Chris Voss is CEO of the Black Swan Group and author of the national best-seller "Never Split The Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It," which was named one of the seven best books on negotiation. A 24-year veteran of the FBI, Chris retired as the lead international kidnapping negotiator. Drawing on his experience in high-stakes negotiations, his company specializes in solving business communication problems using hostage negotiation solutions. Their negotiation methodology foc...
Apr 18, 2019•35 min•Ep. 45
Ramon has started four companies and sold one. He's written three books, one is a best seller and he's in the process of publishing his fourth book, Celebrity CEO. Ramon travels around the USA and the world speaking to business owners to help them start and grow their businesses. While Ramon's favorite meal is brunt pancakes, bacon and eggs he'll also wolf down a bowl of cereal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 11, 2019•27 min•Ep. 44
Elizabeth Eiss is a results guru who helps others get work done well. She’s an entrepreneur and expert in agile workforce trends or what’s known as the ‘Gig Economy.’ She is passionate about empowering the purpose of service businesses. A serial business leader, Elizabeth is an accomplished, innovative executive who has successfully led multi-billion dollar organizations as well as start-up ventures in technology, alternative investments, and staffing. Elizabeth has a record of progressive accom...
Apr 04, 2019•29 min•Ep. 43
John DeMato is a branded, lifestyle portrait photographer and content creation expert who collaborates with speakers, authors, and coaches, and entrepreneurs to help them share magical ideas by producing magazine-quality images that present them powerfully and purposefully to their audiences. More than just a photographer, John sets his clients up for success beyond the portrait session by coaching them on how to best leverage their image content for their websites, social channels, blogs, publi...
Mar 28, 2019•29 min•Ep. 42
Mel Lim is a global technology storyteller and strategy consultant. Her success record for growing and scaling companies has positioned her as one of the most sought-after consultants in the tech and software startup scene. Mel is currently the President of Maspira Groupe, a startup consultancy focusing on product development and growth strategies. She serves on multiple advisory boards, and lectures worldwide on crafting innovative experiences through mindfulness. Mel recently completed a book ...
Mar 21, 2019•27 min•Ep. 41
Scaling Up Services is a podcast devoted to helping founders, partners, CEOs, key executives, and managers of service-based businesses scale their companies faster and with less drama. Have each episode delivered to your inbox by subscribing here: http://www.scalingupservices.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 14, 2019•31 min•Ep. 40
Consultant, speaker and best-selling author David A. Fields helps build consulting practices that are lucrative and lifestyle-friendly. He has guided consultancies ranging from one-person startups to the consulting divisions of some of the world’s largest companies. David still advises corporate clients too as the leader of his firm, Ascendant Consulting. His latest book, The Irresistible Consultant’s Guide to Winning Clients, is Amazon’s highest-rated book on the business of consulting released...
Mar 07, 2019•36 min•Ep. 39
For over 25 years, Andy has worked CEOs, owners and corporate leaders throughout the US, helping them achieve great sales performance, while accelerating their sales process. During his career, he thoroughly researched virtually all of the popular sales processes. All have their strengths, and their shortcomings. From years of testing and evaluation, he developed the Urgency Based Selling® system, a unique approach founded on philosophies which drive and accelerate human behavior. Learn more abo...
Feb 28, 2019•31 min•Ep. 38
Corey Kupfer is an expert strategist, dealmaker and business consultant with more than 30 years of professional negotiating experience as a successful entrepreneur, and attorney. The founder and president of Authentic Enterprises, LLC and the Authentic Business Academy, Corey is dedicated to inspiring authenticity in business through speaking, training and consulting on topics such as authentic negotiating, authentic deal-making, building authentic business relationships, and authentic conversat...
Feb 21, 2019•33 min•Ep. 37
Andrew is a founder of StartupSoft, where they lower the risk of startup failure by leveraging software to directly address top reasons why startups go under. Andrew also runs a podcast called Startup Exits, where they get insights from founders that started, ran and sold a tech company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 14, 2019•28 min•Ep. 36
Paul Jarvis is a writer and designer who’s had his own company of one for the last two decades. He’s worked with professional athletes like Steve Nash and Shaquille O’Neal, corporate giants like Microsoft and Mercedes-Benz, and entrepreneurs with online empires like Danielle LaPorte and Marie Forleo. Currently he teaches popular online courses, hosts several podcasts and develops small but mighty software solutions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 07, 2019•34 min•Ep. 35
Greg Crabtree is a speaker, author, entrepreneur and financial expert. Crabtree has used his entrepreneurial skills to develop Crabtree, Rowe & Berger, PC, a CPA firm focused solely on the needs of entrepreneurs, helping them build the economic engine of their businesses. Working with entrepreneurs all over the country in a broad range of industries, Crabtree has simplified financial reporting and empowered all entrepreneurs to take ownership of their finances. He has pioneered a revolutiona...
