Online Success Journey: Recent Episodes
Patience Nyesigire
The Online Success Journey shares the real stories of entrepreneurs who encounter speed bumps and detours, but journey through to find success. This is not your typical podcast, but one that takes a hard look in the rear-view mirror to let you see how successful people overcame obstacles to reach the top.
Entrepreneurship today can feel overwhelming. Between AI hype, SEO jargon, overnight success stories, and constant pressure to "keep up," many business owners are left wondering what actually works—and what's just noise. That's why conversations rooted in real experience matter more than ever.
In this episode of Online Success Journey, I sat down with Ferdinand Mehlinger, an early Google engineer turned serial entrepreneur, to unpack what really goes on behind search engines, how AI can actually help business owners, and why true success has very little to do with outside validation. His journey is filled with hard lessons, pivots, failures, and clarity—exactly the kind entrepreneurs can learn from and apply to their own businesses.
⚉ From Early Google Days to Entrepreneurship ⚉ Losing Everything—and Learning Not to Take Business Personally ⚉ Discovering the Real Value of SEO ⚉ Partnering Instead of Chasing Paychecks ⚉ Loving the Data and the Game Behind Rankings ⚉ The Power of Manifestation and a Mentor's Advice ⚉ How AI Can Actually Help Entrepreneurs Today ⚉ The Biggest Mistake Businesses Make with AI ⚉ Why Diversification Is Critical for Long-Term Survival ⚉ Reframing Failure as a Learning Tool ⚉ Staying in Your Lane as a Specialist ⚉ Success Isn't the End—It's the Beginning ⚉ Final Advice: One Step at a Time
Ferdinand Mehlinger is the Founder of Bluoo Digital, a consultant, and keynote speaker with a career rooted in groundbreaking innovation. He began his professional journey designing search algorithms for a company that would eventually become Google. His role in those early stages of the world's largest search engine gave him unique insights into digital technology and its transformative potential.
Building on that foundation, Ferdinand has cultivated an impressive portfolio of partnerships spanning AI and biotech companies, fitness influencers, social media platforms, and digital marketing agencies. His expertise lies in bridging technology with business strategy, helping organizations adapt to and thrive in the digital era.
In addition to his work with Bluoo Digital, Ferdinand serves on the executive board of Ovtlyr, an AI‑driven web application poised to revolutionize stock market trading. Through his leadership, consulting, and speaking engagements, he continues to empower businesses and individuals to embrace innovation and leverage technology for growth.
CONNECT WITH FERDINAND: 🔗 Website: https://bluoo.digital/ 🔗 Personal Website: https://ferdinandmehlinger.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdinand-mehlinger/ 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluoo.digital/ 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluoodigital
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Entrepreneurship often appears glamorous on social media, but behind the scenes, it's a lifelong journey filled with uncertainty, persistence, and growth. And that's exactly what my guest, Frederick Cary, brings to light in this honest and powerful conversation.
⚉ From Serial Entrepreneur to Helping First-Time Founders ⚉ Supporting the "Outsiders" ⚉ How to Start Changing Your Life One Small Step at a Time ⚉ Why Most Entrepreneurs Fail Before They Even Start ⚉ How Long Does It Really Take to Become Successful? ⚉ What Business Teaches Us About Life ⚉ You Can't Avoid Competition—And You Shouldn't Try To ⚉ Can Anyone Be an Entrepreneur? ⚉ Why Branding and Positioning Matter More Than You Think ⚉ Resources for Aspiring Entrepreneurs ⚉ A Final Message for Anyone Struggling Right Now
Frederick Cary is a senior executive, strategic consultant, attorney, and investment banker. He has focused on building global companies from the startup stage through exit by IPO or M&A As an operational executive (CEO/Chairman), he has built high-growth businesses in finance, enterprise software, mobile technologies, Web services, and digital video, HDTV, broadband, and Personalized television, as well as consumer-related product companies. He oversees the development and growth of over 250 startups. He has led many mergers and acquisitions both as an executive and as counsel. Mr. Cary received his JD degree from Thomas Jefferson in California, completed postgraduate studies at Harvard Law School, and obtained his international MBA with Honors from the University of Liverpool. I don't care if you have an idea on the back of a napkin or if you've built a 1,000-employee company - if you need help, inspiration, or direction, and you are doing something unique and compelling.
CONNECT WITH FREDERICK: 🔗 Website: https://fred.ideapros.com/ 🔗 Personal Website: https://fredcary.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frederickcary/ 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/officialfredcary/ 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IdeaPros 🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/IdeaPros
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Have you ever wondered what it takes to build a thriving business in a foreign country?
Or how someone can turn overlooked problems into profitable opportunities?
What about the unique challenges women—especially immigrant women—face in male-dominated industries?
For aspiring entrepreneurs, immigrants, and women navigating male-heavy industries, Vanessa is living proof that with the right mindset, anything is possible.
⚉ Early Entrepreneurial Roots and Learning on the Job ⚉ Building a Business as an Immigrant ⚉ The Power of Representation and Rewriting the Narrative for Women ⚉ Redefining Success ⚉ Selling Her Company and Staying in the Game ⚉ The Student Mindset and Business as a Human Game ⚉ The Real Role of a Mentor ⚉ Understanding the Business and Its Value ⚉ Is It Too Late to Start Selling on Amazon? ⚉ AI as a Game-Changer, Not a Threat ⚉ Success Is a Moving Target ⚉ How to Invest in Yourself Without Breaking the Bank
Vanessa Hung is a passionate educator, Amazon operator, and community builder dedicated to bringing sellers closer to success.
Over the last five years, Vanessa built Online Seller Solutions, an agency focused on helping brands overcome operational roadblocks inside Amazon Seller Central. From catalog issues to backend optimization and account health, we solve the hard problems so our clients can scale with confidence.
Vanessa's work has led her to speak on the biggest stages in eCommerce, including SellerCon, Prosper Show, Billion Dollar Seller Summit, and MDS Inspire. And now, as Director of Community Engagement at Carbon6, I lead initiatives that bring sellers together, build trust, and create content that educates and elevates our entire industry.
CONNECT WITH VANESSA: 🔗 Website: https://www.carbon6.io/sellerassist/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessaamazonproblemsolver/ 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carbon6io/ 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Carbon6io 🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFpfQvQkHmMDMIsF2uzkbQ
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE: 🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/ 🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onlinesuccessjourney/ 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onlinesuccessjourney/
Have you ever had a great idea but hesitated to act on it? Have you ever failed and wondered if that failure defined you? Have you ever chased success only to question if you were following the right path?
For every aspiring entrepreneur, creator, or dreamer wrestling with self-doubt, Akeem Shannon’s story is not only relatable—it’s a blueprint for turning trials into triumphs.
In this episode, Akeem shares the untold moments behind his rise: ⚉ The power of storytelling ⚉ First taste of entrepreneurship and failure ⚉ From pivotal failures to taking the leap ⚉ Building Flipstik from scratch ⚉ Facing doubts and family fears ⚉ Shark Tank rejection ⚉ Rapping for investor ⚉ The Plot Twist: From rap pitch to meeting P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg ⚉ Why the story matters more than the product ⚉ Success isn’t always about the money ⚉ Performing under pressure ⚉ Sales is storytelling ⚉ Use-case: The product's impact to the deaf community ⚉ What is the next level of brand growth ⚉ What is the One-Thing Rule ⚉ Why you need the right mentor for you
After losing his college scholarship, Akeem was forced to find work for $10 an hour at a local cell phone shop. But he leveraged the sales skills learned there to become the top sales professional at not 1 but 2 Fortune 500 companies. After an accomplished sales career, Akeem chose to pursue his dream of entrepreneurship. He struggled at first but eventually scaled his company Flipsitk from a single mall kiosk to an Inc Magazine Top 50 Fastest Growing Consumer Brand.
With the help of celebrities like Snoop Dogg, appearances on Shark Tank and The Today Show, and distribution in 3000 retailers including Target, Best Buy, and AT&T, Akeem has now made customers out of 1 million consumers.
Akeem’s stories have entertained and inspired on the stages of South By South West (SXSW), the Consumer Electronic Show (CES), Fast Company, Bank of America, the Smithsonian, and many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: ⚉ [Book] The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho - https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Deluxe-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0063442469/ ⚉ [Video] Shark Tank: The Shark's Best Rap EVER! (Flipstik) | Shark Tank US | Shark Tank Global - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSDqS5TextM ⚉ [Movie] Air - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_(2023_American_film)
CONNECT WITH AKEEM: 🔗 Website: https://www.akeemshannon.com/ 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akeemshannon 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/akeemshannon 🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getflipstik 🔗 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@akeemshannon 🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AkeemShannon
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Have you ever wondered how to build a thriving online community for your business that not only grows but also generates income?
Or how leaders in the digital space are transforming the concept of community to create meaningful connections and impactful results?
Join me and Andrew, co-founder of Circle, in this episode where he shares his journey of success, challenges, and the magic behind creating paid membership communities that truly deliver value.
⚉ From Teachable to Circle - Andrew's creator’s journey
⚉ Filling in a market gap and building a better tool for online communities
⚉ What sets modern communities apart?
⚉ Measures of personal and professional success
⚉ Who can and should build a community for their business?
⚉ Success, setbacks, and lessons learned from Teachable to Circle
⚉ Handling rejection in career growth
⚉ Know when to persist and when to pivot in entrepreneurship
⚉ How to build a successful startup
⚉ Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs
Andy Guttormsen is the Co-Founder and CRO at Circle. He was on the founding team at Teachable ($250m exit), and went on to co-founded Circle in 2020. Circle is now the world’s leading community platform for creators and businesses with customers like Adobe, Webflow, Brendon Burchard, Pat Flynn, Modern Fertility, Harvard Alumni, and 9,500+ others.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Books] Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow - https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/1400077303
CONNECT WITH ANDREW:
🔗 Website: https://circle.so/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewguttormsen/
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onlinesuccessjourney/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onlinesuccessjourney/
How much is your time worth?
Would you like to learn how to buy back your hours and achieve true freedom as a business owner?
In this episode, I sat down with Mike, a Speaker, Author, and Transformational Coach, where he shared his insights into helping business owners find that freedom:
⚉ Understanding the value of time
⚉ Overcoming control and trust issues
⚉ Leveraging AI and virtual assistants
⚉ What's stopping business owners from delegating and using AI
⚉ How to be "time-rich" in life and business
⚉ What is a time-rich six framework?
⚉ The moment everything fell into place
⚉ Advice for entrepreneurs starting over
⚉ Failing forward and embracing life's seasons
⚉ The power of mentorship and asking the right questions
⚉ Creating your own game in business
⚉ Better Than Rich: Empowering Entrepreneurs to Buy Back Time
⚉ Final words of wisdom
Mike Abramowitz has 20 years of direct sales experience training 5000+ sales reps for $17M sold, has 9 books in the self help space, and founded PB&J for Tampa Bay. He has scaled his several 6 figure businesses and non profit to be run without him so he can experience time freedom that he desires.
He’s a busy father and husband who helps other busy entrepreneurs implement systems in their businesses by leveraging automation and delegation to help business operators become business owners and truly experience the financial and time freedom that drew them to entrepreneurship in the first place.
He has a podcast called “The Better Than Rich Rich” Show and a community called Automate, Delegate, Systemize.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Books] Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire by Dan Martell - https://www.buybackyourtime.com/
⚉ [Book] The Seasons of Life by Jim Rohn - https://www.amazon.com/Seasons-Life-Jim-Rohn/dp/0939490005
⚉ Free Gift from Mike - https://betterthanrich.com/90dayplan/
CONNECT WITH MIKE:
🔗 Website: https://mikeabramowitz.com/
🔗 Business Website: https://va.betterthanrich.com
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mike.abramowitz.9
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeabramowitz1/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikeabramowitz/
🔗 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikeabramowitz
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/onlinesuccessjourney/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onlinesuccessjourney/
Are you struggling to grow your podcast, even though you're creating great content and putting in the effort?
Have you ever wondered why some podcasts seem to take off effortlessly while others stagnate despite consistent promotion?
Join us as we're diving deep into the answers in this episode with Anthony Nwaneri, co-founder of Get More Listeners:
⚉ Anthony's personal and business journey
⚉ Finding the "why"
⚉ The real reason podcasts don't get listeners
⚉ The importance of mindset in podcasting
⚉ The future of podcasting for personal brands
⚉ What is success and the moment everything changed
⚉ The hardest part of being an entrepreneur
⚉ Fast talk with Anthony
⚉ Advice for new podcasters
⚉ Life and business advice for listeners
When Anthony Nwaneri, a struggling entrepreneur, came to the realization that he had spent 3 years working hard on a degree he hated, he was determined to build a successful online business. He didn't want to work a normal 9-5 job. Despite having 6 months left in college, he dropped out to go all in on his business so that he could make more money online doing something he loved and that gave him more freedom.
3 years later, he's made multiple 6-figures, is the co-author of the bestselling book "Podcasting Made Simple" under the pen name Daniel Larson, and is a co-owner of Get More Listeners, a company providing personalized 1-1 podcast coaching to coaches, business owners, and experts. They help them fast-track slow and steady growth and gain 1000s of new highly engaged listeners through podcast listener retention strategies, organic exposure methods with Podcast SEO, and highly targeted promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ Link to Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Daniel-Larson/author/B08LNQ6F5X
CONNECT WITH ANTHONY:
🔗 Website: https://getmorelisteners.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082977158880
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-nwaneri-a8a54724b/
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Are you looking to scale your online business to seven figures?
Ever wondered how female entrepreneurship can drive gender equality?
These compelling questions are at the heart of my conversation with Sigrun Gudjonsdottir, an award-winning business coach, speaker, author, and podcast host. With a mission to accelerate gender equality through female entrepreneurship, Sigrun offers a tough-love, no-nonsense approach to business and life.
We discussed:
⚉ The journey from architecture to business leadership
⚉ Personal health crisis and starting a business
⚉ Dreaming big and making them come true
⚉ How do you know you're successful?
⚉ What are the keys to a successful online business launch?
⚉ Accelerating gender equality through entrepreneurship
⚉ Sigrun's magic moment
⚉ Business advice for online business startups
⚉ What business taught me
⚉ Why optimism and perseverance are important as an entrepreneur?
⚉ Fast talk segment
Sigrun is an award winning business coach, bestselling author, international speaker and host of the Sigrun Show podcast. She’s been called the leading business mentor for online entrepreneurs in Europe. She is on a mission to accelerate gender equality through female entrepreneurship and helps women start and scale their online businesses to 7 figures with her tough love and no-nonsense-approach to business and life.
Sigrun has been featured in Forbes, Time and numerous leading media publications in Europe. In 2022 she was accepted into the Hall of Fame of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Switzerland and in 2021 she won 5 German Stevie Awards; as the Hero of the year, Entrepreneur of the year, Solo entrepreneur of the year, Manager of the year, and Sales Achievement of the year. Sigrun is married, has two stepsons, and splits her time between Reykjavik, Iceland and Zurich, Switzerland.
Her latest book is available on Amazon and is called Kickstart Your Online Business - Create an Online Course and Start to Make Sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Book] Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't by Jim Collins - https://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Some-Companies-Others/dp/0066620996
⚉ [Book] Kickstart Your Online Business: Create an Online Course and Start to Make Sales by Sigrun Gudjonsdottir - https://www.amazon.com/Kickstart-Your-Online-Business-Create/dp/B0B7QLGC1F
CONNECT WITH SIGRUN:
🔗 Website: https://www.sigrun.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sigruncom
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sigruncom/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sigruncom/
🔗 X (Twitter): https://x.com/sigruncom
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Are you truly resilient, or are you just surviving day-to-day challenges?
What exactly is the true meaning of resilience?
My recent dialogue with resilience coach Russell Harvey offers profound insights into the true essence of resilience and entrepreneurial success. Whether you're navigating personal setbacks or the complexities of running a business, understanding resilience from a seasoned expert can provide invaluable guidance.
We also discussed:
⚉ The True Meaning of Resilience
⚉ Russell's journey to becoming a Resilience Coach
⚉ The measure of success beyond monetary gains
⚉ Challenges and Triumphs in Entrepreneurship
⚉ The importance of networking and building trust
⚉ How experience can contribute to your success
⚉ Fast Talk
⚉ Russell's Practical Advice for Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Russell Harvey, "The Resilience Coach", is a dynamic and engaging Leadership Coach and Facilitator, Public Speaker, Managing Director, NED, Podcaster, and Radio Host. With over 20 years of experience in Learning, Leadership, and Organizational Development, Russell has specialized in Resilience and VUCA for the past 18 years. He is passionate about positively affecting 100,000 people by the year 2025 and has already impacted 43,202 individuals.
Russell's areas of specialization include resilience in our modern world of uncertainty and ambiguity, executive coaching and leadership development, talent management and career coaching, facilitation, change leadership, and creativity.
In addition to his work with clients, Russell is the Chair of Governors of a local primary school and a volunteer with Leeds Young Authors. He also runs public speaking and confidence workshops in schools. Russell has a depth of qualifications that include Certificates in Training, Education, and Coaching, and he is an ILM and CIPD facilitator, Strengthscope, Master NLP, and MBTI. He has been a National Training Awards Judge and is a member of the Association for Coaching, NLP, and CIPD.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Book] Jack Reacher series by Lee Child and Andrew Child - https://www.jackreacher.com/us/books/
CONNECT WITH RUSSELL:
🔗 Website: https://www.theresiliencecoach.co.uk/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theresiliencecoach/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russelltheresiliencecoach/
🔗 X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/therescoach
🔗 Email: russell@theresiliencecoach.co.uk
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Are you ready to transform your life and career?
Have you ever felt like there's more to your story waiting to unfold?
Today, we delve into the inspiring journey of Danielle Maur, a seasoned business strategist and coach, as she shares her remarkable story of resilience, self-discovery, unwavering determination, and more.
⚉ A corporate executive's shift towards fulfilment
⚉ Turning life-altering challenges into opportunities
⚉ Defining Success: Impact over Income
⚉ Danielle's secret to her online success
⚉ How to keep pushing yourself to achieve success
⚉ Lessons learned and future aspirations
⚉ What would Danielle do if she could rerun the first year of her business
⚉ Why you need a mentor
⚉ Fast talk session
⚉ Dream big, start small, move fast
Meet Danielle Maur. She is a seasoned business strategist and coach with a remarkable background in corporate leadership.
With a track record of building 6 to 8-figure businesses and creating programs for 1.9 million clients, Danielle brings a wealth of experience to the table.
Driven by her own journey of personal health setbacks and triumphs, Danielle's resilience and strength have fueled her success. As a former corporate director of a $4B company, she has navigated challenges and emerged stronger, launching a new career focused on supporting ambitious women entrepreneurs.
Danielle's passion lies in transforming coaches into confident, successful online entrepreneurs. Through strategic guidance and coaching, she equips her clients with actionable strategies, high- performance habits, and invaluable insights, enabling them to overcome obstacles and achieve extraordinary growth. Her unique blend of corporate expertise and entrepreneurial spirit allows her to guide entrepreneurs and help them get real results.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Book] Millionaire Success Habits by Dean Graziosi - https://amzn.to/3Uyah7W
⚉ High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard - https://amzn.to/4aAmtv3
CONNECT WITH DANIELLE:
🔗 Website: https://www.daniellemaur.com/
🔗 Coaching Website: https://dsquaredcoaching.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielle.maur/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellemaur/
🔗 IG: https://www.instagram.com/daniellemaur/
🔗 Email: Daniellemaur@mac.com
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Have you ever wondered what it truly takes to build a thriving business in today's competitive landscape?
If you are seeking insights into navigating the complex world of entrepreneurship, then join us in a candid conversation with Olly Richards, founder of StoryLearning.com, to uncover the truths, challenges, and triumphs of his entrepreneurial journey.
⚉ Transforming an idea into a revenue-generating powerhouse
⚉ Navigating "10 million challenges"
⚉ What is the significance of education and experimentation?
⚉ Recognizing signs of progress and knowing when to pivot
⚉ Advice for beginners
⚉ Branding, positioning, and attracting ideal customers
⚉ Defining Success on Your Own Terms Lessons Learned and Future Aspirations
⚉ Fast talk
Olly Richards had a series of random careers, from jazz musician to English teacher, before eventually starting a blog on his passion – language learning – and growing it into a $10 million business. Today, he writes a newsletter teaching other online entrepreneurs how to scale their businesses to 7+ figures, using StoryLearning as a “living case study”.
As he was scaling StoryLearning, Olly constantly struggled to find other successful entrepreneurs who taught freely how they were growing their businesses. In the end, he had to figure it all out for himself, and committed to, one day, providing mentorship to others looking to navigate the perils of scaling. When StoryLearning turned 10, Olly launched his newsletter, teaching strategy and mindset to scale education companies to 7+ figures.
Olly, from the UK, started his career as a jazz musician in the UK, playing professionally for seven years. He decided that career wasn’t for him, and instead trained as an English teacher. At 28, he took a teaching job in Japan and started a new career, later moving to Qatar and Egypt.
Throughout all this time, Olly’s passion was learning foreign languages, and he taught himself eight languages. While living in the Middle East, he decided to channel this passion into creative output, and started a Wordpress blog teaching others techniques for learning foreign languages. Over the next 10 years, Olly grew his business from fledgling blog to multi-million dollar business, publishing dozens of books and becoming one of the most renowned language companies on the internet.
Today, Olly is involved in multiple successful education companies as an investor, mentor and advisor, but his passion is still teaching and working with others. His newsletter focuses specifically on helping 6-figure business owners make the leap to 7+ figures and beyond.
RESOURCES:
⚉ [Case Study] Anatomy of a $10M Online Education Business - https://ollyrichards.co/
⚉ [Book] The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection by Michael A. Singer - https://www.amazon.com/Surrender-Experiment-Journey-Lifes-Perfection/dp/080414110X
CONNECT WITH OLLY:
🔗 Website: https://ollyrichards.co
🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBTz3Np62RSDc8XneG9avrA
🔗 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrollyrichards
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollyrichards/
🔗 IG: https://www.instagram.com/realollyrichards/
🔗 Email: o@ollyrichards.co
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Are you intrigued by the remarkable journey of individuals who transition from seemingly unrelated fields into the heart of the tech industry?
Have you ever wondered about the pivotal moments and lessons learned in building a successful business?
Find out how Shane explored his professional path from the culinary world and oil rigs to the dynamic realm of technology.
⚉ Shane's diverse professional experiences
⚉ How Shane's upbringing influenced his perspective and career choices
⚉ The criteria for success
⚉ The highs and lows of building a company
⚉ Joining the company and growing the business
⚉ How to leverage your strengths for business expansion
⚉ Navigating the Intersection of Technology and Human Connection
⚉ The importance of mentors
⚉ Breaking into the field of tech with zero background
⚉ Fast talk
Shane Mishler is the Chief Operating Officer for SD Tech. Shane oversees the daily operations of the company. He partners with the owner to design and implement business strategies, plans, and processes. Shane is actively involved in all of the company’s investments, clients, strategic franchise partners, and expansion activities. During his tenure, the company’s revenue has more than tripled, and their active client list includes over 200 companies.
CONNECT WITH SHANE:
🔗 Website: https://www.sd-tech.net/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sdtech210
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sd.tech.sanantonio/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sd-tech/
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
In the world of online and web, nothing can beat the role and importance of a website in a business.
But how can entrepreneurs and business owners leverage their websites effectively to grow their businesses?
What are the key elements to consider when designing a website or landing page?
And how can individuals navigate the challenges and failures that often come with starting a business?
Join us in this insightful conversation with Peter as he shares his journey from being an IT manager to owning a successful business, and so much more...
⚉ Peter's background and motivation for entrepreneurship
⚉ Learning from failure - pivoting and perseverance / Learning from failure after failure
⚉ How do you know you are successful?
⚉ Peter's pivotal moment after 2 failed businesses
⚉ Leveraging websites for business growth
⚉ Starting Over: What would you do differently?
⚉ Valuable lessons from mentors
⚉ Important Lessons in Business: Pivot, Perseverance, Honesty, Humility
⚉ AI's Role in Shaping WordPress Websites
⚉ Recommended AI Tools and Practices
⚉ Fast talk segment
Peter Guirguis, a seasoned digital expert, is the dynamic force behind SwiftPress Support, a game-changing venture offering unparalleled technical support to WordPress website owners. With a rich history as the founder of Grace Digital Solutions, Peter has a proven track record in crafting exceptional websites for diverse clientele, from businesses to personal brands. His commitment to excellence is evident in his ability to communicate intricate technical details to non-tech-savvy clients, ensuring they achieve their digital goals.
Now, with SwiftPress Support, he’s expanding his horizons to offer SEO, Google Ads, landing page design, and comprehensive care plans including web hosting. A recognized figure in the digital space, Peter has been honored multiple times by the Wells Fargo Leaders Club. When he’s not revolutionizing the digital landscape, he’s actively engaging with his community, sharing insights, and building connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ [Book] Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman - https://amzn.to/3IqLr42
CONNECT WITH PETER:
🔗 Website: https://swiftpresssupport.com/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/swiftpresssupport/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/swiftpresssupport/
🔗 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SwiftpressSupport-zo9rr/featured
🔗 X: https://twitter.com/Swiftpresswp
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In a world where businesses are constantly vying for attention and loyalty, one man stands out as a beacon of success in the realm of customer experience.
David delves into his journey, highlighting key moments, lessons learned, and the magic of infectious energy that propels him forward.
⚉ From Harvard to Silicon Valley
⚉ Unveiling the magic of customer experience
⚉ Embracing adversity as a path to success
⚉ Making it to the Inc. 5000's list
⚉ How to remain true to yourself in the face of challenges
⚉ The importance of employee alignment with company core values
⚉ Lessons learned in business
⚉ The power of infectious energy
⚉ How David's engineering background shaped him as a CEO
⚉ Improving your internal dialogue
⚉ "The person who dies with the best stories wins."
David G. Ewing, CEO of Motiv, is a trailblazer in customer experience innovation. With over 25 years in the industry, he's transformed insights into substantial revenue for 500+ clients.
A Harvard cum laude Engineering graduate, David's leadership has earned Motiv a spot on the Inc 5000 list. As president of The Entrepreneur's Association in Austin, he's dedicated to empowering fellow entrepreneurs. Beyond business, he's a devoted husband of 19 years and a passionate coach for his son's robotics team.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
⚉ Chewy - https://www.chewy.com/
⚉ Molly’s Game by Molly Bloom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%27s_Game
⚉ [Book] The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205
CONNECT WITH DAVID:
🔗 Website: https://www.motivcx.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidgewing/
CONNECT WITH PATIENCE:
🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
In this episode, let's unfold the journey, insights, and strategies that have propelled Aleric's business to new heights and generated over two hundred million dollars in sales for his clients.
⚉ Who is Aleric Heck, and what is his turning point as a YouTube content creator
⚉ Passion fuels success
⚉ The challenges and the learning curve
⚉ Success metrics for Aleric and AdOutreach
⚉ The strategic move that propelled AdOutreach into rapid growth
⚉ Can anyone really learn how to use YouTube ads?
⚉ YouTube vs. Facebook Ads
⚉ Insights from business and the entrepreneur's mindset
⚉ The most dangerous belief an entrepreneur can have
⚉ The delicate balance of team dynamics
⚉ What contributed to Aleric's success
⚉ Valuable insights from mentors
⚉ The YouTube ad strategy
Aleric is a YouTube Ads Expert & the Founder of AdOutreach. He has been on YouTube for over 12 Years, first growing a YouTube Channel to over 500,000+ Subscribers.
Over the last 7 Years, Aleric has taught thousands of Entrepreneurs & Business Owners how to Grow & Scale their business using laser-targeted YouTube Ads. Collectively, Aleric has helped his clients generate over $200 Million+ in sales from YouTube Ads & scaled his own business to over 8 Figures.
