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Wonder Women Entrepreneurs! This is the place to join conversations with thought leaders who amaze, astonish and inspire you. Listen each week as entrepreneur and host Kalika Yap explores the challenges, wisdom and breakthroughs of extraordinary people. (An Entrepreneurs’ Organization production)

Featured guests include:
Lisa Sugar, cofounder of POPSUGAR
Toni Ko, founder of NYX Cosmetics
Devin Alexander, celebrity chef and nutrition expert who appears on "The Biggest Loser"

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Dec 18, 2019

In this week’s episode, motivational keynote speaker and bestselling author Erik Qualman gives insight on how to navigate the digital world as an entrepreneur. Erik shares some statistics about how we interact in the digital era and how it applies to building a successful business. Listen in on and learn how to digitally transform your business, step into discomfort, and creating superfans by being “flawsome.”

Timestamped show notes

02:40 - Jock or nerd?
03:29 - Stats for the future
04:00 - The Un-Selfie Mentality
05:06 - Scaling the unscalable
05:35 - Stats for today
06:06 - More conversations with AI than your spouse?
06:25 - The change in our attention spans and how it affects business
07:32 - How to digitally transform your business
08:17 - Being “flawsome”
09:15 - Pioneers always get pushback, be a pioneer!
09:32 - How does one become a futurist?
11:18 - What do you need to do to get it right in 2019?
11:47 - Step into discomfort each and every day
12:04 - Erik shares how he walks into discomfort
12:20 - Be on the edge
12:40 - The story behind Erik’s trademark glasses
14:17 - Erik shares how the glasses help him reach others
15:25 - Stepping into your story
15:37 - Erik’s story and goal
16:49 - Conversations are the new currency
17:10 - Simple does not mean easy
18:21 - Erik’s shares his favorite apps!
18:44 - Utilizing gamification in the digital world
19:03 - Getting better from evaluated failure
20:32 - Creating a superfan by being “flawsome”