“Entrepreneurship is that great privilege of, let’s make the world a better place.”

After 30 years of entrepreneurship three successful brands and half a billion in revenue, Brian Scudamore has stories to tell and knowledge to share. With a gentle push and support from his marketing wizard and co-author, Roy H. Williams, Brian has now published two books that are inspiring tens of thousands of entrepreneurs toward their visions and dreams.

Over the years, Brian has developed the mindset, “if you can imagine something then you make it happen”. So he’s created the Can You Imagine movement, to help people have the courage to bring their visions to life. Check out the link below to see a clip of Brian delivering this message on the Ellen Degeneres Show.

Expert action steps:

• Vision. Start with a great idea. Not necessarily your idea, but the why and how.

• People. What system of people do you need to help grow and run your business so you as the entrepreneur can get out of the way of the parts that aren’t your strengths.

• Systems. Look at your business in an organized and systemic way. Track your goals and their timelines.

Brian is the founder of 1-800-GOT-JUNK, Wow 1 Day Painting and Shack Shine. He’s the author of WTF?! (Willing To Fail) and the recently released BYOB: Build Your Own Business, Be Your Own Boss.

More information about these brands can be found at https://www.o2ebrands.com.

You can find more information about Brian’s Can You Imagine Movement at https://brianscudamore.com/can-you-imagine/. Check out this clip of Brian on the Ellen Degeneres Show.

You can work in person with Nicky and a group of like-minded people in one of the quarterly, three-day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

Send any questions, comments and feedback to info@ecircle.ca.

"Connection is integral to having people win at the game of life, and not making them can be very detrimental to everybody, especially our young people."

There’s no disputing how useful online platforms like Zoom are in terms of connecting people. But like any other tool, there’s a right way and wrong way to use them so in this episode we’ll learn how to get the most out of these platforms without allowing them to interfere with our basic human nature.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

eCircle is holding a live, in-person event!!

Dare 2 Win - Own Your Freedom. May 13 & 14 at the Toronto Pan Pacific Hotel.

Find more information and register at https://ecircleacademy.mykajabi.com/dare-2-win-home.

Speakers include:

1. Marc Von Musser - Sales Mastery

2. Nicky Billou - Branding & Leadership

3. Theresa Dugwell - Health & Fitness

4. Brian Scudamore - Founder 1-800 Got Junk - Building Billion Dollar Brands

5. Jean Taillon - How To Scale To A $100 Million Company

6. Dan Hill - World-renowned Singer. #1 Hit "Sometimes When We Touch"

7. Don Bentley - Nyt #1 Bestselling Author & Branding Expert

8. Dr. Valerie Franc - Wellness & Anti-aging

9. Danny Z777 - Motivation & Entrepreneurship

10. Raymond Aaron - Branding

You can find The Power Of Connection: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Networks and some of Nicky’s other books at the links below.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

Often what develops a person’s expertise is their own life experience. And with the right mindset, that experience becomes thought leadership. Riaz Aziz survived stage three lymphoma and in the process, he learned a lot about the many challenges people face during and after cancer treatment. Gradually, his experiences and mindset positioned him to take the lead in helping other patients and their families navigate the cancer treatment process. Opportunities to help people started coming his way. His experience and his ability to relate to people on a personal level naturally made him a specialist in cancer rehabilitation. His business message is one that many people recognize and need.

One of the programs that Riaz is developing is called Road To Survivorship, supporting people in their cancer recovery without the fear of cancer coming back.

Expert action steps:

1. Respond, don’t react. When you’re making decisions, make them based on information, not on emotion. Specifically, fear.

2. Risk-benefit ratio. Calculate whether any risks you might take are worth the outcome. If what you’re doing doesn’t align with your purpose, don’t do it.

3. Self-regulation. Recognize when you have the best time and ability to make decisions.

To contact Riaz, you can email him at riaxion@rogers.com.

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

“It’s not their fault but it’s totally their responsibility….Technology is like money: a terrible master but a wonderful servant.”

Tech is a fascinating and powerful tool for many aspects of life. But navigating modern technological and scientific developments takes principles that help us restrain ourselves from getting carried away. We have to maintain our role as the masters of our own lives rather than giving that power away to AI or the big tech companies that work hard to keep us fixated on their services. That way, our tech will only be another tool to help us clear a path toward the success of our children, families and ourselves.

In this episode:

• How to determine if you’re the master or servant of your tech.

• Tips to protect your children’s sovereignty over their own lives.

• How to fast-track your success.

You can find The Power Of Connection: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Networks and some of Nicky’s other books at the links below.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

You can work in person with Nicky and a group of like-minded people in one of the quarterly, three-day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success with call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

“God owns my business, I work for Him.”

Money is something mentioned throughout the bible. The pursuit of money gives us an opportunity to practice god-given principles that guide us toward living a balanced and virtuous life. Many successful entrepreneurs have proven that maintaining integrity and caring for others are just as important as financial literacy.

Lorne Jackson has over 30 years in the financial planning business. In the 1980s, he bought a financial planning company with 65 advisors and 10 years later he had recruited over 1400 more.

Lorne enjoys financial planning for the people, not the numbers. He has since dedicated his life to bringing faith to people, especially in the business world. In 2002 he started the Canadian National Christian Foundation, creating and simplifying opportunities for people and organizations to donate money in meaningful ways. In the realm of estate planning, Lorne has also created Advisors With Purpose, operating as a charity and bringing free estate planning to people as an act of stewardship.

Expert action steps:

1. Do what you say you’re going to do.

2. Keep God at the center of your business.

3. Stewardship. A Godly use of time, talent and treasure. Be a steward of your family. Carefully balance your business life with your family; Quality AND quantity.