RESOURCES:
(FREE GIFT!) YouTube Ad Strategy PDF - https://www.adoutreach.com/gift
YouTube Ad AI Targeting Software - https://www.keywordsearch.com/
CONNECT WITH ALERIC:
🔗 Website: https://adoutreach.com/
🔗 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AlericHeckYT/featured
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alericheck/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/advancedyoutubeads
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Christoffer Flemström is the founder and visionary behind Klara Färdiga Film, a production company that believes in making film creation accessible to all.
After gaining experience in traditional film production, Christoffer developed an innovative ‘Content as a Service’ model, allowing business owners to create content at a set monthly cost.
Despite the challenges of starting a business during the global pandemic, Christoffer was able to grow his small kitchen start-up into the successful business it is today.
His core message: finding your passion and repeating it every day!
CONNECT WITH CHRISTOFFER:
🔗 Website: https://klarafardigafilm.com/uk/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/klarafardigafilm/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/klara-f%C3%A4rdiga-film/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Klara-F%C3%A4rdiga-Film/100082647908972/
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Kyle Stout is the founder of Elevate & Scale, a leading email marketing agency that helps direct-to-consumer brands unlock hidden revenue and put their sales on autopilot while spending $0 in extra ad spend. Kyle is an expert on using email marketing to maximize revenue, leveraging AI to scale content production, and all things retention marketing.
Kyle has more than a decade of experience in digital marketing starting as a freelance copywriter where he honed his skills in brand storytelling and email marketing. Once he had developed a set of frameworks that worked consistently across different niches, he started Elevate & Scale specializing in email marketing for ecommerce businesses.
Kyle is a husband and proud girl-dad. He can be found educating his audience on marketing strategies on his ever-evolving YouTube Channel.
CONNECT WITH KYLE STOUT:
🔗 Website: www.elevateandscale.com/
🔗 Youtube: www.youtube.com/Elevate&Scale
🔗 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-stout-6804a117/
🔗 Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@elevateandscale
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
David Braithwaite is a Coach for Strategic Coach®, Financial Advisor, Speaker, Media Personality
With several years experience as an Associate Coach for Strategic Coach® and as a financial planner, David Braithwaite has built a reputation for his empathetic approach to coaching and facilitating meaningful conversations. He is a regular guest on BBC radio and TV, and has even hosted his own BBC show, "On The Air With David Braithwaite." He has also spoken at various conferences around the world with audiences up to 14,000.
David has a remarkable ability to connect with people and help them achieve their life goals by creating a supportive and safe environment where they can grow. As a coach and successful entrepreneur, David's real-life experiences provide valuable insights for his clients and listeners.
With his passion for storytelling, David makes for an engaging podcast guest who can offer a unique perspective on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and personal growth. Whether you're looking for inspiration or practical advice, David's dynamic personality and insightful commentary will make for a thought-provoking and enjoyable listening experience.
RESOURCE:
🔗 (Podcast) https://davidbpodcast.com/
CONNECT WITH DAVID BRAITHWAITE:
🔗 Website: https://www.strategiccoach.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-braithwaite-9091774/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrategicCoach/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/strategic.coach/
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Suman has 20 years of experience in recruiting and has successfully placed 500+ employees in industries such as medical, oil/gas, construction, and real estate.
She is dedicated to understanding the needs of her clients and candidates and takes pride in being a "hiring match maker."
Cherry Talent Group redefines recruitment by treating each client as a trusted partner and working closely as an extension of their team. They prioritize understanding a company's unique qualities and aim to nurture long-term relationships based on trust while finding candidates that align with their vision and culture.
CONNECT WITH SUMAN CHERRY:
🔗 Website: https://www.cherrytalentgroup.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumancherry/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Cherry-Talent-Group/100088704550516/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cherrytalentgroup/
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
NOAH ST. JOHN, PhD is recognized as “The Father of AFFORMATIONS®” and “The Mental Health Coach to the Stars.” Working with Hollywood celebrities, seven- and eight-figure company CEOs, professional athletes, top executives, and elite entrepreneurs, Noah is famous for helping his coaching clients make more in twelve weeks than they did in the previous twelve months, while winning back 1–3 hours per day and 4–8 weeks a year. Noah’s clients are the 0.1% rock stars who love to take action and get amazing results!
Noah is also the only author in history to have works published by HarperCollins, Hay House, Simon & Schuster, Mindvalley, Nightingale-Conant, and the Chicken Soup for the Soul publisher. His most recent book is The 7-Figure Life: How to Leverage the 4 Focus Factors for More Wealth and Happiness. His twenty books have been published in nineteen languages worldwide.
Noah’s mission is to eliminate not-enoughness from the world, and he is internationally known for his signature coaching services and facilitating workshops for companies, teams and organizatoins across the globe. Noah delivers private workshops, virtual events, and online courses that his audiences call “MANDATORY for anyone who wants to succeed in life and business.”
One of the most requested, in-demand business and motivational keynote speakers in the world, Noah is famous for having “The Midas Touch” because his clients have added more than $2.8 billion in found revenues. His sought-after advice is known as the “secret sauce” to business and personal growth.
He also appears frequently in the news worldwide, including ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, The Hallmark Channel, National Public Radio, Chicago Sun-Times, Parade, Los Angeles Business Journal, The Washington Post, Woman’s Day, Entrepreneurs on Fire, Selling Power, Entrepreneur.com, The Jenny McCarthy Show, Costco Connection, and SUCCESS Magazine.
Fun fact: Noah once won an all-expenses-paid trip to Hawaii on the game show Concentration, where he missed winning a new car by three seconds. (Note: He had not yet discovered his Afformations® Method or Power Habits® System.)
Book Noah to speak for your next virtual or live event, conference or seminar at BookNoah.com.
CONNECT WITH DR. NOAH:
🔗 Website: https://noahstjohn.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahstjohn/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noahstjohnfan
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noahstjohn/
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🔗 Website: https://onlinesuccessjourney.com/
Tina is a marketing executive, certified career coach, entrepreneur and business professional. Tina has been in the people business for over 22 years specializing in B2B and B2C Marketing Communications, connecting consumer trends, research, and brand integrity through integrated marketing communication strategies.
Tina has a breadth and depth of strategic marketing and communications through her experience that spans across B2B mechanical equipment, loyalty rewards and B2C food service and hospitality. Tina is particularly effective in opening internal lines of communication and breaking down silos so everyone is working together toward common business goals.
Tina‘s ability to engage people through coaching is enhanced by her business experience and as a leader serving on the LIFT Committee founded by Canada‘s largest mechanical services provider, supporting professionals, providing mentorship and coaching across Canada and the US.
CONNECT WITH TINA:
🔗 Website: https://coachingwithtina.ca/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinakalogeropoulos/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tina.kalos/
President, A Step Ahead Financial Inc.
Co-Author, The Secret to Lifetime Security
Thirty years of experience helping hundreds of families build wealth, save taxes, and retire comfortably.
CONNECT WITH STEVEN:
🔗 Website: https://www.bankonyourself.com/findoutmorenow?wp_src=SS96
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenstep/
Jennifer Heard is a Professional Organizer, Coach, Author, Speaker, App Creator and all-around mompreneur. Her complete work history and professional information can be found on her LinkedIn profile.
Her mission is to help people have more time and increased energy by simplifying and more effectively managing their time, space, and possessions.
Jen started Clean Sweep Consulting, Inc. in 2006. Clean Sweep is a professional organizing, move management and coaching company located in Rochester Hills, Michigan serving all of Oakland County, in the suburbs of NW Detroit. Jen Heard, MBA and her team of organizing professionals are dedicated to helping busy women and families who are preparing to sell their home easily list and sell for top dollar, while packing and moving at the lowest cost, and entering the new space without chaos or clutter.
Clean Sweep’s mission is to take a holistic, concierge-style approach to the challenges of the busy lives we lead, clearing out the excess stuff we all possess, making each of us as efficient and free as we can be while helping local community charities make a difference for those they serve.
Jen has recently been the President of NAPO Michigan for 2 years (NAPO is the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, and can be found at www.napo.net or www.napomichigan.com.)
Jen’s BIG NEWS is that she has created a website (www.lovebigger.com) with a corresponding APP called LOVEBIGGER TM. Both are currently in development and slated to launch in January, 2023 to help people efficiently downsize while equitably and sustainably distributing their little-used items to the local charities of their choice.
Jen lives in Rochester Hills, MI with her fiancé, Rick, her daughter, two step-kids, her step-cat and near to her dear family.
CONNECT WITH JENNIFER:
🔗 Website: https://lovebigger.com/
🔗 Website: https://cleansweepconsulting.net/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cleansweep/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleansweepconsulting/
BizVA President and Chief Operating Officer Chris McShanag is a transformational leader who brings extensive experience in delivering successful business solutions through innovative and scalable solutions.
An entrepreneur at heart, Chris has successfully led many organizations, from start-ups to success in various industries, including healthcare, mining, utilities, and consulting. At BizVA, he oversees the company’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations.
“Not all virtual hires are the same,” McShanag says. “We pride ourselves on finding well educated, dedicated, and charismatic employees to integrate into a full array of businesses. Often, a client or a customer’s most critical impression of a company is their initial contact.”
We want our clients to know they are in good hands with our remote assistants and that while they are getting our VAs at a fraction of the cost of a full-time in-house employee, they are still getting top-quality team members with a strong work ethic and focused productivity.
CONNECT WITH CHRIS:
🔗 Website: https://bizva.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-d-mcshanag-10aa362/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bizvavirtualassistant
Anthony P. Howard is an HR Leader who works with HR professionals at all levels in finding the value and pathway to certification. He believes you can increase your confidence, marketability, and value through certification, networking, professional coaching & community.
Anthony is an experienced strategic HR Business Partner with a 20+ year history of progressive success piloting large-scale, global initiatives driving organizational change and goals in diverse environments from highly regulated FDA medical devices & biotech industries to unionized manufacturing environments.
He also has led positive culture shifts with his contributions to and through DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives. He co-led the formation of corporate-wide ERG (Employee Resource Group) initiatives and has been pegged to speak on the topic on webinars, panel discussions, and online courses.
Anthony has incorporated a passion for the learning and development of others into his entire career. He is the founder of HR Certified, LLC, an advisor to MindEdge Learning, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council and Forbes The Culture. He has held HR Certification since 2009 and currently holds both the SPHR and SHRM-SCP designations. Additionally, he has earned the Leadership Development & Succession Strategist (LDSS) designation from Human Capital Institute (HCI).
CONNECT WITH ANTHONY:
🔗 Website: https://gethrcertified.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hr-certified/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hrcertified/
🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gethrcertified
🔗 Twitter: https://twitter.com/get_hrcertified
Mickie Kennedy is an expert at helping small businesses, authors, and startups increase their visibility and credibility.
Mickie founded eReleases 22+ years ago after realizing that small businesses desperately need a press release service they can actually afford, giving them access to the media and to a national newswire – all with a personal touch.
Mickie lives in Baltimore County, Maryland.
CONNECT WITH MICKIE:
🔗 Website: http://www.ereleases.com/
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/publicity/
🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ereleases.press.release.distribution
After his compelling C-level business career in several industries and an officer career in the Swiss Army, Heinz was the founder of several companies in Europe and the USA. He lives his passion as intl. speaker, bestselling author, recognized expert and mentor of visionary leadership.
His globally unique program called LEX Leadershift Excellence-for-Life™ Experience has already inspired 10,000nds of executives. His Swiss bestseller "Gesucht: Leader” has been published as well in its English version “Wanted: Leaders”. Heinz has designed and conducted over 1000 corp. development processes in 3 languages on 3 continents over the last 30 years. His lectureship as lead lecturer for leadership at a European corporate academy gives evidence to the many compelling models and concepts he has developed and implemented together with his multicultural clientele.
His passion for "moving leaders from hard work to heart work®" makes him and his impact powerfully inspiring. Heinz Kaegi is the initiator of the Intl. Economy of Heart Foundation.
Yong-Soo Chung is a serial entrepreneur who founded an e-commerce brand called Urban EDC in 2015 from his one bedroom apartment in San Francisco after leaving his job as a Software Engineer at Ripple, a cryptocurrency startup in Silicon Valley. He then launched GrowthJet in 2019, a Climate Neutral Certified third party logistics company, from a second floor dance studio in the Dogpatch neighborhood in San Francisco.
Now, he’s on a mission to impact one million entrepreneurs through his new venture, First Class Founders, a weekly podcast sharing his lessons on building a sustainable, bootstrapped company to 8-figures in annual revenue.
He and his wife Sandy are also proud dog parents to two French bulldogs named Humphrey & Pota, who have over 150,000 followers across all social channels. Sandy, his business and life partner, also own a dog boutique called Spotted By Humphrey.
Felicia is a four-time award-winning transformational coach, international speaker, author, and minister who has helped thousands create a path for living their dream life. For more than 20 years, Felicia has worked with people from all walks of life who are seeking the secret component that accelerates success.
As a highly sought-after international speaker, she has shared the stage with powerhouse leaders like international speaker Mary Morrissey; founder and CEO of eWomenNetwork Sandra Yancey; and international motivational speaker Les Brown. She has been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. Felicia’s proven “dream activation code” helps people multiply their results to create a richer, more fulfilling life.
Aditya Varanasi never dreamt of being an entrepreneur until he was faced with a choice: take a risk or sink back into Corporate America. Today, he is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Awarity, where they disrupt the advertising industry by making world class marketing more affordable and sustainable for up-and-coming companies.
He graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management. He spent 14 years at PepsiCo where he pioneered new ways to unlock the power of digital media across a wide range of brands including Cheetos, Cracker Jack, and Lays Stax.
Alan Tarr is the Founder and Chief Content Officer of "How To Write Copy" at Write Like A Madman University, and he loves to write. Alan trained at a top-five Madison Avenue ad agency, and has spent over 35 years writing copy for large international corporations (like Nissan) right down to the local bakery.
He has created Jingles (Taco Joe’s, Narpro), Jokes for TV (Merv Griffin Show), and Song parodies for MAD Magazine. He has four published and has recorded songs of his own Dozens of TV, Radio, and Print ad campaigns, as well as website and Email campaign content and over 95 published articles all in all.
Alan is the guy who has developed and written an online University with 8 copywriting courses and 7 loaded toolboxes containing over 310 individual learning experiences.
Sophie Howard has started, scaled, and sold six and seven-figure online businesses. She knows what works when it comes to growing an online business. Sophie is here to help you find freedom with a business that works for your life.
Aspiring Entrepreneurs is the home of Sophie Howard. It's a community designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs build a business and a life that serves them. There's no fluff, jet planes or Lamborghinis - just powerful advice and inspiration on all things related to starting and growing a successful online business.
Sophie started online with an Amazon business in 2013, which she sold for over $1 million USD in 2015. As well as launching over 1000 products, she has built educational programs teaching thousands of students how to sell Amazon products and self-publish ebooks on Kindle. Sophie has spoken on stages around the world, teaching and inspiring other aspiring entrepreneurs to achieve success.
Sophie lives in Wanaka, New Zealand, and juggles her business portfolio with two young children, a horse, and running in the mountains.
An award-winning leadership expert in human behavior, Lisa Marie Platske has received accolades from the White House, the United States Small Business Administration, and The International Alliance for Women, recognized as one of the top 100 women making a difference in the world.
She left her Federal law enforcement career to be the CEO of an international leadership development company, Upside Thinking, Inc.
Lisa Marie delivers presentations worldwide sharing research on how vulnerability and forgiveness are critical to exceptional leadership -- as well as her proven 7-step leadership model centered on connection, positioning, and executive presence. An international best-selling author in 5 countries, Lisa Marie has written or co-authored 7 books.
A member of the Forbes Coaches Council and a regular contributor to Forbes.com, she has trained or coached over 100,000 leaders around the globe to make a bigger positive impact on the planet since 2005. She lives on Summit Hills Farm in the Bluegrass Region in KY where she runs her online business without internet access.
Dr. Travis Zigler is a recovering optometrist turned ecommerce entrepreneur. He is the founder of Eye Love, whose mission is to heal 1,000,000 dry eye sufferers naturally. Dr. Travis and his wife, Dr. Jenna Zigler, use the profits from Eye Love to fund free clinics in Jamaica and the US through their charity, the Eye Love Cares Foundation.
Due to the success of Eye Love, others have asked if Dr. Travis would help them grow their business online, and more specifically with Amazon, which is one of his superpowers. Specializing in Amazon PPC, Dr. Travis and his team help businesses scale their Amazon sales and help increase brand clout.
Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about your money, your economy and your future. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement savings and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a more predictable way to meet his financial objectives and those of his clients.
Mark is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, a THREE TIME #1 Best Selling Author, the Owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago, Illinois and co-host of the Not Your Average Financial Podcast™. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with proven, tax-efficient financial solutions unknown to most financial gurus. He has become known as “Not Your Average Financial Planner!”
Chase Harmer is the founder of Wishes, a fintech app that is changing the transparency of charitable donations made by the consumer. With no formal background in tech, just hard won experience, Chase is a visionary that has created one of the most innovative platforms in charitable giving by providing validation for donated funds through transparency in eCommerce causes, crowdfunding and nonprofits.
Chase also founded and exited ProfitPay after his portfolios processed billions and he hustled his way into a $300 Million valuation with PayCertify. He did that all through launching a $100 Million dollar raise in a video sales funnel. Chase has spent most of his time with digital merchants building innovative technology in fintech for entrepreneurs, businesses and now he is entering the field of charitable causes.
Brian is currently CEO of Zeenk, an actionable analytics company for e-commerce sellers. Zeenk provides companies with the forecasts, insights, and operating data they need to run their growing business across multiple sales and advertising channels.
Brian has been a CEO, CTO, Board Member, and Investor in Technology and AI Companies for the last 20 years. He has run multiple e-commerce companies, data analytics focuses business, and has deep experience in AI and Robotics. Brian holds thirteen patents in Speech Technology, Internet Search, and Robotics along with a Ph.D., M.S., and bachelor’s degrees from MIT.
Patrick Thean is an international speaker, CEO coach and serial entrepreneur. He is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. His work has been seen on NBC, CBS, and Fox. Patrick was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1996 for North Carolina and ever since has been on a mission to help CEOs build great companies and achieve their dreams.
With his book Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth , Thean shares a simple system for encouraging teams to execute better and faster. His step-by-step playbook for developing an operating system to run your company successfully was integrated into the curriculum for MIT and has achieved significant company performance evidenced by repeated exponential results.
Currently the CEO and Co-Founder of Rhythm Systems, he is focused on helping CEOs and their teams experience breakthroughs to achieve their dreams and goals. Discover how Patrick can help you experience breakthroughs that result in drama-free and explosive success.
Fernando is the co-founder of MarketplaceOps, and specializes in scaling CPG brands on Amazon. MarketplaceOps leverages fully integrated technology and proprietary marketing techniques to beat your competition with repeatable strategies.
He has generated more than $150mm in revenue for his clients, and sold two businesses in the Amazon space. His companies were ranked in the Inc. 5000 in 2019 & 2020, and in Entrepreneur360 in 2016, 2017, 2018 & 2019.
Aaron Anderson has been working in the SEO industry full-time since 2013. While working and consulting for multiple SEO agencies he saw a big demand for high-quality link building services, so he started offering link building services to clients as a freelancer, and that service has since grown into a full-fledged link building agency.
He is also the host of the podcast “Let’s Talk Link Building”, which dives into all the different approaches and strategies one might take to build backlinks for their online business.
As an entrepreneur, Kurt has experience growing, scaling, and exiting high-growth companies and now devotes his time to helping business leaders unlock their own success. Through his roles as the Co-Founder at HireBetter and Managing Partner at Bee Cave Capital, he’s had the opportunity to work with hundreds of entrepreneurs and CEOs—challenging and inspiring them to take their companies to that much hyped “next-level.”
Kurt began his career with Ernst & Young, and prior to founding HireBetter, Kurt founded and led The Controller Group (TCG), a professional services
An alumnus of the University of Arkansas, Kurt is a Certified Public Accountant and an active member and officer of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Kurt is passionate about entrepreneurship, is an active angel investor and sits on the boards of several companies and nonprofits. He lives in Austin with his wife and three sons and can usually be found coaching youth sports around town.
David Doerrier is a Facilitation and Presentation Skills Expert who delivers highly experiential workshops that challenge audiences to leverage the speaking and leadership skills they already possess and incorporate interaction principles that will get any audience to listen, act, and commit to their product, service, or idea!
He earned his stripes as a retired U.S. Air Force NCO, Instructional Designer, Trainer, Actor, Radio DJ, Voiceover Artist, award-winning Toastmaster, and professional Santa Claus.
David believes that with the right processes, the right instruction, and the right amount of constructive feedback, anyone can easily incorporate effective engagement principles in front of any size/type audience with poise and impact, and be memorable.
Stephanie Clapham is a passionate and curious quantitative manager, with over a decade of experience in the market research, foresight, and think tank industries.
Her primary focus is on quantitative survey design, execution, and analysis, as well as bringing data to life with visualization. Stephanie has worked on projects across a wide range of industries including technology & digital, finance, fashion, beauty, FMCG and more.
Joe Caruso is an expert on the individual mind, the collective mind of an organization and how meaning drives our behavior and determines outcomes in all aspects of life. As an author, business advisor and speaker, Joe brings his lifetime of expertise to help organizations and leaders change the way they see themselves-- and in turn, the way they think about markets, products and services. Joe has learned this change in thinking drives new behavior and allows organizations to sharpen focus and reach greater levels of success.
After beating cancer, Joe founded Caruso Leadership, a firm dedicated to helping others achieve their goals while enjoying the process. Through the organization, Joe applies the simple, common, timeless human truths to leaders, teams and their employees.
Joe is an in-demand keynote speaker worldwide, a syndicated columnist and a sought-after business advisor, and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Minds in Personal Development by Nightingale-Conant.
Kamini Wood is the founder and CEO of Live Joy Your Way and the AuthenticMe® RiseUp program.
An international best-selling author, Kamini is driven to support people of all ages heal the relationship with themselves and to stop outsourcing their self-worth. Her clients become their own confident, resilient self-leader with healthier relationships.
Kamini is a certified life coach, board-certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, holds specialty certifications in Calling in the One® , Conscious Uncoupling®, NewMoney Story®, Body Positivity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, Breathwork and teen life coaching. Also trained in conscious parenting, Kamini aims to meet her clients where they are, supporting and guiding them on their journey to where they want to be, both personally and professionally.
Libby shows coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs how to scale to a million dollars in annual revenues. She is the CEO of Dietitian Boss, a company that shows registered dietitians how to start and grow their private practice, and has accomplished what only 2-4% of entrepreneurs achieve: hitting the million-dollar milestone in annual revenue.
In the shoes of a high-growth entrepreneur her company grew by over 220% from 2019 to 2020, and she currently leads a fully remote team of 7 people who operate from around the world.
If you're struggling to get out of the day-to-day operations in your business or your model does not support scale, you need support to manage your cash flow backed by a strategy that you can communicate and hold your team accountable. Libby can show you how to lead your team to reach the profit margins you intend to achieve and create a lifestyle business where you work fewer hours and only do what you love.
Vikas Singal, a profound Indian Entrepreneur, a professional SEO Expert and Digital Marketing Strategist who has been working in the Digital Marketing Industry for over 11+ Years.
He is always busy, but proficient in managing multiple projects, prioritizing and meeting tight deadlines, analyzing and solving problems in accelerated, high-pressure environments.
He is well known for providing invaluable service to all of his clients, helping them accelerate the growth of their business, regardless of the size. Whether their company is a small business, start-up, challenger brand or enterprise, Vikas and his team make growing the business a priority.
Dr. Sas is a life and health coach. She immigrated from Thailand with her family a month shy of turning 12 years old. She overcome many obstacles in life from learning to speak a foreign language to putting herself through college, from losing her home through bankruptcy and divorce to being a single mom of two boys. She is now happily remarried and living an abundant and joyful life. Some people who know her said she is like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Through over 30 years of her career, she has encountered many clients and patients who suffered health and relationship issues that can be remedied with lifestyle adjustment and proper communication. Her passion in life is to demonstrate and inspire women to live the life fill with love & joy, peace & health, abundance & enlightenment. Even in the midst of a recent tragedy of losing one of her sons, she continues to inspire and motivate people to live their best life. Her message to the world is there’s more to living happy and healthy than just popping a pill and putting yourself in a victim mode; life is meant to be fill with love, peace, health, and happiness.
Dr. Sas is a life and health coach. She immigrated from Thailand with her family a month shy of turning 12 years old. She overcome many obstacles in life from learning to speak a foreign language to putting herself through college, from losing her home through bankruptcy and divorce to being a single mom of two boys. She is now happily remarried and living an abundant and joyful life. Some people who know her said she is like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Through over 30 years of her career, she has encountered many clients and patients who suffered health and relationship issues that can be remedied with lifestyle adjustment and proper communication. Her passion in life is to demonstrate and inspire women to live the life fill with love & joy, peace & health, abundance & enlightenment. Even in the midst of a recent tragedy of losing one of her sons, she continues to inspire and motivate people to live their best life. Her message to the world is there’s more to living happy and healthy than just popping a pill and putting yourself in a victim mode; life is meant to be fill with love, peace, health, and happiness.
Noémi Beres is the Co-Owner of the Podcast Connections podcast booking agency.
She helps entrepreneurs and business owners share their knowledge and connect them to quality podcast shows. In addition, Noemi is dedicated to helping experts grow their business with interviews.
She started to work in the online marketing field back in 2007. Noemi has a Master’s Degree in Danish Literature and Language; she is a linguist, content creator, and “master organizer.”
Jim Heininger is the Rebrand Man. He leads the efforts of The Rebranding Experts, which he founded in 2017, after 30 years of business and brand strategy experience for P&G, McDonald’s, Anheuser-Busch and others. Rebranding Experts was purposefully designed to be the only agency with the comprehensive services necessary to rebrand organizations.
Jim has designed the methodology used by the firm and merged the many disciplines necessary for successful rebranding, including research, brand strategy and planning, creative naming, design/identity, corporate and leadership communications, change management, employee engagement and internal marketing, customer experience design and marketing/public relations.
Jim coaches CEOs through the rebranding process, aligning their executive team, and helping to execute complete name changes and new customer promises. He regularly speaks at national conferences and is a frequent contributor to Forbes.com on the topic of rebranding.
Michael W Arnold is a work from home entrepreneur with skills that range from business management, business development, time management, strategy, efficiency coaching, and much more. Michael has worked for over 15 years from home working for himself and major corporations such as Cox Automotive, Verizon Super Pages, and Major Commercial Finance companies.
In his journey he has made many mistakes and has lived to share some wisdom to help you on your work from home journey. There are plenty of ways we can each learn from each other, and Michael shows how you can learn from his mistakes working from home and create your own successful actions.
Dennis Littley is the founder and CEO of Ask Chef Dennis Productions where he runs one of the most successful food blogs in the world.
With over one million followers on social media and almost 10 million page views annually, he has built a loyal following that use his recipes and cooking tips in their home kitchens to feed their family and friends easy-to-make restaurant-style dishes at a fraction of the cost of eating out.
Chef Dennis also works with travel companies and cruise lines showcasing their travel opportunities as he shares his travel adventures and the deliciousness he’s enjoying as he travels the world.
Roger is a lateral thinker, problem solver, strategist and finder of new ways. He believes in the power of the happy customer and spent years managing client relationships and building brands for world-famous agencies like DDB and Cossette.
Throughout his career, he’s found himself working with a number of industry giants, including (but certainly not limited to) Netflix, Expedia, Walmart, Nordstrom, Lamborghini, Cineplex, Four Seasons Plus and Vancouver’s own lululemon. On top of all of this, he followed his passions to become a Board Member for TEDxVancouver and has recently become an expert-level toddler wrangler through the magic of parenthood.
