Seattle Business Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Talking to CEOs, founders, and business people within the Seattle metropolitan area. All about business in Seattle.
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THE FUTURE DRIVEN CEO :: Marketing & Strategy Executive with experience in creative direction and general management. Expert in strategic brand, marketing and all related operational areas including: product development, strategy, web & tech management, public relations , distribution, logistics and customer service. Proven track record of improving operational efficiencies and profit performance. Experienced in start-up, turnaround and fast growing environments involving both event, retail and tech products sold through mass merchants and direct-to-consumer channels. Key areas of strength include:
Strategy and Leadership: Experienced in working collaboratively with executive teams to execute operating plans and deliver profit goals. Strategist skilled at building and leading teams to deliver improved margins, service and quality.
Creative & Marketing Vision: Extensive experience developing new brands or growing the current brands value. Proven ability to deliver full sales & marketing strategies and campaigns to push financial growth.
General Management: Proven effective in the responsible management of the P&L as both a top executive as well as in a top functional role. Financially astute while assessing organizational risks and opportunities, growing revenues, reducing costs and assuring a focus on the customer.
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Donald is the owner of Taylor Tasting Tours, specializing in custom private wine and other tasting tours.
Donald's experience includes 10 years in the hospitality industry owning and managing 2 wine tour companies as well as 20+ years in healthcare sales management and development where he built 3 market leaders.
Taylor Tasting Tours
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-23-donald-ward-jr
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Ryan Lonac is the President at RWL Design, LTD., where he leads a focused team that works with businesses and non-profits to build effective online presences.
Together, they have helped many companies grow and succeed for over 16 years.
Ryan cares about providing value and setting their agency apart with dedication and integrity.
He and his wife have a lovely three-year-old and an incredible labradoodle that love to join their adventures hiking and exploring the Pacific Northwest.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-23-ryan-lonac
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August is the founder of two ecommerce brands and designer of multiple products. These products have won 8 awards, been mentioned by CNN, INC Magazine, & NBC, and have been viewed on YouTube more than 25 million times.
I enjoy taking products through the entire development process: from initial concept, to high volume overseas manufacturing, to sales channel optimization. This holistic approach allows products to be designed for specific marketing strategies which result in sustainable growth in the D2C & Amazon FBA distribution channels.
https://fortboards.com/
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Chay is the owner of Coconut Kennys along with his brother Lee
At Coconut Kenny’s we don’t just see ourselves as a pizza restaurant, we are also an employer and business partner to many in our local communities. With this in mind we strive and work relentlessly everyday to become the leading restaurant, employer, and business partner of choice everywhere we have the pleasure of conducting business. Great food and excellent service are what we promise each customer. A rewarding wage and opportunity for personal growth are what we promise each employee. Unwavering passion and the highest level of professionalism are what we promise each business partner. No matter which category you fall under, we want you to be proud to associate yourself with a growing company that aims to push the current standards in this very competitive industry. For Coconut Kenny’s business means more than just the bottom line.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-21-chay-tan
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Ivo is the founder at Marketeq
Ivo is passionate about connecting marketing teams and tech stacks, brands and target audiences, and businesses and people. Avid problem solver with a computer science background and over a decade of marketing and advertising experience. Team oriented and results-driven.
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Mustapha is the founder at Haddouch Gourmet Imports, Inc. In this episode we talk about Moroccan food and Mustapha's new Harissa Moroccan hot sauce coming out soon.
mustaphas.com
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-19-mustapha-haddouch
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Jordan is the founder of Dooeys — a brand reimagining slippers for modern home life using plant-based & recycled materials. Currently raising seed round for Dooeys.
With a background in startups and management consulting, Jordan is experienced in working in a fast-paced environment and growing a business. She embodies the creativity and scrappiness that is required to get a business off the ground and possesses the data-driven mindset along with skill sets of strategic planning and execution necessary for growth.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-18-jordan-clark
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Konstantin is the Founder & Creative Director at Seattle Thread Company in Kirkland, WA.
https://www.seattlethread.com/
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-17-konstantin-gorshkov
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Haresh has a broad array of successful experiences in startups, sales, strategy, engineering, operations, product development, and consulting.
https://hitechadvisors.com/
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-16-haresh-sangani
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Lisa Bogen is thrilled to introduce Brand & Standard, a unique business that collaborates to create branded promotional products that align with the organization's core values, culture, and goals and inspire and engage end-users. As a brand ambassador, she will put all of my passion into helping organizations thrive and provide the highest standard of service on every product.
https://www.brandandstandard.com/
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-15-lisa-bogen
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Joe is a Seattle-based corporate lawyer.
He regularly represent startups, investors in and lenders to startups, and executives and founders.
In addition to practicing law, he enjoys writing about legal issues that relate to startups and growth companies. He has a blog at www.thestartuplawblog.com. He's also written pieces for the Wall St. Journal, PandoDaily, GeekWire, and Xconomy.
His latest project is a book on Angel Investing, to be published by Holloway this summer. Check it out! https://www.holloway.com/b/angel-investing
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-14-joe-wallin
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Tricia is a design director at Kotis Design, an energetic value adder, solution seeker, difference maker and wearer of many hats with a passion for creating concepts and driving projects that make an impact. Spreader of kindness and believer in smiling at strangers.
My name is Tinashe Rusike and I am a talented graphic artist. My tools are the elements which surround me: light, shadow and color. Instead of music, I sing on the canvas with pigments and pixels. I harness the elements to evoke the heroics and athleticism not of ancient heroes, but of present day athletic warriors found on our very own fields, courts and stadiums.
