Michael Richman is a master of self-deprecation, which means that he may be being facetious when he claims he couldn’t get a prom date in high school, despite repeated attempts.

But he can’t deny the phenomenal success he’s achieved since then—including buying up half of his dad’s awning business and growing it to the point that he could have retired when they sold it a decade later.

Now he’s not only a thriving business coach but he’s also MY business coach. And to say he’s brilliant, amazing and hilarious is an understatement.

In this episode, we discuss how he recovered from a disastrous first year in college, how the first business he tried to acquire cancelled the deal just as he was dropping off the equity check and how these things taught him exactly how to bounce back.

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When you think "convicted felon," you would not picture Craig Stanland.

The "reinvention architect," TEDx speaker and author looks like just about the most upstanding citizen you're likely to meet.

But looks can be deceiving; when Stanland was living a high-flying lifestyle many years ago, he was embezzling money to do it. And he sees his greatest failure NOT as the crime he committed (or going to jail) but what preceded the crime.

Now he helps other people find fulfillment before they reach the point he was at. We get into all of that, as well as his three-step process for bouncing back from failure, in this episode.

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Kevin Anderson never meant to get into the publishing business after growing up in a small town in Canada before getting his PhD and graduating summa cum laude from Harvard and starting a tutoring company. Nevertheless, that tutoring company transitioned into what is now a massive publishing company that employs 30 writers and editors that have collectively worked on over 200 New York Times bestselling books and sold over 100 million copies of books by people like Brene Brown, Simon Sinek and Jen Sincero.

But just because he looks like someone who’s never experienced a day of failure, Anderson is the first to admit that he’s had his fair share—including clients who were incensed when the books his company wrote didn’t sell to traditional publishers.

In this episode, we talked about how trying to do everything for your company is asking for failure, the importance of finding people with different strengths than yours and why you have to let go to move on, among other things.

For more info, go to www.failyourway.com.