When he’s not at work, he likes to golf, read and—no surprises here — binge the occasional podcast.
Stuart Leo is the founder and CEO of Waymaker.io - an intelligent business management platform that helps leaders build a better business in 30 days.
Stuart is a global thinker in strategy, systems, and leadership development.
As the founder of Waymaker.io he has led the creation of Waymaker’s Leadership Curve- a revolutionary way of building clarity, alignment and remarkable results for any organisation.
Deirdre is the Founder & CEO of Capsho, software that helps high-ticket coaches who podcast create their content honey traps so that they can use their podcast to fill their email list and conversion events! She is the creator of Content Honey Traps, author of Viralocity Marketing and host of the Grow My Podcast Show.
She is a serial entrepreneur, having founded and led 7 businesses across 5 industries in the last 9 years, and has navigated the entire spectrum of experiences and emotions (the good, the bad and the ugly) that comes with starting, running and closing businesses.
With her hands-on experience in successfully growing her businesses to 6 & 7 figures, she now coaches and works hands-on with business-owning podcast hosts to get known, get visible and get leads using the Content Honey Trap System.
Jennifer was faced with many questions during her midlife self reinvention at the age of 50. Finding herself divorced, an empty-nester, unemployed and bedridden with a serious illness, she knows how daunting it can feel when all the messaging in our culture is telling us that we have somehow become a diminished version of our former selves just because we've reached a certain age. She would argue that we are in fact just coming into the most powerful point in our lives.
Old Chicks Know Sh*t is a tongue in cheek expression she uses to open the door to a serious conversation. It's about reminding ourselves that we are so much more than our age, our faces, and our bodies. We are knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
Jennifer hopes to help you see your own power, wisdom and capability reflected back to you when you need it most, inspiring you to chase your dreams, defy cultural stereotypes and do things you never thought possible. This is not the end of living but rather, just the end of a chapter, and there are many many more exciting chapters to come.
Shelby & Kristina, both professionally trained comedic actresses, started making comedy videos "just for fun" in 2015. What started out as a passion project turned into a career, when various brands & businesses started approaching them for custom video content.
Although content creation is no longer just a hobby, Shelby & Kristina still bring that same sense of fun to every project they tackle, leaving their clients with something truly unique. They handle every aspect of production from ideation to
editing; a one-stop shop for your all of your video content needs.
From poverty to Ph.D., Dr. Laquore J. Meadows is a visionary, dynamic leader and wealth builder, and the CEO and Co-Founder of Invest2Give, LLC. Inspired by the life and legacy of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, she began her stock trading career with the aspiration to build and leave a financial legacy that will become the answer to someone’s prayers.
She has released an #1 Amazon Best Selling ebook “Income on Demand: The Complete Playbook for Beginning Stock Traders,” to give beginners a peek into the world of stock trading and investing. She is also the founder of Stocks & Sorors, an initiative created to encourage members of Black Greek sororities to become active participants in the stock market. Dr. Meadows received her Bachelor's degree from Tennessee State University, Masters in College Student Personnel from Miami University, and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from Ohio University.
Joseph Wilkins founded ProCreative Studios in 2000, which produced infomercials, TV spots & marketing videos for clients including Google, Linkedin, McDonalds, Goldman Sachs, Chevrolet & Home Depot. As viewing habits shifted away from TV, Joseph launched FunnySalesVideos.com where he creates attention-grabbing "viral style" sales videos that get millions of views and converts cold traffic into sales.
With 20 years experience, hundreds of millions of views and over $250 MILLION in career sales, Joseph enjoys sharing 8 steps anyone can follow to drive sales on his podcast "How To Make A Video Go Viral."
In 1990, Betsy Cerulo founded AdNet/AccountNet, Inc., a Baltimore based company with a powerful mission of being “Advocates for Workplace Excellence & Equality”' placing subject matter experts with Accounting/Finance, Human Resources and Legal expertise. Betsy is the Co-Founder and Past President of the Maryland LGBT Chamber of Commerce, which was awarded Rising Star Chamber in 2018 by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. She helped found the Maryland LGBT Foundation, which generates resources and works to activate, educate and mobilize the LGBTQ+ community to access opportunity and wealth generation.
Betsy is a passionate activist pushing for equity and equal rights for women and all diverse groups. She has authored books including Shake It Off Leadership - Achieving Success Through the Eyes of our Labels and is also a contributing author to various publications.
Having had the opportunity to own and operate several businesses throughout his thirty-year career, Rich LeBrun is passionate about helping his clients reach their financial freedom and secure their future through business ownership.
Whether you are an executive out of work, a woman re-entering the workforce, a veteran returning home from service or someone just not ready to retire, Rich wants to help those in life’s transition navigate through the exciting journey of selecting their franchise opportunity. Choosing the right franchise to own can be one of the most crucial and rewarding decisions one will make in a lifetime. Rich is ready to successfully guide you through this process to find freedom and true passion in owning your own business.
Rich LeBrun is passionate about helping his clients reach their financial freedom and secure their future through business ownership. Rich is a Certified Franchise Broker (CFB) Certified Commercial Investment Manager (CCIM).
Pete has been involved with successfully growing and scaling businesses for over 20 years. In the fitness industry, a business model where most who attempted to truly scale - failed, he built a multi-state, multi-location, and multi-million dollar personal training business with 5 locations and 12 franchise partners. He’s helped a franchise grow from 10 locations to 400 and worked behind the scenes with professional athletes launching brands and franchises. He has identified the commonalities of what makes some businesses WORK, and others NOT. These “golden threads” have allowed him to distill the fundamental business success principles into proprietary frameworks, systems, tools, services, and business models that he has been perfecting over the years.
Today, Pete's on a mission to help other fitness business owners and entrepreneur’s start, grow, and scale successful businesses by closing the gap between technical expert and business expert using EmpirePreneur’s Fitness Business Operating System to build businesses that run without them in 12 months or less.
Simon Severino helps business owners in SaaS and services discover how torun their company more efficiently, which results in sales that soar. Simon created the Strategy Sprints, which is a global team of certified Strategy Sprints Coaches that offers a customized strategy to help clients gain market share and work in weekly sprints, resulting in fast execution. He is also a Forbes Business Council Member, a contributor to Entrepreneur Magazine, and a member of Duke Corporate Education.
Matthew Stibbe is a serial entrepreneur, marketing maven, writer, pilot, and wine enthusiast. But not necessarily in that order.
He created marketing strategies, content and campaigns for clients including Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn and HP and contributed to Wired, Forbes and Popular Science.
Currently, he is CEO at Articulate Marketing, a UK marketing agency specializing in the technology sector. Also, his geek credentials are strong. Previously, he was founder and CEO at Intelligent Games, a 70-person computer games company where he designed games for LEGO and produced two games based on Dune.
Matthew also has his commercial pilots license and an advanced wine diploma. (Have you seen the film Somm? Like that!) At some point in the previous millennium, he studied history at Oxford University. These days, he blogs about modern management at www.geekboss.com, about marketing at www.articulatemarketing.com and wine at www.vincarta.com.
Katie Brinkley is a Social Media Strategist and Social Audio Expert with over 18 years of experience in the social media space. She has been featured on Fox, Ticker News, Medium, Voyage Denver, and more sharing her strategies on how to gain a consistent strategy to gain new leads using social media. Katie specializes in finding the right social platforms for entrepreneurs to focus on so they can grow their online presence without the overwhelm.
Brandy Mabra is the CEO of Savvy Clover Coaching & Consulting. With over 15 years of business management and leadership experience, she helps private practice business owners increase their time and profitability.
Brandy runs a successful online coaching business empowering her clients to own their role as a bold, confident, and Unapologetically Savvy CEO. She teaches her clients to look at their businesses holistically using 6 Pillars of Business Excellence™ and her 9-step signature method.
Brandy has a bachelors from The Ohio State University and a Masters from A.T. Still University. Brandy is a Certified Professional Coach and Master Energy Leadership Practitioner, receiving her credentials from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC).
She is a 2021 Forbes Coach Council Member and has been featured online in Forbes, Create & Cultivate, Popsugar and on select podcasts such as Systems Saved Me, Journey to Seven, Hustle With Purpose, and The Stacking Benjamins Show to name a few.
Ivory Coats is a serial entrepreneur, business investor, transformative speaker, and 3-time author. Her most recent book, A Tenacious Spirit, is an aspiring entrepreneur’s guide to mindset, process, and the execution of your ideas.
She is passionate about building the life you want leveraging business ownership. Over the course of her career she been featured in many publications including the Chicago Sun Times & Atlanta Journal Constitution to name a few.
Ivory currently runs a social media marketing firm, content websites, and ecommerce store. She is happily married with two kids, residing in Atlanta Georgia.
Lisa Haggis helps service-based entrepreneurs position their businesses as one-of-a-kind in their field for higher visibility, impact, and earning potential. Leveraging 18 years of experience in marketing and business strategy, she is committed to cracking the code on what makes a business innately interesting and worth mentioning. (Hint: It begins with having something original to say!) She is the founder of Realize Your Brand, a high-touch business consultancy, and the creator of the Substantial Branding Method -- an approach that transforms your growing business into the legacy-level brand that you uniquely are meant to create.
Mike Smerklo is an experienced entrepreneur, investor and business leader driven by the desire to turn ideas into reality. Having bought and scaled a small business into a publicly traded company worth nearly a billion dollars in value, he has a deep understanding of the hard work, dedication and grit that truly powers successful entrepreneurship. Today, as the cofounder and managing director of Next Coast Ventures, Smerklo is a champion for a new generation of entrepreneurs building disruptive companies in big markets. His new book, Mr. Monkey and Me (Scribe Media, Nov. 17, 2020), is a “real talk” guide for entrepreneurs who want to cut through the noise to cultivate a mindset that supports greatness.
In Mr. Monkey and Me, Smerklo draws on his broad range of experiences and mistakes as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Using lessons he learned from renowned entrepreneurs, he features practical tools and the “other stuff” you don’t normally learn in classrooms or business books, such as the mental hurdles you have to overcome, the risks you have to take and the sacrifices and mistakes you’ll make to become a successful entrepreneur.
Jessica Blasingame is a CPA and creative entrepreneur who now specializes in financial services for creative entrepreneurs. She leads an all-woman team at Beam Financial Group, which takes a holistic approach in supporting small business owners, helping them to become more competent, connected, and aligned with their business finances.
Emily McGuire is the Owner and Principal at Flourish & Grit, an email marketing and automation studio. She helps businesses uncover hidden revenue in their email lists by pairing customer journeys with high-converting email campaigns. With lessons learned over a decade in tech and e-commerce, sending thousands of email campaigns, and earning clients over $80 million in email campaign revenue, Emily loves sharing the time-tested strategies of email marketing done well.
Dr. Aaron LeBauer is the host of The CashPT® Lunch Hour Podcast, author of The CashPT® Blueprint, International Speaker, and has helped thousands of passionate physical therapists scale their time, income and impact without relying on insurance.
He is a Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Massage Therapist, and Baptiste Inspired Yoga Teacher. He owns LeBauer Physical Therapy, a 100% cash-based physical therapy practice in Greensboro, NC with his wife Andra. He started his practice so he could treat patients as unique individuals without the influence of insurance reimbursement. He has inspired thousands of others to do the same, even when physicians, professors, and other physical therapists have thought that it’s a crazy idea, unethical or will simply not work.
Dr. LeBauer is on a mission to save 100 million people from unnecessary surgery by helping other passionate therapists succeed in business and learn how to market directly to patients.
Dustin has been living and breathing software development for over 20 years, and received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is the Co-Founder of Caffeine Interactive Technologies, an agency that focuses on planning strategies and architecture based on clear ways to measure success. He enjoys working with clients to build the right technology, whether it's a multi-tiered mobile app or a simple website.
Dustin is a solopreneur and has built a thriving remote teamfor the last eight years.
In his spare time, Dustin enjoys playing tennis, fishing, reading, gardening, cooking, music, hiking, and hanging out with his family. He believes that a work-life balance is essential and loves discussing personal freedom, entrepreneurship, working with remote teams, and managing family crises.
Robbie Samuels is an author, speaker, and business growth strategy coach recognized as a networking expert by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc. He is also a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer recognized as an industry expert in the field of digital event design by JDC Events.
Robbie is the author of "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences" and "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List." He is a Harvard Business Review contributor.
His clients include thought leaders, entrepreneurial women, associations, national, and statewide advocacy organizations, women’s leadership summits, including Feeding America, California WIC Association, and AmeriCorps.
Robbie is the host of the On the Schmooze podcast and #NoMoreBadZoom Virtual Happy Hours.
Martyn Cook is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded a software company, built multiple 7-figure eCommerce brands, and co-founded a high-level digital entrepreneur mastermind that hosts luxury meet-ups around the world. He has spoken from stages around the world and still somehow found the time to self-publish two books.
Martyn’s latest project, Noobru.com, a cognition drink, is on a mission to fortify 1 Billion meals by 2025, helping to tackle the 2 Billion person, worldwide malnutrition problem.
Martyn absolutely loves connecting with interesting entrepreneurs and he regularly does that via his Smarter Destiny Podcast.
Felly Day is a Content Strategist and Marketing Mentor.
She balances her agency, Felly Day VA, and her mentorship clients from her laptop while living as a Digital Nomad.
She's passionate about feel-good marketing in business, that her clients feel good creating it and their clients feel good consuming it.
In 2022, she'll be focused on husband-hunting and empire building.
Author and Transformational Life Coach Kelley Cunningham offers her personal story of how she faced a 27 month season of multilayers of abrupt adversity, numerous emotional losses and tremendous life struggles, in her family including a split-second in time that quite literally swiped her and her family’s lives sideways. All combined to try to tear down the blissful life they had built together, but they rose within the wreckage, and Kelley dug her heals in and learned to lean on the powerful energy of joy - lifting her through to thrive. In Kelley’s book “The Power Of Joy: The Ultimate Guide to Living your Best Life Ever” she shows us simple ways to thrive when faced with unsurmountable and overwhelming circumstances.
It was during an extremely turbulent season where Kelley discovered how to support others, becoming certified as a professional life coach and started her own business, becoming the C.J.O. (Chief Joy Officer) of JoyINC.
She’s a proud mom of three amazing kids and has been married over 22 years to her incredible husband Jeffery living on both sides of the border in the U.S.A and Canada. Her broad spectrum of transitions and life experiences makes her an amazing mentor and coach, partnering with others to achieve exponential personal growth while fostering new levels of success in all areas of their lives.
Dr. Nadia holds a doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is passionate about helping women become more authentic, confident leaders who take charge of their careers.
She is a sales strategist, consultant, trainer, and founder of The Doyenne Agency. a sales agency that works with business owners, companies, and corporations to multiply revenue and awaken the consistent closer within your sales team using the Consistent Sales Method™. Nadia helps women learn to play the career game in business to advance their careers and professions.
When it comes to sales, women come to her timid and shaky about going after the money – they leave her strategic, strong, emboldened, and most importantly, paid.
Nadia brings over fifteen years of leadership experience, powerful conversations, achieving goals, and respect for people to develop a comprehensive sales process to increase closing rates and satisfied client retention. As a result, Nadia’s clients have seen tremendous results, such as raising their rates, decreasing their refund requests, and doubling or tripling their annual revenues, including helping clients increase their yearly revenue by 800%.
In just 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. At the same time, Dre built a content publishing empire.
Blogging since 2005 and publishing videos to YouTube starting in 2006, Dre has published over 8,000 videos with his content being viewed over 73 million times. Dre's daily Work On Your Game Podcast has over 3 million listeners.
Dre has given 4 TEDxTalks and authored 29 books.
Diane Tarshis is a seasoned business advisor and founder of Startup Distillery.
At the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Diane discovered a research center on campus and, as a student consultant, she worked with a range of local Philadelphia entrepreneurs, writing business plans and providing strategic counsel. The experience changed her life (as well as her long-term career goals).
She spent years working on Wall Street in investment banking, then moved to Chicago to work in operations and treasury for various Chicago-based companies, some with operations overseas. But Diane always knew that she would go back to working with entrepreneurs, and so started her own business.
For the last 20 years, she has helped over 200 entrepreneurs start their business by pulling from the same skills she developed during her days at Wharton and her run through corporate America. Diane uses her unique mix of finance, retail, manufacturing and operations experience to help entrepreneurs distill their ideas into profitable, growing businesses.
Michael Marra is a former civil engineer and now serial entrepreneur and investor. He is currently the CEO of Entre, a social network and e-learning platform for entrepreneurs. The community consists of over 15,000+ entrepreneurs from all over the world.
Entre is designed to help every new, young and growing entrepreneur, with divisions that provide individuals with cutting-edge education, shopping, financial and self-development. It is an all-in-one platform to connect with other like-minded individuals, start companies, work in startups, learn about investing, and develop your own skills to be the best and most true authentic self you can be.
Vincent Cheng was born, raised and presently resides in Canada, but his explorations across 32 countries have anchored his connection to diverse cultures, formulating a deep understanding of humanity at large.
He began his career as an electrical engineer in 2004, and a year later, alongside this, Vincent began his quest of conducting orchestras, choirs and operas. He coached and conducted hundreds of amateurs and professionals across Canada, USA, Europe and the Middle East in voice and musicianship. Vincent retired from engineering to fully devote his pursuit of the music profession and in 2012 sold all his possessions, traveled and conducted operas across the globe. In 2014, he returned to Canada and began his studies in psychotherapy, as he continued his conducting career.
These diverse worlds of work and life experiences led him to develop ‘Heal The Source’, a method that helps people fast-track their own healing based on their need for change and development. His visionary way of thinking and his intriguing ability to motivate and inspire is what guides him in serving others through Heal The Source to heal the world!
Sabine Gedeon is the Founder & CEO of Gedeon Enterprises, a coaching and consulting company dedicated to elevating, enriching, and empowering leaders to become the best version of themselves. She has been an author, a Business Partner and Leadership Strategist for over 15 years, and the President and Founder of SHE Leads Network, a network for impact-driven women in leadership, focused on transforming the way women work, lead, and do business together.
Sabine’s expertise includes career, leadership and life coaching, talent management and organizational and leadership development.
She helps clients show up as themselves, fully and confidently, so they become active participants in their lives and workspaces. Whether a team of one or a team of 99, Sabine works with founders, executives, and other emerging leaders, teaching them how to take courageous action towards achieving their goals, while humanizing and advancing their leadership ability.
Vikrant Shaurya is the CEO and Founder of BestsellingBook.com, and the author of two #1 bestsellers.
A lifelong lover of books, Vikrant started his first company, The Books Factory, to help thought leaders become book authors and gave new authors the platform they needed to grow their business using a white-glove service that produced not just ordinary books, but #1 bestsellers. Rebranding The Books Factory as BestsellingBook.com, he and his team are producing books that consistently transform their authors’ lives.
They help them win massively more clients; get invited to numerous TV shows, podcasts, and speaking gigs; and ultimately skyrocket their business like never before. Vikrant has already helped more than 500 aspiring authors become bestselling authors, win massively more clients; get invited to numerous TV shows, podcasts, and speaking gigs; and ultimately skyrocket their business like never before.
Integrative Productivity™ Expert, Angela Kristen Taylor, is mostly known for creating the Productive Flow Mastery™ methodology, her integrative whole body approach to productivity and business growth.
She’s made it her personal mission to help ambitious, purpose-driven entrepreneurs and sales professionals overcome stress & chaos so they can create the life and business they want and ultimately, the freedom and security they created their business to achieve.
Angela’s integrative productivity strategies helped her go from chaotic hot mess with big dreams and failed achievements to the woman who raised and homeschooled 5 children while running and growing a successful coaching company, and always creating the perfect balance for herself, her family, and her business, no matter what obstacle presented itself along the way.
Allan Ngo is the founder of Digital Solopreneur.
An email marketing trainer and consultant, Allan helps coaches and course creators boost sales, amplify engagement, and create lifelong customers using emails that people love to read and buy from.
Allan is a master storyteller with over 8 years of experience writing and consulting in various industries including — the stock market, insurance, overseas recruitment, ABAP development, language learning, and even women's fashion.
Chris Pistorius is the founder of KickStart Dental Marketing which has consistently been listed as one of the top dental marketing companies in the country. Having over 15 years of experience in dental marketing, he has worked with countless dentists & orthodontists, and he shares his expertise by giving marketing seminars across the country and hosting a weekly dental marketing podcast.
Before starting his dental marketing agency in 2009, Chris worked for online marketing giants AOL, Time Warner & MapQuest. He holds several online marketing certifications and is trained by Google on how businesses can get the most out of their marketing efforts. He’s also the author of “The Ultimate Guide to Internet Marketing for Dentists.”
Chris resides in the Denver, CO area with his wife Michele and two kids Kaitlyn & Brody.
Ai Ching Goh started her professional career with a degree in Experimental Psychology and a media position at P&G. She quickly discovered her entrepreneurial spirit, and transitioned to a startup mindset. Ai Ching co-founded a web app, which turned into Piktochart, a visual communications tool that makes it easy to condense and consume information. Piktostory, the latest product to the suite, enables content creators to repurpose their videos easily.
As a startup that operates from Penang, but serves over 25 million users globally, Ai Ching has taken an unconventional approach to growth. She goes against the grain of what the startup world teaches passionate entrepreneurs in areas including talent management, culture ”pruning" and bootstrapping.
Joy Clausen Soto is a keynote speaker who inspires audiences with her story of perseverance. She followed her dream to become a dolphin trainer at SeaWorld San Diego.
After that Joy pursued another dream by going to film school to become a filmmaker. Then at twenty-five she found a lump on her throat and an aggressive form of cancer. She made a documentary on her journey with the hope of showing a story of survival. Joy has spoken at TEDx, appeared on The Ziglar Show and most recently published her memoir entitled, “Joy: The story of a dolphin trainer, filmmaker, and cancer survivor.”
Joy Clausen Soto is the founder of the annual Dolphin Interaction Program for patients multiple children's hospitals. Joy lives in San Diego with her husband and two kids.
Recognizing the challenges faced by vacation owners, Ryan Beachum has sought to apply his knowledge of the hospitality industry to provide desperately needed solutions. Ryan saw an opportunity to serve timeshare owners beyond what was offered.
Beachum envisioned a company that would help timeshare owners share their unused time by connecting the millions of prepaid nights found at select timeshare resorts to people searching the leading online travel agencies, and it's been lauded for it's growth.
In 2016, Ryan created HelloVacay and has consistently led the industry in independent resort marketing and resales. Now, in 2021 he is set to launch a subscription-based, wholesalepriced travel membership in partnership with the Priceline Group.
Pascal Bachmann is an international speaker, author, life, and business strategist who empowers and coaches businessmen to be healthy and successful leaders in business and life.
After being a professional athlete on a world-class level, having a praxis for Asian therapies, creating 7 businesses in 3 different industries, generating more than $20 Million, and coached more than 20,000 people, he is in the position to share what he learned. The view and experiences from 3 different angles make him and his approach unique. He doesn’t share what he learned from books, but what real-life taught him.
Meredith Kallaher moved to Miami in 2012 and soon after purchased The Scout Guide Miami, a franchised publication featuring locally owned businesses. Guided by the principle that everything you need to live a well-curated life can be found within your own community, Meredith helped guide her clients' ideal customers straight to their doors.
Meredith graduated from the University of Mississippi with a Bachelor of Accountancy, received her CPA and spent the first 6 years of her career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC.
The combination of her experience proved to be perfect to create Meredith's new Digital Marketing Agency that helps business owners with Facebook and Instagram Ad Strategy and Management Agency, website conversion copy writing, or Kajabi build-outs, helping businesses EXPLODE their sales goals!
Salena is host of the popular podcast Bringing Business to Retail, as well as a global speaker & presenter on scaling retail businesses.
She has developed a reputation for being allergic to ‘playing small’ - combining a no-nonsense approach with a deep understanding of exactly what is needed to be a successful independent retailer.
Everything she does is focused on helping other business owners take the action they need to flourish, succeed and realize their big vision.
Bill McCormick discovered the power of LinkedIn and social selling when he and his wife started their advertising specialty company over 5 years ago. With only a handful of clients, he quickly became a student of social selling, discovering how to find leads and generate sales.
Now, Bill’s passion is to take what he’s learned and pass that on to those in sales, helping them leverage LinkedIn to build stronger relationships, taking connections from the digital space to the face-to-face.
Bill is the CSO of Social Sales Link as well as a member of The Sales Experts Channel where he co-hosts a weekly show, Making Sales Social which will be released as a podcast in the very near future.
Rowan Wiechmann is a High Performance Coach and founder of The Pure Man. As an Entrepreneur and former Military Sergeant, Rowan is a Leader of Ambitious Entrepreneurs, engaging them for 2-7 Times their growth in Business and all areas of their lives.
Connect with Chelsea Cohen, an Amazon inventory management expert and the co-founder of SoStocked.com, which is an Amazon inventory management software.
Chelsea’s also a 7-figure Amazon seller, speaker & consultant. Her regular clients include 7 & 8-figure sellers. She has been featured on AM/PM Podcast, Seller Stories with Jungle Scout & the Amazing Summit stage, among others.
Joe Bernstein Founded Drop the Armor Wellness because he is on a mission to help other men feel the love and freedom that he learned to cultivate when his life fell apart in 2013. After learning to thrive romantically in response to divorce, losing 160 lbs without diets, and leaving his 1st career to build a mission focused business, he became LIT UP to help other men do the same.
His clients are often successful business owners, executives in tech, top individual performers, leaders, creatives, entrepreneurs or anyone who wants a Lit Up Life. They are big hearted men that often feel stuck in their heads, stuck in their careers and desiring more social or romantic connection. Joe helps them to let go of overthinking and using stress as a motivator, to live a life rooted in a clear head, an open heart, and solid guts.
Dr. Stephanie has a proven reputation of excellence and professionalism among clients and peers alike in Higher Education Management, as a Multi-Award winning Educator and sought after Allied Health-Higher Education Dean.
Now, as a Certified Raw Dog Nutrition Specialist, Author, Functional Medicine Educator and more, she is well versed in helping clients attain their own success.
Pursuing her greatest passion, she is a published author as well as a, Certified Raw Dog Food Nutrition Specialist, a Certified and Accredited Animal Psychology/Pets Behavior Specialist and more.
She is incredibly passionate about providing Pet Wellness Coaching for dogs and horses to reverse disease and stop pain and suffering of these animals all over the world, and has been in the equestrian and dog industry for over 38 years, and is also a licensed Broker/IL a Licensed Realtor/MI, assisting buyers and sellers nationwide.
Arif is a CTO, technology disruptor and angel investor. He specialises in combining strategy with cutting-edge technology to deliver impact at speed for the modern business world.
He has experience managing budgets c.$1bn+, P&L $900m+, and led teams of 2,000+ people. He has also been a founder and angel investor to multiple successful start-ups.
Arif uses a pragmatic, value driven style to find ways that the latest innovations and next-generation technology can fuel company success to transform businesses and improve financial performance.
He currently advises some of the World's largest and most iconic companies on digital innovation, growth, strategy and technology.
Jim Clouse is the Founder, CEO and inventor of ClikitySplit, the world’s first and only real time dynamic marketing engine as well as the world’s fastest vertical search engine.
Jim is a pioneer in online mapping and GPS use, built his first website in February 1998, has been making his living online full-time for the past 23 years and in 2020 received a patent on his real time marketing technology.
ClikitySplit is built for both business owners and end users, and through it's unique approach and technology implementation Jim wants to level the playing field and help savvy marketers differentiate their business, seize attention and earn the end user’s patronage.
Shaahin Cheyene is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of the start-up Accelerated Intelligence. Cheyene shares his passion to accelerate intelligence through his latest company and products and is positioning the company to be the leader in the brain nutrition space.
