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Defeat the Chaos

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Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey hit on the struggles and advantages of being an entrepreneur, and how to differentiate yourself from everyone else. It’s for anyone who has made the commitment to burn the boats and not look back. Our show provides knowledge and insight into everything that goes into building and running a successful small business. From your first dollar made to the last dollar earned, Defeat the Chaos has you covered. Tune in live every Thursday at 6 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

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Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey hit on the struggles and advantages of being an entrepreneur, and how to differentiate yourself from everyone else. It’s for anyone who has made the commitment to burn the boats and not look back. Our show provides knowledge and insight into everything that goes into building and running a successful small business. From your first dollar made to the last dollar earned, Defeat the Chaos has you covered. Tune in live every Thursday at 6 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica Business Channel.

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English


Episodes
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Encore Michelle Fuller and Jeff Forrester - Friction

12/8/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political impacts, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hit on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie’s guest co-hosts are Michelle Fuller and Jeff Forrester. And this week they are talking about friction in your business. Listen in as Julie, Michelle, and Jeff talk about why you need to identify where friction exists in your business and what you can do to remove it. Themes: Entrepreneurship, Friction, Customers, Clients, Sales, Coaching, Strategy

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Encore Michelle Fuller and Jeff Forrester - Growing a Business

12/1/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political impacts, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hit on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie’s guest co-hosts Michelle Fuller and Jeff Forrester talk about growing a business. We all know how challenging it is to be an entrepreneur but what we frequently don’t talk about is the fears we all face when we are starting. How do you push yourself forward when you are filled with fear and uncertainty? And how do you do that in an economic climate that is tumultuous and scary? Listen in as Julie, Michelle, and Jeff talk about facing their fears in the toughest of times to build something they each believe in.

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Encore Sheral DeVaughn, Jeff Forrester: Unleash Leadership Potential

11/24/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hits on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie and guest co-host Sheral DeVaughn are discussing how to Unleash Your Leadership Potential. Jeff Forrester, who is a leadership expert, joins the show to talk about the importance of leadership, how to develop your skills, and the ramifications of being a bad leader. Jeff is a returning guest, with insight, intellect, and an incredible tool set to help us all become the leaders we need to be. You’re not going to want to miss this episode.

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Encore Michelle Fuller - The Responsibility is Yours. Stop Fckin Whining

11/3/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. They focus on the importance of differentiating yourself from everyone else. This week Julie and Corey are going deep on personal responsibility. A value that many people seem to lack, but one that you must have in order to reach success as an entrepreneur. The second half of this week's show features franchise transformation coach, Michelle Fuller. Michelle is also a speaker and author. She is a lifestyle engineer for women who want to create a new life or reach a new goal. Michelle and Julie talk about forgiveness and the role that it plays in our ability to truly achieve success as adults.

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Success and Failure, Business and Life

10/27/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hit on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie’s guest co-hosts Michelle Fuller and Jeff Forrester talk about success and failure, and how so many challenges in our personal lives can relate to business. They recap Julie’s recent adventure of climbing the equivalent of Mount Everest (29,029 feet of elevation gain) and the parallels between the event and building a business. Tune in and find out how doing really hard things can help you to become a stronger entrepreneur.

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Sheral DeVaughn and Jeff Forrester - Final Prep for Mt. Everest

10/20/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hit on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie’s guest co-hosts Sheral DeVaughn and Jeff Forrester are giving Julie some final coaching (mental preparation) as she prepares to climb the equivalent of Mount Everest (29,029 feet of elevation gain) starting on Friday, October 21st, 2022. We’ll check in on her nerves, what she’s done to prepare, and Jeff will give Julie some expert coaching based on real-life experience, as he successfully accomplished this climb last year.

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Business & Love - Can You Have It All?

10/13/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hits on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie and guest co-hosts Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller dive into the topic many entrepreneurs struggle with - can you have it all? Business and love? The Girl Gang also is here for this conversation. If you’ve ever struggled to keep it all together, you’re going to want to tune in. It’s going to be open, honest, and a little bit uncomfortable.

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Sheral DeVaughn - Building a Strong Business

9/29/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hits on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie and guest co-host Sheral DeVaughn are discussing how to build a strong business. For the millions of Americans who have made the decision to bet on themselves, this episode is just for you. Julie and Sheral are going to get strategic in this week's episode, focusing on helping you build a stronger business, so you can continue to bet on yourselves.

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Inflation, Immigration, and a Very Bad Situation

9/22/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Episodes focus on the intersection of successful business ownership, political changes, success & failures, and personal development. Julie, along with her weekly co-hosts, hits on the hard topics, the ones that people want and need to know about in order to make informed decisions. This week Julie and guest co-hosts Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller dive into inflation, immigration, and a very bad situation. Many Americans look at the immigration situation as “someone else’s problem”, but the reality is, it impacts all of us. If you’re a small business owner, then you need to be paying attention to what’s happening in our country with respect to this very hot, political, and touchy topic. The Girl Gang also talks about inflation, and unlike some folks in politics, we do not think that everyone should put it into perspective. Tune in for our thoughts on this topic and find out what the very bad situation is.

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Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller - We Do Hard Things

9/15/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie covers the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. This week Julie and guest co-hosts Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller are talking about doing hard things (that’s what she said). Coming off participating in The World’s Hilliest Marathon, Julie is sharing stories and lessons learned from an incredible weekend. On September 8th and 9th, Julie met up with 250 like minded people to tackle the world’s hilliest half marathon. How did she prepare? Why did she decide to take on this goal? What did she learn? Did she fail? And would she do it again are just some of the questions Julie answers on this week's episode of Defeat the Chaos. Listen in as the girl gang covers resiliency, rants and rages about current events, and lays out what big things are coming up next.

