Our agency rainmaker of the week is Allyns Melendez. Allyns has 25+ years of human resources and business management experience, a Master’s in Business Administration from Temple University Fox School of Business, a Bachelor’s Degree in Business & HR Management from Kaplan University, is a certified analyst of two workplace behavior platforms, is certified in Human Resources Studies from Cornell’s ILR School, a certified leadership coach and completed courses in Leadership Strategies from Ha...
Jul 28, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Craig Cody. Craig was born and raised on Long Island, NY. In between doing what average suburban kids do, he spent much of my childhood at the heels of my father who retired from the New York City Police Department after 33 years. Craig's interest in money and business led him to major in Economics at Cortland College. At 21, following in his father’s footsteps, he began his 17 year career with the New York City Police Department. Craig retired as a Lieutenant...
Jul 06, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Parissa Behnia. Parissa Behnia coaches C Suite and Senior leaders who are high will-high skill and have a growth mindset. In other words, they're badasses who go 80MPH in a 45MPH zone but don’t always check to see if their team is strapped in or interested in going for the ride. These leaders are high value to a company but their edges may start to diminish their value. These days, leadership is full of complexities whether you’re navigating from an audacious ...
Jun 30, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Scott Hamilton. Scott Hamilton is a well-known thought leader, advisor & keynote speaker in the field of future thinking, strategy & innovation for Global 500 through mid-market companies. In his prior roles as a corporate leader, he held key strategy, marketing, human resources, and organization effectiveness roles for such companies as Nestle, Bergen Brunswig, Honeywell, ARAMARK, Golden State Foods & DirecTV. Hamilton keynotes conferences globall...
Jun 22, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Rachel Braun Scherl. Our agency rainmaker of the week is Rachel Braun Scherl. Rachel Braun Scherl is a seasoned business executive focused on women’s sexual and reproductive health. As Managing Partner of SPARK Solutions for Growth, a strategic and marketing consultancy, Rachel has built an international client list including Fortune 500 companies & venture-backed start-ups, including businesses from menstruation to menopause. By integrating sound strategy...
Jun 16, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Dr. Carrie Johansson. Dr. Carrie is a psychologist turned speaker and author. Using her 21 years of private practice experience, she brings the best in psychological principles to help people navigate the inevitable ups and downs of life with more ease, joy and skill. She loves to help teams communicate more smoothly, handle conflicts and perform with less drama. https://selfhelponthego.com https://indiebooksintl.com Episode 19...
Jun 09, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Robb Fahrion. Robb Fahrion is the Co-Founder and Partner of Flying V Group, a digital marketing and advertising agency in Southern California. Robb and his team have helped over 350+ clients to maximize their digital footprint and increase revenue generation via online channels. https://www.flyingvgroup.com https://indiebooksintl.com Episode 18
Jun 01, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Erik Jensen. Erik Jensen is the Co-Owner of Predictive ROI—a 7-figure marketing agency helping agencies and consultants develop, and monetize, their position of authority. A business owner since age 14, Erik began his entrepreneurial journey via a national juggling business that took him and his brother around the country. Now the Chief Strategy Officer at Predictive ROI, Erik developed the podcasting strategy that made the agency over $2M, which was featured ...
May 25, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Frank King. A full time Suicide Prevention Speaker, who was a writer for The Tonight Show 20 years, and a speaker, comedian, and coach for 37 years. He’s a TEDx Coach, with 10 TEDx Talks under his belt. And a Make Money Speaking Coach, who helps his clients launch or uplevel their speaking careers, on cruises, at colleges, for corporations, and associations. http://www.MentalHealthComedian.com Suicide, The Secret of My Success https://youtu.be/3D4m33DXtsI http...
May 12, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Hilary Billings. Hilary Billings is the Co-Founder and CEO of Attentioneers- where she helps entrepreneurs and personal brands drive reach and revenue through short-form video strategy. Having grown her own following from 0-400k followers in 40 days, and garnered over a billion organic views in under 12 months, Hilary understands the psychology of capturing and keeping attention online. Her agency not only works with internationally recognized brands and celeb...
May 04, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Lisa Apolinski. Lisa Apolinski, CMC is the CEO of 3 Dog Write, a company founded in 2012. She takes best practices from Fortune 500s to coach small to medium sized business owners on using their personal brand stories to attract more right-fit clients. She has written several books, including Persuade With A Digital Content Story, named one of the top content marketing books in the world and Grow Your Market Share In A Zombie Apocalypse, a business survival gu...
Apr 20, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Craig Lowder. Craig Lowder, author of Smooth Selling Forever SM and the soon to be released Trusted Advisor Confidential SM , is a client acquisition expert with a forty-year track record of enabling hundreds of agencies, trusted advisors and business owners to increase their sales from 21 to 142 percent annually. Craig has been published in Forbes and a variety of other business publications. He speaks frequently on the topics “The Star Guide for Smooth Selli...
