The Meditating Entrepreneurs

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How I Created a Publishing Company from Nothing

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I think you will enjoy these two lively interviews as either videos (see below) or podcasts (episodes 116 and 117). In part 1, my iPhone Life partners interview me about starting our publishing company in 1985 in pre-internet, rural Iowa. The company distributed magazines, apps, and gear for mobile computer users all over the world. In part 2, I explain

how from the 2008 economic collapse, three volunteers began iPhone Life magazine.

Part 1: Hal while discussing the early history of the company, Hal tells how he and his wife Rita made an honorable choice that they thought would cost them the company. (David and Donna introduce Hal in the first minute and then continue with interview at 9:25. At 33:15 Hal tells of the honorable choice on which the company was founded.)
Part 2: Hal discusses how he started iPhone Life without paid employees. Then David and Hal talk about turning the magazine company over to 20-somethings at a time when magazine sales were decreasing 10% a year. (Interview starts at 9:00)

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About this site and book

0003This site and book tell stories of men and women who moved to Fairfield, Iowa home of Maharishi University of Management (MUM) to practice Transcendental Meditation as part of an ongoing world peace project. To stay in Fairfield, many, with little experience or know-how, began and ran successful businesses.

On a part time basis, one of those entrepreneurs, Hal Goldstein, created this website and from this website the book, The Meditating Entrepreneurs – Creating Success from the Stillness Within.  All proceeds from the book will be donated to MUM. If you would like to help on the website or book, read this and contact Hal.

Contact Hal

I’d love to hear from you — how you found the site, and what you think of the book and web site so far. Also, email me directly if you wish to help or be included on the website.