Freedom or Bust!
Freedom or Bust!
Joeel & Natalie Rivera
Welcome to the Freedom or Bust Podcast with Joeel & Natalie Rivera. You are here because you are a freedom junkie who will accept nothing less than the FREEDOM to determine your destiny, do what you love, and fulfill your life’s purpose! We are here because our mission is to inspire a million people to join the Entrepreneurship Revolution! We believe that self-employment is the ultimate form of empowerment. Our mission is to bring you guests whose powerful entrepreneurship stories and real-world advice will give you the inspiration and tools to create a business and life that you love. We want to show you how to turn your pain into purpose, turn your challenges into life’s greatest blessings, and how to reach your true potential by helping you find the tools and, more importantly, the resourcefulness to create a life and business that you love. Visit http://www.freedomorbustpodcast.com
Episode 11: Playing the Game of Life
David transitioned from a career in sales after being inspired by a series of events that showed him the power of the mind. His hunger to learn how the mind worked and how changing our thoughts and beliefs could change our lives lead him to become a Master Trainer in Hypnosis and the first Association of NLP Accredited Trainer in the world. He created a successful life coaching business before life coaching was a thing and has taken what he has learned over 30 years and has trained over 55,000 people from over 40 countries through his award-winning, dynamic and innovative online and in-room coaching programs. Joeel and Natalie are particularly excited to be helping David share his inspirational story with their listeners because David’s training program had a profound effect on their lives. During a period of long-term illness, while Joeel was bedridden, they enrolled in David’s Neuro Linguistic Programming online training, and what they learned about the power of their own minds helped them turn what some would say is a curse into a blessing. Today, the three are collaborating to continue to spread David’s powerful NLP and Coaching strategies through a Certification program through Transformation Academy. David’s powerful storytelling and sense of humor make his story truly inspirational and fun, and his authenticity, passion for contribution and willingness to embrace uncertainty, and make him a world-class teacher to us all. Connect with David: www.davidkey.com
May 8, 2019
1 hr 22 min
Episode 10: Unleash the Power of the Mind with Hypnosis
A love of learning and a fascination with how the human mind, body and spirit work lead Flavio to receive degrees in both philosophy and biomedical engineering. While studying degenerative diseases and teaching at the university in his career, Flavio simultaneously went on a profound spiritual quest into his own mind and beyond. When he was introduced to hypnotherapy for the first, he experienced personal transformation, and as he continued to study the field he became intrigued by the impact hypnosis had on the physical body. He began practicing hypnotherapy in 1996, where he offered a unique and pioneering approach, bringing together his scientific understanding of the human body and his training and experience with deep inner workings of the subconscious and unconscious mind. He opened the Hypnotherapy and Counseling Center in Miami, Florida. Flavio helps people connect their "outer" with their "inner" selves, so they can achieve their purpose and materialize their dreams. Connect with Flavio at: https://www.flaviolife.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/flaviob.success/ YouTube (Spanish): https://www.youtube.com/user/hypnoservice
Apr 3, 2019
1 hr 1 min
Episode 9: The Democratization of Education
In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Chris Haroun and discuss the democratization of education, getting paid to teach what you know and love online, following your passion, and LIVING LIFE ON YOUR TERMS! You’ll learn why Chris, a successful venture capitalist and an award-winning MBA professor, reinvented himself at every level—including leaving behind his successful career in investing to embrace a new frontier—online education—which he has referred to as the New Wall St. With a career that spans Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and Accenture, as well as his own start-ups, he has worked with investment and business leaders, such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and the CEOs of many of the largest technology companies. Today Chris is a full-time online instructor—but not through traditional university education—instead through 45 of his own online courses. An MBA graduate from Columbia University himself, he is now famous for his top selling business program “An Entire MBA in 1 Course”, which takes students beyond the theoretical and practical frameworks taught in business schools by teaching crucial lessons and practical applications to real world problems. He has shared his powerful, practical, and revolutionary business and life wisdom with more than 500,000 students around the world and his courses have been profiled in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & on other business news websites In addition to creating online courses, Chris spends his investing in EdTech and contributing to educational charities. He believes that all problems in the world can be solved through education—check out his recent TEDx Talk on this topic. Connect with Chris: http://harouneducationventures.com
