267: Dreaming Big, Starting A Movement, Building Relationships & Achieving The Impossible With Elliott Bisnow
The Melissa Ambrosini Show
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🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Do you sometimes worry that the big, beautiful goal you dream of might not even be possible?! Today’s podcast guest, Elliott Bisnow, knows a thing or two about turning impossible dreams into inevitabilities. And in this episode, he’s sharing his whip-smart advice on how to follow through on your vision, stay the course, and bring your big idea to life.
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Elliott Bisnow is the founder of the Summit Group, an organization best known for hosting global flagship events that unite the leaders of today and tomorrow, and feature icons like Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Shonda Rhimes, Jessica Alba, Reed Hastings, Brené Brown and Al Gore.
He is a renowned startup investor, having made almost 50 early-stage investments, in companies like Uber, Warby Parker, Allbirds, Coinbase, ClassPass and more. At 20 years old, Bisnow started his first venture, with his dad Mark, out of his college dorm room. Over the next decade, they grew the business into the largest commercial real estate media company in the world and it was acquired in 2016 for $50M.
Elliot is the co-owner of America’s largest ski resort, Powder Mountain, where he and his co-founders are building a mountaintop town filled with self-development events and programming 365 days a year (sounds epic, right?!). He has been featured in The New York Times, Wallstreet Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg Business Week, Time Magazine and Fast Company.
This is the kind of conversation that’s guaranteed to light a fire under your tush. So if you want to find out how to think big and achieve even bigger, create life-changing events for your tribe, connect with thought leaders and visionaries, and turn your impossible dream into your daily reality, then buckle up… this inspiring episode is for you.
In this episode we chat about:
- Elliot’s story and how his life plan changed significantly during college (05:51)
- How Elliot got started as an entrepreneur without any steps or examples to follow (08:24)
- Why you don’t need a “big idea” to be an entrepreneur (10:59)
- How Elliot brought Summit Series to life (14:10)
- How to get the numbers of potential high-level people (17:33)
- The importance of teaming up and culture-building (18:42)
- How to organize impactful and life-changing events (22:01)
- How being unique and staying true to yourself can result in a great event (25:06)
- The importance of high cool and low cost (28:19)
- The importance of building foundation and momentum (31:35)
- How to nurture your relationships and connect with people (36:09)
- Why Elliot embraces and celebrates being different (41:34)
- What he attributes his success to (44:23)
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| 0:00.0 | As you guys know, I've written five books and my latest book which I co-authored with my husband Nick Broadhurst. It's called Time Magic, Reclaim your life. It is such a |
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| 0:23.1 | And here is what a few people have said on Amazon as reviews. |
| 0:27.2 | Kim said, I am literally obsessed with this book. |
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| 0:34.0 | Lulia said it's the perfect book. I love it so much. It covers so many aspects of life besides time. |
| 0:40.0 | It's not a time management book, but it does help free up so much time. I want to keep rereading it and rereading it. |
| 0:45.3 | I had no idea how much I needed this book. |
| 0:48.4 | Sarah said, so many good tips. I've applied many tips and they work wonders. |
| 0:53.2 | Justine said, not what I expected exactly what I needed. I don't think there's |
| 0:59.1 | anything else like this out there. It's truly original. So that's just a few of the reviews on Amazon. |
| 1:06.2 | We would love for you to check it out. You can do so at time magic dot me. |
| 1:19.0 | This is episode number 267 with Elliot Biznow. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome to the Melissa Ambrosini show. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm your host, Melissa, best-selling author of Master in Your Meed Girl and Open Why, |
| 1:32.0 | and I'm here to remind you that love is sexy, healthy is liberating and wealthy isn't a dirty word. |
| 1:39.4 | Each week I'll be getting up close and personal with thought leaders from around the globe as well as your |
| 1:45.4 | weekly dose of motivation so that you can create epic change in your own life and become the best version of yourself possible. Are you ready, |
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