Born in Iran, Cheyene is an award winning entrepreneur, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles, California. In the early 1990′s while still in his teens, Cheyene spearheaded the “Smart Drug Movement” by inventing and branding the original legal Herbal Ecstacy, which became a global phenomenon selling millions of units all over the world. In the early 2000’s Cheyene worked with several major pharmaceutical companies to bring the technologies and benefits of plant medicines to the mainstream.
In 2000 Cheyene invented, patented and developed a revolutionary new medicine delivery technology with the Vapir Vaporizer, which continues to sell millions of units worldwide, preparing Vapir for the public markets but subsequently selling it in 2006.
Aidan Sowa is a entrepreneur who got into the digital marketing space in 2016 due to working with the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge.
Aidan is now the founder and CEO of Sowa Marketing Agency. Sowa Marketing Agency is a Rhode Island company that specializes in helping entrepreneurs get featured in the media, guaranteed.
Aidan believes all entrepreneurs should focus on building their brand as they either have the choice to differentiate themselves from their competition or die as a commodity.
Lisa is Chief Marketing Officer at Marketplace SuperHeroes, an 8-figure online education and services platform for people who want to create a 5-7 figure income stream selling simple, everyday items on Amazon.
Lisa has played a key role in Marketplace SuperHeroes’ rapid growth from 0- $10MM. Marketplace SuperHeroes and their rapidly expanding team of 80 people aim to impact 1 million people worldwide.
Her and her partners' new and exciting venture called Grow My Reach are now focusing on helping existing business owners to create Perpetual Launch systems and adopt the marketing strategies and methods that have helped these unknown entrepreneurs build multiple 8+ figure businesses.
Let's Talk Subscriptions! For over 20-years, Paul has built, scaled, and sold multiple subscription-focused businesses and today runs the largest conference and trade group focused on the DTC subscription space.
An around-the-clock volunteer firefighter, husband, and father of four, Paul's passion for helping others is a central part of his character. From launching a SaaS company at SXSW to building one of the biggest brands in the subscription box economy, Paul has a handle on every aspect of a subscription-focused business and knows exactly how they succeed… and fail.
Jarod Spiewak is the founder and lead strategist of Comet Fuel, a boutique, strategy-first, marketing agency.
Jarod got his start in the world of marketing at the age of 14 to make money online to pay for college, which he started attending at 15.
Years past, and several next-to free gigs and “real jobs” later (including as a marketing strategist), Jarod didn't feel as though the agency that he wanted to work for existed, so he started it instead. Over the past few years, Comet Fuel (formerly Blue Dog Media) focuses on long-term growth without the typical agency BS, and has successfully managed over $10MM in advertising spend and has returned millions of dollars in profit to their clients.
Raúl Galera is the Chief Advocate at ReferralCandy, an app that allows ecommerce brands to set up and run customer referral programs. ReferralCandy is the leading platform in terms of referral marketing for ecommerce brands. Founded over 10 years ago, ReferralCandy has helped over 30,000 brands leverage the power of word-of-mouth and turn their customer base into their marketing team.
Referral marketing is a blend of organic content, community marketing and influencer marketing. Word-of-mouth is a powerful channel for both successful global names as well as new, niche brands. Referral marketing blends perfectly with brands that have a clear customer-centric approach, making it affordable for companies of any size to attract new customers while retaining existing ones.
Raúl has been leading ReferralCandy’s partnership efforts for the past five years, working alongside marketing agencies, media and tech companies. On a regular day, you’ll likely find him with a half-full cup of coffee next to him and a salsa playlist playing on his Spotify.
With broad experience providing executive leadership and business counsel to companies across industries including retail, manufacturing, energy, medical/bio and tech, Andrew founded DOPE CFO and has built a national cannabis accounting/bookkeeping and tax training program to help students in all 50 states unlock a new world of clients, empowering them to start their own practices and create a stream of wealth for themselves in the newly developed Cannabis and CBD/Hemp industry.
Andrew was runner up for Portland Business Journal's CFO of the Year in 2017, making him the first cannabis CFO to ever be nominated. He has served in Big 4 including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, as well as the winner of the 1995 Gold Medal Award for the highest score on the CPA exam. He is an expert in cannabis startups, CFO services, turnaround and high-growth strategies, capital sourcing, mergers, exits and wealth protection.
Mark Butler is the founder of the accounting startup Let’s Do the Books, as well as the bookkeeper, CFO and confidante to top online entrepreneurs like Brooke Castillo.
Before working in finance, Mark co-founded three online businesses that brought in close to $2 million in total revenue. Today, Mark combines his business savvy with his certification in life coaching to help business owners take control of their finances and work through the shame and anxiety that almost always comes up when dealing with money.
Lucas Walker is a serial entrepreneur having started three successful businesses in the software, ecommerce, and media spaces. Working on bootstrapped and venture funded companies, there are just a handful of people with the experience Lucas has.
He hosts two industry shows, and his currect favorite topic relates to the 'Key Automation You Need to Set Up in Your Store'.
Oz (Oguz) Konar is a passionate entrepreneur and multiple seven figure business owner whose mission is to help people design and build their dream businesses. His mission is to revolutionize the Alternative Lending Industry, one Business Loan Broker at a time.
Oz is the author of two books and speaks at national and international events several times a year. His training programs (including Business Lending Blueprint) are responsible for creating multiple 6 and 7 figure earners and has helped countless people quit their jobs and become hyper profitable entrepreneurs.
Jennifer Dopazo is a graphic designer specializing in Brand Identity, Interaction Design and UX/UI Design. She’s the founder of multimedia design studio Candelita and a 3-time American Graphic Design Award winner.
Jennifer helps organizations attract their dream clients by translating their big vision into an awesome digital experience with a unified brand. She’s worked with companies like The New York Times, Pepsi and Nickelodeon, along with authors like Danielle LaPorte.
From humble beginnings as a child of immigrant parents, Ashwin Jacob worked hard to surpass all expectations of a predictable, mediocre life.
At 19 he broke into the entertainment industry, and by 27 moved to LA with less the $500 in his pocket. Less than a year later he was working with Fortune 500 companies such as NBC Universal, Disney, BMW, and Microsoft.
On his podcast, New Hollywood, he's sharing the stories of insiders in the world of entertainment, technology, fashion, and business, in hopes of helping others achieve success and reshape their own “mediocre destinies”.
Mike Rhodes is the CEO and founder AgencySavvy and WebSavvy, and co-author of the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads ‘The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads’.
Since 2006, Mike and his award-winning digital marketing agency WebSavvy have been running campaigns for brands around the globe, and it’s now one of Australia’s largest independent Google agencies.
Mike’s passion for the future of AI and Machine Learning has resulted at him speaking at over 100 events around the world. A teacher at heart, Mike is passionate about the AgencySavvy community and helping agency owners to ‘do’ Google Ads better and scale their agency.
Joris Bryon is the founder and CEO of Dexter Agency, a remote team of e-commerce conversion optimization and email marketing specialists. The agency serves high revenue e-commerce stores that are ready for continuous growth. With over 1500 A/B tests under his belt, Joris wrote the book “Kill Your Conversion Killers” to help all the online stores he hasn’t worked with (yet).
Joris Bryon is the founder and CEO of Dexter Agency, a remote team of e-commerce conversion optimization and email marketing specialists. The agency serves high revenue e-commerce stores that are ready for continuous growth. With over 1500 A/B tests under his belt, Joris wrote the book “Kill Your Conversion Killers” to help all the online stores he hasn’t worked with (yet).
Coming from an unusually unique and diverse professional background himself, Nathan brings to his clients a rare viewpoint on networking, job-search and career development. The formally trained actor simultaneously developed a business career, and prior to his work as an executive career coach, Nathan was Vice President of Research in the retained search industry, where he was responsible for the first step of the executive recruitment process for global search engagements.
Networking was and continues to be a day-to-day function of his job, and because of his combined professional expertise, Nathan regularly works with professionals from all different backgrounds and experience levels. This includes everyone from Hollywood movie stars and producers, to sound engineers, fashion designers, new college grads, non-profit and civic leaders, veterans and senior global executives. He has been cited by The Huffington Post as one of the most connected people on LinkedIn, world-wide.
Kevin Wessels is the Founder and Managing Director of RevSherpas LLC, a boutique business growth advisory and customer experience strategy consulting firm for small to mid-sized businesses. He has over 10 years of revenue growth acceleration consulting experience scaling global companies via strategic CRM and digital customer experience transformations using his internationally proven and proprietary Client Connect!™ formula.
A multi-published author, his specialties are building client-centric company cultures, improving sales and service rep productivity, increasing client retention, and revitalizing underperforming marketing and lead generation strategies to double revenues and create more consistent cash flow... quickly, inexpensively, and with less effort.
Birgit Yegülalp is an upcoming inspirational and motivational speaker. She is the founder and owner of The Cheering With Birgit Podcast and offers online training & coaching programs. This show is geared towards empowering people dealing with uncertainty and fear of facing their fears to unlock their potential of living their lives to the fullest. Birgit notes that it is out of their comfort zones that people can gain personal fulfillment and satisfaction.
Having faced her own fears including an eating addiction that left her obese, issues with self-confidence and depression, Birgit now freely shares the tactics she uses while tackling her fears and does this with her online training programs and her podcast.
David Friedman is an award-winning CEO, entrepreneur, author, and renowned public speaker. In 2011, he published his first book, Fundamentally Different, which is based on the insights he learned and taught throughout his leadership career, and in 2018 he published his second book, Culture by Design, the definitive “how to” manual for building a high-performance culture.
His current company, High Performing Culture, has helped hundreds of companies throughout North America to implement his culture operating system, CultureWise™.
Agnese Rudzate is a Productivity Strategist and Time-management expert with a professional background in Quality Management and Empowerment Coaching. She has turned her passion for organizing into her mission helping women get more productive in life and business so they could gain the confidence, clarity, and time freedom they deserve.
Through structure, systems, and processes that bring results, Agnese teaches her clients to scale in their business while increasing time freedom.
Chris Michael Harris is the Founder or StartupU, an interactive learning platform that helps people start and grow their online businesses. Chris is also the host of StartupU Podcast + StartupU TV.
The podcast frequently trends in the Top 100 around the world and has featured guests such as Daymond John, Barbara Corcoran, Grant Cardone, Guy Kawasaki, Jack Canfield, Marie Forleo, Dave Asprey, Dr. Josh Axe, and 40+ New York Times Best Selling Authors.
Caitlin Strempel, CEO of Rising Ranks Digital, is an SEO expert & digital strategist who helps business owners get to the top of their industry by getting to the top of Google. Working with local-based businesses all the way to large-scale global brands such as Under Armour, Lexus and more, Caitlin is proud to have a 100% success rate at getting her clients to the first page of Google.
She believes that everyone has a message and it's our duty to share that message with the people who need it the most!
Bryan Clayton is CEO and Co-Founder of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects home owners with local lawn care professionals.
Bryan's first work experience was a grass cutting business prompted by his father, and that launched a lifelong entrepreneurial journey. After growing one of the largest landscaping companies in Tennessee from scratch to eventually sell the business, he has successfully transitioned from a blue collar traditional type of business to an online tech business, and is anxious to help others make the same move.
Mike Begg is a 30 year old entrepreneur that has extensive experience in building eCommerce and online businesses.
Mike's first businesses, two Amazon private label brands, grew to over $1 million in sales. Mike went on to found AMZ Advisers with his two partners, taking his knowledge as a seller to help other brands succeed on Amazon. They have grown AMZ to managing over $10 million per year in ad spend and more than $100 million per year in Amazon sales and also operate AMZ Courses which educate Amazon sellers on how to increase sales on the platform.
Mike enjoys scaling and finding ways to do things better, and has built international office for his company in Mexico where he currently residesand he loves sharing tips on anything related to Amazon and improving business efficiency.
Ali Shah is the Founder of TapeReal, a social networking app where you can record and only engage through audio and video.
Ali comes from a technology background and has started five companies, but he experienced a transformational journey in South America that made him realize when we personally connect with others we improve our mental health, feel a sense of belonging, and strengthen our relationships. He believes traditional social media has erected barriers between humans, and hijacked our natural way of communication, and we need to return to a pure and natural way of communication.
His mission is to champion the bond of human connection by helping people truly connect and be themselves in a safe, inspiring, and knowledgeable community where everyone can be heard while building a legacy of meaningful memories.
Jyotsna is a bestselling author, book publisher, TEDx speaker, and is an international Author Success Coach who helps coaches, trainers, speakers, and experts to build a super-profitable author funnel with the help of their book.
She founded Author Success Academy to help aspiring authors finally finish their book, get it professionally published, market it into a bestseller, and use that position to grow their business. So far, Jyotsna has helped over 400 authors from 35 different countries through her global publishing agency, Happy Self Publishing.
While Jyotsna isn’t working, this mom of 2 kids also loves to dance, run, plan her next solo trip, and is a passionate advocate for educational rights.
Tyler Sullivan is the founder of BombTech Golf, an eCommerce store with over $20 million sold online since 2012. Tyler also runs EcomGrowers where he and his team have helped countless Shopify owners add 6-7 figures in additional sales to their eCommerce stores by optimizing email systems and ad campaigns to find hidden revenue streams.
Over the years Tyler has come to learn the formula for running successful and profitable eCommerce businesses. He believes that even with online companies there is huge value in having real conversations with customers and potential buyers. Tyler is hyper-focused on the customer experience and operating a lean business that doesn't just drive revenue but drives serious profit and cash flow.
Originally from Mexico, Gus is former Microsoft Senior Engineer turned Real Estate Agent turned Inside Sales guru.
He runs one of the largest Inside Sales teams for Real Estate in North America. PowerISA is 65 Agents strong, making about 50K outbound dials and setting about 100 Appointments with Real Estate Buyers and Sellers every day, mostly from Facebook leads.
Gus runs a 7-figure a year business and has over 600 active clients. He is very passionate about helping business owners be successful through online marketing, lead follow-up and conversion.
Michael Loban is the Chief Growth Officer at InfoTrust, a global analytics consulting and data governance company.
When he is not motivating organizations to undertake a digital transformation, Michael can be found passing on the power of digital analytics to the next generation of marketers and analysts through his roles as Term Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati and Adjunct Faculty at Xavier University. He is also a presenter and author, with work published in Forbes, AdWeek, and CIO Magazine.
"Michael has the rare skill of taking complex subjects (web analytics, digital marketing) and making them easy to understand for everyone."
Shawn Livermore has been a tech startup founder, entrepreneur, and technology consultant for over 20 years. He’s written books on software development and writes software in many programming languages.
After raising investment capital for his startups 6 times, Shawn began to look beyond the code to see the bigger picture: The systems, patterns, and models of thinking that most deserve our attention. Instead of hype and hustle, Shawn focuses on tangible, factual, and replicable bits and bytes that most people wouldn’t see or pay attention to. From small fragments, Shawn can assemble larger stories to help people think, speak and create like a tech genius.
Jason Klug is a serial entrepreneur and has founded 3 successful companies in the past decade. Jason was always captivated by how products were made studied mechanical engineering in college, and during his senior year, Jason decided to withdraw from college in order to pursue his product development passions.
After selling his first company making iPad and tablet enclosureshe was propelled into entrepreneurism. Starting Klugonyx out of his 1-bedroom apartment, it quickly became a full-service product development firm and it’s been the core of everything Jason does and loves to do since.
His dream has always been, and continues to be, helping others become successful. Through Klugonyx, he aids other founders and entrepreneurs with the entirety of their product development journey, while also building more brands and products on the side that will help expand the quality of others’ lives.
Bob Wheeler’s crusade for personal growth has crosspollinated with his accounting practice to create a new approach to personal finances. His passion is to help others gain insights about how their emotions trigger financial decisions. Combining finances with behaviors, Bob explores his personal concept of creating a healthy relationship with money in his recent book, The Money Nerve.
While strengthening his accounting practice, Bob has simultaneously ventured into the realm of standup comedy, distilling a concoction of warmth, humor, information, motivation and budgeting directives. He is also currently the CFO for The World Famous Comedy Store.
Bob has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, ascended to the Mount Everest Base Camp, and hiked several smaller mountains in between. With charm and humor, his experiences feed his wit as a stand-up comic and financial motivator.
JP Clement is the CEO of boomtime. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing, digital strategy and product management for companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Madison Square Garden, General Mills, DFS Group Ltd., Johnson & Johnson and National Geographic. JP has worked for or helped companies in both the B2C and the B2B sectors and founded three digital strategy and marketing agencies after working for many years on the corporate side of marketing.
JP’s passions are analytics, digital products and creating the right strategy at the right time for the right audience.
David Emmons has been an artist for decades, selling his copper and stained glass hanging water gardens at the most prestigious Art Festivals in the country. He spent over 30 years setting up and tearing down, with countless days sitting in the rain. Feeling the disappointment of merely breaking even, he missed his wife, his kids, and more.
So David made a shift and it changed his life. Instead of his previous 30 shows a year, he now only exhibits at 1 or 2 of his favorite shows. Using his social and online marketing skills, his internet business increased by 1,000% and is rising monthly. Now that he is free of the frustration of working so hard, David has turned his focus towards helping others create this same freedom and success for themselves.
Kristin Molenaar is an entrepreneur-enthusiast who lives by the mantra: Work Less, Make More - which has enabled her to build a 6 figure business while working an average of just 5 hours per week.
Kristin's mission to eradicate entrepreneurial stress fuels her passion for sharing the 3 crucial steps every entrepreneur needs to take to achieve true freedom in business. Kristin is the founder of the podcast booking agency, YesBoss VA. At YesBoss, she and her team help service-based business owners book podcast features, so they can generate new leads in just one hour per week.
When Kristin isn't growing businesses, she can be found advocating for foster care and adoption.
Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies.
Salesflare itself was founded when Jeroen and his co-founder Lieven wanted to follow up the leads for their software company in an easier way. They didn't like to keep track of their leads manually and built Salesflare, which pulls customer data together automatically and then actively helps you to follow up.
It's now the most popular CRM on Product Hunt and top rated on review platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.
Andrew Rey helps entrepreneurs and business people get corporate credit, so they can grow their business without ruining their finances.
His mission is to help business owners start, build and scale their businesses using little known yet highly effective business credit and financing strategies that most people are still completely clueless about. He works with Business Owners, Real Estate Investors and aspiring Business Owners who want to scale their businesses fast and need the cash to make it happen. Even if you’re just getting started and have terrible credit, there’s a good chance they can help. He is also a best-selling Author on Amazon.
Matt Gillis has 20+ years of mobile, media, and technology expertise with a history of building and operating companies from startup to scaled global market leader delivering $1B+ in annual revenues.
He spent the last 8 years prior to joining clean.io in the digital media industry leading the publisher platforms business at Millennial Media and Oath (now called Verizon Media, which was the combination of AOL/Yahoo). He also led mobile videogame startup Cosmic Infinity to its eventual acquisition by Japanese videogame publisher Capcom.
Matt is married with three great kids.
Arjun Rai is a NYC based entrepreneur who is on a mission to support small businesses with the power of visualized data science and artificial intelligence for digital marketing at HelloWoofy.com. A firm believer that every SMB should have an unfair advantage to compete against unlimited marketing budgets.
Since high school, Arjun has been networking with some of the most well known entrepreneurs and even worked on a few projects and startups of his own. Upon graduation, Arjun pursued his career opportunities and came to New York City where he enrolled at the New York Institute of Technology, and a few weeks into college, Arjun launched his second startup, fuelbrite.com, a social media agency focused on small businesses and startups, and a student-focused organization, TheBizDen. Arjun currently lives in New York City with his girlfriend, two cats and a dog.
Maxine Nwaneri is the Founder of The Future is Greater. She lifted herself up from homelessness & addiction to become a Cambridge MBA Graduate, top leader in the Tech Financing Industry, and now Executive Coach and Consultant helping individuals and businesses achieve results they thought were impossible.
She has helped clients on 5 continents achieve extraordinary results, using tips, tools & techniques developed from over two decades of dedication to radical growth and transformation. She is passionate about helping clients overcome difficult circumstances, so that they can thrive, not just survive during challenging times, and experience peace, purpose, and success.
Her work and message have been featured on several stages and publications internationally including HuffPost, Success Magazine, and Thrive Global.
Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.
Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play, and he has been recognized and featured in major groups, publications and media outlets
Jeff believes that we already have many of the answers we seek, and by simply unleashing our inner child, we can find our purpose and, in turn, help to create a better world.
Veronica teaches accounting, bookkeeping and tax business owners how to create and repurpose content to have massive visibility online, attract and convert the right audience to grow their business.
In late 2010, after 20 years in Corporate America as an Accounting and Finance executive Veronica found herself craving flexibility, creative freedom and building something of my own. She launched and grew her own offline CFO consulting practice, but found she could not scale with the business model she’d built. Expanding her consulting practice to the online space gave her leverage to create a business she absolutely L-O-V-Es!
Through her simple framework, you’ll learn how to create content and repurpose it to give you maximum exposure and stretch out the life of the content you spent time creating. Veronica can help to UP-LEVEL and love your content creation strategy to grow your business online!
Caleb and his wife began their married life by purchasing more than 50 books about writing. The newlyweds would often pen stories for hours at a time while serving as live-in night managers at a retirement facility.
Caleb spent the next decade breaking into the traditional publishing industry. He sold 20,000 books but found himself unsatisfied with the results. So he took a four-year break to learn marketing secrets from a mentor who'd spent $1 billion in online ads. What good is a message, after all, if you can't get it out to the world? Now he's helped hundreds of aspiring authors write books, build platforms, and win book contracts.
Caleb believes books are the big domino that knock down all of the MASSIVE aspects of impacting lives, such as building your authority, growing your fanbase, accelerating your profits, and increasing your influence. Writing a book helps you do work you're passionate about and leaves a legacy that stands the test of time. If that resonates with you, get in touch with Caleb and his team.
Ever since his mother signed him up for piano lessons at age five, Thornton Cline has been writing non-stop. With over 1,000 published songs, 150 recorded songs, 32 traditionally published adult, children’s and YA books published, Thornton Cline has been nominated multiple times for Grammy and Dove Awards. In 2017, Cline won a first-place Maxy Literary Award for “Best Children’s Young Adult Book” and his books have appeared at the top of the Amazon bestselling charts. Cline has been honored with “Songwriter of the Year” twice-in-a row and has received a platinum award for certified sales of over one million units in Europe.
Cline continues to mentor, speak, teach, and inspire aspiring authors and songwriters around the world. When Cline isn't writing, he is teaching at Welch College in Middle Tennessee. He resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee with his wife, Audrey and their cat, Kiki.
Curt Mercadante is founder of Merc Enterprises and he is a branding expert, speaker and business strategist who helps businesses increase authority brand exposure to the right clients so they can make more money.
For more than 25 years, Curt has counseled small businesses and entrepreneurs, as well as some of the largest corporations and associations in the country. He’s built three profitable businesses, including a 7-figure Public Relations and Advertising agency. Curt is also a Gallup-Certified Strengths Trainer, host of the Freedom Mindset Radio podcast, and author of the bestselling book, “Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle.”
Curt has spoken, trained, and coached around the world. He and his wife, Julie, and four children reside in Charleston, SC.
Parker is a co-owner and the Chief Business Officer at Evolved Finance; a bookkeeping agency that specializes in helping online entrepreneurs to build more profitable and financially stable online businesses. For over 6 years, Parker has been advising some of the top coaches, course creators, influencers, and thought leaders on how to make more sound business decisions using their financial data.
Before joining Evolved Finance, Parker spent five years at adidas America where he became the US product manager for a $50-million dollar a year product category.
Damian Prosalendis became a self made millionaire at 20 years old. Just 1.5 years earlier he was sleeping on a mattress he picked up from the trash. He used to live in a roach infested dorm room and distribute flyers on the street for 1 euros per hour. By the age of 21, he had founded and ran 3 companies.
Damian created the world’s largest consulting firm for Amazon Sellers, known as SPXMAC, which serviced over 10,000 clients from 116 countries, ranging from new start-ups to multi million dollar e-commerce brands. Thus, he was interviewed and featured on the world-class, prestigious Forbes Magazine.
Now, at the age of 24, Damian Prosalendis has expanded his business empire by starting several new ventures. These include Badass Talent, a model and talent management agency in Miami, Studio Badass which is a video production studio that focuses on luxury living and lifestyle productions, and Anax Publishing which is a digital media and publishing company that specializes in personal development publications.
Alexandria is an Empowerment Coach & Business Mentor for aspiring entrepreneurs. Her mission is to help women make their dream life a reality. She aims to help women move from feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and lost to feeling aligned, motivated, and driven by a clear vision.
Having always followed the “rules of life”, Alexandria was thriving on the outside but on the inside, she was fighting a battle with anxiety which ultimately resulted in a breakdown. Her breakdown became her breakthrough, as she realized that her depression was not an illness but a symptom - a sign of how unhappy she was with the life she had created.
he ripped up the rule book, left her corporate job and decided to create her own path - one that would inspire and empower other women to do the same.
Elizabeth Pampalone is an International Speaker, Successful Entrepreneur, and Expert Marketer with over 20 years of experience.
Her innovative approach helps overwhelmed business owners and burnt out nonprofit directors to achieve success and freedom through the power of Absolute Marketing™.
Devin Miller is a long-time entrepreneur who is also a patent and trademark attorney, with several degrees including a Law degree (JD), an MBA, Electrical Engineering and Mandarin Chinese degrees.
While working for a large law firm helping Fortune 100 clients like Amazon.com, Intel, Redhat, and Ford with their intellectual property, Devin quickly realized that there weren’t many good intellectual property legal resources out there for start-ups and small businesses. As an entrepreneur himself, he wanted to help other small business owners learn about patents, trademarks, and copyrights so they can build value into their businesses and protect their assets.
In addition to founding and running his own patent and trademark law firm, Miller IP Law, he is the co-founder of several startups and runs a product development company that helps startups and small businesses with developing their ideas and products.
Tony has helped thousands of businesses survive crises, navigate uncertainties and emerge stronger on the other side. As a child, Tony experienced firsthand the devastating crisis of business failure when his parents’ small business failed and they lost everything, including their home. Its impact on his life was powerful, and shaped his entire 20-year career. As an entrepreneur, business owner, and enterprise marketer, Tony worked with, literally, the best businesses in every industry, learning how they grow consistently and predictably, using adversity to pivot towards opportunity in order to survive and thrive in all manner of economic conditions. His mission now is to share with small business owners and entrepreneurs exactly what to do and how to make it happen. He believes that by growing small businesses, together we can impact not just our local communities but also our world.
Nora A. Gay is a senior financial strategist at Rise North Capital who believes in utilizing both data and insight to create extreme wealth for families and businesses. Following the launch of a market research firm, Gay built an MFS platform on the blockchain technology to facilitate access to money for individuals in the Caribbean. After years of hosting financial literacy workshops and implementing financial strategies for her clients, Gay has written the book Get Minted! to bring the financial advisor’s way of growing wealth directly to families.
Both an entrepreneur and coach, Cara’s journey began at 5 years old, growing up in her family business where her education started around the kitchen table… Starting her first business at 15 and spent over 15 years as a Director in the family business an award-winning healthcare & hospitality group which grew from 3 businesses with 250 employees to 7 businesses and 600 employees. In 2018 Cara totally disrupted the elderly healthcare industry in Ireland creating the first ‘Lifestyle Care Home’ cited by IoD chairman as a ‘world class concept.’ After 15 years in her family business, Cara's burning desire to help dynamic entrepreneurs think innovatively, act courageously, develop a powerful mindset and create meaningful change gave birth to Caram - a unique method of business acumen and mindset coaching Cara with growing entrepreneurs to create even greater success.
Jordan Carroll has worked over 5 years remotely in the US and while traveling internationally for a Fortune 50 company, start-ups, and his own businesses. He's lived in over 15 countries on 5 continents in the past two years and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council. He creates content, courses, and coaching programs to help high performers learn a process to land legitimate remote jobs and gain freedom and flexibility in their lives.
