Episode Notes Dawne has been a professional speaker for over 30 years and is an expert in networking and helping people build their businesses. During this episode, Dawne shares stories of her experiences and how she has been able to use her connections to grow her business. She encourages entrepreneurs to reach out for help, build partnerships, and look for different ways to expand their businesses.
Episode Notes Jon is a lifelong Richmond resident with a unique understanding of the entire Richmond metro area, including Chesterfield County and Henrico County. Not only is Jon an area expert, but he is well-connected and provides a great network of support. Relentless, focused, and hard-working, Jon leverages those connections to serve his clients better. During this episode, John shares his inspiring journey of growth and success as an entrepreneur, musician, and educator. He emphasizes the ...
Episode Notes Tim Cox is the co-founder and leader of the sales team of Car Now, one of the fastest growing companies in the digital retailing space right now winning awards. They have amassed over 4,000 dealer customers in their 6 short years in business. Tim started his career originally in the automotive industry. During this episode, Cory and Tim discuss partnerships, scaling, and the importance of culture. Learn about the keys to a successful partnership, and what it takes to scale successf...
Episode Notes Superstar real estate agent, Kevin Thomas, is a native of Detroit Michigan and an army veteran. He served in the military and then got into the retail automotive industry and ended up opening up his own independent dealership with his wife right outside of Savannah Georgia, and was really focused on the military community. Over the next 15 year period, they opened other businesses including car rentals, self storage facilities, limousine companies, coffee shops and now residential ...
Episode Notes Douglas Levin was a professional drummer living in Chicago for about 10 years before he started to sell on Amazon in his spare time. He started this in 2014 and from that point he went on to wholesale, private label, and was able to have all of these scenarios where he got enough money coming in that eventually he was able to bring his wife into the business. In preparation for the launch of his first brand, Doug became obsessed with chatbots and messenger and built himself a list ...
Episode Notes Within 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from the end of his high school basketball career on the team’s bench, to his first contract and a 9 year professional basketball career. While playing professional basketball, Dre pioneered new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire. Dre started blogging in 2005, got on YouTube in 2006. He has published over 7,000 videos to 134,000+ subscribers, his content being viewed over 73 million times t...
Episode Notes Willie and Dee Jolley are the ultimate power couple. Willie is a CPAE in the speaking world, which means hall of fame, and how it runs is Dee Jolley is the one making it all happen. Willie has the number one motivational show on Sirius radio, he's spoken across all the countries and continents, and helped Ford Motor Company during their turnaround process. During this episode, Cory, Xiomara, Willie and Dee discuss marriage and entrepreneurship. Learn how to sell a spouse who may no...
Episode Notes Steve Stauning is the founder of his namesake company Stauning solutions group which is a leading training and consulting firm. He’s also a prolific author. His books include "Ridiculously Simple Sales Management", "Assumptive Selling", and "Sh*t Sandwich". He’s a guy that really has sometimes contrarian views, but he’s one of those people that sometimes says things that everyone is thinking, but no one wants to say. During this episode, Cory and Steve talk about the decision to le...
Episode Notes Jim Fitzpatrick is a 25-year veteran of the retail automotive industry, and he owned his own dealership by the age of 40. He additionally held some executive positions with companies like AutoNation. After owning the dealership, he went on to found Force Marketing, which became one of the biggest digital marketing companies servicing the automotive retail space. Most recently, with his wife and partner Bridget, he went on to form JBF Business Media, which is now operating 2 leading...
Todd Smith is an American serial entrepreneur who has pioneered digital marketing and retail solutions particularly in the automotive industry. Todd’s experience spans more than 30 years and includes finding successes, a Chevrolet dealer and the founder of a company called ActivEngage, which went onto become the largest managed large chat company in the automotive industry. Todd’s latest venture is 360 converge which is a communication platform that is delivering next generation CRM. Todd contin...
