Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. He was named the #1 Podcast to Listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had a lot of different things that didn’t go right. I started in network marketing business that didn’t go well, I had sold life insurance which is not fun… I sold products on Amazon… I had failed at a lot of things and I ended up getting started with a business partner for my current business… And that business partner really helped me get started which was great because I was somebody who just wanted to get my toe in but things about six months in didn’t really go well, we kind of came at odds on that company kind of ended up splitting up and we kind of re-established ourselves as Command Your Brand”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Book by Grant CardoneFavourite Quote:
- “Fortune favours the bold”
Also mentioned
- “I was busier than a one-armed paper hanger” Jeremy’s dad
Recommended Online Resources:
Orgable Administrative Software for the 21st Century – empower entrepreneurs and executives to unleash the full power of Hubbard® Administrative Technology to grow their organizations like never before.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t think you have to have everything figured out out of the gate. Just get started and start figuring things out as you go… Don’t give yourself reasons to not get started. Get started and start figuring out as you go. You don’t have to have everything figured out out of the gate”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeremy Ryan Slate:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeremy Ryan Slate:
- “I would have hired faster honestly. I had this small idea that everything I did had to be done by me and that was the only way it was going to get done right. So I feel like if I’d hired quicker out of the gate we could have grown a lot faster. So that would have been the thing I would have looked at is expanding the team faster because I really was too much in the minutia to much in the detail and I really thought that if I wasn’t doing it it wasn’t going to get done right”
- “too often if you do something that is not out of integrity it is going to come back to bite you anyway. You always want to make sure that you are working hard you want to make sure that you are doing the right thing. And the right thing isn’t always comfortable, it’s not always comfortable but you can look yourself in the mirror in the morning and you can now in the long run is going to make you feel better”
- “you have to do a lot more action than you think you need to do to get things done”
- “I’ve realised its going to take a lot more action than you think it’s going to take to get something done and you need to be okay with that and I think too many people it scares them and makes them move backward and not move forward”
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