Krishna Mohan is an Entrepreneur, Business Coach, Speaker, #1 Best-selling Author, as seen on FOX TV and multiple media outlets, President of Genius Visionary. Krishna has deep grasp on the understanding of business through his extensive experience working in Manufacturing, Consumer Durables, Telecom, Information Technology, Energy and Data Center Industries. Over the last 20 years he has helped 3 Fortune 500 companies and several start-up organizations focusing on Sales, Business Development and Finance. He has achieved definitive and long-term outcomes and generated millions of dollars in annual profits. Krishna has a Master’s Degree in Marketing Management MMM, an MBA-International Business and an MS in Finance. He is an acclaimed speaker and regularly speaks in various corporate events, boot camps and management trainings.
Case Lane is a global writer, traveler, observer to the future, and the founder of Ready Entrepreneur. Ready Entrepreneur prepares aspiring entrepreneurs to understand how to take advantage of technology and global resources to achieve lifestyle freedom by starting their own online business. A former diplomat, consultant and corporate executive, Case is educated in communications, political science, business, law and economics, has lived, studied or worked in eleven different countries and has visited over 100 others. The Ready Entrepreneur approach to lifestyle freedom is based on her education, experience, observations and interactions with entrepreneurs all over the world.
Kenya Brooks-Jones is the President & CIO of Jones Software Corp. Launched in 2015, Kenya leverages her expertise, Executive Leadership experience and business acumen to effectively position Jones Software Corporation as a Sustainable leader in the Ed-Tech Community! Jones Software Corp., develops an Adapative Personalized Educational Learning Platform. Kenya provides mentoring, tutoring and coaching to Primary, Secondary, Adult Learners, S.T.E.M., Career and Development, focused on lifelong learning skills, critical thinking, and leadership, utilizing resources and human capital from Volunteers, Universities and Technology Corporations. Additionally, Kenya serves with several organizations as a mentor and Leader.
Chris Meade is the co-founder of CROSSNET, the world's first four-way volleyball game. CROSSNET combines elements of the childhood game four square and volleyball in a competitive game to 11, win by 2. CROSSNET is now available at major retailers.
Dawn Apuan is a copywriter and funnel strategist. Former pastor and non-profit Executive Director, her mission now is to help female entrepreneurs communicate a compelling message and automate leads and sales that generate consistent income using a funnel that fits their business needs. She masterfully designs funnels and writes killer copy that converts for her clients.
Award-winning actor, singer, and certified wellness coach Debra Wanger has performed in theaters, cabarets, and screens from New York to Los Angeles. She’s a sought-after public speaker leading workshops at university theater programs and corporate groups across the country. While working at CAA and as a talent manager, she helped guide the careers of many top Hollywood names. Debra draws wisdom from decades of working as an actor, talent manager, and lifestyle coach to give actors and creatives a holistic approach to their profession that marries mind, body, spirit, and craft.
Victoria Lioznyansky teaches introverted entrepreneurs and business professionals how to overcome their fear of public speaking and become confident, compelling, captivating speakers. After moving to the US two decades ago with limited English, Victoria overcame her crippling fear of public speaking to build several businesses, teach in a variety of industries, and speak in front of small and large audiences. She has appeared on Fox News and has been featured in numerous publications, including CBS Houston and BizWest Media. Taking her own experiences of going from scared to sought-after speaker, Victoria founded Brilliant Speakers Academy™, an online public speaking coaching program for introverts. She also owns Nutty Scientists of Houston, a passion project about inspiring kids to fall in love with science. Victoria holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and is currently completing a Master of Arts Degree in Communications and Media Technologies. She lives in Houston with her husband and two sons.
Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make college more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 years of experience and 2 prior exits from a publicly traded company. He has been a board member and donor to a number of non-profits, an advisor to many publicly traded companies and a guest speaker at seminars and graduate school courses. He graduated with honors from University of California Irvine in Economics.
Michael Ainslie is the former president and CEO of Sotheby’s, the former president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and a former director of Lehman Brothers. He was also the founding chairman of The Posse Foundation, serving in that role for 13 years and continuing today as an active board member and mentor to scores of Posse scholars and alums. As a man who has always embraced the adventures and misadventures of business and life, Michael describes in his book his personal experience with several high-profile events, including the events that led to the largest bankruptcy filing in US history and the price-fixing scandal between Sotheby’s and Christie’s, a scandal that rocked the art world and sent the ex-chair of Sotheby’s to prison. Ainslie’s memoir shows that sometimes, the greatest lessons in life are a direct result of the challenges we face.
Miha Matlievski has forged his approach to helping entrepreneurs and business executives by using a monumental personal failure and eventual redemption to help get others where they need to go to find their personal success and fulfillment. A successful entrepreneur with four successful businesses and a personal net worth of $15M by age 30, an unexpected call from his bank brought his world crashing down in an avalanche of ruin for him and his businesses, resulting in his once-successful companies going bankrupt. Deeply in debt and depressed, he eventually embraced that previous failure and created a new startup, generating eight figures in less than a year. Since Miha’s “resurrection,” he has been known as The Fail Coach, and helps entrepreneurs around the world embrace and have a healthy relationship with failure with the goal of reaching a higher level of success.
Gabrielle Chipeur is a marketing automation specialist who’s spent the last 16 years at the crossroads of design, technology and online education. Besides helping coaches put their business on autopilot, she’s worked with Fortune 50 companies, international best-selling authors and world- renowned motivational speakers to grow their business and expand their reach. Gabrielle started her freelance business 10 years ago when she decided to stay at home with her children instead of going back to corporate. After struggling with 6 years of stagnation that came from focusing on the wrong things while she juggled small children, client projects and a pesky need for sleep, she transformed her business and documented all the lessons she learned along the way in her book, Secret Weapon. She lives just outside of the mountains in Canada with her family and a small menagerie of animals and when she’s not up to her elbows in tech she’s usually covered in paint or cooking up something in the kitchen.
In 2012, Reed quit his job in Australia and moved half way across the globe to the US to change his life, and to chase a dream. With limited funds, no investing experience, and no credit, Reed went from purchasing a small duplex to growing his own real estate investing firm, Wildhorn Capital. Reed now syndicates large multi-million dollar deals across the US. A best-selling author and podcast host, he has also achieved financial freedom, and has taken control of life.
Jason is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Alternative Medicine Practitioner, Certified Coach and Speaker. He is one of handful of Mental Health Professionals to carry Neuro Emotional Technique's Level 3 Certification from thousands of NET practitioners around the world. Jason's training as a therapist has led him to become a Certified Entrepreneur Coach, focusing on family businesses and young professionals who are looking to minimize their stress and maximize their potential with simplicity and clarity. He uses a "Lifestyle By Design" approach to setting and reaching goals with all of his coaching clients. He is a sought after speaker and has led workshops, retreats and conferences on topics including Mind/Body Psychology, Performance Enhancement, Business Spirituality and Alternative Medicine and has coaching clients all over the world that he sees virtually. He is the owner of The Family Room Wellness Associates, a mind-body integrative health focused practice in South Florida that offers therapy, chiropractic and nutrition and the host of the You Winning Life Podcast.
Mike is the Head Video Producer with Envy Creative. In this role, Mike leads a production team to film commercials for online and TV ads. Mike has produced over 600 video ads to date. Mike is no stranger to the film and TV industry, having spent 10 years in the business, where he has produced TV shows and music videos for big name artists. Mike specializes in making sure each commercial Envy Creative produces is unique and delivers the message the brand, product or business is looking to convey to their target audience. Mike helps clients to get more sales by getting more people to watch their videos, and offers offers all kinds of services, from explainer videos to national TV campaigns. Envy also offers an ad campaign service to get your brand, product or business seen.
Part CEO, part personal development wonk, and part biohacker info geek, Thom King is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur. While his favorite book list contains many successoriented and personal-development classics, the traditional definition of achieving success (e.g. make a lot of money) is not what inspires or motivates King. He follows more of a “you aren’t doing well unless you’re also doing some good” line of thinking. King’s company has been built around the simple principle of “do the right thing.” In 1999, Thom’s personal passion for food and his concern over the explosion of metabolic disease led him to found Steviva Brands, now known as Icon Foods, with a mission to help food manufacturers replace unhealthy sugars in their products with natural options. With 20 years of R&D work, Thom has helped hundreds of manufacturers improve the quality of their products. In recent years, his passion for food and optimal health have intersected with his embrace of a ketogenic (low carb, high fat) diet.
Ian Moyse is EMEA Sales Director for Salesforce Cloud Telephony Provider Natterbox. He is a long time Sales Leader in the tech sector, for the last 13 years specializing in Cloud Computing. He has sat on the boards of a number of related industry bodies and built many new business sales teams in both small start-ups and large corporate organisations. He was awarded the accolade of UK Sales Director of the year by BESMA (British Excellence in Sales Management Awards) and in 2019 was listed in the top 50 Sales Keynote speakers by Top Sales World and has been a regular judge for prestigious industry rewards. A leading cloud Blogger, prolific content contributor and creator who is widely published on matters of Cloud, Security, Sales Leadership and Social Selling, Ian has written and blogged for numerous publications.
Teneshia Jackson Warner is an award-winning multicultural marketing expert, purpose-driven entrepreneur and author. She is the founder, CEO and Chief Creative Officer of EGAMI Group, a leading multicultural marketing and communications firm in Manhattan with noteworthy clients. Since 2007, Teneshia has grown EGAMI Group from a dream concept into a thriving multi-million-dollar business. Additionally, Teneshia founded The Dream Project, an annual empowerment conference that helps thousands of entrepreneurs, creatives and career Dreamers plan and achieve their goals. Teneshia has spoken to more than 150,000 Dreamers across the nation. Teneshia is an in-demand speaker at events, and her professional awards include the Black Enterprises Forty Under 40, AdColor MVP and The Network Journal’s Forty Under 40 Award.
Chris Misterek is an ideation powerhouse who uses his love for learning to solve problems, design great websites, and inspire others to do the same. With a degree in business, 16 years of experience leading and managing a variety of creatives, and most recently, 6 years as a web design freelancer, Chris has become a voice to the side hustler: using his failures as a secret sauce to encourage and inspire desperate freelancers to take matters into their own hands and become successfully self-made.
Billy Bross had a thriving career as a consultant in the energy industry, working with important clients like the Department of Energy, Native American tribes, and Fortune 500 companies. It was an interesting and rewarding career, but deep down he was looking for something more. He wanted to do something he was passionate about, a venture of his own. He began with a beer brewing blog and had unexpected success offering tips on homebrewing. Billy took a chance and decided to sell an online course on the topic. It worked! He quickly began making as much money from selling his course as he made as a successful energy consultant. Since then, he has dedicated himself to helping online education companies and course creators break through the noise and fill their programs with committed, high-quality students and helping them make a good living while having a positive impact.
Both Larry Ludwig and Stuart Atkins gave excellent and insightful responses to questions that can help entrepreneurs navigating this current crisis. Here's a quick review of the best 3 answers to help you on your journey.
Stuart Atkins is a marketing consultant, speaker, author, and adjunct professor of digital marketing at the largest school of business in California, Cal State Fullerton’s Mihaylo College of Business & Economics. After working in corporate marketing for over 20 years with companies such as Toshiba America and Kingston Technology, Stuart founded Atkins Marketing Solutions in 2008, a small business digital marketing agency, located in Orange County, California. Stuart helps businesses find their customers, tell their story, and audit their marketing. He is the author of two books: Winning the Battle for Attention: Internet Marketing for Small Business and Small Business Marketing: A Guide for Survival, Growth, and Success. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University. With over 30 years of professional business experience, Stuart is experienced in all aspects of digital marketing, entrepreneurship success, and growing a profitable business online.
Larry has had a long, successful business and entrepreneurial career. He is always at the forefront of technology, digital marketing, and online business. After successful work with Poppe Tyson creating some of the first websites for the likes of JPMorgan Chase, LensCrafters, Minolta, IBM and others, he went on to work for the successful startup Commerce One, Integrating a B2B solution for companies including Eastman Chemical and Schlumberger. In 2001 he created Empowering Media, a successful design, development, and web-hosting service, helping build the technology infrastructure to host highly trafficked websites such as Comedy Central, GM, Thought Catalog, and Nielsen. In 2009, Larry created the website Investor Junkie from scratch, generating revenue only from affiliate marketing. In July 2018, he successfully sold Investor Junkie for $6 million. When not joyriding in his Porsche 911 Turbo S, his current passion is helping other business owners leverage technology and digital marketing.
Michelle Marie is the host of and creator of Put Your Passion To Work Podcast and Profitable Coaching Academy. As a mindset and business coach, Michelle teaches women how to start profitable coaching businesses. She believes success comes from having a positive mindset and simple business strategies. With her intuitive mentorship, you'll feel inspired to take her tangible tips and puth them into action - even if you're a mom and work full-time because she does too!
Tiffany Tracey, aka Tiffy T the ResellQueen, is a serial entrepreneur. She started her business owner journey by buying her a commercial cleaning franchise in the early 2000’s. After a serious accident that left her immobilized for more than 6 months, she wasn’t able to give her cleaning business the same attention, so with $50.00 she started her online business empire. It started with going to garage sales and thrift stores for inventory and quickly moved into wholesale and private labeling on Amazon. Tiffany really wanted to share the information and started providing coaching services. So that she could provide what she learned to everyone and free up her time. From co-hosting on YouTube to having her own podcast, Tiffany uses these platforms and more to help anyone become financially independent.
Jason Wright is the founder of Intentionally Inspirational, a digital agency that offers sales funnel strategy, design, and management to help companies get more emails, engagement, and sales. Because Jason and his team are committed to motivational and inspirational content, they take that approach when writing and recording for their clients.
Yifat is one of the very first 100 people to be invited to Google+. She built her entire brand with one show on one platform that most people didn't even care about, working for Google to train their own worldwide team and speak at their offices (which they hardly let a non-Googler do). Her clients (names YOU know, Casey) have generated over $250,000 in 10 days from a dead list because of her engagement strategy. Others have made over $100,000 in that same span of time, while others saw 40% conversions and high ticket sales from cold audiences. Today Yifat provides that service to companies who have more leads than clients and helps them add an additional 10%-20% to their bottom line without buying more leads, a minimal time investment of just 2 hours a month and no learning curves.
Dave Mason is the owner and CEO of Tail of the Lion, Inc., a network of ecommerce stores focusing on home decor products, including their flagship site, Knobs.co. Unlike other entrepreneurs, Dave entered the online space seeking a lifestyle business that would enable him to live anywhere in the world, work part-time, and earn money while he sleeps. He believes in building strong business systems that can function with little executive oversight. Dave spends much of his day writing novels, including The Size of Your Dreams, a novel that teaches readers many of his productivity techniques.
Jamar James is an ex-Marine that chased the American Dream to the verge of death - divorced, bankrupt and struggling in corporate America when he realized the world was changing, and gold, capital and status were the pillars of the past. Seeing that digital, contribution and attention have become the future, and using an alternative school of thought and alternative finance idea, he was able to embrace the changing world and figure it out. Embracing the future and now known as The Digital Currency Guy, Jamar seeks to educate and empower the community through financial literacy workshops, masterminds and a growing network of people. Jamar uses his story of how he broke away from his 9 to 5 to empower individuals to take control of their attention and financial future, embracing crypto currency and the block chain along the way.
Joy Taylor is an intuitive business muse and energy guide, She has helped thousands of people start and grow purposeful and profitable businesses. She promotes innovative and new business models and suggests that when we utilize our intuition, our purpose expands, and our business grows. Her mission is to empower and educate transformational leaders so that they can create products and services for the greater good. Joy brings over 25 years of teaching and training in the private sector and as an adjunct business college-level faculty to her creative, spontaneous, and intelligent body of work. Her perspectives on soul-inspired leadership focus on energy balance. Joy offers practical skills that people can use right away. An advocate on interactive online learning, Joy has over 15 years of experience in tele-conference and video-conference training and facilitation.
Tommy Breedlove is an Atlanta-based business, relationship, and mindset coach who is a regular featured keynote speaker at global events. Tommy started his 20-year corporate career at one of the largest financial consulting firms in the world, and eventually became a shareholder, the International Practice Leader, and a member of the board of directors for one of the largest public accounting and financial firms in the southeast U.S. At the top of his career, Tommy experienced a transformational moment inspiring him to walk away from the corporate world to change his life and follow his true calling. Tommy now serves clients and audiences everywhere by empowering them to build and live Legendary Lives. He guides people to discover a life of significance while building a lasting legacy. The simple tools he shares shows them how to work in their zone of brilliance, obtain financial freedom, and live with meaning and balance. The goal is to help everybody to become the person they've always wanted to be. When Tommy isn't speaking or serving his clients, he enjoys traveling the world, hiking, and spending quality time with his wife and two dogs.
Kisa Puckett is creative director of marketing and branding agency Pink Icing, and the founder of Bonafide Impact Summit & The Business Diamond. She helps new and established entrepreneurs and business owners build wildly successful businesses through creating highly visible and profitable brand identities. She has worked with prominent organizations such as Techstars as lead organizer for Startup Week, and is the Marketing Director of the National Association of Women Business Owners - IE (NAWBO-IE) and Marketing Chair of SCORE Inland Empire. Kisa and her work have been featured in the San Diego UnionTribune, iHeart Media, We Are Beautiful Magazine, the Valley Business Journal, and Menifee Buzz.
Jason Fleagle is the Founder of the international blogging platform Converge, and Founder and CEO of the consulting and learning company Catalyst Brand Group, previous Host of the Grow Like a Pro show, and the Content Marketing Manager for Motava. Jason has worked with brands like The John Maxwell Company, Ziglar Inc., Ziglar Family, Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, The Basement Doctor, Autism Power, the Better Business Bureau (BBB), political think tanks, startups, and many others. Jason has helped lead the strategic ideation, planning, management, and leadership of large multi-million dollar projects all the way down to projects for solopreneurs. Jason helps brands define and clarify who they are, make more money with what they do and how they do it, and better serve the people they’re trying to serve.
Resa Gooding is a Marketing Automation and CRM expert who specializes in leveraging platforms like HubSpot, InfusionSoft, and Salesforce to help companies generate more leads, improve conversion rates, and close more deals. Resa is the co-founder and Client Services Director of Cacao Media, a HubSpot-certified Platinum Partner Agency with offices in Tel Aviv, New York, and Nairobi. Using CRM and marketing automation processes set up by Resa and her team, startups and traditional companies are able to spend more time closing deals instead of being bogged down by administrative tasks. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Resa now lives in Israel with her family (she came to Israel in 2007 for a 2-week vacation… which turned into a 12-year hiatus). When she’s not planning/executing her clients’ marketing strategies or training teams, you’re most likely to find Resa sharing her marketing and sales expertise with a captive audience at any given co-working space.
Bill Bice has always been an entrepreneur, starting his first company at age 14, putting on road races, then starting ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law firms at age 18. After selling the company Bill became a VC as a founding partner in the Verge Fund, investing in high tech, high growth companies in the Southwest. One of the core things that Bill has learned in building and investing in companies is that the go-to market is always the hardest part of growing a business. He got so frustrated in trying to get great marketing for his companies that he decided to tackle the problem. A programmer at heart, Bill founded boomtime, tackling marketing as a technology problem and building the world’s first marketing-as-a-service platform: fuse. Instead of reinventing the wheel, boomtime applies proven marketing techniques at scale.
Jeff Schechter, aka "Shecky" has had the entrepreneurial bug his entire life. He started his first business right out of college, and over the years has been involved in numerous businesses ventures. His love for real estate investing began in the 1980's, when he rehabbed 5 of his own residences, before the term "house-hacking" even existed. Since those early days of torn up kitchens and bathrooms, he's bought and sold many properties, and is an active investor to this day. In addition to investing, he operates a private consulting practice. He thrives on helping people realize their full potential... not just in business and investing, but in all aspects of life.
Rytis Lauris is a co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform. Rytis has gained notoriety within ecommerce community for his insights on omnichannel and the future of ecommerce. As a successful entrepreneur who has spent more than 10 years building and bootstrapping startups, Rytis discovered ecommerce marketers have very specific needs around automation. Since 2014, Rytis has made it his mission to help and empower small and medium-sized ecommerce merchants, sharing his knowledge and expertise with the online and business communities. In his spare time, Rytis can be found bike riding and achieving his personal goal of reading one book a week.
Suzanne Brown is a strategic marketing and business consultant and work-life balance speaker, strategist, and bestselling and award-winning author. She empowers women, especially moms, to think differently about balance, using her own story and insights from interviews with more than 110 professional working moms. She covers practical topics like productivity and time management, being more intentional with your time, the importance of mentors and sponsors, and finding time for self-care. Suzanne has been featured in Forbes, Shape, Reader’s Digest, Bustle, Working Mother, and Time. Suzanne, her husband, and their two active young boys live in Austin, TX. In their downtime, they can be found hiking local trails or finding some new nearby or far away adventures.
Darcy is the founder of Propel Marketing & Design. Propel is a full-service marketing agency located in South Florida that works with companies of all sizes. One facet of the organization and one of Darcy’s true passions is in educating and training small businesses and entrepreneurs on improving their brand’s online presence and website rankings. She is a recognized public speaker and educator on topics related to traditional marketing, content marketing, SEO, social media, WordPress, PR, and other digital marketing strategies. Over the past few years through online and in-person trainings, she’s taught over 17,000 small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Jessi Beyer is a Transformational Speaker and Mental Health Advocate who works with young adults by offering a path forward to healing through discovering your “why”, activating your passions, and living in your purpose. Jessi believes that discussions are the missing ingredient in removing the stigma surrounding mental health. Because of this, she’s on a mission to help those around her feel valid, heard, and appreciated in their mental health struggles and know they’re not alone. Jessi holds a BA in psychology from the University of Minnesota, has landed coverage in over twenty media outlets, and has experience presenting to large groups at universities and conferences. Outside of her professional life, Jessi is a K9 search and rescue trainee and a proud pet mom.
PJ Taei is the founder of UScreen, an all-in-one video streaming and monetization tool with thousands of video creators for people wanting to create their own online video presence.
Ian Reynolds is a Partner and Chief Solutions Architect at Zibtek, a software development firm focused on helping businesses of all sizes in the US solve their core problems with software. They empower entrepreneurs, growth companies, enterprises and visionary firms to achieve greater profitability and efficiency, valuation and ultimate success by building the right tools through custom software. Ian has spent the better part of his career in consulting and has served in diverse industries across the spectrum of business.
Melvin Figueroa is a web designer, branding expert, and the founder of Mello Multimedia. For the past decade, Melvin has been working passionately in the design industry, creating brand identities and building websites for small business owners on both a local and national scale. Melvin has always believed that websites should be more than just something nice to look at and should serve each individual business in a more dynamic way. By understanding his client’s behaviors, pain points, and benefits of their product or service, Melvin is able to create them a website that will act as a 24/7 salesperson and help take their business to the next level. This past year, Melvin has spoken at Goldman Sachs 1,000 Small Business Cohort as well as the Rhode Island Black Business Association about the importance of having a strong online presence and how it can make a deep impact on businesses.
Hayk Tadevosyan is a proud father, husband, deacon, athlete and entrepreneur passionate about serving his community and inspiring others to reach their goals. Hayk owns and operates a thriving insurance and construction business that he built from scratch after immigrating to the United States at only 13 years of age with his father while having only a few hundred US dollars in their pockets. From humble beginnings in Armenia, where he lived without the luxury of running water or electricity, often going hungry, to now a successful businessman who coaches and consults other business owners, professionals, aspirants and team members on replicable sales systems, processes of entrepreneurship and personal development – Hayk has been described by many as a modern example of the American dream in action.
Chris Palmisano is Chief Operating Officer/Chief Revenue Officer and Board Member at Rocket Dollar. He has held leadership roles in sales, marketing, business development, and operations at Khorus Software, SolarWinds, and Google. He is a mentor at startup accelerators, a guest lecturer at business schools, an angel investor, Founding Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, and an advisor to CEOs. Chris is a former Marine Corps officer and lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, an MS from Boston University, a BS from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a US patent in mobile computing.
Justin A. Goodbread, CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA®, owner of FinanciallySimple.com, is a nationally recognized financial planner, financial educator, wealth manager, author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He has 20+ years of experience starting, buying, owning, and selling businesses. Justin is a two time winner of the Investopedia Top 100 Advisor award and Exit Planning Institute’s Exit Planner Leader of the Year. Recently, Justin published his first book: The Ultimate Sale. In it he shows business owners how to create long-term value and accelerate growth in their company with the ultimate goal of selling the business for top dollar when the owner wants to retire.
Jack Gibson began his entrepreneurial journey at 19, and founded his first company at the ripe old age of 21. Operating a successful nutrition consulting and distribution company, he had built a multi-million dollar venture before he was old enough to rent a car. Soon thereafter, he bought his first home as an investment. One quickly became five, and then the bug hit. He became obsessed with learning everything about Real Estate Investing and soon had over 50 investment properties generating passive income. Today, Jack spends his time mentoring other entrepreneurs, building his real estate investment portfolio, and helping other investors to build a brighter future through the power of turnkey real estate income.
Kelly Glover started podcasting in 2007 (back then it was herweekly community radio show with the music & ads cut out). In the 12 years since her first podcast was published, Kelly graduated from The Australian, Film, Television & Radio School, hosted herown syndicated radio show, produced podcasts for the Mamamia Women's Network and launched her own podcast agency, The Talent Squad.
After launching his first business at 24 years old straight out of college, JF struggled with success in growth until realizing he was the problem. Key insights then came like: "A business net worth will never out grow the self worth of his owners". Armed with this realization over the last 9 years, he's learned much about himself, the business and the spiritual world. Today he's confident he has a lot to give back to any young driven individual wanting to reach their next level.
Sean Webb probably knows the human mind as well as anyone can, and his talent at helping others to get the most from their minds is exceptional. His books have helped top executives become better leaders, they’ve helped U.S. Navy SEALs sharpen their minds beyond the most elite training levels previously available, and they’ve even helped readers self-cure their lifelong substance addictions. Although his work includes logically modeling human emotions for the world of Artificial Emotional Intelligence (artificial consciousness), his deeper passion lies in helping individuals supercharge their minds and lives with the knowledge of how their mind actually works, so they can manipulate their mind’s output levels. Sean loves sharing the practical neuroscience of how to hack the mind to generate happiness and increase efficiencies from within.
Matt Giovanisci is a serial entrepreneur, starting websites like Swim University that make over $250,000 annually after a decade. He's founded personal finance brands and podcasts and coffee education sites, homebrewing hobby sites and more. He has been fired, laid off, and collected unemployment. He's glad it all happened, because without those moments, he's convinced that he wouldn't be where he is today – in a home office in Boulder writing about becoming mildly successful.
Genecia Alluora is former Miss Singapore and Southeast Asia Woman of Excellence 2010. She is the Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia that connects more than 200,000 women across the region, with presence in 7 countries, she is passionate about helping women to take their businesses from offline to attracting clients ONLINE, get recognition & build a brand. Her epic journey from being in a six-figure debt to making her first million fueled her passion to empower women to do the same. Genecia is a globally renowned speaker and leading women’s empowerment expert with over a decade of experience speaking on stages worldwide.
Matt Johnson is a marketer, entrepreneur, podcast expert and musician. As founder of Pursuing Results, a podcast PR and production agency based in San Diego, Matt runs a worldwide virtual team helping business coaches and agencies break in and dominate their niche through podcasting. Matt currently hosts niche business podcasts such as YouX and Real Estate Uncensored, and recently a free training on how you can get featured on the right podcasts to grow your business.
