TODAY (the same day I've started WOM) I'm launching World Vision Entrepreneur and I would love everybody's help, expertise, recommendations etc.
I will be interviewing by webcam, many top entrepreneurs, inventors, authors, success coaches, motivational speakers, and educators.
I would appreciate recommendations for potential interviewees. Whether you have just one or a whole list, please tell me as much as possible about them, including contact info, tell me if you know them and can provide an introduction, and tell me WHY you recommend them.
Basic criteria: they must meet most of these:
-millionaire
-name/face recognition (eg published author)
-social benefit aspect to their business/work
-very positive outlook on life
-lots of character - makes for entertaining interview
yes MJ is an obvious choice and I would be honored to interview him, so if you know him well, please pass this on to him! thanks!
WHO THE HECK AM I?
full profile at my Ning site
www.Linkedin-Entrepreneurs.com just click my face to get to my profile page.
quick overview:
37 yo, Canadian
upon graduating high school I conceived this project, and it has kept bugging me until TODAY!
Age 24-26 created 3 businesses each valued at $2M+ (two within just 6 months, and all 3 were in industries I had no previous experience in, and ALL 3 WERE BOOTSTRAPPED! Dan Kennedy was my mentor at the time and told me "If you can't make money without money, you won't make money with money either!")
Over the next 8 years I struggled, not able to finish anything I started. Cycles of suicidal depression and manic rage finally culminated in an "accident" I caused that almost killed me, my fiancee, and my daughter, and potentially many other innocent bystanders. I finally took action and was diagnosed as Bipolar. Been on Welbutrin and living in a different world since.
One day I read on the web that an old friend Corey Rudl had died. We were the same age and both early students of Dan K. I thought about what an incredible life Corey had, and the legacy he left. I took action that day to change my life, and create a business in line with my purpose. I hired a personal success coach and started University Of Victory. It got a lot of media attention and it has evolved now to World Vision Entrepreneur.
I can't believe I just wrote all that! that stuff is definitely not on my profile page. Anyway, I'm using Simpleology and the WOM as a guide as I put the WVE project out to the universe today, Sept 25, 2007.
~Victory
p.s. there is a 2 MINUTE VIDEO about the project, check my signature.