In this episode, we talk to Diane Gardner(Founder of Adept Business Solutions) about the new tax laws, how to evaluate a tax preparer, and the biggest tax breaks businesses miss.
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**More On Diane**
Diane Gardner, Your Tax Coach, is a best-selling author and a Quilly Award recipient. She is also a Certified Tax Coach and an Enrolled Agent.
Diane's expertise lies in the area of tax planning. Her goal is to make sure successful entrepreneurs across the United States are paying the least amount of income tax they can legally pay. As a tax coach, she offers a FREE tax analysis for those interested in finding out if they are overpaying their income taxes. Her goal is to save taxes one business at a time through the use of proactive tax planning.
But it's more than just taxes. Diane's team guides her clients in maximizing profits using the Profit First method of cash management, as a certified Profit First Professional.
Diane is also a believer in the mastermind and coaching concepts. She is a member of three mastermind groups and also offers coaching services to other entrepreneurs.
But it doesn't stop there! Diane knows the struggles of a growing accounting firm and is passionate about paying it forward. She has dialed in procedures and processes to create a WOW! experience by offering Out-Of-This-World customer service to her clients. This guarantees a productive and profitable office. Her Get Off The Wheel Program helps other Accounting firms put an end to overwhelm, gain control back of their business, and increase profit in the process.
In her "spare time", Diane enjoys writing books. Her books are available on this website and on Amazon. Her book, "Stop Over Paying Your Taxes" is a compilation of actual case studies from her clients, which makes this book a very interesting read. (Names and other private information have been changed to protect clients' privacy.)
She is also a proud wife, mother, grandmother and an active member in her church and community.
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OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. Tresta is an app for iPhone and Android that lets you do business calling and texting from anywhere.
I know so many entrepreneurs that are still using their personal phone number for business calls. It can get complicated, drawing the line between your personal and professional life.
This is the best business phone app out there, whether you just need a business phone number or if your team is ready for a complete business phone system. Tresta is totally flexible and can grow with your business. And it's all unlimited – calling, texting, and all of their powerful call management features like auto attendants, call recording, user groups, and more – for just $15 per user per month.
With Tresta, there's no contract, and you don't need any special hardware – just the smartphone you're already using. Tresta is easy to configure, so you can set everything up yourself - all online – avoiding all the hassle and high overhead costs of setting up a traditional business phone system. Which is important because as entrepreneurs we are always trying to cut cost.
They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. The link is there in the show notes if you are listening to the podcast. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
StartupNation, as a podcaster, radio host, and business owner, I know a thing or two about the need for your message to come through clearly to your target audience. The last thing you want when trying to close a big deal over the phone or giving a sales presentation in your conference room is to have the person you are talking to be distracted by either the fact that you sound like you are in a warehouse or outside noise like a fire truck. Trust me, StartupNation; I know this from experience as our home studio is near our international airport. And that is why Auralex has your back.
Auralex Acoustics creates professionally tested products that you can trust in a commercial space or at home. Better office acoustics improves intelligibility (video conferencing or generic conversation), reduces stress, and helps build a productive work atmosphere. From a home studio for my content creators to your office space downtown, your gear performs better in an acoustically treated room. Trust me; you are in good hands with Auralex as they are the #1 brand in acoustics, providing trusted solutions for over 40 years. Also, you can Download the Auralex acoustic treatment mobile app in the Apple or Google Play Store to give you specifically designed and instantaneous recommendations for various room types. Go to Auralex.com and use the promo code "STARTUP" in all caps for 10% off your entire order. The link is there in the show notes if you are listening to the replay of this episode. So if you are ready to stop sounding like you are having a sales meeting in a sports arena, go with Auralex, Professional Audio Made Simple!
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**More on Jeremy**
Jeremy is a New York Times Bestselling author, one of the world's top innovation keynote speakers / management consultants and the CEO of Trend Hunter, the world's #1 largest, most popular trend spotting firm with more than 2 billion views and 3 million fans. With custom research, innovation workshops and custom trend reports, Trend Hunter accelerates innovation for the world's top-tier innovators.
Jeremy is "One of North America's Most Requested Keynote Speakers", New York Times bestselling author of "BETTER and FASTER - The Proven Path to Unstoppable Ideas" and the award-winning book "EXPLOITING CHAOS - 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change" (Axiom Business Book Awards; Inc Magazine Best Books for Business Owners; Summary Best Books for 2011).