Jan 31, 2019•38 min•Ep. 34
Matt Criticos is co-founder of Worldwide101, a premium subscription staffing company. Worldwide101 provides demanding founders and executives with the ridiculously talented remote staff they need to grow their business, on a simple monthly subscription, without needing to employ them directly. Matt leaps out of bed in the morning partly because his two Rhodesian Ridgebacks want to go walking in the forest close to their home, but equally because he’s fired up about the benefits of remote work fo...
Jan 24, 2019•28 min•Ep. 33
Eddie Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of Union Square Consulting. He has advised over 300 organizations, from venture-backed technology companies to established investment banks, private equity, and commercial real estate firms on ways to scale sales and marketing and leverage cutting-edge technology to make each of their team members more efficient and effective. He also works with senior executives at these firms to improve their visibility into the business, with real-time analytics, so they ...
Jan 17, 2019•33 min•Ep. 32
Caryn is the Chief Door Opener® at Kopp Consulting whose Door Opener® Service has helped thousands of business leaders and sales people secure initial meetings with high level decision makers in almost every major company including P&G, GE, Merck, Verizon, Kraft, Target, CBS, and the list goes on. A best-selling author, nationally recognized speaker, and an expert in Business Development, Caryn can be seen in Inc., Forbes and Newsweek. She has spoken at leadership programs and is a faculty m...
Jan 10, 2019•34 min•Ep. 31
Dale Moss, retired NFL athlete turned Personal Growth Strategist, uses his personal experience with athletic organizational culture and high-pressured positions, along with his education and work experience in Personal Branding, to offer listeners stories and strategies for optimizing mind and body. Ava Diamond earned her Masters in Clinical Social Work at Columbia University 27 years ago. She has applied her entrepreneurial mindset and experience as a pro level fitness competitor to the develop...
Jan 03, 2019•44 min•Ep. 30
While working for SAP, a multi-billion dollar software company, nearly 20 years ago, Dave Will was advised to "walk faster and smile less, because perception is reality". Dave took this feedback to heart and started a business based on the antithesis of this advice. 14 years later, Dave successfully sold his company, Peach, a Learning Management System. Since then, Dave and his partner, Cameron Aubuchon, built a Feedback Automation Platform called PropFuel which is taking the old concept of a su...
Dec 27, 2018•32 min•Ep. 29
Stuart is a 3rd generation retailer, Founder and CEO at RaterBee. After graduating with a degree in architecture from the Harvard Grad School of Design, Stuart took his design skills back to the retail industry to design and implement the systems that would let retailers scale and stay competitive. Stuart has worked on technology projects with a broad spectrum of retailers – from Walmart to Armani – on many of the applications that let retailers efficiently operate at the “speed of retail.” Stua...
Dec 20, 2018•26 min•Ep. 28
Paulie Rojas has an extensive background in public speaking, performing, and coaching. She has studied with renowned voice and speech coach, Andrew Wade, from the Royal Shakespeare Company, has appeared in Network Television, and received numerous accolades for her starring roles in award winning films. Beside working with a vast array of CEO's and high level executives in the US and abroad, Paulie's list of companies include multi-million dollar businesses that range from advertising and digita...
Dec 13, 2018•28 min•Ep. 27
Adam is the CEO and Founder of the Bartlett System, a Brooklyn-based consultancy focused on helping chief executives transform their organization with key performance indicators. Adam helps leaders find the right KPIs to align, focus and lead their teams. In 2005, Adam founded Brainbox Consulting, a Seattle-based business intelligence firm. For over a decade Brainbox created data warehouse, big data, reporting and advanced analytics solutions serving education, manufacturing, health care, and te...
