Dana Hendrix isn't the conventional business leader. A troublemaker in school, he was initially forced to take accounting classes as a PUNISHMENT. But when he realised he had a knack for finance and his planned journey to the NFL didn't materialise, he took his unique style, gut instinct, and healthy distaste of authority into the world of mortgages. Still only 30, Dana is now SVP of finance at DSLD Mortgage which manages $575m of loans last year, with a target next year of $1 Billion. He...

Jeremy Lessaris has an extraordinary talent for starting businesses... In fact, he has started over 50 businesses, with 8 exits, in a wide range of industries from medical to design agencies, to manufacturing to beverages. What's even more extraordinary is that he did all of this whilst holding down a job as VP of marketing for a multi-billion dollar public company and flying a million miles a year. Jeremy is a self-confessed starter, and recognised that he could add the most value by handing...

Scott Lowery co-founded Buffalo Wild Wings & Weck with his friend. They had no experience, no outside capital, no market research, and no clue how to run a restaurant business. But they figured it out through common sense, sheer determination, and a work ethic that is scarcely believable. BW3, as it became known, eventually scaled to 1,200 restaurants and sold to Arby's for $2.9 Billion. ===== 8 & 9 Figure Mentors is the podcast that gets inside of the minds of the people who have...

Al Crane had $200m worth of exits by the time he was 35. He had started, grown and exited mobile app development company Grapple for £39 million, before doing it all again with eCommerce company Hero which he sold to Klarna for $160 million. To many, this sounds like a dream. But Al felt totally lost and describes this period as one of the lowest of his life. He credits his partner for helping him bounce back and rebuild. He now runs HR startup Bloom and is chair of THG Ingenuity, the tech...