This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for anyone who always starts the new year already feeling behind.

January doesn’t magically reset your habits, your workload or your pressure—and pretending it does is why so many people abandon their goals before February even hits.

This episode explores what actually holds people back, why motivation fades so quickly and how changing your environment and systems does far more than trying to rely on discipline alone. This isn’t about reinventing yourself or shaming yourself. Just making it easier for your current self to win through clear behaviors, better structure, and consistent check-ins.

Tune in if you want to turn pressure into progress this year, and learn the four shifts that make goals work in real life, not just on paper.

1. Re-examine your habits to start the new year off strong: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/re-examine-your-habits-in-the-new-year
2. It’s not time to slow down: generating business at the end of the year: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/generating-business-at-the-end-of-the-year
3. 8 ways to start fresh in marketing and sales for the new year https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/8-ways-to-start-fresh-in-marketing-and-sales-for-the-new-year

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for anyone tired of overcomplicated business advice and ready to build something profitable, simple and real.

My guest is Safeer Qureshi, CEO at SPG Media, angel investor, and operator who has built companies across aviation, med-tech and AI by doing the opposite of what traditional business playbooks preach.

Tune in for a refreshing, no-nonsense look at building businesses that actually make money, and for Safeer’s simple question that every stuck entrepreneur needs to ask: what’s the fastest way to get a customer to pay me today?

Safeer Qureshi is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and CEO of SPG Media who has spent nearly two decades helping founders simplify growth and build profit-first companies. He co-leads CodeStack Capital and has incubated and scaled ventures across aviation, med-tech, AI, logistics, retail, and software development. His portfolio includes SPG Media, Knock it! Pro, Datafluent, Quickie, and Limitless Tire, where he focuses on operational execution, founder development, and stripping complexity out of business models. Safeer is also an international TEDx speaker known for his belief that simplicity drives momentum and that real experience, not theory, is what shapes successful entrepreneurs.

Website: https://spg-media.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safeerq/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spgmedia/

• Building a portfolio career w/ Ilana Golan, Founder & CEO of Leap Academy: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/ilana-golan
• Scaling a franchise empire w/ Mike Andes, Founder of Augusta Lawn Care: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/mike-andes-founder-of-augusta-lawn-care
• Getting in front of investors + funding underrepresented founders w/ Alex Chompff, angel investor and serial entrepreneur: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/alex-chompff

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

If you're ready to level up your B2B marketing, check us out.

→ accelitymarketing.com

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This episode of The Art of Entrepreneurship is for anyone building something slow, imperfect, and real.

This milestone, 300 episodes across four years, has become one of the most consistent things I’ve ever created. I share how this podcast started with no real plan, just a desire to talk honestly about entrepreneurship, and how consistency carried it through burnout, life changes and every version of myself along the way.

Tune in for a reflection on the four lessons I’ve learned from showing up imperfectly, consistently, and sometimes reluctantly for 300 episodes. This one is a thank you, a reminder, and a promise: the messy, honest work continues—and the next 300 are going to be even better.

• Should you start a podcast? Pros, cons, and how to get started: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/should-you-start-a-podcast
• I decided to start a podcast. Now what?: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-decided-start-podcast-now-what-jackie-hermes/
• Why should I create content?: https://www.jackiehermes.com/podcast/why-should-i-create-content

✨ This podcast is produced in partnership with Accelity, a full-service marketing agency for bold people growing bold companies.

If you're ready to level up your B2B marketing, check us out.

→ accelitymarketing.com

🎧 Catch up on past episodes, submit topic ideas, and learn more

jackiehermes.com/podcast

⭐ Love what you hear? Please leave a 5-star rating on Spotify and on Apple Podcasts to help more entrepreneurs find the show.

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Website: jackiehermes.com