Go to advisorswithpurpose.ca for a free estate plan.

To learn more about the Canadian National Christian Foundation, go to CNCF.ca.

You can find Lorne’s book, After The Faith Decision - All Else Is Stewardship, on Amazon.

You can work in person with Nicky and a group of like-minded people in one of the quarterly, three-day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

“Is it possible for us to use technology to create an authentic, real and fulfilling online connection for humanity?” Yes. But only if we embrace the truth that it’s people that make the technology and use it to uplift humanity, and not technology that is intrinsically valuable in and of itself.”

Tech has become a powerful tool to connect with others. That should only be a good thing as long as human connection is the priority. But as our relationship with tech grows, we’re filtering more and more of the human experience through the digital world.

Also in this episode:

Charles Ashworth’s article Are We Losing The Human Connection.

The Dr. Seuss book, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

You can find The Power Of Connection: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Networks and some of Nicky’s other books at the links below.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

You can work in-person with Nicky and a group of like minded people in one of the quarterly, three day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success with call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

Ryan Lewis was born in to a family of business people and he caught on at an early age. His real success started in his teens helping his uncle run a sports memorabilia business, holding autograph signing events with sports legend names like Bobby Hull, Guy Lafleur, Pat Borders, Johnny Bower, Maurice Richard, Gordie Howe etc… The business has been growing ever since and has been known as Autograph Authentic since 2001. They are the makers of Career Jerseys; jerseys that have player stats printed on the back, and the popular Charity Easel Silent Auction Program seen in many department and grocery stores. McDonald’s restaurants and Best Buy are examples of businesses who deal with Autograph Authentic.

Expert action steps:

1. “Later” and “tomorrow”... get rid of these concepts. Act now and push.

2. In business, look at money as points in a video game to avoid the psychological fear factor that can complicate your approach to business.

3. Be nice, honest and treat all clients and customers as equals.

Go to Autographauthentic.com or careerjearseys.com and use the code NICKY50 for 50% off.

To learn more about the Charity Easel Silent Auction Program, go to https://www.careerjerseys.com/pages/charity-easel.

You can work in-person with Nicky and a group of like minded people in one of the quarterly, three day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

Send any questions, comments and feedback to info@ecircle.ca.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

“Technology should be enhancing our connection others, not replacing it."

Personal resilience and the resilience of a community comes from the power of connection. Everything improves from the individual’s physical and mental wellbeing to the community’s ability to grow and respond to changes. Human connection has always been ingrained with survival so naturally the same principle applies to the growth and resilience of your business.

Today we hear chapter three from the book Nicky co-authored with Kai Bjorn called The Power Of Connection: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Networks.

In this episode:

• Being connected is critical for you to be able to increase your profits.

• Trusting, cooperative relationships make businesses grow and thrive.

• Ideas that can help generate tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars for your business.

You can find The Power Of Connection: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Networks and some of Nicky’s other books at the links below.

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

Send any questions, comments and feedback to info@ecircle.ca.

You can work in-person with Nicky and a group of like minded people in one of the quarterly, three day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success with call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

“You never know how far you can go, until you risk going too far.” - T.S. Elliot

Comfort has its place in our lives but it’s best if you take it as it comes, rather than get carried away in the pursuit of it. Stepping out of your comfort zone and committing to hard work is what brings results and comfort is the least of the rewards. You need courage and willpower and when you’re truly stepping out of your comfort zone you need a coach to help you break through your fears, doubts and other psychological barriers.

Raymond Aaron has taken on many challenges in his life and proven these secrets to himself several times over. But perhaps the biggest challenge he’s ever faced was the death defying foot race from Resolute Bay, Nunavut to the North Pole. From the two years of training before the race (with physical trainer Nicky Billou!), to facing the extremes of the arctic for one month, Raymond discovered that he sets his own limits and that great power comes when you believe in the version of yourself beyond fear and doubt. The physical gives way to the spiritual, and magic starts to happen.

Expert action steps:

1. Start by taking yourself out of your comfort zone just a little by changing your routine in some small.

2. Read the book that Raymond and Nicky will be co-authoring.

3. Get out of your ego’s comfort zone by doing the first thing that comes to your mind. Something that you know you should do but scares you. Like apologizing to someone you’ve hurt, or taking yourself more seriously.

Raymond applies these same philosophies to business and has achieved great success. He is a top international speaker and author and offers many teaching and coaching programs. You can learn more at aaron.com.

Also mentioned:

Ernest Shackleton

Jan Meek.

Reach out to Nicky if you’d like to network with some like-minded people at a Freedom Lunch/Dinner and to stay up to date with other upcoming live events.

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.

This story is about what it means to be an entrepreneur; a heart leader who cares about people a goes out of their way to find solutions for others.

In this episode:

• Take connecting with people seriously. Find out what help they need and how they can help others.

• How to empower yourself and feel in control through positive input.

• Stop focussing on the hyped up fears out there. Reach out to help others feel safe and find solutions for them.

• Your clients need your help. All businesses exist to solve problems.

You can find Nicky’s books at the links below:

The Thought Leaders Journey - A Fable Of Life

Finish Line Thinking: How To Think And Win Like A Champion

The Power Of Connecting: How To Activate Profitable Relationships By Serving Your Network

Also in this episode :

Ivan Misner’s philosophy of Givers Gain.

You can work in-person with Nicky and a group of like minded people in one of the quarterly, three day, eCircle thought leader immersion events in Toronto. 

Visit eCircleAcademy.com and book a success call with Nicky to take your practice to the next level.