the most out of mentorship isn’t something that comes naturally, it’s a skill that must be practiced and fine-tuned.

A great mentor can make the difference in getting your company launched. But as a founder, it is up to you to make it happen and this episode will show you how.

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Embrace Pain to Avoid Suffering

Brian Bogert

2021

PODCAST #038

Brian Bogert is a passionate human behavior and performance coach, speaker and philanthropic leader who believes in helping growth-minded individuals achieve the best version of themselves. Brian’s strategy is to embrace pain to avoid suffering and has helped individuals and companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life and business that they’ve always wanted.

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Unlock a Global Community to Create a Travel Movement

Joah Spearman

2020

PODCAST #035

Joah Spearman is the CEO and Founder of Localeur who has helped more than 5 million people experience traveling like a local from insiders who share authentic recommendations on their favorite local places to eat, drink and play.

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Creating Community is the Future of Business Development

Pablo Gonzalez

2020

PODCAST #026

Pablo Gonzalez has made the ultimate cheat sheet for networking. A simple yet powerful content creation strategy that allows you to nurture existing relationships, attract new clients, and create a community around your business… without taking up too much time.

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Bringing H.O.P.E. to Austin

Andi Scull

2020

PODCAST #023

Andi Scull is the founder of the HOPE Outdoor Gallery (which stands for Helping Other People Everywhere). She is also a partner in Native Hostel and provides consulting and design work through her company, Scullpower Creative. Andi’s interesting and powerful story continues to bring HOPE to our great city.

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Create More Content & Be Online-First

Moby Hayat

2020

PODCAST #019

Moby is a very talented content creator that has co-created the Online-First Summit which is a virtual conference with 70+ speakers that will cover everything from how to create an online business or how to move your current company online to acquiring customers as well as adapting and expanding to an online-first model.

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Creating a Community of Songwriters

Rigel Thurston

2020

PODCAST #018

Rigel Thurston is a professional musician & founder of 100 Days of Songwriting which helps songwriters get into the habit of writing daily. Rigel turned his idea of keeping himself accountable to developing a motivational and inspirational community into a business.

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Welcome to the Establishing Your Empire show.

A podcast that inspires entrepreneurs, creatives and future business owners to pursue their passions, grow their organizations and build their empire. My name is Daran Herrman and creatively I’m best known for my photography. But business wise my claim to fame is growing a company from $15K per month in online sales to breaking the one million dollar a month barrier. And I’m sitting down with interesting people to talk about their process, the lessons they learned and how they have Established their Empire’s.