If you agree that referrals come from relationships and are the least utilized yet best tactic in a business owner’s tool box – then you will love this episode! Stacey Brown Randall is the multiple award-winning author of Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, host of the Roadmap to Grow your Business podcast, and a national speaker. She has had the privilege of helping well-known corporations and franchises, but her focus is on small business owners and solopreneurs. A little about me: I...
Dec 08, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 80
Laurel Rutledge’s tagline speaks to her brilliance: She seeks to get you out of your rut or talk you back off that ledge. She left a 30-year career in corporate America to focus on serving bigger and broader. Her passion is teaching the art of “leading with your heart but acting with your head” to build the business or career that you desire. Laurel champions women to be treated as the exceptionally talented humans that they are … one leader, one woman, one SHEro at a time. You can reach Laurel ...
Dec 01, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 79
The first thing Mike Manning and I bonded on is that he puts family first – a man after my own heart. He is a proud husband, father, and grandfather. He is also a business coach, podcaster and business owner. Mike is passionate about helping small business owners either start their business, or grow their business to the level they want it to be. He loves hearing people’s stories and tells a good one himself. You can find Mike at: https://www.wired2change.com/ or https://www.openmiketalk.com/ A ...
Nov 24, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 78
Karen Joseph is a transplanted New Yorker who started her networking business in her new home of Arizona, over 12 years ago, to help her husband’s business. She is a natural networker and entrepreneur and quickly grew her own organization from one chapter in the southeast part of Arizona to many chapters throughout the U.S. Karen, as a former teacher, really focuses on teaching her network members and has an educational segment in all her meetings. If you are looking to learn more about being a ...
Nov 17, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 77
James Muir is the founder and CEO of Best Practice International and the bestselling author of the #1 book on closing sales - The Perfect Close . James is a 30-year veteran of sales having served in every role from individual contributor to Executive VP. His mission - to make the complex simple. James has extensive background in healthcare where he has sold-to and spoken for the largest names in technology and healthcare including HCA, Tenet, Catholic Healthcare, Banner, Dell, IBM and others. Th...
Nov 10, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 76
Janice Scholl has made an entire career out of talking about money and business. She left a successful 10-year banking career as she knew there was something else out there for her. She began mentoring female entrepreneurs in 2012, and now uses her knowledge and experience to support mothers in the areas of money, career and business. Her story is amazing – and the work she does helps so many women looking to transition from corporate, start businesses, and get more comfortable with finances. Yo...
Nov 03, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 75
Mary Charleson, is a sought-after marketing speaker, educator and strategist. She inspires business leaders to understand trends and generate new ideas to make marketing more effective. She is the author of two books, Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile and Five-Minute Marketing , each featuring tips for the time-starved business leader. Mary’s career spans over 20 years in media, advertising and education. Her weekly marketing blog, www.fiveminutemarketing.com is recognized industry wide as an aut...
Oct 27, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 74
Andrew Deutsch is a multilingual global strategic marketing and sales consultant whose has successfully driven business growth in more than 100 countries. His extensive global travel experience creatively melding practical strategic business concepts with solid psychological theory are behind his bold and innovative methods. His company Fangled Technologies is a strategic marketing consultancy with many services including total branding and go-to-market strategy creation. I enjoyed Andrew’s sens...
Oct 20, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 73
Bruce Marshall is the #Rookie Sales Pro – a businessman who has found his niche in the sales training world by using music to teach the challenging redundancy that can plague the life of sales people. He makes sales training, motivating sales people, and retention of best practices fun, hip and current. Bruce has a great story to tell – and he even gives us a sample of his musical talents on this podcast. Bruce can take the lessons in your business book and turn it into rap music – perform at yo...
Oct 13, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 72
You can feel the energy of my guest, Alon Zaibert, on this podcast. He has earned the reputation of being a highly impactful motivational leader and is a great interview. Alon’s passions for inspiring people, establishing processes, and building authentic business relationships are truly unique. Tapping into his infectious energy and positive attitude, Alon teaches his clients to find their own power. Alon’s gift of storytelling is evident in his popular blog, “Two Weeks’ Notice - A Touch of Emo...