An influencer marketing consultant to Fortune 500 companies and celebrity A-listers, Shane Barker has helped thousands of expert entrepreneurs expand their outreach and bolster their reputation. His vast wheelhouse includes business development, marketing blueprints, SEO, and social media marketing. Practicing what he preaches, Shane writes prodigiously on many facets of content marketing and SEO best practices. He is a top contributor at INC and the Huffington Post, and has been named one of the top Salesforce influencers. He was named 13th most influential marketer online by the Content Marketing Institute.
Jerry Brazie is a husband, father, entrepreneur who with grew up a poor kid from Portland, Oregon with 8 siblings, no education, training or advantages in life. Jerry stole food to eat until getting his first job at 11, and worked more than 20 jobs before starting his first business at 28. Over the last 20 years his companies have generated over $450m in revenue, had thousands of employees, and worked in a wide variety of business ventures. A serial entrepreneur, Jerry has now made it his mission to educate others.
Anne Marie graduated from Carleton University with a degree in psychology and a passion for creating beautiful surroundings. She has always been interested in helping people live a good life in a comfortable setting on any budget. A technology sales professional for 30 years she has always used her free time working with Charities that help people live their best life in a comfortable environment. Anne Marie has two established businesses; one in interior design and the other in real estate investing that allowed her to reinvent herself after her 30-year career in technology sales ended, and now, as an author, focuses on helping others live “A Luxurious and Meaningful Retirement."
Anton Kraly has been a serial entrepreneur for more than a decade, finding success building and selling multiple seven-figure businesses. In 2013, he started Drop Ship Lifestyle to teach people how to create profitable eCommerce businesses by leveraging high-ticket drop shipping. Voted “Best eCommerce Course” by Shopify in 2018, Drop Ship Lifestyle is now the top online eCommerce coaching program and has helped more than 10,000 students in 25 countries to find freedom through entrepreneurship.
Jonathan Raymond is the CEO at Refound and author of the award-winning book, Good Authority. In 2018, he was named one of Inc. Magazine’s top 100 leadership speakers. After spending 20 years trying to figure out if he was a business executive or a personal growth teacher, Jonathan stopped trying to figure it out. He created Refound to offer a way to help people develop personally and professionally at the same time. The former CEO of EMyth, Jonathan has led business transformation projects in technology, renewable energy, and the coaching industry. He’s a half-decent barista, a bad-but-enthusiastic surfer, and will never give up on the New York Knicks. Jonathan lives in Encinitas, California.
Janet Kafadar is an online business coach who’s passionate about helping coaches, entrepreneurs and experts to package their brilliance into a sustainable, profitable online business. A busy mom of 3 kids under 8 and entrepreneur, Janet has used her mistakes, pivots and changes to shape her perspective today as an online business owner and coach working with other amazing women around the world. Today, Janet is on a mission to activate goal-driven women to go after what they want in their online business, she knows what works (and what doesn’t work), and she’s made it her mission to support women as they launch their business babies into the world.
Mike Zagare (zuh-gary) is a serial entrepreneur and recovering physical therapist. After founding a successful in-home physical therapy business, Mike turned his attention to new opportunities and challenges, so he became an Amazon seller. In January 2016 he ans his partners created PPC Entourage. This innovative and cutting-edge software has become a true game-changer for the Amazon sellers’ community, allowing them to save time and significantly reduce needless Ad spend. Mike Zagare (zuh-gary) is a serial entrepreneur and recovering physical therapist. After founding a successful in-home physical therapy business, Mike turned his attention to new opportunities and challenges, so he became an Amazon seller. In January 2016 he ans his partners created PPC Entourage. This innovative and cutting-edge software has become a true game-changer for the Amazon sellers’ community, allowing them to save time and significantly reduce needless Ad spend.
Coach Cheryl is a Master Board Certified Coach and the Founder of Successful Coaches Enterprise, where she helps coaches and service-based entrepreneurs to structure their business, price and package their services and market themselves authentically. Coach Cheryl helps you gain clarity around goals, boost visibility and up-level your game to reach your fullest potential in your business, and to take ACTION to get the most out of your time and energy!
Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, working with CEOs and executives pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He has a thirty year track record helping executives tackle challenges of strategy, organization and leadership. From start-ups to Fortune 10’s, non-profits to heads-of-state, turn-arounds to new markets and strategies, overhauling leadership and culture to re-designing for growth, he has helped organizations articulate strategies that lead to accelerated growth, and design organizations that can execute those strategies.
It would be safe to say that Aaron Walker is a veteran entrepreneur. Having started over a dozen businesses during his four decade journey has been pretty awesome. Beginning at 18 years old and selling to a Fortune 500 company just nine years later set Aaron on an adventure of a lifetime. The secret sauce for Aaron can clearly be identified with these four attributes: grit, authenticity, determination and perseverance. The glue that holds it all together is his weekly involvement in Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind groups. Aaron started masterminding 20 years ago with Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller and several other notable Nashvillians. Today, he spends time with his wife, two daughters and five grandchildren.
Josh Elledge is on a mission to help entrepreneurs attract the perfect audiences! He is Founder and Chief Executive Angel of SavingsAngel.com®, grossing more than $5 million in sales over the past eight years with less than $500 spent in advertising. Josh has emerged as one of the nation’s leading experts on consumer savings. Through the years, Josh has consulted hundreds of successful entrepreneurs – assisting them in creating the same sort of success he's earned. Josh served in the US Navy for five years during operation Desert Storm. Passionate about his family, physical fitness (an avid fitness geek and marathon runner), and performing improv comedy, Josh now resides in Orlando with his wife and three children.
Nick Mann is the host of The Don't Quit Podcast and Owner of TyypoPrints, making dreamers into doers through motivational prints. He has graduated from Pacific Lutheran University with a BA in Graphic Design and a former a former high school in web design. Nick currently resides in Tacoma, Washington state with his dog, Coco. When he is not inspiring others, you can find him enjoying a good HBO binge or playing the card game, Hearthstone.
Kim Speed is a brand visibility expert, speaker, trainer and Amazon Best Selling Author. Kim’s creative skills drew her to the world of advertising, and once she began her journey, she gained experience and expertise in brand strategy, writing and marketing. Kim started her own business, Purple Moon Creative, Brand and Marketing Boutique, where she shares her brand expertise and her marketing skills with growing small business owners and entrepreneurs to help them make the right connections with their clients and potential clients.
Monte Wyatt brings over twenty-five years of remarkable leadership, business and personal development experience to executives and their organizations. Monte’s brand promise is threefold – Advance a career. Transform a company. Achieve incredible results. To fulfill these promises, Monte defines what he does in four words: Awareness; Education; Implementation; and Discipline.
Greg Dickinson is the CEO of Omedym, a software company transforming the customer engagement experience. Greg has an exceptional track record of creating business value out of disruptive technologies. As a serial entrepreneur and resilient visionary, Greg has spent his career piloting and converting startups into world-class corporations that enjoy hyper-growth and investor return. Greg served in the United States Air Force, where he was the recipient of both the Air Force Commendation Medal and Humanitarian Award. He holds a master’s degree in information systems and a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
Barry Magliarditi is the founder and director of The Game Changers and has been recognised for his thought leadership. A master of his craft and described as ”The Magician,” Barry is always entertaining, heart based and life changing while upholding a deep respect for every individual and their story. In 2003, as a true craftsman, Barry started his first business aged 18 and scaled quickly to 15 staff with a multi-million dollar turnover. Barry created The Game Changers Business, and is a Peak Performance Coach based in Perth, Australia and is here to facilitate sustainable, heart-based change that affects all aspects of life in a positive way.
Jodi Vetterl has a 20-year career in high-tech software sales working for Fortune 100 companies, has won multiple sales achievement awards, closed 7-digit deals and enjoyed several President’s Club trips around the world. Jodi spent the last 15 years building up a real estate portfolio in both the US & Canada as a passive investor in both single and multi-family buildings. As a result of these strategies, Jodi was able to retire from Corporate America in her mid-40’s to fulfill her passions around writing, speaking & consulting. Jodi shares these strategies in her book, Beyond the Banks, because she enjoys educating others with the resources and knowledge that have helped her create life balance in a more heartfelt way.
Dan Meadors entered the Amazon marketplace in 2011 and within a few months left his day job to become a fulltime Amazon wholesaler. Now a multi million-dollar Amazon seller, founder of The Wholesale Formula and an Amazon marketplace master, Dan is passionate about sharing his knowledge with others who are just as driven to succeed. Dan has empowered students with a wide range of experience, and students of The Wholesale Formula have collectively sold over half a billion dollars’ worth of products on Amazon.
Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think different about banks, Wall Street’s abuses and from financial uncertainty. Mark is a Certified Financial Planner, a #1 Best Selling Author and the owner of Lake Growth Financial Services, a financial firm in Chicago. Illinois. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of his clients take back control of their financial future and build their businesses with sophisticated, tax-efficient financial solutions. Mark works with people who want to grow their wealth in ways that are safe and predictable, to become their own source of financing, and to create tax-free income in retirement.
Narrowly surviving drowning encouraged Rob to leave the job he hated and becomea writer, and probably the world's first blogger and digital nomad. Rob has traveled the world while running an online business for over 20 years, and loves to share his thoughts on how the people can achieve transformation in their lives.
Perry Marshall is endorsed in FORBES and INC Magazine, and is one of the most expensive business consultants in the world. Clients seek his ability to integrate technology, sales, art and psychology. His reinvention of the Pareto Principle is published in Harvard Business Review. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs at the California Institute of Technology uses his 80/20 Curve as a productivity tool. 80/20 Sales & Marketing is mandatory in many growing companies.
Raised in a spiritually open home, Jennifer has immersed herself in helping others and now seeks to empower them by helping heal the past, aligning to your soul’s purpose and illuminating their divine gifts and talents.
Starting out back in 2002, a broke single mom, Kelly McCausey made graphics and websites for other home-based business owners. Working hard with long hours, she soon realized she charged too little for her time and talents. Kelly discovered smarter ways to build an income online, one that didn’t sacrifice her precious time. Today, Kelly blogs, podcasts, creates information products and runs a membership program. Additionally, Kelly holds live events and retreats for female entrepreneurs to help them achieve their dream and grow their online business and community.
Darlene Hawley is a business coach, mother of 4, wife, connector, storyteller and dream builder who lives in Southern California. Darlene has a passion for supporting female entrepreneurs to create an authentic, magnetizing and profitable brand and business by tapping into their story. She supports women by helping them create a solid brand foundation that allows them to attract their ideal clients and stand out in their industry. Darlene has been committed to helping entrepreneurs launch and grow their business since 2007. She now spends her time supporting women to reach their goals and live out their dream life, all while raising her family and creating memories each and every day.
Chris is a digital marketing entrepreneur, speaker, and neuromarketer who gets excited about helping businesses learn what their users want on their website using psychology based testing and analytics. He started his Conversion Optimization agency Dayley Conversion in 2014, which he later merged with Disruptive Advertising where he currently works as VP of site testing and optimization.
Mikael Hamrin is a 34 year old from Stockholm, Sweden who has been playing ice hockey for 25 years. Having worked in sales since he was 20 years old with computers, security, marketing, cars, and others, Mikael had a heart flimmer at 30 that changed his life and his perspective. That wake up call set him on a path to entrepreneurship and a more stress-free life of travel and time with friends, and to him that's the beauty - to be living in the present and the now, not the past and not the future.
Michelle L. Evans walked away from her global marketing strategy role at Microsoft in 2012 after a successful 16-year corporate career spanning many industries and now works with a fantastic community of business owners - coaches, consultants, experts, speakers, authors and solopreneurs - helping them go from simply surviving to predictably SOLD OUT. Using her 20+ years of successful marketing experience she helps her clients create income-producing, client-generating, stress-reducing marketing funnels.
Kasim is the Founder & CEO of Solutions 8 (a Digital Marketer Certified Partner, Infusionsoft Certified Partner, and Official Google Partner) and the author of the #1 Amazon Bestseller “The 7 Critical Principles of Effective Digital Marketing.” Through Solutions 8, Kasim has spent more than a decade helping over 500 organizations grow and scale using a unique, proven and proprietary process: The Digital Business Builder. This experience fuels his presentations and has helped to make him a foremost authority on business growth and scale in the digital age.
Jeff Hall never had a choice but to become an entrepreneur. At the age of 7, he sold candy because money meant escaping his life of poverty and neglect. At the age of 13, he acquired a reputation as a computer nerd at school quite by accident and began working on his school’s computers. At 15, he began his company, Overflow Cafe, in order to keep from being evicted from his home, and at 17 was lying about his age to get the commercial lease for his first office. Remarkably, he is still helping new and small businesses become popular online at Overflow Cafe 23 years later along with another 4 successful startups under his belt.
Eric Rosenberg is a finance, travel, and technology writer in Ventura, California. He is a former bank manager and corporate finance and accounting professional who left his day job in 2016 to take his online side hustle full-time. He has in depth experience writing about banking, credit cards, investing, and other financial topics, and is an avid travel hacker. When away from the keyboard, Eric he enjoys exploring the world, flying small airplanes, discovering new craft beers, and spending time with his wife and little girls.
Michele works with executives and entrepreneurs bringing over 25 years of experience, intuitive insights and strategic business savvy to their success. She is an expert at enhancing the capacity of leaders, to build high performing teams and exponentially increase bottom-line results. She helps catalyze shifts in thinking and eliminate mental/emotional blocks to rapidly rewire your brain for greater confidence and success. As a nationally recognized speaker, certified executive coach, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) practitioner, change management consultant, trainer, and writer, Michele’s passion for helping amplify natural talents and expand leadership is conveyed through all aspects of her work and writing.
Barth wants to live in a world where no eCommerce entrepreneur ever feels alone or has to vehemently defend to friends and family that leaving that corporate job WAS a good idea. As an executive for 20 years at a large cooperative in the flooring industry, he experienced how, joining together, independent retailers leveled the playing field with vendors and armed them with tools for their businesses to thrive. He brings that perspective as President of the Empowery eCommerce Cooperative to make the eCommerce world a better, less lonely place. Barth is an avid outdoorsman, triathlete, woodworker, golfer, beekeeper, arborist and a wannabe farmer. He lives on an old dairy farm 50 miles from Pittsburgh in idyllic Ligonier, Pennsylvania.
Shannon Evans is not your run-of-the-mill educator. With more than 17 years as a teacher and coach (middle school, high school, and college) under her belt, she’s worked as an academic and admissions counselor for multiple colleges and holds a Masters of Education in Measurements of Human Learning and Statistics. Her passion is helping students develop communication, autonomy, and “adulating” skills that will serve them as they go off to college to explore the opportunities and experiences that await them. Shannon is a published author and has been featured in Seattle Women’s Magazine, Rotary International, The Huffington Post, and The Commercial Appeal.
Femi is the Founder and CEO of lLnkedOptimization.com. LinkedOptimization enables sales teams to generate B2B leads on LinkedIn via Profile Optimization, Growth Strategies and Advertising. Femi became a serial entrepreneur in 2014 because he believes there’s a gap in the market for premium LinkedIn services. Prior to this, he worked for a number of law firms, having obtained a law degree from Keele University in 2002, before transitioning into investment banking in 2006.
Stephan Spencer is an internationally recognized SEO expert, consultant, and bestselling author. He is the co-author of The Art of SEO (now in its third edition), author of Google Power Search, and co-author of Social eCommerce. Stephan founded Netconcepts in 1995 and grew it into a multi-national SEO agency before selling it in 2010 to Covario. He is the host of two popular podcast shows, The Optimized Geek and Marketing Speak.
Isaac is one of the Founders of ConveYour.com, the #1 Micro-Learning platform for influencers and companies. He’s a tech entrepreneur and futurist at heart on a mission, enabling brands to authentically connect and inform at scale with over 105 million in combined revenues from the companies he’s helped build. His success comes from understanding the relationships between human behavior, business and technology. This expertise has helped celebrity influencers and companies to transform their knowledge into humanized digital training.
Magnus Unemyr is a renowned author, global speaker and thought-leader in the field of marketing automation, with a particular focus on advanced integration, marketing with artificial intelligence, and how data and insights from Internet-connected devices can drive marketing automation logic. Magnus has spent the past 20+ years in the global software industry, co-founded an international software companyand now concentrates his efforts on helping companies advance and grow their business by sharing his knowledge as an independent consultant.
Jessica Silverman is dedicated to sharing healthy + inspired living practices to help you feel better in your body, calm your mind, and REVIVE your inner shine!
Johnathan Grzybowski is rogue risk taker turned entrepreneur and a national thought leader in digital marketing and branding. He is the Cofounder of Penji, an unlimited graphic design service for marketing teams that provides jobs and internship opportunities to Camden students and residents.
Jason Berkowitz is the founder & CEO of Break The Web, a hybrid digital marketing agency and SEO Services New York, an elite SEO firm, both based out of New York City. Since 2009, Jason has worked with businesses of all sizes, ranging from small local mom & pops to enterprise brands we’re all familiar with, advising them on the ins & outs of real SEO.
Samantha is a business consultant and coach for moms with online businesses. After struggling to find her identity and becoming a mother, she is very passionate about helping other moms build businesses from home while entrepreneurship with motherhood. Samantha is a mom of 3, an over-volunteer-er and a travel lover – she and her husband are always taking their kids on epic adventures.
Nichole Carlson ditched the American Dream and traveled for 10 years - to the point she was homeless. But she rebuilt her life, started competing in bodybuilding competitions, and started her coaching business. Nichole works with 6 and 7 figure earners to help them break through in business, bring back the passion in their relationships, and give them the energy to be able to keep hitting their goals instead of burning out.
David Moadel is a part of Portfolio Wealth Global Special Opportunity Research Team. Knowledgeable in the economy, politics, markets, precious metals, cryptos, how to build wealth, passive income, and of course investing, David loves to share his journey to becoming a successful online YouTuber allowing him the freedom to quit his teaching job of 10 years to do this full time.
Growth hacking's "enfant terrible", Vin Clancy is one of the most infamous marketers in the world, known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas. His audience across all channels totals nearly half a million followers. Right now Vincent teaches company founders, influencers, and marketing managers how to grow their companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, and guerrilla community management tactics, in his private coaching groups, and through consulting with Marketing executives.
Melody Spencer is a Digital Marketing Strategist, Consultant and Facebook Ads Specialist for Soul Focused, High Vibe female entrepreneurs and coaches. She loves helping female business owners learn to utilize Facebook Ads to find their soulmate clients and to create a strategic digital marketing plan that ROCKS!
An MBA from Ohio State, Paul started in management development with Ford Motor Company, then departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They sold it to a publicly traded firm for $2.0 million five years later. Twice a finalist for Ernst & Young's Michigan Entrepreneur of the Year, Paul knows real estate investments and exits, has appeared on HGTV, and started two successful online real estate marketing firms. Paul hosts a wealth-building podcast and teaches others how to create enduring wealth
Susan Peppercorn is an executive and career coach who has a passion for helping individuals thrive in their career. Having made four career changes herself, Susan knows what it’s like to feel stuck in a job you hate as well as the self-recrimination that goes along with it. Frequently quoted, the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and U.S. World News Money are some of the publications that have tapped her for career advice.
Silvio Porcellana was born in Italy, where he currently lives with his wife and kids. A web developer, marketing consultant and digital entrepreneur since 1999, Silvio created his first an online stock trading simulation app that was bought by a London-based AIM listed company. Moving on to be the lead developer, CTO and digital marketing director for various web agencies and startups, he founded Mobisit Inc. in 2011, whose main products are SaaS platforms that help online marketers grow revenues and offer more value to their customers through easy, effective and advanced online tools.
Dale L. Roberts is a fitness author, YouTube content creator, and self-publishing nerd. When Dale isn’t publishing, creating videos, and networking, he loves to travel with his wife Kelli and spend time playing with his cat Izzie. He currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Jonathan Rivera comes from a blue collar background. He left the rat race to pursue riches in real estate. Today he runs a successful rental business in only 4 hours a week. Now, his main focus is running The Podcast Factory where he helps his hosts get high value clients using Direct Response Podcasting™
A licensed certified public accountant (IL) and Chartered Global Management Accountant, Josh is also a family man who calls Chicago home. Before venturing on his own with a mission to help small businesses, Josh spent his early career at a top-10 national public accounting firm before working at an ultra high net worth family office. Josh is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He enjoys making wine at home, cooking, traveling, and cheering on his favorite football and soccer teams. Josh was honored by being selected to the 2017 class of the AICPA Leadership Academy and was named as one of the 40 under 40 in 2017 by CPA Practice Advisor.
Kirk Du Plessis is the founder of Option Alpha, helping people make smarter and more profitable trades.
Nadine Barrett is the founder of Just Me On Life Coaching designed to support men and women find the lifestyle balance needed to focus and excel in the things they most enjoy. She has been featured in Best Self Magazine, as a guest blogger for 1 Less Stress connect Website for entrepreneurs and on Heartsong Radio (Edinburgh). After a decade of supporting people in various mentoring and training roles in addition to learning to heal her own major health challenges and years spent focused on her own personal development journey, Nadine is ready to share her knowledge with the world!
Alexander Lowry is a professor of finance at Gordon College and the Director of the school’s Master of Science in Financial Analysis program. He helps students understand how the financial services industry works, and works with fintech and financial services companies that want to transform traditional industry business models to unleash exponential growth and value using his expertise in governance, strategy. growth, financial management and operations.
Daniel Ameduri is Co-Founder of the Future Money Trends Letter, Pure Blockchain Wealth, Wealth Research Group, and Portfolio Wealth Global. He is a self-made multi-millionaire, full time fact finder, and a proud father of 3. In 2010, Daniel launched FutureMoneyTrends.com. it became the first personal finance letter for the new economy. Today, FutureMoneyTrends.com has been the most widely recognized authority for financial freedom and economic research in commodities, cryptocurrencies, personal finance, cash flow, and income ideas.
Melanie Wheatley is an internationally certified Business and Lifestyle coach who helps women get out of self-help jail and into the freedom of action. Her clients are ambitious women who are feeling overwhelmed because they have so much to do and are unsure of how and what to do next. Through individual programs and free resources, Melanie’s mission is to for you to do just that… To create or build your business that allows you the freedom of a lifestyle.
Alexi Neocleous has generated hundreds of millions in newfound sales for clients. He has been a top end copywriter for over 18 years, commanding fees of upwards of $25k… $50k… $100k plus. Alexi is the CMO of a company that went from $300,000 to $3 million per month in less than 1 year producing nearly every imaginable type of content – videos, sales letter, articles, emails.
Jason McDonald teaches business owners the art and science of getting anything to the top of search engines. Director of the JM Internet Group, this brilliant SEO & Digital Marketing expert started his own technology blog, reaching over 50,000 subscribers within the embedded systems engineering community, worldwide. Today, through teaching digital marketing courses and corporate workshops, Jason pursues his passion of taking complex topics and making them easy to understand and practical for small business marketers.
Lorraine Reguly, B.A./B.Ed., is an author and English teacher-turned-freelancer for hire. Her life journey is motivational and inspirational. Lorraine's book, From Nope to Hope, is a self-help book designed to help anyone who wishes to lead a happier life, and contains a built-in workbook. Lorraine offers 4 different services on Wording Well, including writing/blogging, editing, and consulting/coaching/mentoring. She also helps others become published authors!
British entrepreneur, piano player, international racing driver and business coach Jonny Cooper is the founder of TheSuccessParty.com, helping transformation professionals find more of their ideal clients, more easily. Since growing a business to 8-figures and exiting, Jonny’s been supporting coaches, trainers, therapists and consultants who are serious about growing their practice and enjoying a life of effortless abundance. He’s also the voice behind the legendary Jonny Hates Marketing Facebook Group, and swears that he really, really does. Hate marketing, that is.
Sasha Laghonh brings over fifteen years of experience to the commercial and spiritual realm by working with private and commercial clients hosting diverse backgrounds and life endeavors. As a Life Strategies & Business Strategist she works with clients ready to transform their lives by offering customized sessions relevant to their needs. To complement her career, she is a spiritualist hosting abilities that allow her to deliver intuitive insights derived from questions possessing various degrees of complexity. Recognized as one of the best readers in 2012, Sasha continues to share her craft with global clients through private sessions, professional groups and global media including print, helping others make better decisions with clarity and confidence.
Cardiff D. Hall is a respected results expert who helps entrepreneurs, emerging and established business owners master key productivity skills by offering best- in-class coaching and accountability services, so that they can achieve pinnacle goals. Cardiff’s purpose is to create a lasting legacy through empowering his clients to reach and sustain remarkable heights of success in their relationships, businesses and lives. He is the founder of Inspiration Insights, he radiates positivity and helps entrepreneurs look within to move upward.
Grab onto the handrail! Jeffrey Davidson is engaging, thought-provoking, and sometimes gets so excited you think he forgot to breathe. Jeffrey has been exploring the boundaries of world-class teams for over 20 years. As a recognized expert in strengthening leaders and building teams, he has worked with hundreds of teams, taught thousands of employees, and consulted with multiple Fortune 100 corporations. A playful fellow, Jeffrey’s goal is simple, he wants you to be outstanding… and he wants your team to be even better.
Tabitha Carro is the Smartphone Marketing Guru! After 13 years as an elementary teacher, she founded her own curriculum design business. Her present passion is exploring how to visually promote businesses through an iPhone! In May of 2016, she created the Smartphone Marketing School, a blog and membership site, to share her iPhone design techniques with fellow business owners. Through her course content, members are learning how to create professional videos, product photos, and social media designs without the need for camera equipment, desktop software, or outsourcing design work. Tabitha currently lives with her husband and Yorkie-Poo in South Carolina.
When life’s hard knocks make you feel beaten, take heart from Lily Sanders, whose conquest over abuse and hardship led to enlightened self-knowledge and real self-love. Today, Lily Sanders can point to extraordinary the successes of being named one of the top 15 coaching experts in New York City, years as a soap opera regular and TV/movie dancer and actress, multiple-franchise owner, devoted mother and even a year as a featured Barnum & Bailey Circus show dancer!
Rob Greenlee is the VP/Head of Partnerships at VoxNest.com and Spreaker.com. A 2017 Inductee into the Academy of Podcasters Hall of Fame, Rob currently hosts the SpreakerLiveShow.com podcast. He is also former lead host of WebTalk World Radio Show; recognized as the first nationally syndicated radio program in the world to begin podcasting on Sept 15th, 2004. Rob lives in Seattle.
Sheri is well known in the financial services industry as a true creative force… who would imagine it all started at the tender age of five, selling her own homemade rose petal perfume in baby food jars, door-to-door. Leveraging that entrepreneurial flair, Sheri debuted in the financial services industry as an award-winning graphic designer, progressed to participant curriculum design, and advanced to sales and marketing before stepping out on her own as a consultant and speaker. Now, with more than 30 years of industry experience in her pocket, Sheri shares her success insights with retirement plan advisors, third-party administrators, and financial service organizations to help them make more meaningful connections by better leveraging marketing tools and developing a social media strategy that they can manage. She is a natural-born communicator, earning Toastmasters’ adult-level Speechcraft certificate in the 8th grade. Now she’s a sought-after speaker and has twice been named one of the 100 top influencers in the retirement planning industry. She has received awards and recognition from the Plan Sponsor Council of America, Pension and Investments; National Association of Government Defined Contribution Administrators; and the International Association of Business Communicators. If all of that isn’t enough to pique your interest, Sheri was also named Paper Girl of the Year (1976). So you can be confident that when you work with Sheri Fitts, she delivers.
Kevin Koskella is an online entrepreneur and digital nomad. He decided he wanted to be free of the corporate world, and with a history of competitive swimming, he returned to the water as a swim instructor and personal trainer. In 2005, he turned his business teaching swimmers into a full time, location independent, online business. Today he works with entrepreneurs around what he teaches triathletes: you need experts so you can be the most successful. Kevin founded Work Hero, a service that helps online entrepreneurs by accomplishing their design and technical tasks so they have the freedom to focus on the work they do best.