Mar 7, 2019
1 hr 15 min
Episode 8: Be a Mompreneur and Go for Your Dreams
Noor challenges her clients by asking “How can you look your children in their eyes and tell them to go for their dreams if you don’t go for yours?” But the truth is she went on her own journey to get to the place where she is now: running her dream business AND being a stay-at-home mom. As a young adult, Noor fell into the trap many of us have experienced—people squashed her dreams of (in her case of becoming an actress) by telling her it wasn’t possible—and she listened. But she knew she couldn’t join the corporate rat race—and so she went into the resort business as a holiday rep, which allowed her to travel the world. After 6 years of adventuring her biggest dream came true—she became a mum! She moved back to the UK and ended up in a job she hated. During maternity leave she tried to start several businesses and failed. She also found life coaching and felt like she finally found what she had been looking for! But she put it off because she didn’t feel worthy. She had to go back to the job she hated, but she was determined to be with her daughter. So, on her second maternity leave for baby #2 she quit her job and went all-in, creating a thriving Amazon product business! But deep down she knew this wasn’t her calling, and she finally gave herself permission to become a life coach and empower other women to go for their dreams! Today Noor is a mother of 3. Her energy and enthusiasm for life is infectious and her all-in, no-limits, no-BS attitude is what makes her such a wonderful role model for life coaches, entrepreneurs, and parents because she challenges us to believe that you really CAN have it all! Connect with Noor at www.ThisIsYourDream.com
Feb 6, 2019
59 min
Episode 7: Being an Entrepreneur Couple and Creating Semi-passive Income
Jason and Tamera Dion are a husband and wife team who have reached over 100,000 students in 189 countries through their online courses and books. Jason’s experience is in the cybersecurity field and as an instructor at the University of Maryland, while Tamera was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled their two children. At the end of 2016, Jason discovered online courses and decided to create his own courses and give it a try. Within a year the business had exploded and Tamera decided to come alongside him and take over the production side of the business. Since partnering together, each contributing their strengths and helping each other overcome their weaknesses, their small training company has experienced tremendous growth. The semi-passive income from their new venture has opened up a new world of possibilities for them, including their plans to take advantage of their financial freedom and location independence to travel the world in a couple years when their children will graduate high school and Jason will fully retire. As a family business, they love teaching their two children, who work for them, about the power of entrepreneurship. Their courses are found on Udemy.com, Lynda.com, LinkedIn Learning, Safari Books, and their website DionTraining.com.
Jan 9, 2019
1 hr 4 min
Episode 6: Automate Your Freedom and Follow Your Passion
In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview entrepreneur Mike Gandia. While earning a degree in robotics and aerospace engineering, Mike was simultaneously plotting his escape from the high paying career he hadn’t even started yet. Being a finalist in the NASA NewSpace Business Plan competition foreshadowed his entrepreneurial leap to come. After a couple years working for Boeing, Mike turned his AirBNB side hustle into a fully automated business that replaced his income and he escaped the rat race at only 25. Today, Mike runs King Street Stays, a short-term rental and professional tenant company with properties throughout South Carolina and Florida, as well as teaches people how to create their own AirBNB empire through his online training program. And, now he is using the freedom he created to follow his passion, which is marketing, through his digital marketing agency CMF, where he can apply his engineering mind to marketing analytics, customer purchase behavior and sales psychology. Mike’s willingness to take risks and do whatever it takes to live life on his terms, combined with his passion, authenticity, and heart, make him a powerful example to aspiring entrepreneurs, both young and old alike.