Oct 06, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 71
At an early age, Judy Carter discovered that the messes in her life were great comedy material and could be used to inspire others. As an author, Judy doesn’t like to brag, but she did write the Bible. No joke, she’s the author of The New Comedy Bible which rose to #1 book on comedy on Amazon and is the go-to book for anyone launching a career in comedy. Her book, The Message of You, is a wildly popular how-to-guide to becoming a professional paid speaker. Currently, Judy speaks internationally ...
Sep 29, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 70
The power of building relationships for business is never as important as it is in the real estate industry – and no one does it better than my guest, Patte Gilbert. She has built her reputation as a top agent in the Calabasas & Hidden Hills areas of Southern California by caring about her clients. She has been an agent for over 30 years and has represented over 3,000 clients. She has received countless industry awards and has been a Top Producer, nationwide, for Sotheby's International Real...
Sep 22, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Tracy Repchuk is the CEO of InnerSurf International through which she leads and empowers people to develop a freedom-based business by systemizing, streamlining and scaling to success, all while working from home. She’s done it all and is still a powerhouse entrepreneur, keynote speaker, author, and internet marketer today. Tracy has received countless awards, including from the U.S. government and President Obama. And with all the accolades and experience she is still down to earth and very app...
Sep 15, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 68
My guest this week, Lorraine Ball, has a wonderful sense of humor. Ringleader, head honcho, top cat – take your pick. After spending too many years in the corporate world, Lorraine was tired of the bureaucracy, the sameness, the bad coffee. She was tired of forcing herself to fit inside a square hole and founded Roundpeg 18 years ago, a digital marketing company – which she has grown into a successful, vibrant agency, in Carmel Indiana. I love that she says, she functions on a strict diet of Ita...
Sep 08, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Janine Brolly works with modern successful women worldwide who feel burnt-out, unfulfilled and that “something is missing” in spite of their success. Janine believes it’s an epidemic that so many successful women are just going through the motions, trudging along with endless lists of responsibilities and never feeling truly fulfilled. They hold back from living richer lives than they deserve. She is known for her intuitive ability to see and unveil blind spots in others. Her accolades include: ...
Sep 01, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 66
Jimmy Ezzell is the co-founder of the Young Entrepreneur Project (YEP) and founder & CEO of TripValet. He is a highly skilled, entrepreneurial minded leader with decades of experience in business and leadership development, marketing and organizational growth. He has built organizations into the tens of thousands, all around the world. He is still humble and cares about the people he brings into his businesses – he loves serving in the trenches in the field and empowering people’s success. H...
Aug 25, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 65
You only have to hear Kimberley Day’s enthusiasm for what she does to know she is living her passion! It wasn’t always that way, and it took a major shift in thinking, writing a book herself and doubling her income in 12 months to find her purpose. Now she teaches others how to supersize their businesses. Kim helps coaches, consultants, and service-based entrepreneurs overcome the daily struggle of finding their next client, stand out from the crowd in their industry, and increase visibility, cr...
Aug 18, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 64
Matt Zinman is a difference-maker devoted to personally enrich the lives of at least 100 million people by 2025. That’s a tall order, and he is extremely focused on his mission. His new book Z-isms: Insights to Live By is based on his experiences as an entrepreneur, athlete, single parent, caregiver and non-profit founder. He is also CEO of The Internship Institute, which he established in 2007 to Make Experience Matter . You can find Matt and his book at: https://z-isms.com He is also a host of...
Aug 11, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 63
Lisa Pezik is a force to be reckoned with in the world of entrepreneurship. It wasn’t always that way, and she has a compelling story that shows how it is possible to change your career and your life – she did it and now she really plays BIG! She is passionate about teaching business professionals how to get clear on their message, transition when things aren't working, be visible both online and offline, so potential customers take notice fast! Lisa can be found here: https://www.lisapezik.com ...
Aug 04, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 62
Dr. Sher Downing, CEO & Founder of Downing EdTech Consulting serves as an EdTech strategist who brings clarity to the relationships of technology, education and people. She is also an international and national presenter, author and regular media contributor. Dr. Downing straddles two worlds and does it so well. She recently presented for the World Conference on Online Learning in Dublin Ireland, at the COVID19 Virtual Summit, and is right on the pulse of this changing world of business. Dr....