Roy Barker, Business & Senior Living Operations Advisor, has spent his career working with businesses of all types to improve their sales and marketing strategies. He believes that any company can improve their financial position through revenue optimization, expense management, managing employee turnover, and operational efficiencies, and has proven to be instrumental in helping communities increase their occupancy by refining their sales processes, marketing strategies, marketing team development, and prospect seminars.
Vindya Vee is an internationally renowned High-Performance Coach who works with the world’s top 1% of talent. Her clients include executives, managers servicing Fortune 1000 companies and business owners, working across 13 countries. She is known for her unique skills in thought leadership, identifying unique talent, and deep impactful coaching. Vindya helps women who are powerful and passionate, have a bias for action and who crave for more. Her approach is powerful, direct and bold. She is known for her ability to make something that may look impossible, possible and create strategies that would serve as a catalyst for long-term change for anyone who’s ready to make an impact.
John has been making a 6-7 figure income online since 2004. He has helped thousands of entrepreneurs succeed by teaching them how to replace themselves through outsourcing. They succeed as they stop doing the grunt work in the business and become the CEO. He created OnlineJobs.ph, the largest marketplace to find Filipino workers, and ReplaceMyself.com where he helps entrepreneurs implement everything they know they should be implementing, by outsourcing all the work.
Chris Parker is the founder & CEO of WhatIsMyIPaddress.com, the number one website in the world for finding your IP address. According to the Alexa ranking, Chris’s website is one of the top 3000 websites in the United States with over 6 million visitors a month. Chris started the website on January 4th, 2000 and for the first five years, his revenue didn’t even cover his internet bill. In 2005, Chris made $30 from display ads and he knew he couldn’t give up! In 2014, Chris was laid off from his corporate job and was faced with the scary opportunity to make his website a full time business. Since then he’s aggressively grown his site to generate just under seven figures a year in revenue with no employees, no office, and no inventory! WhatIsMyIPaddress.com has granted Chris and his wife time and financial freedom that they use to travel the world and raise their mini schnauzer, Bailey.
Richard Chapo is a business lawyer in San Diego who has been practicing for 25 years.Richard advises small and large online businesses on how best to comply with laws applicable to conducting business online such as the DMCA and FTC regulations. Richard is a massive hockey fan and avid traveler having lived in such exotic locations as Siberia.
Kelly is an intuitive coach, author, energy worker, and metaphysical teacher who has been helping clients create positive change in their lives since 2014. After overcoming addictions, eating disorders, and severe depression, Kelly learned how to weave spirituality into her daily life, improve her mindset, and shift her energy to create the life she wanted. She’s a certified Reiki Master in the Usui tradition, Holistic Life Coach, author, and a lifelong lover of all things spiritual. Her writing has been in YFS Magazine, MindBodyGreen, Lifehack, and SHIFT Advanced Life Design Magazine. Today she coaches clients from all over the world, helping them break through their limitations so they can manifest what they desire in their life and business.
Long story short, I’m just a regular guy. I’ve never had a job that’s paid me over $20k/year before taxes. I’ve been learning online marketing on nights and weekends for about the past decade. I’ve failed a ton. Spent tens of thousands of dollars. But last year I finally had my breakthrough and achieved my first six-figure year with purely affiliate commissions from SEO and I’d like to share more about how I did that with the world.
Nicole Holland is a “Podcast Guesting” authority who has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Huffington Post, as well as countless podcasts and virtual productions. She is often called upon to share her expertise from the live stage with business owners across North America interested in leveraging modern marketing strategies in order to increase their visibility, likability, and credibility.
Matt Watson is the Founder & CEO of Stackify. He has been a developer/hacker for over 15 years and loves solving hard problems with code. He sold his first startup, VinSolutions, for $150 million and started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions. Matt is skilled at SEO, blogging and content marketing. Stackify receives hundreds of thousands of monthly visits as a result of Matt’s successful content marketing.
Author, speaker, singer, coach, and consultant, Dr. Virginia LeBlanc is a highly sought after multi-disciplinary expert and scholar. Her experience spans government, business, higher education, the performing arts, and not-for-profit sectors. Her new book, Love the Skin YOU’RE In: How to Conquer Life Through Divergent Thinking, is written to encourage and empower all those seeking their place, trying to connect the dots, and fulfill their purpose in life. Dr. LeBlanc is a Diamond Life member and former National Commissioner for the 104 year old international public service, social action sorority Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She was also the former Executive Director of the National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., which is the umbrella organization for the nine largest historically African-American Greek organizations, boasting a combined membership of over 2 million.
Ellen Gendelman MS, LPC, CPC is a licensed psychotherapist and certified professional coach who specializes in working with relationships. She cherishes her own roles as wife, mother and grandmother. A veteran educator, motivational speaker and author, she has a passion for helping people grow and maximize their potential.
Joe Kashurba grew the freelance web design business that he started in high school into a digital agency with a virtual team and clients around the world. He went from building $300 websites to building $30,000 websites and managing 6-figure digital advertising budgets for some of the largest manufacturing and construction companies. Joe now advises and mentors other freelance web designers and digital agency owners on how to develop and scale their businesses.
Phil Singleton is a web designer, an SEO expert and an award winning author. Since 2005, Phil has owned and operated a digital agency based in Kansas City. In 2016, Phil and John Jantsch, of Duct Tape Marketing, co-wrote SEO for Growth: The Ultimate Guide for Marketers, Web Designers and Entrepreneurs. Phil and John are currently entering the next phase of their partnership by offering a training and SEO certification program to marketers and web designers, and creating a national network of certified SEO consultants.
As a serial entrepreneur and abundance hacker, Jennifer is on a mission to serve 1 million women, around the globe, who are ready to step into their greatness. As a mother of 3, she understands the pressures of motherhood whilst building an empire and wants to ensure that women realize that you can absolutely have it all! It's a case of working smarter not necessarily harder. Jen has built several businesses on and off line, is a published writer, speaker, mentor, CEO of a women's advertising platform and has just finished designing her first womenswear collection launching soon!
Chi Odogwu is a business growth consultant, digital marketer & direct response copywriter. He helps clients grow their businesses and achieve success on their terms through his digital marketing training, personal development coaching & entrepreneurship mentoring services. In addition to marketing consulting, Chi speaks on the entrepreneurial mindset, workplace relationships and digital marketing to local trade associations, church groups, and youth conferences.
After having spent sixteen successful years within the music industry, managing some of the UK’s leading dance music record labels, Christian decided to follow his heart and to put into action everything which he had learnt since first being introduced to the world of personal development by a close friend back in 2004.
Jürgen Schmechel was born 1960 in Hamburg, moving to Australia in 2004 to learn and live in a different culture. Jürgen is a keen observer of human psychology, he is a master in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Ericksonian Hypnosis and a certified Results Coach. Realizing that he and his wife are doing things differently in their marriage from others, and with relationships all around the world deteriorating, Jürgen brings his wisdom and coaching to the people through his Inspiring Relationships program. His mission is to inspire thousands of men yearly to stay in loving, respectful relationships, which has a ripple on effect to their Children and the World.
Recognized as savvy and sophisticated yet widely respected for her business brilliance, Vanessa Shaw is an international Business and Success Coach, Wealth Mentor and Inspirational Speaker. Both lauded by clients and admired by peers, her mission and passion in life is teaching entrepreneurs and leaders how to step up, be bold and play bigger in their business and personal lives. With a natural gift to connect with any audience, whether in the hundreds or thousands, she has delivered moving and inspirational keynotes that speak authentically of her own struggles to become the first woman entrepreneur in her family.
Gabriella Salmon has worked as a consultant assisting business with change and transformation programs to engage employees during the past 20 years. She is the Founder of Free to Achieve. Since 2012 she has loved helping people be the best version of themselves.
A survivor of a childhood riddled with domestic violence and alcoholism in the rural foothills of southern Virginia, James R. Nowlin is now the millennial CEO and founder of executive consulting firm, Excel Global Partners (EGP) and the Fund Managing Principal of the EGP Family of Companies. By mastering his habits, routines, and consciousness, James trained his mindset to shift from the poverty consciousness that he learned as a child to an abundance consciousness as an adult–and by doing so, became a multimillionaire. Today, James is not only a survivor, he is a thriver. Under James’ leadership, his firm has led successful engagements in 15 countries and in more than 20 states. Through his book and speaking engagements, James teaches people about mastering the millionaire mindset and getting the most out of life–doing more, living more, and achieving more!
Frank Cottle is CEO of Alliance Virtual Offices and Chairman of the Alliance Business Centers Network. He is a recognized expert on flexible working, the virtual office movement and 'third place' working. Prior to creating the Alliance brand, Frank successfully operated his own portfolio of business centers in multiple locations across North America. Frank has spent almost the past 30 years delivering business services that are finely tuned to the workplace needs of startups, entrepreneurs and growing SMBs. Over the years he has worked with tens of thousands of business owners and, coupled with a unique global management perspective, has become the go-to authority on flexible and remote work.
Joe Valley is an equity partner at Quiet Light Brokerage, and has been with the firm since 2012. Joining after selling his own eCommerce business through Quiet Light Brokerage, Joe has personally closed over $35,000,000 in total transactions and is now the Director of Brokerage Services. Joe understands the importance of valuation and exit planning, and most of his clients do not list their businesses for sale right away. He finds the best approach is to plan well in advance for a sale in order to get maximum value. His first advice is generally to hold the business and not sell at all. But inevitably some owners have plans to retire, partners that are not working out, have a need to take some money “off the table”, or they are startup entrepreneurs looking to move onto their next project. Joe has expertise advising and brokering in all web based niches, including SaaS, eCommerce, Amazon FBA, Affiliate, and many others. Joe recently wrote 10 Steps to Selling Your Amazon Business, and walks all web based business owners through the process of a business valuation, calculating potential taxes, listing the business for sale, all the way through to closing, training and transition. Recently featured on The Amazing Seller Podcast, Joe can lend his expertise, and advise other entrepreneurs who have built or bought a web based business and are considering an exit.
Simon and Monika are digital nomads and the founders of Content Kite - an end-to-end content marketing business. They specialize in working with digital agencies to help them generate more leads via rich, evergreen content. Having previously both worked for global digital publishers, they have created content projects for some of the world’s biggest brands including L’Oréal, Disney, BMW, Mondelez and Shell. They travel the world, spending one to three months anywhere that takes their fancy, working and growing the business from their laptops. They hire remote writers and project managers from all over the world, enabling them to pursue their dreams of a nomadic lifestyle too.
Jeffrey Slayter is a top researcher of Leadership and Self Awareness and its application to the high-performing awakening entrepreneurs. He is a positive disrupter of psyches (in a practical good way) in the areas of self awareness and leadership having played the role of transformational coach for the last 18 years to over three million people from twelve different countries. He has shared the stage with other incredible thought leaders, and he questions the validity of the beliefs that are holding leaders back. Having likely coached one of the coaches you’ve engaged at some point along your entrepreneurial journey, Jeffrey Slayter has a level of mastery in facilitation in the areas of leadership and self awareness, and feels called here in this lifetime to support the awakening of entrepreneurs while helping them achieve even greater outcomes for their purpose, profits, people and the planet.
Dave Sanderson is the Managing Partner of Dave Sanderson Speaks Enterprises, based out of Charlotte, NC. On January 15, 2009, Dave was the last passenger o¬ the plane that crashed into the Hudson River—best known as “The Miracle on the Hudson”—and was largely responsible for making sure so many others made it out safely. His recently released book, titled “Moments Matter,” discusses how employing 12 key resources that he learned from his 30 years in sales and being head of security for Anthony Robbins was a main factor that turned a potential tragedy into the “Miracle on the Hudson. His programs are not only inspirational but share actionable strategies that you can utilize TODAY!
Dustin Mathews is THE mentor and coach to the stars. Dustin is the co-founder of Speaking Empire – the disruptive company in the leadership and education space, who’s chief mission is advancing the human race by empowering leaders to communicate powerfully, unlock their fullest potential and ultimately step into their Greatness. The author of many bestselling books, Dustin has shared the stage with athletes, business celebrities, and titans of business. Dustin’s companies and private clients have been featured by Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and INC Magazine. Having marketed and filled over 3,000 events AND leading 10 online product launches, Dustin has generated over $43 million dollars in sales.
Terry began his business career in 1979 when he invested his last $118.42 to start an air conditioning service business. At that time, he had no car or truck, but he did have the knowledge and ability to build relationships. 10 years later, after building and selling his successful A/C business, he developed his own business success program based on his experience and the teachings of his favorite business books. In December 2005, with a series of successful relationships involving boosting and turning around performance for high-profile and Fortune 500 corporations, Terry chose to return to his true passion helping Independent Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners plan, launch and develop their businesses.
Tristan White is Founder & CEO of The Physio Co, a unique healthcare business, that in 2014 ranked No. 1 on BRW’s list of Australia’s 50 Best Places to Work. A qualified physiotherapist from The University of Melbourne, Tristan started his career with a dream to become a sports physiotherapist and work with the mighty Richmond Tigers in the AFL. After a short stint in private practice, Tristan left the glamorous world of sports physio and created himself a job helping oldies in a few nursing homes across Melbourne. He loved it and very quickly had more aged care clients than he was able to treat himself. That’s when, in 2004, his new job became a business and The Physio Co (TPC) was born. As TPC has grown, Tristan has obsessed over creating the best business he possibly can, which led him to believe culture is everything, which is the topic of his best-selling book.
Mac Prichard is the founder and publisher of Mac’s List, an online community for people looking for rewarding, creative, and meaningful work. More than 80,000 people a month visit the site, which includes a job board, a blog and courses about the nuts and bolts of job hunting and career management. Mac also hosts a weekly podcast, Find Your Dream Job, and is the author of the new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere. In addition to Mac’s List, Mac runs Prichard Communications, a registered B-Corp creative agency that works with top-tier foundations, non-profits and purpose driven brands across the country.
Nathan Hirsch is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring remote workers and eCommerce business. He co-founded his first company out of his dorm room in 2009 and built it to sell over $20 million worth of products over 5 years. While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building a remote army of freelancers. In 2015, Nathan co-founded and become the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace focused on connecting businesses with the top 1% of online workers in eCommerce, digital marketing, virtual assistance, and web development. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 2,500 businesses around the world.
Jeremy Miller is an 18-year-old nationally known entrepreneur, speaker, marketer, and pioneer. He started inventing things at the age of 7. By 16 he had already created his first company. Fortunately, as he explains, his first company failed. By the age of 18, he turned around and built a successful digital media marketing agency called Inspired Blue Media. Jeremy is also the Co-Founder and CMO of IDEAvize. Jeremy helps teach and inspire young entrepreneurs from around the United States of America. Jeremy Miller has been Featured in Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Mashable, and Future Sharks.
Civil Engineer, serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and digital nomad Amber Renae inspires women to re-discover their ‘Wow’ factor through presentation, personal branding and self-love. Not only is she an icon for style, but she’s also an icon for women’s empowerment, through her phenomenal entrepreneurial success story, having built three, 6-figure businesses in arguably the toughest Industries, she is passionate about sharing her advice, wisdom and experiences to her peers and 70,000 strong global community.
Jemimah is the Creative Director of Tangs Design, Director of Epic Social and one half of The Business Experiment podcast. She is also on the board of The Hope Project and a speaker for BeyondBlue. Jemimah has been named one of Australia's Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs and is an impact partner for Thankyou, she is passionate about startups and loves all things business. She is passionate about breaking through myths and misconceptions about being an entrepreneur and thrives on helping other businesses succeed.
Kim Ades (pronounced add-iss) is the president and founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and JournalEngineTM Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim is recognized as one of North America's foremost experts on performance through thought mastery. Using her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style, Kim helps her clients shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results and personal transformation.
Irene Manson shares her journey with her husband Ian, and talks about their humble beginnings as a kindergarten teacher and an industrial chemist (respectively) through their founding of the services offered by CareCallingNow. Born through a painful personal experience discovering the weaknesses in services offering independent elder care, Irene covers the challenges of growing a service business while still maintaining a home with growing children.
Deb Smith… she means what she says and says what she means, and she will do her best to help you get the best deal on your mortgage. She can assist all types of borrowers – first homebuyers, those looking to refinance an existing property or purchase a new property, and those wanting to start or grow their investment property portfolio. But most importantly … Deb is all about creating a wealthy life. Through her blogs, humour and insights into life, she gets that life is a tapestry of family, friends, good health, fun and financial security.
Kevin Donlin has been involved in marketing since 1994, and has since been a copywriter and marketing advisor for clients big and small, delivering sales gains of more than $1 million on multiple occasions. He’s been interviewed by major media outlets and is the author or co-author of 5 books, including the new book, “Marketing Multipliers.”
For over 25 years, Ross Jeffries has taught 60,000 men how to use their language to tap deep into the unconscious processes for human connection, emotion, and decisions to find the women of their dreams. Now, Ross works with a handpicked selection of high-powered entrepreneurs, salespeople, and other professionals to teach them his unique, one-of-a-kind, under-the-radar persuasion blueprint.
Tim Han is the founder of the recently gone viral YouTube channel Success Insider with almost 10 million reach worldwide and over 181k+ following (and counting!). On this channel he shares his wisdom he’s gained from the last 9 years he’s dedicated to hacking performance as well as inviting highly renowned guests such as Grant Cardone, Jairek Robbins, Caleb Maddix, Peter Sage, Philip Mckernan and many many more to share their insights on life and business. He is a certified NLP master practitioner specializing in High performance coaching. He has mentored and coaches thousands of business leaders and high achievers all around the world reaching their full potential and making big things happen FASTER than they’ve ever imagined.
Ross Keating is known as the Client Orchardist & Business Strategist, using experience and tools developed during 20 years in senior sales management, coaching and mentoring and business management roles in New Zealand and Australia across a variety of industries. Ross established his business consulting practice in 2005. Since then he has worked as an independent business consultant in many different industries, applying strategies where he guarantees to reveal hidden revenue streams and create more repeat profitable customers.
Dr. Hans Finzel is a successful author, speaker and trusted authority in the field of leadership. For 20 years he served as President of international non-profit WorldVenture, working in over 65 countries. Hans speaks, writes and teaches practical leadership based on real world experience. He has written ten books which have been translated into over twenty foreign languages, trained leaders on five continents, and today he serves as President of HDLeaders and teaches and speaks globally on all things leadership.
Dr. Ellie Heintze is a doctor and acupuncturist turned business success mentor. She helps wellness providers and coaches master the business side of medicine and turn their practices into sustainable and scalable businesses. She is also the host of the weekly podcast on iTunes, The Daily Cup, where she interviews other business experts to help the audience drive profit into their businesses, master the art of productivity, while working to create the life and business of their dreams.
Alan Stevens is known as the Celebrity Profiler and Australia’s leading personality and business profiler. He is regularly featured on National TV, Radio and in the World’s Press, profiling the likes of our leading politicians, TV and sports stars as well as Britain’s Royalty. He is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, a Coach and Trainer. He’s been referred to as the leading authority on reading people, globally by the UK Guardian and the mentalist meets Dr Phil by the Herald. Alan works with Businesses, Health Professionals, Teachers, Coaches and Parents, all with a unique form of Rapid Trait Profiling. These advanced Personality and Character Assessments utilizing Interdependent Visual Profiling to enhance communication skills in the workplace, in business and the home, as well as negotiation skills to boost sales and reduce workplace conflicts. With international clients, the likes of Disney Films and Gillette, and with the number of profiles running into the thousands, Alan's services are unique and unrivalled in the field of reading people.
Digital marketing expert, author, investor and founder of Menace Marketing, Kevin Spiteri (35) has mentored hundreds of marketing professionals on developing and executing world class digital marketing strategies. His ‘dangerous’ take on the digital world has seen countless clients build an engaged and loyal following. Launching his first commercial venture at just 14 years of age, installing car stereos from his parent’s garage, he successfully funded everything in his life up until the age of 20. By age 25 he was heading up the Australian marketing department for a NYSE, Fortune 500 multi-national corporation and Australian franchise business. After years leading various marketing divisions he launched boutique digital and social media marketing agency Menace Group and became actively immersed in the start-up scene, co-founding and investing in a number of start-ups.
Robert “Bobby” Klinck is an intellectual property attorney, who helps entrepreneurs, startups, and innovators protect their genius. He helps entrepreneurs make sure that they actually own their intellectual property, that they have policies to prevent copycats from stealing their ideas, and that they don’t step on landmines that can land them in expensive lawsuits. Bobby prides himself on making the complex issues related to intellectual property understandable for non-lawyers. He has published two books about intellectual property law: The Entrepreneur’s IP Planning Playbook and Patent Litigation Primer. He is currently working on a more ambitious project – an online course that will help entrepreneurs protect their genius. Bobby has his law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School.
A marketing and media consultant, Mitch Brudy graduated Drexel with a degree in marketing and started a personal training company that worked exactly like Uber. After a scary bout with cancer in high school, Mitch became a personal trainer in college and dedicated himself to fitness. He moved to working as the marketing Director for Freiwald Law, a firm in Philadelphia and now does everything he loves both full time and on the side.
Ahmed Khalifa is the Founder & Director of IgniteRock, where he helps entrepreneurs and small businesses to maximize the potential of their WordPress site to grow their online visibility, engage with more audience and encourage conversions.
Jill Brennan is a marketing consultant, author and founder of Harbren Marketing and mum to two teenage boys. She started out her working life after university as a truck driver on a mine. She has lived in Beijing, London, Kuala Lumpur as well as Perth, Melbourne and now Brisbane. She has worked in, with and for small businesses for over 20 years and is on a mission to help small business owners make more informed decisions about their marketing so they can make better use of their available resources and get better results. She has written articles for a range of outlets including the Sydney Morning Herald, Anthill, MyBusiness, CCIQ, MYOB, Dynamic Business Women and many others.
Through her unique blend of marketing coaching, Content Experience Design and copywriting process, she helps the maverick-preneurs uncover, articulate & transform their WHY into content that connects, resonates and converts — by way of an intuitive yet rigorous iterative process born out of her Harvard Design School training and 15 years experience in the online marketing industry. Ling is Inbound Marketing, Content Marketing, and Email Marketing certified. Through her writing engagements with various SaaS and marketing companies with the goals of driving organic traffic, building readership and increasing conversion, she’s well-versed in topics including online marketing, content marketing, eCommerce, conversion, UX, social media marketing, and more. She helps coaches, consultants, service professionals, solopreneurs and small businesses apply these best practices to their specific business models and circumstances. Ling is an avid cyclist with OCD (obsessive climbing disorder,) runner and chocoholic.
Daniel started on a 6-figure salary at 23, went broke, got evicted and started over - twice! He outsourced, built and grew his business afresh, and semi-retired at 31, and has now launched a new company which get's people featured on top rated podcast shows.
Steve Makris is the CEO and Founder of Real Estate Tube, working in all facets of the real estate industry for over 25 years. He has experience both on a National and International level. He has held senior executive sales positions with some of Australia’s largest commercial agencies as well as being the Managing Director of Maximum Business and Hospitality Brokers up until 2013, handling and consulting to Australia’s A list operators. Steve is the driving force of Real Estate Tube finance, operations and sales.
Andrei Polgar is a serial entrepreneur, an investor who specializes in exotic assets and an economist, and has launched a wide range of projects: development businesses, an auction platform, a small escrow service, a blog, a domain sales newsletter and three hosting businesses. As an investor, he specialize in assets such as domain names and cryptocurrencies, while as an economist he focuses on teaching economics and making/investing money online wisely.
Junior Ogunyemi is the multi-award winning entrepreneur and inspirational speaker turning every-day people into successful business owners. He is also author of the bestselling books “How to be a Student Entrepreneur” and “Young ‘Fed Up’ Professionals”. During his time at university, Ogunyemi launched several successful ventures and became one of the pioneers of the current “student entrepreneur” buzz around the UK. He has since received many accolades, and as an inspirational speaker and entrepreneur he has worked on various government initiatives advising schools and colleges, he has graced the TED stage and is now teaching his international audiences the art of cultivating an entrepreneurial mind-set and maximizing their potential.
Richard Scott combines psychology, NLP and CBT with traditional and modern hypnosis for the fastest, most successful outcome. Specialising in anxiety, confidence and empowering women, his proven track record has featured in national and international media. He has worked with clients in more than 30 countries, including celebrities, sporting champions, royalty, government, Special Forces, esteemed medical practitioners and members of academia. He is the President of the Australian Association of Professional Hypnotherapists and NLP (AAPHAN), the Australian Board Advisor to the international Association of Weight Loss Hypnotherapists (AWLH), and an international student advisor at the UK School of Natural Health Sciences (SNHS).
Alma Abreu specializes in helping businesses become more agile. She is the founder of 360 Agile Pro. Agile Project Management training and coaching can be very expensive, and is typically used by large companies with big budgets allowing them to hire consultants in the technology space. 360 Agile Pro wants to make this service easily available and affordable to small businesses and startups with online training programs and coaching at reasonable rates.
Richard McMunn is an award-winning, best-selling author who had self-published over 150 books to date. In 2005, desiring a fresh challenge and a change of direction after a career in the Royal Navy and then the Kent Fire and Rescue Service, Richard founded the 'how2become' series of career guides. Awarded and recognized for his energetic publishing, brilliant ideas and highly proactive marketing, Richard has sold thousands of books and become a multiple Number 1 Best-selling author.
Lorraine Pirihi is an author, entrepreneur and speaker, and a specialist baby boomer coach. She works with baby boomers to help them reignite their business mojo. A regular in the media and a prolific blogger, Lorraine taps into her experience in business to bring to light the challenges baby boomers face. Since hitting the wall of burnout and moving beyond it herself, Lorraine has found inspiration in developing powerful programs to help baby boomer business owners void burnout and create more fulfilling, balanced lives.
Georgette Rowland Osborne is Director of the Financial Gym and Precision Services Virtual Bookkeeping. She creates products, services and resources to reduce financial stress and increase financial confidence for entrepreneurs. She is a speaker, author, and host of the Firmer Figures Business Show Podcast. She has been featured in and writes for a number of large publications. Her book - Firmer Figures – Fess Up or Mess Up - is a guide to help entrepreneurs’ spot financial warning signs in their business. She enjoyed an amazing corporate career with a portfolio that included Bank of England, Merrill Lynch, NM Rothschild and ironically the Inland Revenue. While still a child, her businessman father died without his affairs in order; then her stepfather abandoned them a few years later. Her childhood was spent watching her highly intelligent mother be let down financially by the men she trusted. Georgette vowed never to rely on anyone for her financial stability. Unbeknownst to her, she would make bigger mistakes. Georgette is on a mission to reduce the number of entrepreneurs that go bust due to lack of clarity about their true financial situation. However her true passion is empowering women around the world to educate themselves to be financially independent. She believes that this is also a route to creating better lives for our young people through the example set by mothers.
With nearly 20 years in the software industry, Delivra founder and CEO Neil Berman continues to be driven by a passion to find innovative solutions that help clients win in their industries. Neil draws upon his extensive skills in executive leadership, strategic planning, financial management and team building to lead his Indianapolis-based company. He promotes strong cultural values as the essential ingredient to sustaining a high performing team, which has helped the company earn the ranking as one of Indiana's Best Places to Work. Neil also is steadfast in promoting the company's mission to succeed by focusing on helping its clients succeed first. In addition to helping Delivra's clients overcome their marketing challenges, Neil regularly shares his knowledge with the business community as a speaker, blog author and interview subject for media outlets. Neil's commitment to Delivra, his staff and clients has helped the company land on Inc. 5000's List of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. The company's clients include small- to large-size businesses across the nation, including Samsung, Red Gold, The American Legion and Butler University. Neil, a graduate of University of Minnesota's Business Administration School, has served as a member and leader for various industry organizations, including the Indiana CPA Society, the American Marketing Association and the Business Marketing Association.
