Julia and her husband, Mel are the fourth-generation owners of Birnn Chocolates of Vermont. Julia's great-grandfather started making confections in 1915 in New Jersey and in 1991 her father and uncle moved the business to Vermont. Julia and Mel are humbled by the opportunity to continue crafting truffles using her family's 100-year-old recipes. The couple started working in the family business in 2010 and in 2016 they took over the reigns as the new owners. Deciding to join the family business w...
Apr 13, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 261
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 10, 2020•14 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 09, 2020•17 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 08, 2020•21 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 07, 2020•23 min
There’s a lot of information circling about COVID-19. We’re hearing about how to stay healthy, that we have to stay at home, all the things. In this show we'll be covering your rights and responsibilities both as an employer and an employee. You may be getting information from your local chamber or small business administration in your community. Yet, even if you have access to this information, you haven’t necessarily had the chance to ask questions. So I’m doing that for you. You’ll hear the i...
Apr 06, 2020•47 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 03, 2020•21 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 02, 2020•19 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Apr 01, 2020•21 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Mar 31, 2020•20 min
Derek is the co-owner of Cherry Blossom CBD. They’re a Maryland based wholesaler and distributor of industrial hemp with an exclusive retail line of hemp based products. His innovative line of nutraceutical supplements are all made from American grown & organically processed hemp and independently lab tested. These products are naturally helping people find relief of pain, inflammation, anxiety as well as a host of other ailments. BUSINESS BUILDING INSIGHTS Life is all about perspective. Be ...
Mar 30, 2020•53 min•Ep. 260
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Mar 27, 2020•20 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Mar 26, 2020•20 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Mar 25, 2020•21 min
This is a special 12 part-series of Maker to Master: Find What’s Not Working in Your Small Business. Given that many of us are hunkering down at home these days, I wanted to do something to balance out the pull to watching the news over and over. The best thing we can do right now is stay healthy – mentally and physically. That means being active. Go outside for a walk each day, lift weights, or get on your home bike ... also, how can you use your newfound time to be productive? Wouldn’t it be g...
Mar 24, 2020•20 min
Kim is a second-generation chocolatier. Her son Colton, now 11, was only 1 year old when he suffered an anaphylactic reaction to some peanut butter. This immediately provoked a feeling of fear no parent should ever have to experience. In learning about cross contamination and the severity of a Peanut & Tree Nut allergy, Kim and her husband Mike soon learned he couldn't eat anything that was traditional retail candy. This inspired Kim to take a negative and turn it into a positive so no child...
Mar 23, 2020•52 min•Ep. 259
COVID-19 has obviously become a global crisis on a scale none of us have lived through before. This sounds dramatic and it definitely feels that way since we’re in the midst of it right now. It’s hard to see the finish line. Nobody knows how long school and restaurant closings will be. Social distancing is a new term that we are all too familiar with at this point. And we now appreciate and long for the life we led just a couple of weeks ago. I’m not going to downplay this. Many live paycheck to...
Mar 19, 2020•13 min
Ben has spent the last thirty years helping to start and grow a company called Meadowbrooke Gourds. They now have twenty full-time employees dedicated to growing, designing, crafting and marketing gourd decor designs, each one intended to create smiles and make homes a little bit warmer. They sell about half their gourds wholesale to customers located in every state. The other half are sold online, at their store, and through the many classes and community events that they host at their farm. Be...
Mar 16, 2020•54 min•Ep. 258
After a career as a senior executive at Microsoft and then as a venture capitalist, Laura decided to build an ecommerce business around celebrating the customer as a creative force. Every gift they send out at Knack is made to order, whether it's one gift or thousands. Each gift on the website is easily customizable and their exclusive Gift Builders system allows customers to create completely unique gifts from scratch. As if that’s not valuable enough, they also have a Shop By Ethos feature tha...
Mar 09, 2020•54 min•Ep. 257
Amy is a certified confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Founder of TheJoyJunkie, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With acute focus on helping people “find their voice,” she is highly sought after for her uncommon style of irreverence, wisdom, and humor and has been a featured expert on Fox 5 San Diego and YourTango. BUSINESS BUILDING INSIGHTS You can’t eradica...
Mar 02, 2020•57 min•Ep. 256
Deirdre "Dee" is a true southern girl born and raised in the small town of Enfield, North Carolina. In 2005 she settled in Charlotte, NC and has made it home. She is a self-taught chocolate based treat maker, proud Army wife, and mom of two. Dee's custom design edible creations have a long record of precise execution for large companies and customers alike. Her Who's Who client list includes NBA players, NFL players, government officials and celebrities. Her highly sought after domestic and inte...
