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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Sweet Dreams of Security and Happiness

Sweet Dreams of Security and Happiness: Let The Entrepreneur’s Source Help Make Both A Reality! How well did you sleep last night? Did you drift off to sleep confident that your family was safe and secure no matter what financial emergencies the future might bring? Or did you toss and turn for hours, trying to put…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: You Want to Take Control of Your Career – Start Now!

The Entrepreneur’s Source: You Want to Take Control of Your Career  – Start Now! From the time we are born we are told what to do. When you’re a kid, your parents tell you what to do. When you’re a student, your teachers tell you what to do. When you enter the workforce, your supervisor…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Do You have “Wanna Get Away” Dreams?

As the carefree days and warm nights of summer come to a close, so does (for most of us) the extra time spent with family and friends… and all too soon, it’s back to work and the “real world.” Have you ever dreamed of what it could be like to trade your office desk for the…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: What to Consider When Making a Late Career Transition

Originally Published in Forbes, 7/16/18: Three Things To Consider When Making A Late Career Transition. Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. We all feel stuck in our jobs once in a while. As a career transitions coach, I realize not everybody is at the point in their life where they’re ready to talk…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Why Entrepreneurship Is Less Risky Than Employment

Originally Published in Forbes, 8/8/18: Choose Freedom Over Comfort: Three Reasons Why Entrepreneurship Is Less Risky Than Employment. Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. I have to laugh when people say that they would never quit their job and start a business of their own. “It’s too risky,” they tell me. This…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: The Wall Street Retirement Gamble

The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Is Wall Street looking out for you? To make sound investment decisions investors need to expect the unexpected.  The majority of people place the power of their wealth-building and investments on others outside their control: Wall Street. The problem is the financial community they trust to do the right thing and…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Want To Run A Business With Your Spouse? Three Reasons You Should Buy A Franchise.

Originally Published in Forbes, 4/18/18: Want To Run A Business With Your Spouse? Three Reasons You Should Buy A Franchise. Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. When you’re running a business with a partner, solving disagreements can be particularly vexing. But when you’re married and running a company, it’s even more challenging….

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Want to Find Out What Drives You? Go Back to Your High-School Self

Originally Published in Forbes, 6/1/18: Find What Drives You, Even If You Have To Go Back To High School To Figure It Out.  Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. If you want to own a business, you’d be surprised what you can learn from your high-school self. I remember it like it…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Whose Dreams Are You Realizing? Let’s Talk Equity

Are you living your dream… or someone else’s? It’s a serious question and deserves some deeper thought. Let’s assume that you’ve got a great job. For the most part, you enjoy it. You are happy with the salary you are making. You might even have money set aside to send your kid to college and…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: What’s 2019 going to look like for you?

The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: What’s 2019 going to look like for you? If you’re stuck in a dead-end job, spending your time making money for someone else, and hoping your year-end bonus isn’t a “pink slip”, your answer (like many): is another job . It’s time to stop settling for the New Normal  Terry Powell, the CEO…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Three Ways To Take Advantage Of A Virtual Expo

Originally Published in Forbes, 10/4/18: Three Ways To Take Advantage Of A Virtual Expo. Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. If you’ve ever been to a trade show or industry conference, you may have walked away thinking that it was a decent experience. It had exactly the type of information you needed. But…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Celebrates Success of 19th Annual Conference

The Entrepreneur’s Source Celebrates Success of 19th Annual Conference. Transitioning from Employment to Empowerment – the Largest Private Gathering of Franchise Brands and Coaches The Entrepreneur’s Source® (TES), North America’s leading career transition coaching franchise, hosted their 19th Annual Conference from Friday, September 28th, 2018 to Sunday, September 30th, 2018.  The conference took place at the…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Names Marianne Daley 2018 Client of the Year

The Entrepreneur’s Source Names Marianne Daley 2018 Client of the Year. Life after Layoff: TES Coach Mark Larsen Helps Daley’s Dreams Come True  The Entrepreneur’s Source® (TES), North America’s leading alternative career coaching franchise, named Maryland-based entrepreneur Marianne Daley the 2018 recipient of their prestigious Client of the Year Award. The announcement was made at The…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Names Susan Scotts 2018 Coach of the Year

