EP413: Roger Pierce - The Path To Purpose: Secrets To Entrepreneurial Success

Michael Palmer: Another thing that's changed, Michael, too, over the last 20 years, I'd say, is entrepreneurship is more of a thing. It used to be 30 years ago, you're doing what, young man? You're starting a business? You're too young. You're way— go get a job. You know, that was the prevailing attitude. Whereas today, hey, entrepreneurship is everywhere. We've got Shark Tank and Dragon's Den and media talks about what Elon Musk had for breakfast. And, you know, we're all over the entrepreneur culture. And so we're talking of mine. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our returning guest is an entrepreneurship expert, Roger Pearce. Welcome back to the show. Excited to be here, Michael. Yes, I'm excited to have you. And you know, it's, it has been a while, and I'm excited to hear all the amazing things that have been going in the world of entrepreneurship and small business building that you've been working on for the last couple of years. So maybe give us a little update for those that haven't heard you on our podcast before, a little bit of your, your background, and how you ended up doing what you're doing today.

Roger Pierce (April 16): I'll do my best. For sure, I am a self-described lifelong entrepreneur. I've had 14 small businesses that I care to mention, maybe a couple in between there we won't talk about. But it really was in 2003 that I got in the business of training entrepreneurs, and that was through a company I co-founded called Biz Launch. And we got in the business of running courses for entrepreneurs. You know, it was the Up and Running Biz Launch program. We offered a 30-hour training program, did it in classrooms back then, city hall conference rooms, lecture halls, and our own space eventually in downtown Toronto. And that kind of morphed into doing a lot of seminars and things. And then we got into some sponsors who wanted to get behind what we were doing. We charged for this course, but then we attracted some corporate sponsors like Bell and Visa. And eventually Scotiabank became