Feb 24, 2020•55 min•Ep. 255
Brian Lawrence is one of the true thought leaders in the stationery and wedding industry. A multi-store retailer who won top dealers for numerous invitation brands, he then became VP of Encore Studios for 14 years and went on to consult, do web design and marketing for hundreds of stationery and wedding retailers and wholesalers. In the past year, Brian has targeted his efforts to meet the tremendous demand for industry-focused website design and effective yet affordable digital marketing and so...
Feb 17, 2020•59 min•Ep. 254
dOSA Naturals is all about paying homage to the women who paved the way for Charita and her two sisters. They were inspired by stories of their Great Grandma Dosa who was born in Mississippi and had an affinity for Magnolias. Grandma Dosa instilled a strong sense of pride and simple beauty and stressed the importance of honoring the outside of your body as well as the inside. Not only did she insist on using natural methods to accentuate her natural beauty, she also understood and advocated for ...
Feb 10, 2020•59 min•Ep. 253
Rick has been a pioneer in the Direct to Consumer (D2C) marketing industry since the early 90’s. He has used direct response strategies plus video marketing, to help build many iconic brands with products like The Juiceman, Sonicare, The George Foreman Grill, OxiClean, Clarisonic, Rug Doctor, Momentus Golf, The GoPro camera and many others. Rick’s strategies have helped grow four companies from start-ups to over a billion dollars in sales. These case studies are outlined in his book, "Building B...
Feb 03, 2020•47 min•Ep. 252
Roger is founder and CEO of Good Measures Foods, a company that is improving scratch baking for today's busy bakers. Roger leveraged the experience he gained by leading triple digit growth for several start-up retail brands to launch Good Measures. He has a passion for building businesses by developing winning strategies, overlaying a healthy dose of pragmatism and collaborating with excellent partners. Roger enjoys biking, family and travel. Personal mantra: "The measure with which you measure ...
Jan 27, 2020•54 min•Ep. 251
Mary is the founder of Reprise, a line of plant-based activewear aiming to free your closet from plastic. She founded the company to educate us about the ingredients in our clothing, so we have more control over our health and wellness. Reprise products never contain oil-based synthetics or recycled plastics because of their impact on the planet. Mary believes your skin deserves only the best, so they only work with plant-based fabrics to give you the cleanest wear. Mary envisions a future where...
Jan 20, 2020•51 min•Ep. 250
Josh Elledge is U.S. Navy veteran and launched Up My Influence to help entrepreneurs attract the perfect audiences and grow their brands without the crazy costs associated with traditional PR companies. Up My Influence’s purpose is to DEMOCRATIZE access to influence. Josh believes he has a moral imperative to help entrepreneurs serve the world with their collective messages while growing their revenue! Up My Influence was the natural outgrowth of his first startup, Savings Angel which has grosse...
Jan 13, 2020•59 min•Ep. 249
Denay created the Foodpreneur Institute as an online resource center to educate, train and support Cottage Food Operators and home food processors. She describes herself as a food addict (literally and figuratively), a home-based baker and small business advocate. She's a passionate food crafter, creating unique products that can be taken to market; a pie baker extraordinaire and the mastermind behind the Charlotte Pie Authority, a custom pie shop in Charlotte, NC. Denay is also the host of Stor...
Jan 06, 2020•56 min•Ep. 248
Teresa is the creator of the REALIFE Process®, ACC Executive Coach, Accredited Enneagram Professional, Podcaster, and Keynote Speaker. Through coaching, consulting and training she serves her clients to move from living with their "hair on fire" to discovering practical and sustainable practices and processes to have a life and business that is extraordinary. Partnering together her own signature REALIFE Process® and tools such as the Enneagram Typology Profile, Teresa guides clients to a fresh ...
Dec 30, 2019•57 min•Ep. 247
This is a special holiday edition of the podcast. We go back to learn about the origin some of the non-religious traditions of Christmas. You're in for some fun and surprises! What other time of the year can you add fantasy into your life, without excuse, as much as you can on Christmas? Traditions are so special. They bond us to one another and provide comfort and excitement with expectation of familiar and heartwarming events remembered from childhood. It's a time when we can celebrate memorie...
Dec 23, 2019•26 min•Ep. 246