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Encore Red Pilled America - Why Storytelling Matters

9/8/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. They focus on the importance of differentiating yourself from everyone else. In our latest episode Julie and Corey talk about the importance of storytelling. Why do so few people leverage storytelling as an effective way to communicate? The second segment of this week's show is a pre-recorded interview with Patrick Courrielche and Adryana Cortez. Patrick and Adryana are the husband-and-wife creative duo behind the Red Pilled America podcast. Patrick and Adryana address why they created Red Pilled America and how we can all work together to improve the current situation in America.

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Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller - Dirty Laundry

9/1/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie covers the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. This week Julie and guest co-hosts Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller are talking about dirty laundry. No, not the laundry that piles up in a corner of your master bedroom as you struggle to do it all, this is the dirty laundry that so many people feel comfortable airing in a public forum. Yes, I’m talking about people who make the choice to air their grievances on social media, for the entire world to see. This happens both personally and professionally, and on this week's show the girl gang is diving into WHY it happens and if it’s ever acceptable.

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Sheral DeVaughn & Sean Fogarty: Should the IRS Hire 87k Agents?

8/25/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie covers the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. This week Julie and guest co-host Sheral DeVaughn welcome Sean Fogarty to the show. Sean is an accountant who reached out to Julie after the 87,000 Reasons to be Angry episode to explain why having the IRS hire more agents isn’t necessarily all bad. Tune in for an educational conversation around tax codes, why hiring is justified, and what we can do as taxpayers to lessen the likelihood of being audited.

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Sheral DeVaughn - Change is Inevitable, Growth is Optional

8/18/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. By this point it’s beyond predictable, as Julie welcomes back Sheral DeVaughn as guest co-host again. and this week they are talking about change. The fact that change is inevitable, but the growth resulting from change is optional. You can embrace change, learning and growing from it. Or you can fight change. Tune in as Sheral takes the lead this week, interviewing Julie on the significant changes happening in her world, and how she’s embracing, learning, and growing from those changes. And how recently every day has been a new adventure. You don’t want to miss this honest and open conversation about dealing with the curve balls life throws you. Tune in and get the scoop on everything happening and what you can expect in the future as a result of the changes.

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Sheral DeVaughn and Michelle Fuller - 87,000 Reasons to be Angry

8/11/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. This week we have a very special show - with two guest co-hosts joining Julie. It’s the girl gang of Julie, Sheral DeVaughn, and Michelle Fuller. There is no doubt that this week's show is going to take some twists and turns. We’ve got three firecrackers co-hosting. Expect conversations around business, entrepreneurship, transformational changes, taking risks, launching something big, the value of a strong network, and if the title is any indication of where the show is going, politics is going to come up. Who knows, maybe Julie will start the show with the listener's favorite segment, a rant.

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Sheral DeVaughn - Wanna Expand Your Reach? Get Uncomfortable!

8/4/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. Julie welcomes back Sheral DeVaughn as guest co-host again this week, as Corey continues to fight the frontline battles at his new restaurant. Julie and Sheral are talking about expanding your reach, and how it’s not possible to do that without getting uncomfortable. What does getting uncomfortable mean, and why are they both so in favor of putting themselves in situations that most people would rather avoid? Tune in and find out!

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Sheral DeVaughn - From Rivalries to Rewards

7/28/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. This week Julie sits down with Sheral DeVaughn to talk about going from rivalries to rewards in business. Listen in as they talk about business, networks, relationships, and all the things that get impacted with business.

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Sheral DeVaughn - Why You Need to Take a Leap of Faith

7/21/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. They focus on the importance of differentiating yourself from everyone else. This week Julie and Corey are talking about how important it is to take a leap of faith in business and life. Business is a risk, and frequently you have to trust your gut and just jump. Why are some folks scared to make the leap, even when there is so much to gain. After the first break Julie and Corey welcome Sheral DeVaughn to the show. Sheral joins to talk about how her life has been filled with leaps of faith over the past 2 years. And while not everything has turned out as she initially thought it would, everything has turned out for the best. During the final segment of the show, it’s truly anyone’s guess as to what topics they will cover as they discuss current news, gambling, and Corey mansplains to Julie.

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Encore Jeff Forrester - Grit and Resilience

7/14/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. They focus on the importance of differentiating yourself from everyone else. This week Julie and Corey are covering a more “touchy feely” topic, grit and resilience. And yes, we know it seems weird to refer to these two strengths as touchy feely, but we want to talk about how important they are to your success. Jeff Forrester, Coach, Consultant, Author and Speaker joins Julie and Corey after the first break to talk about a grueling race he recently participated in, the MidState Mile. And how preparation for that race has a lot in common with running a business. Of course in the final segment Julie and Corey talk gambling, news, and find out how Julie did in her inaugural kickball game last week.

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Jeff Forrester - Life is Inconvenient

7/7/2022
Defeat the Chaos is a show for all small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Julie and Corey cover the successes and failures of being an entrepreneur. They focus on the importance of differentiating yourself from everyone else. This week Julie and Corey are talking about why it's good to have haters and how life is better when it's inconvenient. After the first break Julie and Corey welcome Jeff Forrester who joins them to talk about his recent trip to Egypt, and to continue the conversation on life being inconvenient. They also talk about how to respond when someone copies your products, services, or social media strategy. Is imitation the sincerest form of flattery? During the final segment of the show, it’s truly anyone’s guess as to what topics they will cover as they discuss current news, gambling, and Corey mansplains to Julie.

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