Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with the Creative Director of Irr Supply, Samantha Hughes, as they discuss how this company has survived and future-proofed itself being in the business for more than 150 years. Founded in 1864, Irr Supply Centers, Inc. is a leading distributor of Plumbing, Heating, Cooling, Electrical, and Refrigeration products. They have continued to provide their customers with quality products and services at competitive prices. Today, they are an employee-own...
Nov 16, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 114
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with the CEO and Founder of Progressive Health Center, Sue Goodin, an entrepreneur working toward a better healthcare system that focuses on self-care and health coaching for healthcare workers. With the current shortage of healthcare workers, the number of staff needs to dramatically increase to keep up with the demand for care. So many health professionals have been leaving the field, resulting in not enough staff to care for patients. Since the ...
Nov 16, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with Didi Horn, Chairman & CEO of SkyX, a company that is revolutionizing the way aerial data is accumulated, analyzed, and actioned. SkyX’s exceptional team of aeronautical, robotic, and electrical engineers work shoulder-to-shoulder with certified pilots, mission control directors, and data analytics to create breakthrough solutions, unlike any other. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, SkyX has a broad global presence with customers in North ...
Nov 15, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Kimmi Kamson, the Managing Director of Careers In Nonprofits, a staffing agency proudly serving the nonprofit sector nationwide. Leading organizations turn to their award-winning recruiting team for top nonprofit professionals, from temporary workers to C-Level executives, and everything in between. They provide access to a better and more diverse pool of skilled professionals and give support with mission alignment to better strengthen the ...
Nov 15, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with the CEO and Founder of 7 Figures Funding, Funding CEO Academy, and the 7 Figures Club Podcast. He also Co-Founded the My Figures Money App, an intelligent approach to help Entrepreneurs get their money right and help manage personal and business bank accounts, loans, credit cards, investments & net worth all in one place. Getting funding isn't that easy especially for beginners because it's difficult to determine where to start. Small busi...
Nov 15, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie, together with Adnan Khan, the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of VIVA, a staffing and recruiting company that focuses on providing solutions by combining top talent, technology, and techniques primarily to help executives at startups become more productive. They have come up with a proven method of hiring, onboarding, training, upskilling, and retaining top talent so that customers can put their business in high gear immediately. Their team of highly trained Viva ...
Nov 14, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Join our resident Business Ninja Jamie together with Devan Bouchard, CEO of Encepta, which provides highly configurable software for telecommunications and utility industries, so their clients can better understand the condition of their infrastructure and manage the associated business process or workflow. Automation is key to accelerating service delivery while minimizing the risk of human error. Encepta focuses on providing an empowering and exciting culture as a foundation for our teams. The...
Nov 14, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with Angelo Ciaramello of The Funded Trader Program, an interesting opportunity for retail traders. The Funded Trader is the premier funding firm for retail forex indices crypto and commodities traders that have engineered a two-step challenge that enables people to access and manage some of the company's capital once they pass, providing funding for retail traders who don't have the funds but have the skills a trader needs. The Funded Trader Progr...
Nov 14, 2022•21 min•Ep. 107
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Misty Ursitti from SearchPath, a workforce solutions company that partners with different organizations to find and deliver top talent in and for the market. The SearchPath process is all about finding the right people to realize your organization's full potential. They take industry knowledge and use technology to optimize their Client Centric solutions and they are the only franchisor of talent acquisition services that offers the opportun...
Nov 10, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Dan Simpkins, the CEO and Founder of Dwellwell, a next-generation prop-tech platform that is transforming residential property management and maintenance. Using their state-of-the-art sensor network and advanced whole-home analysis, we provide a comprehensive view of the operation and performance of a portfolio of single-family homes or multi-family buildings. Using a wide range of algorithms and AI to provide a comprehensive view of the ope...
Nov 08, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Chris Galloway, CFO of Prime Car Wash, a state-of-the-art car wash serving all types of vehicles, known for superior customer experiences — from their full-service, interior and exterior car washing and detailing, to spacious and child-friendly lounges with access to Starbucks Coffee, iPads, and WiFi. The concept is called a “Flex Service Car Wash.” This is a concept that allows us to offer all the quality services of a traditional full-servi...
Nov 08, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Scott Spence, the Global Marketing Director at FUNDSQUIRE, a global financial tech innovator that invests capital in innovative businesses and offers alternative and innovative cashflow financing to startups, and small and medium enterprises. Raising money is hard. It's so hard most companies fail at it. In this video, we'll look into traction requirements, pitch decks, alternative funding sources, and on how to find investors. This is fundi...
Nov 08, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 102
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with the CEO of Blanc Labs, Hamid Akbari, as they talk about the next generation of digital solutions in financial technology product engineering. Blanc Labs is a Toronto-based innovation consulting firm that builds and combines its expertise with creative and deep technical capabilities with unique accelerators that enables you to develop custom software solutions that strengthen your operations, align with your strategic goals, and embrace the h...
Nov 07, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Xan Winterton, the Managing Director of North America for LMRE, the first global PropTech Recruitment business that is 100% focused and dedicated to providing the best talent into the rapidly expanding Real Estate Technology market. They are recognized for their real estate tech and innovation in talent management, and they focus on providing strength through diversity and positively impacting the future of the built environment to shape the...
Nov 07, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Raghu Kottamasu, Senior Vice President of Head of Delivery at Unqork, a cloud computing, and enterprise software company based in New York, NY that offers a no-code development platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for building enterprise applications. Unqork supports organizations in finance, insurance, healthcare, and government. No Code app builders are in area. No code builders are defined as a website, app, or software builder requiring no code t...