As CEO and Founder of Dealer World, Troy Spring built the company on the foundation and simple belief that if you drive enough customers and leads to a qualified team of sales professionals all the other BS goes away. Being successful in this business is just that easy. He currently employs over 30 professionals and is a 100% in-house advertising agency which he coins a, performance agency. Troy's passion and vision for helping dealers has led to one of our mottos: "We do not sell anything, we f...
Christy Potratz is the CEO and co-founder of Potratz advertising. Their agency is focused on helping businesses get discovered using video, digital and social media marketing. In 2018, Potratz was named to the Entrepreneur Magazine’s top company cultures list. Christy is a passionate supporter and member of the Boys and Girls cCub of Schenectady, New York where she provides consulting and advertising direction. Christy spends her free time on her farm with her husband Paul where she leads equine...
Glenn Pasch is the CEO of PCG Digital, an Ink 5000 agency that specializes in helping businesses create and deliver a modern retail experience to get customers raving, recommending, and returning for more. Then they want you to leverage it with digital marketing to connect with consumers of all ages and increase sales opportunities. As an expert in digital marketing and process development he’s been featured on CBT news, is co author of 2 books and adjunct professor at Northwood University. Glen...
Danny Zaslavsky is a successful business and community leader within the greater Kansas City area. As general manager and partner at Country Hill Motors he has helped grow his family’s business into one of the region’s most successful independent auto dealerships, while also investing heavily in the community as president of the Mid-Atlantic LGBT chamber of commerce. Under Danny’s expansion and leadership, County Hill Motors has grown significantly over the last decade adding new service lines, ...
Shannon Loy believes that every business has a unique story to tell. She started her business, The Social Ginger, which is a social media marketing company in Richmond, VA, to help businesses find the best channels to communicate those stories to the world. What sets Shannon apart from many other social media consultants is her big picture perspective. Recognizing that social media is just one element of her clients’ overall marketing strategy, she and her team assess a company’s entire marketin...
At the age of 16, Kunal Chandiramani is a CEO, international best selling author, keynote speaker, cognitive developer and a global goodwill ambassador listed as a top 35 under 35 and has had multiple ted talks. During this episode, Cory and Kunal discuss Kunal’s entrepreneurial journey that started with his first business at the age of 11 where the idea came from sitting in the back of his class. Learn about Kunal’s philosophy of running with an idea instead of sitting on it for years without d...
Fiyin Obayan is the CEO and founder of Okiki Consulting, which empowers entrepreneurs and business owners to tell their personal, and company brand stories through video content. As a content creator and social media consultant she loves to educate audiences on how to dominate LinkedIn. She became passionate about this topic relatively recently, in September 2019. She began looking at the LinkedIn platform as more than just networking, but as a real opportunity to promote your personal brand and...
Michael Grandinetti is a master magician and illusionist. He performed his first show at the age of 5. His personality and style were introduced to the world when he performed his original creation “The Spike Tower” on NBC television special The World’s Most Dangerous Magic. He was covered in a mixture of gasoline and kerosene, secured by chains with only 60 seconds to escape before 2 walls of flaming steel spikes were thrust toward him at over 50mph. The special brought together 7 illusionists ...
Michael Reeves is a master stylist working in the 3-dimension art form. He’s fine-tuned his abilities to make every style he executes unique to the individual. Born and raised in New Jersey, not only less than 10 miles from New York City, the energy of that city had a great influence on his artistic approach to hair styling and ultimately transitioned from being a master barber to a hair stylist. That really helped him develop a keen eye for balance and weight. He’s celebrating over 25 years in ...
Linda Dunn Carter began her practice in 2006 and is now a world-renowned scar revision guru and the CEO and founder of the game changing scar revision brand, the DC Method. Linda holds licenses in 5 states performing her trademark scar revision secrets through means of time sensitive protocols that have been proven successful with mind-blowing results. In December 2019 she launched Scar Food to an overwhelming response and will continue to expand that product line. Linda has been honored and nam...
Durran Cage is the founder and CEO of Cage automotive. He has more than 15 years in the automotive industry including working for Chrysler and global companies like cox communications working in their automotive digital retail division. 2 years ago, Durran took the leap into entrepreneurship. During this episode, Cory and Durran discuss the early pain points of moving into starting your own business. Learn about Durran’s early experiences in running his own business for the first time, and how h...