Dec 19, 2018
1 hr 3 min
Episode 5: An Immigrant's Dream and Teaching Online
In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Paulo Dichone. Paulo is a self-proclaimed programming geek who fell in love with coding when he got to college, even through he grew up in a small village in Mozambique, Africa where he didn’t have access to computers. Paulo’s opportunity to attend high school for one year in the United States instilled a dream within him to move to America. Through a series of almost miraculous events, Paulo immigrated to the United States to attend college, where he discovered his love of coding and received a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science and got a job building Android and iOS apps. The ability to thrive through uncertainty that Paulo developed living in Mozambique and overcoming the challenges of moving to a new country, prepared him to be a natural entrepreneur. His story is empowering and shows that relentless tenacity and believing in a dream no matter how much stands in your way is the true meaning of the American Dream. Paulo Dichone created an app development business which led him to discover his true passion, which is TEACHING, when he started teaching app development and programming online. Today he has taught 60,000 students, empowering them to finally understand those “hard-to-grasp” programming concepts or get their dream jobs building apps. He believes that ANYONE can learn to code, and his goal is to not only teach programming skills, but to help his students become well-rounded developers who are successful both in business and in life. It is no surprise that Paulo has top-selling courses and raving reviews because his optimism, gratitude, and enthusiasm are contagious. Connect with Paulo at: https://buildappswithpaulo.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRLjpe5AoIUvO4_AwSQEMug/
Nov 7, 2018
1 hr 13 min
Episode 4: What Homelessness Taught Me About Entrepreneurship
In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview entrepreneur and comedian Jimmy Murray. Jimmy’s journey began with a volatile home life and an eclectic career path that lead to a rapid period of decline, including being kicked out of his university and finding himself homeless. However, through his experience he developed the tenacity, resourcefulness, and radical personal responsibility to turn his life around, teach himself coding and artificial intelligence, and become an entrepreneur doing what he loves! Today Jimmy is a voice over artist and a self-proclaimed beast at content creation on all platforms. Jimmy brings humor into every aspect of his business and is dedicated to motivating people to believe that NOTHING is impossible. Visit www.freedomorbustpodcast.com.
Oct 3, 2018
1 hr 16 min
Episode 3: Awakening Divine Magic with The Angel Coach
In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Emily, The Angel Coach. When Emily’s first daughter was born with special needs, she left her teaching job to take care of her daughter and dove deep into developing her intuitive gifts so she could continue to make a difference in the world. She grew a thriving business as an at-home mom, becoming renowned for her life and business coaching programs, her dynamic speaking, and her powerful retreats, all of which are infused with divine guidance. Whether you want to dive into what it takes to create a thriving business, despite life’s challenges, how to evolve your business, charge what you’re worth, or you’re intrigued about developing your own intuition or opening your experience to the angels and the divine, you’re going to love this episode! Connect with Emily at TheAngelCoach.com.
Sep 5, 2018
1 hr 8 min
Episode 2: The Power of the Subconscious Mind and Entrepreneurship
In this episode, Joeel & Natalie interview Rena Greenberg of Easy Willpower. Rena shares about how her experience having a pacemaker implanted in her heart at the age of 26 pushed her to go from living a self-destructive, 24-hour-on-the-go college student in Manhattan lifestyle to a life of eating healthy, balance, and meditation. This transformation pulled her to get her degree in bio-psychology and become a hypnotherapist so she could help others be relieved of their suffering through the power of the subconscious mind. Since 1990, Rena has brought her smoking cessation and weight control programs to over 100,000 people and has been featured in over 150 news stories including USA Today, Woman’s World Magazine, The Doctor’s Show, CNN, FOX-TV, Good Morning America and ABC-TV Nightline, and her own show on PBS. Rena can be reached at EasyWillpower.com and RenasOrganic.com   Freedomorbustpodcast.com
Aug 8, 2018
1 hr 16 min
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