EYL #255 Business Blueprint: Mental Health Franchise, Cosmetic Empire & Restaurants ft Chris & Janeen Simone
Earn Your Leisure
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4.9 • 7.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Dive into our exclusive interview with Chris and Janeen Simon as they share invaluable insights from their journey in the entrepreneurial world. Here's what we discuss:
📌 How exposure leads to opportunities.
📌 The importance of diverse perspectives around you.
📌 Key takeaways from their time at Morgan State University.
📌 Tactics to handle rejection in sales.
📌 Building sustainable business systems to maintain freedom.
📌 The ultimate goal: becoming an investor in your own business.
📌 The smart way to fund your venture: leveraging others' capital.
📌 Recognizing when and how to scale your business.
📌 Keeping 1099 employees satisfied and committed.
📌 Challenges of retention for entrepreneurs.
📌 Harnessing operation systems for growth decisions.
📌 Embracing beneficial partnerships without fear.
📌 Observations on the booming Behavioral Health industry.
📌 Mergers and acquisitions: Why they matter.
📌 Starting a company in the mental health sector.
📌 Janeen's bold move: Investing her 401k into their health care vision.
📌 The art of being prepared for golden opportunities.
📌 The marketing prowess behind the success of BLK Swan's restaurant.
📌 The significance of therapy and self-care.
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| 0:00.0 | Ernest, what's going on? Listen, EYLU is relaunching, revamping, retooling. That's right, we're creating a new educational experience that's more expensive. |
| 0:08.7 | Shall we tell it we got? |
| 0:09.7 | Yes, 2023. |
| 0:11.7 | We've got a lot in store, a lot planned for you guys. |
| 0:14.3 | So you know that EYLU already includes monthly financial planning calls for me, book club calls for Troy, |
| 0:20.6 | real estate calls for MJ the mortgage guy, access to the home buying blueprint, volume one, volume two. |
| 0:27.1 | Part of the revamp will include 27 local chapters from across the United States, live interactive teaching, hands-on, not just pre-recorded videos, plus 15 brand new curriculums. |
| 0:40.6 | The biggest just got bigger. |
| 0:42.6 | Head over to EYLUuniversity.com. That's EYLUNI, V-E-R-S-I-T-Y.com. See you there. |
| 0:54.6 | We have the honor of having a conversation with two of Baltimore's brightest entrepreneurs really killing the game, and they're also a couple as well. |
| 1:06.6 | So this is going to be a very dope conversation about business, about family, about how to balance that, and really growing different verticals, something that I think any entrepreneur needs to learn. |
| 1:19.6 | You can't rely just on one stream of income, that's extremely important, and you guys have built a very impressive portfolio for being joined us in this conversation. |
| 1:28.6 | We'll go over, but first and foremost, thank you for being joined us in this conversation. Appreciate it. |
| 1:33.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.6 | And it means a lot, right? We talk about going back and giving back the fact that we're here in Morgan, the fact that you're alumni from Morgan, the fact that you've got some business skills in here. |
| 1:46.6 | It means that much, much, that much more that you're coming back and giving to the community that helped you with some of your so collaborative for Chris with being back in the building. |
| 1:55.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:58.6 | So I want to, I want to just go over some companies that you guys have. So you have BTS services, which is a mental health company, right? |
| 2:07.6 | You have selfish, which is a beauty spot in event space. |
| 2:11.6 | You have Carpe Diem, which is a management company that supports startups and small businesses. |
| 2:17.6 | Outcrowd, restaurant group, which is a company that develops and manages a chain of food and beverage and entertainment venues. |
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