Mary Foley is the woman in charge at Bodacious! Ventures. She revs up women entrepreneurs with the clarity, confidence, consistency and community to generate the revenue they really want. Mary revved up her own career when she ditched her engineering degree for an $8 an hour customer service rep job at AOL. She received 4 promotions in 10 years and went on to become the company’s first head of corporate training. Mary went on to earn a masters degree in organization development, write her own bo...
Dan Moore is a big idea thinker and strategist, currently serving as the president of Vistadash. He’s the author of Do Moore, Get More: The Road To You. Dan is a devoted husband and father of 3 living in Scottsdale Arizona, and despite his commitment to self awareness, he remains steadfast in his dislike of tomatoes. During this episode, Cory and Dan discuss converting unhappiness to happiness, your personal ecosystem and exchanging “why” for “what” which drives the action. Link: Book: Do Moore,...
Dawne Brooks Gulla is a nationally known expert on business networking. Her first real job was as a crypto technician for the navy. She learned how to send code and decode messages to her current position today as a speaker, author, and franchise owner of BNI. She’s always been finding ways to connect people and finding ways to help them. At 71, she still calls herself a serial entrepreneur. During this episode, Cory and Dawne Brooks discuss networking, networking and more networking. Learn abou...
Tyrone Ross is a financial consultant, early stage startup advisor, entrepreneur and athlete. Tyrone was recognized by investment news as one of the 40 under 40 in 2019, by wealth management.com as a top 10 advisor, and said to change the industry. Financialplanning.com has named him one of 20 people who will change wealth management in 2020. Tyrone has spoken and educated at Etsy, Spotify, Uber and Wyndham hotels. He has spoken in front of students at Columbia University, Yorke College, Seton h...
Sarah Olivieri is a non-profit business strategist in addition to being a #1 international best selling author and former executive director. Featured in over 30 podcasts, she's the creator of the impact method, a framework that helps non-profits simplify operations and make a bigger impact without getting overwhelmed or burning out. She has 15 years of non-profit leadership experience and is the founder and heart of Pivot Ground. Sarah helps non-profits make a big impact with relative ease. Dur...
Prior to starting his own business Aaron Montgomery was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a sale executive at Kiva Systems, a robotic firm acquired by Amazon. He’s a two time Inc. 5000 honorary, two time finalist Ernst & Young entrepreneur of the year program exec partner of the year society of HR management. Aaron has a degree in economics from Harvard and MBA from Harvard business school. During this episode, Cory and Aaron Montgomery discuss money, funding, financing, and working...
Scott McKain is a globally recognized authority on how organizations and professionals gain distinction to attract and retain customers and stand out in a hyper competitive marketplace. His recent book, Iconic, was recently named on Forbes.com as a top 10 business book for 2018. His client list features Apple, Merrill Lynch, SAP, BMW, Cisco and the list goes on and on. Sales and marketing HOF as well as professional speakers Hall of Fame. Bill Cates is the President of Referral Coach Internation...
Dr. Willie Jolley is a hall of fame speaker, syndicated radio show host and best selling author of the books A Setback is a Setup for a comeback and An Attitude of Excellence. Delatorro McNeal is a peak performance and presentation skills expert, keynote speaker, author and mentor to influencers. He’s the creator of Crush Your Sales, the online course. Walter Bond is a former NBA athlete, Hall of Fame speaker, business coach, and author of Swim. During this episode, Cory brings you a panel that ...
Tyrone Ross is a financial consultant and founder of 401. He has lectured at companies like Etsy, Uber and several other New York companies. Dr. Lorraine Maita is President and Medical Director of Vibrance for Life and howtoliveyounger.com Michael Rizk is a Mind body and Spirit Coach and the owner of Condition for Life. He inspires people to show up for themselves. During this episode, Cory brings you a special COVID-19 panel with 3 guests who have you covered with a range of topics in money and...