Jul 28, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 61
Jan Janzen has been an entrepreneur for 40 years. She bought a home cleaning service franchise at 19 and since then has been a serial entrepreneur having businesses in a wide range of industries. Today she is passionate about helping women with their relationship to selling and money - particularly that tough money part of the conversation. She coaches on money using Sacred Money Archetypes and is an advocate for the empowerment of women through financial freedom. Her tagline is 6-figures is the...
Jul 21, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 60
Jana Short is a renowned global influencer in the health and wellness industry. She is an NLP, RTT practitioner, best-selling author, public speaker, podcast host and magazine editor. I think you could call her a true entrepreneur. Jana teaches her clients to not only remove blocks that are holding them back but how to start that love affair with their potential online clients. She is getting the message of hope out into the world in a HUGE way, changing the world one health expert at a time. Yo...
Jul 14, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 59
Holly Gatto believes that high impact individuals need a mind and body transformation in order to achieve the profound results they desire. She works with many executives, medical professionals, and business owners who live stress-filled lives. Her goal is to teach them how to take care of themselves and reduce the stress at the same time. Holly’s approach as high-touch, straight forward, and empathetic – and works! Holly can be found at: hgatto@hollygattofitness.com | 724.448.9631 www.hollygatt...
Jul 07, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 58
Traci Brown is a fraud-busting body language expert, and a fascinating interview. She shares with me some secrets of exactly how to tell “whose pants are on fire”! You won’t get much by her, as she can read your body language, know when you are telling lies and trying to put one over on her. She is that fraud specialist that you may see on TV as the expert being asked to interpret the body language of a famous criminal or politician. And now she is about to be in film … clearly more to come! But...
Jun 30, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 57
Diane Najm is a true entrepreneur – actually, a global virtual storytelling platform entrepreneur! She was a social worker for over 20 years, then leapt into the world of business to launch two tech platforms in the photo and digital content marketing space. Quite the oxymoron in my estimation. At the same time, Diane continues to empower and support women in business by providing resources and connections. She is relentless in her pursuit of making PhotoPad THE tool for businesses to tell their...
Jun 23, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 56
Everyone has a story, according to Jordan Adler, and his is a good one. Over the past 27 years he has become one of the top networkers in the world earning him in excess of $22 million. He is the author of Beach Money, a world-wide bestseller still selling thousands of copies after 10 years on the market, from which all the profits go to charity. Jordan believes in big dreams and a will to work hard and never quit as the secret to success. He is the living example that it can, indeed, work. A li...
Jun 16, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 55
Raschell Harlingten’s vision is to support women and entrepreneurs, worldwide, setting them on a positive and powerful course of personal transformation that is critical to yielding success in business and in life. She has walked the walk, and transformed herself, walking away from an abusive relationship with two small children to care for, and all the fear and hopelessness that comes from that – to thriving as a business owner, author, and international speaker. Raschell has a special gift of ...
Jun 09, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 54
Katie Bright is an artist and designer extraordinaire. She has traveled extensively and now lives in Los Angeles as a result of consulting a white witch (in Australia) about where would be the best place for her to live. She was a fascinating interview and delightful. Katie creates very unique art and design work – including menus, mixed media large art pieces, masks, custom wallpaper and now “the Digs Collection”. I highly recommend you take a look at her work to get a deeper insight into who s...
Jun 02, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 53
Dr Madeline Ann Lewis is a career strategist, coach, trainer, speaker, author, business consultant and host of the Success 4 Women Radio Show. She has had an amazing career, appeared on many stages, globally, served in the military (retired), and received numerous awards and accolades. I am honored to have had a conversation with Dr Madeline and to be able to bring you some of her wisdom. Her mission is to help women accelerate their path to success … and she is definitely someone who can speak ...
May 26, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 52
NJ Shelsby works with powerful type- A leaders who have learned all the strategies to build a successful business and are not achieving the level of success they know they are capable of – yet. She has the uncanny ability to quickly get to the heart of what’s holding them back and then clear it out so they can take action to 10x their business. NJ can be found at: www.njshelsby.com and in her FB group – The Mindset Lab for Gutsy Women Business Owners A little about me: I began my career as a tea...
May 19, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 51