Nov 07, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Rick Bodey, the Chief Marketing Officer at Ezzey, a full-service digital marketing & social media marketing agency designed for small and medium-sized businesses. Ezzey specializes in lead generation and sales conversions utilizing today's most effective tools including funnels, social media, chatbots, SEO, and much more. Ezzey was founded to provide a high level of expertise in affordable packages for small and medium-sized businesses an...
Nov 04, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy together with the Founder of Everpeak Partners, Oliver Sholder, as they discuss how partnering with a Salesforce company can help a business grow its sales and marketing, as well as optimize workflow management. Salesforce defines lead generation as the process of generating consumer interest for a service or product, with the end goal of turning that interest into revenue. Lead generation comes from both organic and paid channels. It can be a consumer downl...
Nov 04, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Belinda Burson, the Managing Director of Vantage Search, a company that meets client needs in Executive Search, Consulting, and Talent Advisory. We have a team of domain specialist Search Consultants, Research Analysts, and Sourcing Experts across the US, Canada, UK, and India. They work closely with senior leaders and client organizations to develop and implement comprehensive sustainable D&I strategies that enable them to acquire and d...
Nov 03, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Join our Business Ninja Jamie, together with the Founder and CEO of CHER, Eric Chebil, as they discuss how an individual renter can transition into owning a home through co-ownership. Cher is the first social network for modern co-owners, and their all-in-one platform will help you afford a house all on your own. It is the first real estate platform to help renters earning low to moderate income achieve homeownership. They do this by streamlining the process of shared homeownership where buyers ...
Nov 03, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Greg Dunne, the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of SFE Partners, a strategic sales consulting firm focused on delivering high-impact sales solutions for growing organizations. Their mission is to build sales engines with sophisticated tech stacks fueled by buyer intent data and in-depth market research. From go-to-market strategies to pipeline sales automation, their process is rooted in the Sales Force Effectiveness Philosophy – building an...
Nov 02, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the CEO and Co-Founder of ANYWHERE, a travel guide and vacation planning service company that not only tailors fun-filled, worry-free, and unforgettable vacation experiences for their clients, they personally connect and consolidate bookings with a destination's local guides and experts, hotels, tours, and more, all specific to what a client wants. Having a successful business does not always rely on the best technology or content. Success a...
Nov 01, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with the owner of Marks Jewelers, Jim Brusilovsky, as they talk about the origins and continuing success behind this family-owned business that proudly states that they are not just an average jewelry store. Their services extend from repairs to appraisals, buying and selling of diamonds, jewelry, and luxury bags. Their in-house custom design studio, JEWLVISION™, was developed over a decade ago in response to their customers` requests for custom j...
Oct 31, 2022•9 min•Season 1Ep. 90
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with Christian Brown, the Chief Marketing Officer at Glewee, an exclusive influencer and creator marketplace platform that is changing the way brands and agencies do influencer marketing. Glewee offers a reliable all-in-one creator marketing platform making it possible for brands to connect, collaborate, and execute their influencer marketing campaigns with industry-leading social media creators to drive sales and reach new audiences. Glewee's pl...
Oct 31, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 89
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the founder and CEO of Tailwind, Devin Golets, as they discuss the importance of providing health and wellness support services for students going to College or University. Tailwind was built with carefully designed online wellness programs that reflect the diversity of student needs and to help solve and provide students and families with a head start on the transition to post-secondary that prepares them mentally and financially and helps ...
Oct 31, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 88
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey, together with the Co-Founder and President of Certify My Company, Heather Cox, as they talk about how connecting corporations with diverse businesses creates economic value and opportunity. Certify My Company is dedicated to the supplier diversity community as a whole as its works with companies and corporations to raise the bar. In addition to certification resources, Certify My Company assists larger companies in developing a supplier diversity program ...
Oct 28, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 87
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with Sean Michaels, the VP of Marketing at RECONEXT, a company that designs and engineers innovative post-sale solutions for electronic devices. As a provider of end-to-end aftermarket lifecycle services for electronics, their services include returns management & fulfilment, testing & grading, repair & refurbishment, asset recovery, and trade-in & buy-back, and by extending the useful life of digital products and components, they ...
Oct 27, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 86
Join our resident Business Ninja Andrew together with the CEO of LXMI, Anna Björkenvall, as they talk about the positive environmental and social impact that the brand has provided for both their resources and their customers. LXMI, pronounced as "luxe-me", is a beauty and cosmetics company that proudly promotes its products, which are based on natural and organic, even rare, medicinal botanical plants that are sourced through the women's fair-trade cooperatives and developing nations. In this p...
Oct 27, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Join our resident Business Ninja Kelsey together with the CEO and Founder of Angora, Ben Wood, as they discuss how starting a successful and sustainable E-commerce store is easier to build, launch, and scaleable through Angora's strategic profit-sharing business model. Open to Amazon selling beginners and industry professionals, Angora provides the tools and solutions for E-commerce improvement and data-driven processes, from the creation of assets to designing, launching, and growing a client's...
Oct 27, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 84
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with Martín Pettinati, the Marketing Communications Lead for MANAS, a company made of software engineers, scientists, mathematicians, and designers who are committed to finding creative and innovative solutions for the most challenging problems in a wide range of domains. They design and build custom software solutions for unconventional needs and organizations. They also specialize in rapid prototyping and producing functional product samples for ...
Oct 26, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 83
Join our resident Business Ninja Andy, together with Matt Ramage of eMarketed, an innovative and experienced web marketing design services firm that offers a wide range of online marketing solutions and services for eCommerce brands and small businesses by helping scale revenue through paid ads on Search, Shopping & Social. Aside from digital marketing and social media marketing, they also provide web development, eCommerce development, SEO, user experience audits, and paid ads management. F...
Oct 26, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 82