Jeremy is an innovation advisor to over 400 brands, billionaires and CEOs ranging from Victoria's Secret, Coca-Cola and Sony to IBM, Cisco and Hughes Aerospace. He specializes in innovation during times of chaos and enabling change when change is hard. Over the last seven years, he's been the innovation keynote speaker at hundreds of events, inspiring more than 250,000 people. Routinely sourced by the media, he has appeared in hundreds of newspaper and television interviews form CNN and the New York Times to Entertainment Tonight and MTV.
Specialties: trend spotting, trends, cool hunting, innovation, strategy, management consulting, guest speaking, marketing, quantitative analysis, finance, keynote speaking, social media, marketing, consulting, innovation workshops, hosting, brands, chaos, creative destruction, trend analytic, motivation, motivational speaking
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
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In this video, we discuss networking with a grooming fail while unboxing the Lawnmower 3.0 by our partners at MANSCAPED.
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Alex is a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. She has spent the last eleven years helping thousands of people negotiate better, build relationships and reach their goals. In 2019, Alex was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University's highest teaching honor.
Alex believes that negotiation is for everyone. She is a world-renowned negotiation trainer for groups and individuals from all over the world—including the United Nations, Fortune 100 companies, the U.S. government, foreign governments, not-for-profit organizations, universities and private law firms. Through the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School, Alex and her students provide free conflict resolution services and training to many people and organizations who otherwise would not be able to afford it.
Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Alex was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. She also worked at Goldman Sachs in the Principal Investment Area. She spent a year in Taipei, Taiwan as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar.
Alex received her Juris Doctor degree in 2003 from Columbia Law School, where she earned James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone academic honors. She won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for her mediation work and the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for oral advocacy. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University, where she won the Lena Landegger community service award.
Alex lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, with her husband Greg and their daughter Caroline. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and practicing yoga.
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
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Joel has a long history of successful growth capital investments in a variety of industries. He currently teaches Entrepreneurial Management at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, is the Chairman of the Board of Overseers at the Hoover Institution at Stanford as well as the Chairman of the Board at JetBlue Airways, and serves as a Director of Franklin Covey. He served formerly as Managing Partner of Trammell Crow Company. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Joel is the author of The 10 Laws of Trust: Building the Bonds that Make a Business Great.
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
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Sudhir Chadalavada partners with successful business leaders to purposefully transform their lives and the organizations they lead to greatness.
His clients have been recognized as outstanding leaders and CEOs. He brings more than 25 years of leadership experience with F500 and small to midsize companies as a CEO, senior executive, trusted advisor and leadership coach.
Sudhir trains, speaks and writes passionately on the new rules of capitalism, the socio-economic shift, and the changing role of business organizations and leadership.
His recent book, CEO Mastery Journey – 7 Breakthrough Practices that Propel Successful Leaders to Greatness, explains this in depth.
A pioneer in the implementation of enlightened principles in business organizations, Sudhir integrates advanced human potential and mastery techniques with superior business practices to foster an environment of inspired action. He engages his audience and clients with passion, candor and practical wisdom that naturally result from his vast professional experience and inspiring personal journey. Sudhir was co-founder of the Orange County chapter of the Conscious Capitalism organization http://www.consciouscapitalism.org/.
Sudhir trains CEOs, corporate executives, senior coaches and consultants in the principles and practices of conscious business. This has a dramatic impact on their ability to inspire the leadership team and the organization to outstanding performance. Sudhir was an Associate Partner at PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) and spent more than ten years with Intel and Toshiba in marketing and management roles. He has a Master's in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a BS in Electronics Engineering from India. An avid sports lover and a fitness fanatic, he enjoys Tennis, Yoga and nature walks. Sudhir lives in Orange County, California with his wife and three children.
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Contact DR and Associates today for all of your marketing needs online at www.drandassociates.com, on social media, or at 615-933-3681
KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
Ready for your own Personal Revolution? Listen to all episodes of the show here: https://www.himalaya.com/revolution1
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
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Lisa Fabrega is a leadership coach who helps ambitious women expand their capacity to handle more growth, wealth & success. For more than ten years, she has helped entrepreneurs, corporate executives, Academy Award nominees, and Nobel Prize organization candidates break through boundaries that have been holding them back from their next level. Her signature approach enables clients to reach their highest levels of success and impact. Lisa has addressed thousands of people both on stage as a keynote speaker as well as when she appeared on podcasts, including The Unmistakable Creative, Her Rules Radio, and Tell Me A Story with Debra Silverman. She's also been featured on CNN, Yahoo! News, and The Huffington Post. She splits her time between Florida and California with her two rescue dogs, Luna and Sadie.