Apr 06, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Bryan Gray. Revenue Path Group (RPG) CEO Bryan Gray helps leaders steer their organizations through times of high velocity and the fight for relevance is never ending and companies are quickly entering the era of value collapse. This is all driven by what RPG calls “The Three Deadly Cs” (Compressed selling time, consensus decision making and commoditization). They believe your biggest threat is becoming a commodity in your prospect’s eyes. What’s making it wor...
Apr 04, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Karley Cunningham. Creative Strategist & Growth Accelerator Karley Cunningham takes businesses from overcrowded, competitive spaces into blue ocean territory where they can confidently stand out and thrive as brand leaders in their sector. The founder of BIG BOLD BRAND Inc., Karley and her team specialize in helping Agencies, Innovators and Change-Makers accelerate the growth, impact, profit and stability of their businesses. Her innovative Surefire Method...
Mar 23, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Patrick McGowan. Patrick McGowan founded Punchn in 2020, a creative consultancy, to solve the mystery behind what it means for experts to show up on camera with power, presence, and credibility. As a speaker and coach, he advises executives and consultants on how to use filmmaking, innovation, and change leadership to address complex business challenges. https://indiebooksintl.com Episode 10
Mar 17, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Tom Searcy. Tom Searcy, CEO & Founder of Hunt Big Sales, is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and the foremost expert in large account sales. By the age of 40, Searcy had led four corporations from revenues of less than $10 million to greater than $100 million. This growth was achieved through a large account sales system he developed and implemented without buying, selling, or merging. Since then, Searcy founded Hunt Big Sales, a fast-growth consul...
Mar 10, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Dr. George Belch. Dr. George (Joe) Belch is Professor Emeritus of Marketing and the former Dean (Interim) of the Fowler College of Business. He received his undergraduate degree in marketing from the Pennsylvania State University, his master’s degree from the University of Colorado, and Ph.D. in marketing from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Belch was a marketing representative for the E.I. DuPont Company. He also wor...
Mar 02, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Pamela Slim. Pamela Slim is an award-winner author, speaker and business coach who works with small business owners ready to scale their businesses and IP. She is the author of Escape from Cubicle Nation (Penguin Portfolio, 2009), Body of Work (Penguin Portfolio, 2014) and The Widest Net (McGraw Hill, November, 2021). Pam and her husband Darryl co-founded the K’é Community Lab in Mesa, Arizona, where they host scores of diverse community leaders and regular sm...
Feb 24, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Russell Trahan. Russell Trahan is the Owner/President of PR/PR Public Relations and Author of Sell Yourself Without Saying A Word. For 25 years PR/PR has enjoyed a sterling record of placing 100% of their professional speaker, consultant, and non-fiction author clients’ in front of their target markets through trade, industry, and association publications in-print and online. For a complimentary consultation, please visit: https://prpr.net https://indiebooksin...
Feb 17, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Clare Price. Clare Price is the founder and CEO of Octain Growth Systems, a marketing consultancy that is transforming the way companies do marketing. Her new book, Smart Marketing Execution, defines the strategies, execution process and automated systems mid-market companies and agency owners need to use marketing to accelerate their profits, performance and productivity. Prior to launching Octain, Clare was a Research Director for Gartner’s Internet Strategi...
Feb 08, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Nona Prather. Nona Prather is the Owner of Prather Marketing Services, LLC. She specializes in setting up marketing plans for professional speakers, through phone calls, email campaigns, social media, and marketing materials. She has worked in marketing for 10 plus years and holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Business Management. She has worked with Speakers Bureaus and individual speakers. Nona also enjoys road trips and has a goal to see all the Nat...
Feb 06, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Sharon Toerek. Sharon is an intellectual property and marketing law attorney, with a national Firm based in Cleveland, Ohio. She devotes her legal practice at Toerek Law to helping creative professionals protect, enforce and monetize their creative assets. Sharon has a particular concentration of clients in the advertising, marketing and creative services industries, and counsels them on legal issues including copyright and content protection, licensing of cre...
Jan 26, 2023•30 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Jodi Katz. In 2022, Jodi Katz and her team of like-minded creatives celebrate the 15th year anniversary of Base Beauty Creative Agency, her groundbreaking boutique outfit whose holistic, integrated approach to marketing high growth brands has revolutionized the industry and taken companies owned by the likes of Colgate, Church and Dwight, Estee Lauder and Sally Beauty, to unprecedented levels of sales and cultural impact. Under Jodi’s leadership, Base Beauty h...
Jan 19, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Our agency rainmaker of the week is Susan Baier. Susan Baier is the founder of Audience Audit Inc., which helps marketing agencies and thought leaders build ROI and reputation with research. Audience Audit’s mind-blowing attitudinal segmentation research provides quantitative insights into how audiences feel about a particular challenge, topic, or purchase decision. The agency has provided original custom studies for hundreds of agencies and their clients, including Gap, Tufts University, Jay Ba...
Jan 13, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 1