Dec 06, 2018•29 min•Ep. 26
Kim Ades is the President and Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching™ and JournalEngine™ Software. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mother of five, Kim is recognized as one of North America's foremost experts on performance through thought mastery. Using her unique philosophy and quirky coaching style, Kim helps her clients shift their thinking in order to yield extraordinary results and personal transformation. She is also a featured speaker for many entrepreneur and executive level organiz...
Nov 29, 2018•32 min•Ep. 25
Michael Zipursky is the CEO of Consulting Success and Coach to Elite Consultants. He has advised organizations like Financial Times, Dow Jones, RBC, Omron, Sumitomo and helped Panasonic launch new products into global markets, but more importantly, he’s helped over 300 consultants from around the world in over 50 industries add six and seven figures to their annual revenues and over 33,000 consultants read his weekly consulting newsletter. Michael is also the author of the Amazon Best Seller "Th...
Nov 22, 2018•32 min•Ep. 24
Born and raised in The Bronx, New York - (where all great things start) Larry survived the mean streets and catapulted forward after attending the top High School in the world, Bronx High School of Science. After earning a Music Degree at NYU, Larry started his career on Wall Street which eventually led to him joining Pseudo, one of the first Internet Dot Coms and a pioneer in Internet Video. After two high flying venture funded dot com rocket ship rides - Larry founded Sinu one of the first IT ...
Nov 15, 2018•31 min•Ep. 23
Arthur comes from 3 proud generations of Barbers. He has been in the barber industry majority of his working career. It is a passion and an art that only the finest of haircutters can attest to. Hes been a barber for some of the greatest shops in the Tri-State area with thousands of extremely happy clients and amazing style cuts seen in the Manhattan area. He takes great pride and passion on his craft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 08, 2018•30 min•Ep. 22
Joe Apfelbaum is the CEO of Ajax Union, a B2B digital marketing agency based in Brooklyn, NY. Joe is a business strategist, marketing expert and certified Google trainer. Joe is the Author of his new book High Energy Secrets, How he lost 95 pounds and has more energy than ever. When he is not Mojovating entrepreneurs at events and on social media he chills in Brooklyn with his Wife and 5 kids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 01, 2018•34 min•Ep. 21
Ryan McMunn is the Founder and CEO of BRIC Language Learning , an interactive online language learning program that reduces the time it takes to learn Mandarin by 50%. Ryan began his career at Tricam Industries as President of China Operations, where he was instrumental in growing it into one of the largest manufacturers of ladders in the U.S. Ryan currently remains as the CEO of Tricam and is involved in expanding the company into new international markets. An advocate for bridging the cultural...
Oct 25, 2018•30 min•Ep. 20
Janet Falk is a Communications professional with more than 25 years’ experience in-house, as a consultant and at public relations agencies. She manages pro-active media outreach and has secured placement of executives and events in local, national and international print and broadcast media. For example, articles in three hotel industry publications generated more than 800 phone calls from hotel industry CFOs inquiring about a client’s services, a far more impactful and economical approach than ...
Oct 18, 2018•35 min•Ep. 19
Wendy Lieber is the entrepreneurial cofounder of ContentBacon, an inbound marketing resource that builds brands people know, like, trust, and buy from. Wendy has a passion for helping customers figure out and communicate their “why” so that it resonates with target audiences. She frequently speaks in entrepreneurial communities about the power of storytelling and how to use it to grow your business. Prior to Bacon, she served as Athena Marketing’s president for fourteen years, helping clients us...
Oct 11, 2018•31 min•Ep. 18
Brett Hickey is the Founder & CEO of Star Mountain Capital, a specialized investment firm bringing large market capabilities and resources to established small and medium-sized private businesses. Star Mountain’s distinctive investment platform provides superior information, relationships and resources to the lower middle-market through three complementary verticals: (i) Direct Investments in Businesses, (ii) Strategic Primary Fund Investments (including to SBIC funds), and (iii) Secondary F...
Oct 04, 2018•34 min•Ep. 16
Kelly Campbell is an Agency Growth Consultant based in New York. A former digital agency owner for 15 years, she helps creative and tech agencies transform—by focusing on the 4 P's: people, positioning, pipeline and profitability. As a self-described "side hustle", Kelly is also an IA/SEO consultant to Facebook and NASA. She writes for Website Magazine, speaks at digital marketing and agency growth conferences across the U.S., and has been featured in The New York Times, Woman Entrepreneur and F...
Sep 27, 2018•33 min•Ep. 16
