Sircles – The Social Recommendations App Designed to take out Yelp with John Worthington: An EOFire Classic from 2022
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
John Worthington is the founder and CEO of Sircles App, the social recommendations app designed to take out Yelp.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. You do not have to force yourself to wake up early if you are not a morning person. You can have great success getting up when you feel like your clock is ready.
2. By gamification, you create progression.
3. Having a good product, telling your story the right way, and solving a problem for your consumers will give you a good chance of raising funds to get you started.
Caring is Sharing! Sircles provides a fun and intuitive way to find the entertainment and places your friends love - Sircles Website
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| 0:00.0 | Who's ready to rock today, Fire Nation? |
| 0:05.0 | JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by High Level, the All In One |
| 0:10.4 | Sales and Marketing Platform. |
| 0:12.2 | On today's classic episode, we'll be breaking down Circles, the social recommendations |
| 0:17.2 | app designed to take you out of Yelp. |
| 0:19.4 | To drop these value bombs, I have brought John Worthington into Eofire Studios. John is the founder and CEO of Circles app, the social |
| 0:26.1 | recommendations app designed to take you out of Yelp. And today we talk about gamification, |
| 0:30.7 | equalling progression, having a good product, telling your story the right way, and solving a problem |
| 0:35.2 | for your consumers will give you a good chance of raising funds to get you started. And oh, so much more. And a big thing for sponsoring |
| 0:41.9 | today's episode goes to John and our sponsors. Are you ready for the ultimate all-in-one platform |
| 0:48.7 | for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies? Build funnels, automate follow-ups, manage clients, and even |
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| 1:02.1 | high level fire.com to start your free trial today. |
| 1:09.0 | John, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful |
| 1:15.4 | that most people disagree with. |
| 1:18.3 | What is up Fire Nation? |
| 1:19.8 | And I'm happy to be here. |
| 1:21.7 | That's a great question. |
| 1:23.3 | You know, this might come as a shock, but, you know, I've been told my whole life that |
| 1:26.9 | you've got to get up at the crack of dawn and start your day early, but I've actually not set an alarm in probably 20 years, unless I'm catching an airplane or showing up for jury duty. But for the most part, I feel like it's very important to get your full night's rest. You know, this isn't probably true for everybody. But certain people, |
| 1:47.8 | you know, just not a morning person, don't force it. And if you, if you have a clear mind and if you're in a business, an industry where you can give yourself that extra hour or two and you |
| 1:52.6 | have a fresh start to your day, it's fine to work a little later. Especially if you have |
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