HH-36 James Smiley - The Million Dollar Journey

 James grew up in his most impressionable adolescent years in south Seattle's Beacon Hill / Rainer Valley.  At age 13 he ran a paper route and doubled the revenue of it by making an offer to 100% of the homes on his route (basically just knocking on the door of every home and asking if they wanted to buy the paper).  As a teen, James was fired by most of his jobs, was kicked out of high schools, was arrested at the age of 16, was voted high school class clown twice, and dropped out of four colleges.James made his first 6 figures in his first B2B sales job. On day 1 of employment he learned to send "emails" (this was about the year 2000 and open rates were about 99%).  Against the recommendation of other sales reps, instead of making 60-100 cold calls per day to book appointments, James decided to email his 8000 clients (his manager, who is shown in the side image, gave him this customer list but told him to call them and not email them).  That first email to 8000 clients made James' phone ring off the hook for 3 months and needless to say, "selling" become incredibly easy for him due to his ability to leverage technologyAt the age of 35, the death of a close family member create a drastic shift in James' life.  Through prayer and self-reflection, James finally admitted to himself that he wasn't happy working with or for corporations.  And... he realized all the leverage in the world was moving into the hands of entrepreneurs and solopreneurs due to major shifts in technology (namely social media, video, and mobile high-speed internet).  James knew millions of solopreneurs would be coming online over the next few years and virtually all of them would need systems, business processes, coaching, and mentoring in order to survive.James' rise in the solopreneur space was quick as he went from being an absolute no-body in the industry to being one of the most in-demand coaches and mentors in the country.  James' most recent book launched in 2019 (Influence and Income Online) and instantly became an Amazon #1 Best Seller the five biggest entrepreneur categories including Business Consulting, Web Marketing, & Internet Marketing.  James has now coached over 12k entrepreneurs, published over 10k training videos, and has had "viewer-total-watch-time" break the 2.75 million minute mark.His main goal now is to drive entrepreneur enablement around the globe.  James' operations now include a big enablement arm in the Hispanic Community and in India; with plans to equip over 1M entrepreneurs by 2025.https://jamessmiley.org/https://mymentorlab.com/optin Connect with The Podcast Coaches on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastcoaches/