There are charming and wonderful people, and then there’s Matt George. He was an early client at Legacy Launch Pad and one of my favorite people that I’ve ever worked with.

This isn’t just because he’s an amazing soul whose life mission has been to help people.

It isn’t just because he’s so warm and wonderful to be around that he attracts mentors like the original “Shark” Kevin Harrington and Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Marc Victor Hansen.

It’s all of that and more.

In this conversation—where he perhaps gives Legacy Launch Pad too much credit in his journey to success—we discuss how to use failure as fuel and how even founders of $100 million companies deal with the same sort of frustrations we all do.

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

Sharon K. Gillenwater never expected to sell the company she founded for $25 million.

But that’s exactly what happened to this former working-class kid when she and her business partner sold her baby, Boardroom Insiders, in 2022.

Of course, it hasn’t been one smooth ride to the top.

That journey has been rife with challenges that Gillenwater so eloquently describes in her just released memoir, Scaling with Soul: How I Built and Sold a $25 Million Tech Company Without Being an A**hole, which I’m oh so proud to say that Legacy Launch Pad has published.

In this episode, we talk about her many peaks and valleys, starting with when she only realized she didn’t know what the seventh-grade class secretary did once she was elected to the position through realizing that she had the luxury of failing because of what her family had done for her.

Get all that and more in this episode and you can grab Sharon’s spectacular new book here.

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

Ami Kassar once had a big, fat corporate job. Corporate suites at sporting events and a sweet, comfortable life.

Then that company went under.

While, as a nationally renowned expert on access to capital for entrepreneurs, he advises people to take time to figure out their next move, he instead started his new business the day after he was fired.

What started with a revenue of $13,000 a year has now turned into MultiFunding, a company that works with entrepreneurs with revenue between one and $20 million on growing their businesses.

And yet there have been failures along the way—times where he, metaphorically, struggled to keep the lights on. Still, he looks at entrepreneurship as a triathlon, where you’re sometimes going to feel elated and sometimes like you have to vomit.

In this episode, he shares about how his biggest failure has been a lack of self-care, why being able to tolerate risk is a key to success and why adapting to circumstances is the key to overcoming failure.

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