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Use code BETTEREVERYDAY for 30% everything sitewide at ladder.sport. That's "BETTEREVERYDAY" for 30% off at ladder.sport.
Contact DR and Associates today for all of your marketing needs online at www.drandassociates.com, on social media, or at 615-933-3681
KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit, and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
Ready for your own Personal Revolution? Listen to all episodes of the show here: https://www.himalaya.com/revolution1
We unbox our brand new sleep bracelet for our partner Philip Stein. We also check in with entrepreneurs and talk about the importance of sleep for business owners.
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit, and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
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Formally trained as an engineer and self-taught as a scrappy, aggressive, and laser-focused entrepreneur with a never-say-die attitude, I see myself as a bit of an outsider, as a leader paving the way for a new breed of no BS entrepreneurs. And, believe me, there is no shortage of hype in this community.
What brought me to where I am today – founder of two multi-million dollar tech startups – is a powerful drive toward non-conformity and a desire to do away with the posing and the posturing that seems to go hand-and-hand with today's startup ecosystem.
I am currently CEO of Solid Power and board chairman of Roccor, leading providers of technologies and products to the electric vehicle and spacecraft markets, respectively. Both companies are positioned within well-established industries – and are being funded and supported
by the likes of Ford Motor Company and NASA – and are currently undergoing and driving transformational change.
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
Ready for your own Personal Revolution? Listen to all episodes of the show here: https://www.himalaya.com/revolution1
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
In this episode, we talk to Nikhil Sehgal (Founder & CEO of Vastmindz) as we discuss his new normal, how his technology can help in combatting COVID-19, and how he reached a partnership with IBM.
**More on Nikhil**
Nikhil co-founded Vastmindz following an algorithmic trading background to apply his data science & AI skills to help solve some of the most complex healthcare challenges. Nikhil is a certified IBM Data Science & Machine Learning Professional and holds data science certifications from DeepLearning.ai
Check out Peter Yawitz's book "Flip Flops and Microwaved Fish" here. Check out other great authors at Greenleaf Book Group
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KOYA is the new and best way to let your friends and family know you're thinking of them! Choose a friend, record a message, hide it at a location they are likely to visit and give them a clue. When they arrive, your message will instantly appear! You can even send them a gift! Best of all, the app is entirely free.
OK Startup Nation, I want to talk to you about our sponsor, Tresta. Tresta is an app for iPhone and Android that lets you do business calling and texting from anywhere.
I know so many entrepreneurs that are still using their personal phone number for business calls. It can get complicated, drawing the line between your personal and professional life.
This is the best business phone app out there, whether you just need a business phone number or if your team is ready for a complete business phone system. Tresta is totally flexible and can grow with your business. And it's all unlimited – calling, texting, and all of their powerful call management features like auto attendants, call recording, user groups, and more – for just $15 per user per month.
With Tresta, there's no contract, and you don't need any special hardware – just the smartphone you're already using. Tresta is easy to configure, so you can set everything up yourself - all online – avoiding all the hassle and high overhead costs of setting up a traditional business phone system. Which is important because as entrepreneurs we are always trying to cut cost.
They're offering a 30-day free trial, so you can see if Tresta's virtual phone system is right for you. Communicate smarter and more efficiently with Tresta. Start now at tresta.com/startuplife. That's t-r-e-s-t-a-dot-com-slash-startup-life – all one word. The link is there in the show notes if you are listening on the podcast. Tresta, Business Communication. Simplified.
Auralex Acoustics creates professionally tested products that you can trust in a commercial space or at home. Better office acoustics improves intelligibility (video conferencing or generic conversation), reduces stress, and helps build a productive work atmosphere. From a home studio for my content creators to your office space downtown, your gear performs better in an acoustically treated room. Trust me; you are in good hands with Auralex as they are the #1 brand in acoustics, providing trusted solutions for over 40 years. Also, you can Download the Auralex acoustic treatment mobile app in the Apple or Google Play Store to give you specifically designed and instantaneous recommendations for various room types. Go to Auralex.com and use the promo code "STARTUP" in all caps for 10% off your entire order. The link is there in the show notes if you are listening to the replay of this episode. So if you are ready to stop sounding like you are having a sales meeting in a sports arena, go with Auralex, Professional Audio Made Simple!
