Explore Jason Skeesick's journey from Army veteran to successful entrepreneur on The Jens Heitland Show. Discover key insights on building robust businesses, overcoming obstacles, and driving success with effective strategies and community building.

In the podcast episode, Marco Torres, Founder of MarketingBoost.com, discusses the importance of incentive-based marketing for startups and solo entrepreneurs. Drawing parallels from McDonald’s and Amazon, he emphasizes the significance of adding value to offers through “Value-Add-Incentives” as opposed to providing discounts. With a community of over 27,000 business owners in his Facebook Group, Marco’s insights focus on boosting sales and scaling businesses with affordable subscription programs and value-added marketing techniques.

Linda Perry is a specialist in success strategies who masterfully blends mindset methodologies with strategic execution to help small business entrepreneurs unlock new levels of achievement.

With a unique background that spans law and copywriting, Linda now utilizes her persuasive talents to guide business owners in expanding their ventures and realizing their desired impact.

Alexander Hertel is the CEO and Founder of Public Value Hub an NGO that is focused on creating social impact through entrepreneurship. Over his career Alex worked as reporter in different media companies such as MDR and ARD in Germany and as well abroad in Central Eastern Europe.

In our conversation Alex shares the story how he got to build the Public Value Hub we talk about RestartUA a program that helps displaced people from the Ukraine to start a social business in Germany and how this fits into the Public Value Incubator

Gabbie Kelly has a background in financial auditing, corporate accounting, and serving clients as a fractional CFO, [Name] has a wealth of experience in the financial industry. However, what she finds missing is the opportunity to help business owners navigate their day-to-day operations and make informed decisions that are critical to their success.Gabbie wants to make a difference, providing the tools and knowledge that business owners need to thrive.

Cielo and Niklas are the founders of ChocNchoc a chocolate startup that is changing the way how we experience chocolate.

Both of them grew up in large corporations like Jacobs and Mars and they still work next to running their chocolate startup.

David Martinez de Lecea is a Consultant, entrepreneur and investor with a unique combination of business management expertise and deep technological acumen focused on Artificial Intelligence. David is Founder and CEO of the Startup Exirio the wealth insight app.

Hugo Pickford-Wardle is a social entrepreneur on a mission to help the next generation start their careers with the skills to bring their ideas to life and financial freedom to pursue those ideas.

Chris Joyce is the founder of 24 companies in high tech, consumer goods, health, and manufacturing. His products have been sold in more than 11,000 stores in 23 countries. He has users of his tech products in 148 countries across the globe. His newest venture is Gusher. Gusher helps Entrepreneurs to build startups without raising capital.

Jimmy Burroughes The Expert for ways of working helps leaders to change and nurture the culture.

Jimmy shares his story from his leadership development inside the Army and we explore leadership from different angles. We talk about leadership training, leadership culture and performance.

Niraj Kapur, LinkedIn top Voice in Sales, Trusted Sales Coach and LinkedIn Trainer joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship. Niraj shares sales advice for startups on how they can use LinkedIn and the importance of relationship management.

Lemuel Lasher International Executive, Investor, CEO of Boehme Eckhart LCC and Chairman of the Board of LEO - Leading Edge Only joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Lem shared his story being Chief Innovation Officer at CSC, the setup, structure and how he changed the innovation culture in CSC. We talk about how he is helping organizations to innovate and the 4 critical questions he is asking before he agrees to support a company. Furthermore we talked about LEO and the opportunities of a true global innovation marketplace. And last but not least he shares a dirty little secret about innovation.

Marina Specht CEO of McCann WorldGroup Spain. She spent the first half of her career as an entrepreneur, building a successful branded content agency. The last 15 years she focused on digital marketing, data strategy and digital business transformation, driving innovation and bottom line growth for Fortune 500 companies

Marina was awarded:

#Ad Age Women to Watch 2016

#PWC Women to Watch 2017-18

#Top 100 Leading Women Spain 2021

Marina shared her story and the superpower behind her success, and of course we talked about the innovation and changes in marketing and businesses over the last decades.

Andrew Dupy Chief Relationship Officer at Leaders Press, Author of the Book Don't buy the watch, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship

Andrew shared his story, how he wrote his book and we explored the process of writing a book with the Leaders Press and the great potential for entrepreneurs.

Sid Mofya, Executive Director at Draper Venture Network - a global alliance of our member funds, who are present on all continents, former Kauffman Fellow and musician joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Sid shared his story growing up in Sambia living in the UK and Tanzania before moving to Silicon Valley. We talk about which problems startups should solve, how startup founders develop, funding of startups and dive a bit into education and music.

Michael Wilkinson Founder and COO @ Everything has an incredible background from starting as an intern at crowdcube.com where he successfully managed 100+ fundraises totalling £50m+ in his first assignment then launching his own consulting business supporting startups in fundraising and today being part of the founding team of Everything - the financial experience that younger generations actually want.

Frank Peralta Product Designer and former professional Basketball player. Frank works in the Automotive industry and discovered a circular opportunity to integrate materials from the automotive industry into fashion. We talk about his story and how he sees Peralta Clothing developing.

Matheus Provinciali, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manager of Start UB and Associate professor of the Barcelona University and former professional football player from brazil joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship

Of course we talk football and look into how he used the football skills to build his startup and teaches at Barcelona University. We explore the Concept of Start UB and how they support students to build startups.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to generate business impact?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

Definition of impact!

How to change a business model?

How to generate quick success to convince my manager?

You always talk about leadership and empowerment. What about the business?

How to get started with innovation?

How to measure success in innovation?

Is innovation important for business success?

Sina Landorff (Mrs. Positivity) Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach for Founders and Managers joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

We explored how leaders can be developed in startups, the 10 skills of great leaders and we discussed the 5 key tips for every entrepreneur which she explains in more detail inside the episode.

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A new format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

This time I will share insights from the Mobile World Congress and the Five Years From Now conference in Barcelona where I listened to plus 50 startup pitches and took notes.

Ivan Jimenez Head of Innovation at Mutualidad Abogacía and Seed Investor at BackFund joined me to talk about mental adaptation, corporate innovation and how corporations can work with startups.

Marta del Castillo, CEO of Spain Startup - South Summit joined me to talk innovation.She shares her inspiring story from living on 4 continents in different circumstances. We I talk about the importance of purpose driven organizations , Female Leadership as the core skills and of course innovation in startups and corporates.

Together we explore their stories, the innovation ecosystem and of course THE CUBE and how especially Andres and his teams use radical innovation to support companies. And how they learned from uber to build and operate a workation spot as THE CUBE extension.