Olivia Charlet grew up around the world and lived in Tokyo, Dusseldorf, Joburg, Vienna and Hamburg. She then completed a Bachelors in Business in Boston and started working in finance at Bloomberg in 2010. After 3 years of working in the corporate world, she realized that deep down there was something bigger for her to do in the world. And she want to do something that would truly make a difference. She quit her job and did a Master’s in Organisational Psychology and a Coaching qualification in London. She launched Olivia Charlet International in 2014 and now helps women entrepreneurs around the world make their own impact and build their wealth through upleveling their mindset. She speaks internationally and is about to release her first book for women who want to unleash and live a life on their terms beyond their wildest dreams.
Best selling Author, International Speaker, and host of the eCommerce MasterPlan Podcast. Chloë Thomas has been working in eCommerce since 2003, learning how to increase orders, up customer retention, and recruit new customers cost effectively. Working with businesses from the high street right down to start ups. eCommerce MasterPlan is the result of Chloë's years of experience, the books, blogs and courses have all been created to help eCommerce business owners and marketers to make the right decisions as they build their own path to eCommerce success. The eCommerce MasterPlan Podcast exists to bring a weekly dose of inspiration direct to the desks of eCommerce business people all over the globe. Power Retail (Australia) named Chloë as one of the top 10 eCommerce commentators in the world, and within 6 months of launch the podcast was already the top eCommerce podcast in the UK.
Rob Cornish is a coach and speaker who started his online business in 2010, then launched his first product in the stock market niche in 2011, a product that went on to earn him six figures in sales.
Louie La Vella’s clients are entertainment personalities, nightclubs, concerts and festivals, and he creates brand and marketing strategies to engage and connect with their audience. Working within the ‘shark infested waters’ of the nightlife and music industry as a marketing and branding consultant, La Vella has been delivering high profit solutions to both live entertainment events, musicians and venues for years. With 20+ years experience in the nightlife consultant area and extensive development and production experience with national television and feature film projects. Author, Speaker, Event Producer and Coach. La Vella has produced and marketed over 30 live music concerts in the past few years. Winner of the Niagara Music Awards Promoter of the Year (2012). Has been called a Media-preneur: Combining a successful TV executive producer and host role with being a sought after marketing/branding consultant in the nightlife and music industry. In his television days he had the opportunity to interview the likes of Lady Gaga, Richard Branson, Backstreet Boys, and more.
Chris is an internationally recognized facilitator, mentor, trainer, entrepreneur and marketing expert. He is the creator of The Effort-Free Life System which has sold thousands of sets around the world generating more than $3m in revenue. Having presented at 2 TEDx conferences, international teleconferencing calls and conducted both live and recorded coaching and personal training sessions on how to make money or make more money as a life coach/facilitator, Chris helps people resolve challenges in their lives and move their business forward.
Yann ilunga is a podcaster and podcasting consultant, who helps entrepreneurs, business owners and creatives leverage the power of podcasting and funnels to build authority, network with influencers, generate more leads and acquire new customers. He’s the host of two podcasts – the popular entrepreneurial show “360 Entrepreneur Podcast” and the music business show “the Jazz Spotlight” – and he’s the founder of the world’s largest virtual summit.
Meryl Johnston is a Chartered Accountant who specialises in cloud accounting software “Xero”. In July 2015 she launched Bean Ninjas - a highly successful, productised service style bookkeeping business which helps businesses keep their books up to date and meet their sales tax obligations - with co-founder Ben, and the business model has grown from $0-$100k annual recurring revenue in 8 months.
Michael has been in marketing since he spoke his first word. Working in both advertising agencies and digital agencies taught him how to appreciate a good single malt and a nicely tailored suit. He firmly believes that Coco Pops are awesome, even as an adult. During winter, he spends his hibernation researching digital marketing trends for ideas on how to make more money than Google. No luck yet, but in the meantime, he runs his own successful digital marketing agency, Yoghurt Digital.
JG Francoeur is the author of international bestselling book Messy Manager: 11.75 Principles to 2x Your Sales + 3x Your Profits. Featured on the Success Today TV Show, the TODAY Show, ABC News, Sky News Australia, Entrepreneur Magazine and many other shows and having written hundreds of articles for international business publications, today JG owns 4 companies with a total of 125 employees around the world. He is best known for his ability to simplify marketing strategies that can double your sales and triple your profits.
Dean Salakas grew up in his mother’s business, The Party People, which has grown into one of the largest party stores in Australia selling balloons, costumes, theme decorations, novelties, catering supplies and many more party supplies with over 20,000 products. Established in 1980s, the retail party supply chain has 2 stores in Sydney and also serving customers online.
A former Zen Monk turned Communication and Personal Development expert. He has over 25 years of experience coaching and training people to transform their communication by empowering themselves. He has a Master’s degree in Education from McGill University, and has created a 9 step formula for entrepreneurs called Connect with Power. He is also the author of a book called A Knight Without Armor and is founder of The Soulmate Revolution. Allan has a unique way to help you take your knowledge and finally apply it to action with fast track results and methods to sustain the benefits long term.
In October 2008, Ben was laid off during a corporate redundancy measure and was suddenly faced with no salary, no security, not clear path to the future. Instead of getting another job and continuing in accountancy, he chose to try something different – to make a full-time living from the Internet, live and work the hours he chooses, and live life on his own terms. As a coach and speaker, Ben now shares his experiences in the “Laptop Lifestyle” with others, allowing him to spend more time with his loved ones and exploring different cultures.
Co-Founder and Digital Strategist at Defined Branding and Online Visibility Coach, Stephanie has created the Content for Profit course to help small business owners and marketeers learn how to find their online audience and turn it into real customers and sales.
Andres is the co-founder and CEO of Wingman Legal Tech. He is a Marine Corps Veteran with an MS in Technology Management from National University and over 10 years’ experience in large enterprise technology with HP Enterprise. Andres has been leading an effort in the legal industry to adopt cloud technologies for leaner and more efficient practice.
Ingrid Bayer is the founder of V-biz Virtual Business Management Services, an Australian small business that provides a suite of Administrative services delivered remotely, or ‘virtually’. With a background exceeding 25 years in small business administration and high level EA support, Ingrid has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in providing superior services in the constantly changing business landscape.
Reginald Grant, MSEd is an English Teacher, speaker, workshop presenter and leading expert on Reaching and Teaching African American and other urban youth. A former NFL player for the New York Jets, he also finds time to serve on several boards of national organizations working with youth. He is the author of “Success Stories Insights by African American Men” and the workbook for young readers (2016), an inspirational collection of stories by 19 African American Men.
Lauren Clemett is a Personal Branding specialist, best selling author, speaker and developer of the award winning Neurobranding program the Authority Rocket. She has guided hundreds of professional service providers and consultants to identify and capture the essence of their personal brand and propel their business further and faster than they ever thought possible. Lauren developed the Award Winning Authority Rocket Program from over 25 years in the marketing communications arena; working within world leading advertising agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Clemenger BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather and Grey Worldwide with banking, retail, finance, telecommunications, FMCG, energy, travel and lotteries brands. She also owned her own agency, Evergreen, focusing on Baby Boomer Marketing, was Brand Manager for AXA, delivering the International Rugby World Sevens Tournament and is now the owner of personal branding consultancy, The Ultimate Business Propellor. She lives in Australia and travels the World with her family while running her online business.
Cailen Ascher is a Clarity Coach for women entrepreneurs & coaches. She helps her clients get business clarity by working on their vision, mindset and plan for success. Cailen’s been featured on Entrepreneur on Fire, The Huffington Post and was the 2014 Gold Stevie Award winner for Young Female Entrepreneur of the Year. Her coaching and teachings have helped 1000s gain Business Clarity.
Noel is a husband, father, author, performance coach and self-proclaimed FAILUROLOGIST who helps business owners and struggling individuals convert their failures into opportunities through inspiring blog posts, life-changing books and exceptional one-on-one coaching sessions
Sarah is an educational entrepreneur, a number 1 best-selling author, qualified trainer, professional speaker and respected consultant in training development, adult education, curriculum design, online learning, virtual reality in vocational training as well as trainer of trainers in adult learning. Sarah has been in business for over 10 years internationally and currently educates over 3,800 students in more than 120 countries.
Prosper Taruvinga was born in Zimbabwe and is now living in Melbourne, Australia with wife Angela and daughter Kaliyah. A die-hard about personal development, lifestyle design and entrepreneurship, Prosper is a lifelong student of life, constantly striving to become the best man that he can be and to help others along the way. He is inspiring others to achieve a happier existence through writing and podcasts on his websites. He believes everyone has the chance, yours is round the corner if you allow yourself to grab it.
A former up and coming chef cooking in some of Melbourne’s best restaurants, Darren’s life changed in 2003 when he was involved in a car crash and told he would walk with a limp for the rest of my life and never run again. Building on physio and a rigorous exercise program, Darren ran his first half-marathon within 6 months, a triatholon series shortly thereafter, and a half-Ironman in 2005. Despite heart complications and a speaking schedule that led to exhaustion, Darren is now a multiple Ironman finisher, father and husband. He teaches his methods for personal training to others now in the online world.
“Jerry McMullin” is one of America’s Top Investor, Entrepreneur and Producer. Jerry McMullin is the Founder of 4Cast Broadcasting Network based in Durango, CO, which he started in 2013 and has made a career out of radio and telecommunications. Jerry is also an renown risk assessment CEO who works with Fortune 100 Companies that has designed a perfect luxurious 5 Star safe house for those who may want to provide maximum protection for their loved ones.
Bruno started out studying computer programming, and quickly found that HTML and the Internet were the future of business and a land of opportunity. Author, developer and Internet marketer, Bruno Pisano takes the lessons he’s learned through his aspirations to be a professional soccer player to business, helping others understand planning, persistence, teamwork, positivism, attitude and more apply equally to the pitch or the boardroom.
Tim Templeton is a veteran entrepreneur, consultant, speaker and a best selling author. His books include The Referral of a Lifetime—The Ken Blanchard Series (Revised Edition Sept-2016), The Recognized Authority (March-2016), Always Positive in Your Business and the main contributor on the text; The Entrepreneur’s Handbook. From his studio in San Diego, Tim hosts Consulting Gold Nation, a video podcast featuring interviews with leading authors, game changers and best in class service providers. Tim writes, speaks and consults from the center of his vast experience and heart.
Tom Schwab knows how to build an online business. Marketing at its heart is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps small business owners, entrepreneurs and soloprenuers get featured on leading podcasts their prospects are already listening. Then he shows them how to turn listeners into customers. • Author of CONNECT: Grow your business as a podcast guest • Creator of the CONNECT Online Course • Founder of Interview Valet, the concierge level booking service
Divya Parekh is a veteran scientific and leadership presenter at bio-pharmaceutical and business conferences and receives very positive reviews whenever she speaks at organizational workshops, meetings, and corporate events. Able to connect with audiences across all industries.she focuses on giving them strategies and tools to implement in their professional and personal lives. Among her professional recognitions are having Women of Distinction Magazine, a magazine division of the National Association of Distinguished Professionals, feature her in one of their issues. She has an enormous love of people, a fierce passion for coaching, commitment to building leaders, and unbridled desire to create a better world.
Demi Karpouzos is a Business Mentor, published author and tell-all speaker. She works with entrepreneurs who want nothing more than a full client roster, a spacious schedule, and cushy bank account – but consistently let fears, doubts and insecurities stop them from putting themselves in the spotlight and making that money. Demi shows her clients how to spawn new leads, and then teaches them how to market to those leads, so that they turn them into paying clients. Demi left a 6 figure income job to pursue her desire to become a business owner. After a lot of struggle and frustration, she realized that to build a successful business, all it takes is 3 simple steps. She attributes her 5 year overnight success to mindset and marketing. Now she helps entrepreneurs and small business owners get more clients by marrying mindset and marketing. Demi and her work have been featured on DailyWorth, Advisor.ca, YahooNews! SNDI, CNN, NBC, ABC News, Fortune, and CBS
Business, lifestyle consultant, and author, Steve Rodgers sees himself as a leader helping others discover, maximize, and increase their highest good and purpose in life and business.
Ty Crandall is an internationally known speaker, author, and business credit expert. With over 16 years of financial experience Ty is recognized as an authority in business credit building and is the author of two books on credit named Perfect Credit and Business Credit Decoded and has been featured by Entrepreneur, Inc, and Forbes. Ty currently serves as the CEO at Credit where he has helped create and grow one of the biggest and most credible business coaching operations in the United States.
Jason is a top business and executive coach, and sales trainer. He’s a leading expert on human behavior, daring leadership and influence. At the heart of his strategy is the understanding that people and your relationships are your true “wealth.” Everything we accomplish in life is with or through other people. He works with experts, entrepreneurs and executives to help them get unstuck and stand out by building key skill sets, creating their vision and purpose, and building key relationships that impact the bottom line.
John Murphy is a results oriented business coach and mentor to senior executives and CEOs. He’s a great communicator with broad experience and is skilled at discussing issues that make businesses and individuals grow and thrive. John is a #1 Best Selling Author on Amazon. His book, “10 Key Traits of Top Business Leaders” is a must read for any executive with leadership aspirations.
Not long after graduating from the University at Buffalo in 92’ with a PreLaw degree, Dennis Brown started his career as an entrepreneur. Since then Mr. Brown built 3 multi million dollar businesses in 3 different industries. He is known for his work at Logistic Dynamics (LDi), a 3rd party logistics provider that he founded whose sales went from $0 to over $45 million a year. Dennis has spent over 8 years developing and teaching his Linkedin marketing system which has generated him over $20 million in revenue for his various business ventures. He is also the author of “The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Linkedin Users” and regularly speaks on the topic of Linkedin marketing and social sales.
Adam Hommey is the Founder and Creator of Help My Website Sell™ and The Business Creators Institute TM. For years, Adam has been the “secret weapon” in the arsenal of dozens of internet marketers, executive marketing solution providers, and professional service providers. His mentoring and teaching, delivered one-on-one, in group settings, and through detailed video, help you Emancipate the POWER of INFORMATION by converting more website visitors into prospects and customers and simplifying your internet marketing technology so you can make more money, now.
Danielle Robbins is the Founder of Ladies That Lead – Cultivating Superior Business Women, an Amazon Best Selling Author, Speaker, Business Coach & Motivator. Her aim is to inspire, support, mentor and lead one million powerful women on their entrepreneurial business journey to 6 figures and beyond by the year 2025! After working through the early struggles of entrepreneurship herself with the late nights, strong coffee’s, lack of sleep, anxiety, stress and mild depression without a lot of support, direction or a proven blueprint out there for woman to really pursue their career and business goals, she decided to create an online membership programme and exclusive “community” of like minded powerful woman.
David Ralph has become a full-time podcaster in record time with his top rated show “JOIN UP DOTS”. Since launching in April 2014, Join Up Dots with David Ralph has been at the forefront of podcasting. With thousands of monthly listeners consuming his content, he has created the money making machine that many struggle to bring into their own lives. He earns all his income from working online, when he wants, where he wants and is ready to share his experience with you.
Johnson Emmanuel Is the founder/CEO of KorieFusion. He helps Business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches and consultants grow their revenue and business with online marketing strategies. He’s on a mission to show the entire world that small businesses can become global giants. Johnson’s clients and students have been mentioned on CNN, FoxNews, Entrepreneur, Forbes, etc.
Ajay Prasad is a serial entrepreneur, successful business strategist and an adept marketing expert who before laying the foundation of his various successful entrepreneurial ventures, served organizations ranked among the top 10 of Fortune 500 companies. His areas of expertise include marketing management, business development, consumer research, market analysis and strategic planning within industries such as consumer electronics, GPS-based navigation systems, enterprise software and consumer marketing. The founder and president of GMR Web Team - a leading Orange County digital marketing agency dedicated to helping businesses maximize revenue from the Internet - Ajay also owns and operates GMR Transcription, a seven-figure web-based business and award-winning transcription and translation company which he founded in 2004 to fill a void in affordable and accurate transcription and translation services for writers, students, professors and businesses. In the short span of a decade, the company has expanded its reach to include government institutions and non-profit organizations and has become a trusted partner to more than 9,000 clients across the globe.
Rachel Parker, CEO, Resonance Content Marketing A self-described geek who can recite entire episodes of “South Park” by heart, Rachel Parker has had a passion for content ever since she was old enough to hold a crayon (purple, please). Throughout her 15-year marketing career — five of those years spent as a copywriter in one of Houston’s largest advertising agencies — Rachel has helped brands such as Reliant Energy, Hewlett Packard, AIG American General, and SYSCO Foodservice to connect with their customers. Over the years, she’s developed a distinct talent for being able to communicate in the voice of the client, often eliciting the comment “You get me, Rachel. You just get me.” Rachel is also a classically trained soprano (though these days she has little time for singing), an avid gym rat (boxing, anyone?), the happy wife of a software architect/fellow geek, and the proud mother of three rambunctious dogs (pug Sophie and beagles Hermione and Cooter). In 2016, she’s set her sights on completing a second triathlon … and maybe taking a vacation.
Marc Mawhinney is on a mission to help coaches build stronger businesses! He has a passion for entrepreneurship, having started a number of businesses in his life and growing one to 100 employees. After becoming a coach, he saw the struggles that coaches face while trying to build their businesses, and decided to do something about it! He launched “Natural Born Coaches”, a daily podcast where he interviews successful coaches to share their advice, and works with coaches in his “Accelerate For Clients” 1-on-1 and group programs.
Lindsey is the founder and CEO of TrafficAndLeads.com that specializes in driving traffic, getting leads and the art of nurturing leads to become lifelong clients. Lindsey is an expert in landing pages, email sequences, search engine ranking, newsletters, analytics, social media, pay-per-click ads, websites, blogging… the list goes on. She knows how to utilize the myriad of online marketing options to generate more traffic and leads which produces more paying clients.
Kay Sanders – The Jump Start Coach Kay is a Certified Personal Development Coach, a Business Coach, Bestselling Author and podcast host, who draws from her own experiences and struggles in life and in business to inspire others and to make a difference in their life. She has guided her clients to personal mastery and success. Through her teaching and coaching, her clients were able to make major positive changes – both professionally and personally. Kay’s goal is to help people from around the globe who want to live a more fulfilling life or who want to start a business or take their business to the next level. Kay truly believes that everyone not only deserves, but also has the ability, to live a fulfilling life full of success and achievements.
Tarun Stevenson is a personal development coach, teacher and speaker with the John Maxwell Team. He works with individuals and organizations, helping them to identify areas of obstacle and limitation in their growth and through development of leadership and communication skills, helping his clients lift the lid on their potential.
South African born Mimika Cooney (pronounced Mim-ee-kah) is an international award winning photographer, TV Host, published author, speaker, branding, video and online marketing expert. Mimika has run four successful businesses in three countries. She is the host of MimikaTV, a web show that inspires passionate entrepreneurs to build a business around doing what they love.
Dave Sheahan is a well respected High Performance Coach and Founder of “Formula 4 Success” coaching Athletes, Entrepreneurs and Corporations to achieve sustained high performance and realise their full potential. Dave specialises in coaching Professional Footballers, triathletes and athletes and teams in various sports as well as working with large corporations and entrepreneurs. Dave’s Coaching is designed to educate, motivate and inspire individuals, teams and corporations to realise their full potential and an important part of the process is regaining control over one’s body,mind and health and in so doing achieve success and balance in the other 3 key areas of their lives – relationships, professional and wealth. As Dave says regaining control over your body/mind/health is the catalyst to success in all other areas. His focus is not just on achieving FAST results but more importantly LASTING results. Dave works with clients creating balanced LIFESTYLES not temporary quickfix solutions thus creating fun, vibrant, fulfilling and successful lives.
Brian Lofrumento is an entrepreneur, speaker, and the author of Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur: What You Really Need to Know to Start Your First Business. Brian’s businesses have reached over 3.5 million people worldwide, and he has over 3,000 students from around the world going through his courses about how to automate and scale their businesses online.
Todd Tresidder graduated from the University of California at Davis with a B.A. in economics and a passion for creating successful businesses. A serial entrepreneur since childhood, Todd went on to build his own wealth as a hedge fund investment manager before “retiring” at 35. He grew his net worth from less than zero at 23 to the point of financial independence just 12 years later. Todd has maintained his wealth by remaining an active investor and utilizing statistical and mathematical risk management systems for investing. Through his website at FinancialMentor.com, he teaches advanced investing and advanced retirement planning principles. Take the next step beyond conventional financial advice and discover what works, what doesn’t, and why, based on years of proven experience.
Author, Podcaster, International Speaker and HuffPost blogger , Maura Sweeney guides people on the path of “Living Happy – Inside Out.” Her own path to life purpose and happiness started when she left law school mid-stream. Since then, she's been a corporate manager, business owner and home schooling mom -- and has traveled to over 50 countries. Today, she shares stories and more to inspire others to find their way to influence, leadership, identity and life purpose. Featured in outlets like Match.com, and Britain’s BBC, Maura can be seen around the block or around the globe searching for great people, great stories and good news to share. When not chatting about comfort zones, influence, leadership and life purpose, she is probably looking for another reason to laugh.
Fortune 500 Executive turned Million Dollar Marketing Mentor, Kelly Roach helps Entrepreneurs and Business Owners skyrocket their sales and uncap their income. As the CEO of Kelly Roach Coaching, Kelly's mission is to empower Entrepreneurs with the key strategies, resources, inspiration and education needed to accomplish their goals and dreams. As a former NFL cheerleader Kelly focuses heavily on exercise integration, personal development and key healthy living rituals to help her clients achieve sustainable business success coupled with a fulfilling, freedom based lifestyle.
Mike is a LinkedIn made-man! He is a sales pro who rocketed his way to the top thanks to effective networking skills. Mike teaches others how to harness the power of LinkedIn. Infectious, enthusiastic, and practical; Mike’s personal story and professional experience reaches listeners to motivate and propel them to success.
Todd’s life’s mission is to bring you the most practical and hugely beneficial how-to tips, tricks, and techniques that solve the immediate and pressing issues you encounter as you move from Founder to CEO.
Matt ‘Handshakin’ Holmes hosts the Handshakin’ Video Series, where he interviews today’s most successful entrepreneurs on networking/mentorship. After interviewing venture capitalists, members of Congress and billionaires, he educates aspiring entrepreneurs on best networking strategies in the Handshakin’ Startup Pre-accelerator. Take your startup idea to the next level!
Lee Caraher is an Author, Entrepreneur and CEO with over 20 years’ experience building great, high producing intergerational work teams that get a lot done well and have fun at the same time. An acclaimed communication strategist known for her practical solutions to big problems, Lee founded Double Forte in 2002 to work with good people doing great work for good companies – her clients span well-loved brands and hot technology startups.
Bill Watkins and Robert Mallon are quite a team! Bill has traveled his life's journey as a West Point graduate, Army officer, world-class athlete, corporate executive, and entrepreneur. Robert, Bill's co-founder of the Rusty Lion Academy, is a nationally recognized, professional speaker, business coach, mentor, and meeting facilitator. With their shared passion for coaching others to success in life and business, their students call them "Extraordinary Life Guides".
Ava "Eagle" Brown is an author, motivational, empowerment and transformational speaker, NLP qualifies coach and actress. Her credits include writing, life coaching, consulting and mother to two children. Drawing on her own experiences, she assists others to reach their full potential through determination and tapping into their greatness. She shows others how to achieve and break down barriers regardless of background, colour , or their past.
Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Biz Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. Jim is the host of Newsletter Guru TV, the hit weekly Web TV Show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners and he is also the host of Stick Like Glue Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim’s unique brand of smart marketing and business building strategies.
Nellie Akalp is a serial entrepreneur, small business advocate, speaker and author. She is the founder & CEO of CorpNet.com, an online legal document filing service, where she helps entrepreneurs start, grow and maintain a business.
Jennifer Martin is a Published Author, Motivational Speaker, 5 Time Entrepreneur and Business Consultant who helps Business Owners, Leaders, and Managers Worldwide build soul-satisfying lives and Businesses that Thrive!
Natalie Cutler-Welsh is an Author, Blogger, Podcaster and Mother of three. She is known as the ‘Go to Girl’ for women entrepreneurs who want to connect and get the word out about their business. Born and raised in Canada and now living in stunning New Zealand, Natalie is all about embracing change and making dreams a reality. She does this through connecting and coaching women in business and online communities and high level Mastermind groups.
Creator of the Trademarked MIKE cartoon sports character, Jim Sweeney has published 37 MIKE Sports Comic Books, penned 750+ blogs, narrates the witty Mike on Sports! podcast and participates in sports as a masters athlete.
Dave is the sought after author of Beyond the Grind and co-founder of multiple online businesses. He is most loved for his authentic connection with audiences, and is passionate about equipping aspiring entrepreneurs to do meaningful work and live fulfilling lives, and believes entrepreneurship is the path which enables people to become the best version of themselves.
Corey Poirier is an award winning Keynote speaker and a TEDx Speaker (having presented to 100,000 attendees and having shared the bill with Deepak Chopra and General Rick Hillier), award winning executive, host of the top rated Conversations With PASSION Radio Show which features the likes of Jack Canfield (Chicken Soup for the Soul), John Gray (Men are from Mars), Dr. John Izzo, and Chalene Johnson and Corey is also an International Best-Selling Author (Share Your Message With The World).
Dr. Rachna Jain is a Speaker, Author and Business Consultant with a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. She excels at helping her clients attract new clients, stabilize their business model and improve their profitability.
Michael Metzger is a 26 year old founder of #UltimageEntrepreneur and TheSocialCampus.com. Myke thrives on sharing his story, and has helped many millennials change their lives financially. He credits his success with being able to take complex situations and break them down into simplicity.
Allen Vaysberg is a Recalibration Expert and creator of the SEAMLESS method who facilitates people’s transition from unfulfilled and stressed to doing what they love and being at peace. He speaks on life purpose, career change, work-life balance and the recalibration process and runs online programs helping people re-calibrate their lives.
Erlend Bakke is a entrepreneur teaching others how to use the power of outsourcing to generate $20,000 per month. The best-selling author of "Never Work Again", he loves teaching how to escape the 9-5 and start living the 4-Hour Work Week.
Biba Pedron is a business coach and marketing expert, teaching entrepreneurs how to get more visibility, attract more clients & make more money to build their dream business
Corinna Essa is a former TV Producer turned entrepreneur who show clients how to improve their social media ROI for a constant flow of leads and sales.
Brian Basilico is a internationally recognized speaker, coach and best selling author of the award winning book “It’s Not About You, It’s About Bacon! Relationship Marketing In A Social Media World!” He’s also corporate marketing trainer and adjunct professor. He brings over 35 years of marketing experience to his award-winning internet marketing company, B2b Interactive Marketing, Inc. Brian is a syndicated blogger, podcaster, and a sought after guest expert featured in Entrepreneur and Inc., magazines, articles, radio shows and podcasts.
Naresh Vissa is the founder & CEO of Krish Media & Marketing, as well as the author of the #1 bestselling book, Podcastnomics: The Book of Podcasting... To Make You Millions
Adam Dicker is a coach, an in-demand speaker and has been named one of the top 20 domain experts. He heads the very popular DNForum, and today he’s sharing how he turned his entrepreneurial drive into a multi-faceted, highly successful business.
Greg Ray has seen the world through the eyes of both an entrepreneur and a corporate employee, helping both Fortune 500 Companies and individuals use the Internet and related applications to build wealth.
Chris Farrell is one of the most respected and successful marketers in the industry today, being named the #1 Online Income Coach for the past 5 years. We’ll explore how he went from zero knowledge of Internet Marketing to building a successful business within 6 months.
Using her passion is to find a success formula and her desire to help others, Patience gathers the best and the brightest entrepreneurs from around the world for her weekly podcast to that you, the listener, can learn the shortcuts on you own path to success!