My mission is simple: to promote sports with my creativity and passion, ever seeking to evoke emotion in the observer. Whether it be a grassroots or professional team, I look for the story and activate the imagination of the audience through visuals. I aim to create opportunities for an athlete, a team, a league or a sport to aspire to the heights of Orion amongst the stars.
Platforms where my work is especially effective:
Social media engagement, Advertising (print and online ads), Website graphics (particularly banners)Posters, Trading cards, Editorial Graphics.
When you are my client, I will discover your needs and i am prepared to invest myself fully and explore your needs. Where there are Cyclops and Grendel-like hurdles to overcome, I bring solutions with Herculean strength.
Evan is the Founder of Seattle Strong Coffee, the smoothest, most refreshing artisan cold brew of Seattle. Cleanly energizing and motivating you throughout your day. No additives, no sugar, no calories, just arabica coffee and cold, filtered water. Originating out of the UW Entrepreneurship Program and with a desire to bring quality cold brew to the city of Seattle and beyond, we focus on the craft of our brew, the clean caffeine of coffee, and the culture of Seattle that makes it all happen.
Graduated in June 2018 from the University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business with an emphasis in Finance, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship. Full-time coffee ever since. Experienced in startup strategy, food and beverage, product development, operations, and investments.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-11-evan-oeflein
Steve is a Documentary Producer and Oral Historian. Has interviewed hundreds of celebrities including Bob Marley, Smokey Robinson, Quincy Jones, Joni Mitchell, Dionne Warwick, Mstislav Rostropovich, Stephen Sondheim, Carlos Santana, George Clinton, Leon Fleischer, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Amiri Baraka, John Lee Hooker, Dweezil Zappa, Beverly D'Angelo, Stanley Wells, Leslie Uggams, Ahmet Ertegun, Lionel Pincus, Bobby Schiffman, Manning Marable, Betty Comden, Melvin Franklin, Cornel West, Adolph Green, Big Youth, Marin Alsop and many others.
Rowland's goals are to complete a deep work on the role of Shakespeare in modern culture - based on a new oral history.
He also is working on ideas for the distribution of text (books and articles) and media (sound, video, photos, multi-media) for ebook readers like the iPad.
As founder of ArtistOwned.com Rowland is also hoping to create spaces for the ethical distribution of independent audio work by musicians and other radio producers.
artistowned.com
tooj.org
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-10-steve-rowland
Ashley J. Hayes (Michael) is one of Seattle’s leading real estate professionals, known as “UrbanAsh” for her exceptional knowledge and experience in living and investing within the city of Seattle. Ashley is currently the Managing Broker (Washington State) and Principal Broker (Oregon State) of a talented team of agents at Pointe3 Real Estate, as well as a Leasing Specialist and Chief Operating Officer at Seattle Rental Group. She has recently expanded her areas of service for clients looking to purchase or sell in Arizona, where she has joined a like-minded and hyperlocal team, The Brokery, and coined herself "DesertAsh."
UrbanAsh.com
seattlerentalgroup.com
pointe3.com
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-9-ashley-hayes
Jason is a Co-owner / Founder / Distiller at Copperworks Distilling Co.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-8-jason-parker
Michelle Cook is a Real Estate Broker at Windermere Real Estate/West Sound, Inc.
Michelle Cook
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-7-michelle-cook
Austin Robertson is a Real Estate Agent at Real Broker LLC
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-6-austin-robertson
Manu Alfau is a Restaurateur that lives in Bremerton, Washington. He started his journey in cooking by going to culinary school in Spain. He then worked in the restaurant industry for a short time before opening Manu's Bodega in downtown Seattle. The pandemic took a toll on the Bodega which he eventually had to close. Now he partners with Lumen Field and has 3 world famous tacos stands called Manu's Tacos which are available at every Seahawks home game. He also owns a pizzeria and gelato shop in Bremerton called Evergreen Pizza Co.
Get Manu's Tacos at Lumen Field.
Visit Evergreen Pizza Co. in Bremerton.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-5-manu-alfau
Mark Michael guided DevHub.com through venture-backed Series A, A1 and completed the acquisition of Brickwork Software adding Nike, Chanel, David Yurman among leading Fortune 1000 companies powered through DevHub’s OEM and VAR channels. He continues to lead DevHub as CEO.
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-4-mark-michael
Robert is an Award-winning Corporate Executive and Certified Executive Coach. Outstanding record of achievement in leadership, operations, financial management, investor relations, process improvement, individual and team development, strategic planning, marketing, sales, account management, and strategic marketing. Consistent long-term track record built on layers of organizational and operational success. Successfully transitioned from a remarkable career as a progressive military commander.
Skagit Valley Malting
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-3-robert-hedequist
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-2-bob-lonac
Podcast Clips:
Bob Lonac Explains Young Life
Bob Lonac on Culture in Business and Conflict
Bob Lonac on His Experience as an Executive
Bob Lonac - https://boblonac.com
Bob's message to you: "For 30+ years I was a CEO, President, COO, SVP, and a great listener. Now I’m helping mentor executives like you lead organizations with purpose and integrity. Let’s work together to grow your perspective and make a positive impact."
https://www.seattle.org/post/seattle-business-podcast-1-chris-crosby
Podcast Clips:
What the Leadership Institute of Seattle Teaches
Chris Crosby Explains Immersion Learning for Leadership
Chris Crosby Explains a Process Consultant vs Expert Consultant
Chris Crosby is a Strategic Engagement Consultant, President & CEO Leadership Institute of Seattle, and Adjunct Faculty at Gonzaga University
Visit the Leadership Institute of Seattle https://lios.org
Chris brings 20+ years of private, corporate, academic and international experience to his consultancy. He designs interactive sessions using nontraditional educational methods and systems theory to achieve business results. He partners with you to provide the right session(s) to thrive in today's market.