The Entrepreneur’s Source Names Susan Scotts 2018 Coach of the Year. Making Dreams Come True: TES Celebrated Scotts with Prestigious Award at Annual Conference The Entrepreneur’s Source® (TES), North America’s leading alternative career coaching franchise, named Florida-based alternative career coach Susan Scotts as the recipient of their prestigious Coach of the Year Award. The announcement was…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Franchise Coach Success Story

The Entrepreneur’s Source Franchise Coach Success Story: A New Chapter, New Challenge for “Retiree” Americans are redefining aging! Getting older used to mean retiring from your decades-old career, maybe spending a little time puttering around your house, maybe playing some golf, and generally just figuring out what retirement looks like for you. But today, people…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Coaching Success Story

The Entrepreneur’s Source Coaching Success Story: Career Ownership Coach™ Ken Cave And Lee Putman – Patience Is A Virtue The franchise model isn’t the dream; the franchise is simply the vehicle that gets you to the dream. That’s one of the basic tenets of The Entrepreneur’s Source® experience . Here’s an example: Not too many…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Is It Smart To Open A Franchise With Your Children?

Originally Published in Forbes: Nov 7, 2018. The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Is It Smart To Open A Franchise With Your Children? Many businesses don’t start off as family businesses. They become family businesses about the time the parent is thinking of retiring. Then, instead of selling the company to a stranger, he or she sells…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Kick-start your vision for 2019

So here we are at the end of yet another year, and what a year it has been. We take great pride in the fact that our company and our outstanding team of Alternative Career Coaches from The Entrepreneur’s Source® (TES) have had a direct, positive impact on the lives of tens of thousands of people…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: How To Successfully Define Your Franchising Goals

How To Successfully Define Your Franchising Goals. Written by Terry Powell, Visionary Founder of The Entrepreneur’s Source. Originally Published in Forbes: Oct 23, 2018. Many people dream of starting their own businesses, and a lot of people follow those dreams through franchising. It’s a business model that people love, and for good reason. When you invest…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Should You Stay or Should You Go?

The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Should You Stay or Should You Go? As 2019 gets underway and with the worst year for U.S. stocks since 2008 in the rear-view mirror, thousands of employed Americans are hitting the “reset button” and going back to being uncertain about their professional futures. The only real constant in business today is there…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source Asks: Do These Complaints Sound Familiar?

The Entrepreneur’s Source reviews employee complaints that are all too common (and how to solve them). The hope of retirement is quickly becoming out of reach for millions of middle-class Americans.  With nearly half of all middle-class lacking confidence in their ability to save sufficiently for retirement, many individuals are researching new professional opportunities. Researching common career…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: 5 F-Words that are Sabotaging Your Career

The Entrepreneur’s Source: 5 F-Words that are Sabotaging Your Career If the pathway to self-sufficiency was free of obstacles and challenges, then everyone would take it. Unfortunately, obstacles and challenges do exist and they sometimes prevent individuals from taking the leap to business ownership. When an individual starts to consider career possibilities outside of the standard, corporate 9-5…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: Is there a way out of “Battered Career Syndrome”?

Is there a way out of “Battered Career Syndrome”?   At The Entrepreneur’s Source, we say “YES”! In our best-selling book, “Your Career 2.0: A Survival Guide for the Battered Career and Investor Syndrome” we talk about the vast number of people who feel trapped in their jobs, but think they have no other options available to…

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The Entrepreneur’s Source: I.L.W.E.™ – What is it?

The Entrepreneur’s Source: I.L.W.E.™ – What is it?  It stands for our Income, Lifestyle, Wealth and Equity™ Assessment—and plays a vital role in achieving overall happiness and satisfaction in your life. Getting your Goals, Needs and Expectations on-track. One of the tactics The Entrepreneur’s Source employs to aid you in defining your Goals, Needs & Expectations is the determination of…

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