In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview life coaching pioneer David Key.

David transitioned from a career in sales after being inspired by a series of events that showed him the power of the mind. His hunger to learn how the mind worked and how changing our thoughts and beliefs could change our lives lead him to become a Master Trainer in Hypnosis and the first Association of NLP Accredited Trainer in the world. He created a successful life coaching business before life coaching was a thing and has taken what he has learned over 30 years and has trained over 55,000 people from over 40 countries through his award-winning, dynamic and innovative online and in-room coaching programs.

David’s powerful storytelling and sense of humor make his story truly inspirational and fun, and his authenticity, passion for contribution and willingness to embrace uncertainty, and make him a world-class teacher to us all.

In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Paulo Dichone. Paulo is a self-proclaimed programming geek who fell in love with coding when he got to college, even through he grew up in a small village in Mozambique, Africa where he didn’t have access to computers. Paulo created an app development business which led him to discover his true passion, which is TEACHING, when he started teaching app development and programming online. Today he has taught almost 100,000 students. He believes that ANYONE can learn to code, and his goal is to not only teach programming skills, but to help his students become well-rounded developers who are successful both in business and in life. It is no surprise that Paulo has top-selling courses and raving reviews because his optimism, gratitude, and enthusiasm are contagious.

Jason and Tamera Dion are a husband and wife team who have reached 200,000 students through their online courses and books.

Jason’s experience is in the cybersecurity field and as an instructor at the University of Maryland, while Tamera was a stay-at-home mother who homeschooled their two children. At the end of 2016, Jason discovered online courses and decided to create his own courses and give it a try. Within a year the business had exploded, and Tamera decided to come alongside him. Since partnering together their small training company has experienced tremendous growth.

The semi-passive income from their new venture has opened up a new world of possibilities for them, including their plans to take advantage of their financial freedom and location independence to travel the world in a couple years when their children will graduate high school. As a family business, they love teaching their two children, who work for them, about the power of entrepreneurship.

In this episode, Joeel and Natalie interview Chris Haroun and discuss the democratization of education, getting paid to teach what you know and love online, following your passion, and LIVING LIFE ON YOUR TERMS! You’ll learn why Chris, a successful venture capitalist and an award-winning MBA professor, reinvented himself at every level—including leaving behind his successful career in investing to embrace a new frontier—online education—which he has referred to as the New Wall St.

He has shared his powerful, practical, and revolutionary business and life wisdom with nearly 1 million students around the world and his courses have been profiled in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & on other business news websites.

With a career that spans Goldman Sachs, Citadel, and Accenture, as well as his own start-ups, he has worked with investment and business leaders, such as Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Marc Benioff, and the CEOs of many of the largest technology companies.

Today Chris is a full-time online instructor—but not through traditional university education—instead through 45 of his own online courses. An MBA graduate from Columbia University himself, he is now famous for his top selling business program “An Entire MBA in 1 Course”, which takes students beyond the theoretical and practical frameworks taught in business schools by teaching crucial lessons and practical applications to real world problems.

In addition to creating online courses, Chris spends his investing in EdTech and contributing to educational charities. He believes that all problems in the world can be solved through education—check out his recent TEDx Talk on this topic. 

Connect to Chris:

http://harouneducationventures.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charoun/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC70QdB61jENhGdzyo85QE-g

Daily Scheduling file Chris mentioned in the podcast: http://harouneducationventures.com/schedule

In the first episode, hosts Joeel & Natalie share the epic adventure that became an entrepreneur’s worst nightmare, after a chronic illness crumbled their businesses around them. They share what lead them to creating online courses and how online courses and the passive income they created saved their business and their lives. Today they have over 200,000 students from 195 countries – and when you hear how and why they went all-in as course creators, you will understand why they are so passionate about sharing their story and the stories of the other course creators they interview in this podcast.

But they don’t just want to inspire you with their story – they want you to understand how online courses can fit into YOUR business. So, this episode is also like Online Course Creation 101. They’ll cover the 3 secrets to creating a thriving online course, including: 1: How to turn what you know and love into online courses – including several real-life examples, 2: How to avoid perfectionism and use simple tools and what you have to get started now, and 3: different strategies for monetizing an online course, including how to decide which strategy is best for you.