After growing up in Crimea, Dilyara Daminova became a successful entrepreneur in Uzbekistan while still in her early 20s. She got a green card to the U.S., and moved to the DMV area at 26. Dilyara was confident in herself but met big obstacles in the US. Her English was to be improved and she didn’t have a local degree yet, which she got later in 2010. Early on, she struggled to land the most basic of jobs. However, Dilyara found her way into real estate and it was her calling. She was recognize...
Feb 15, 2024•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Roberge is a results-driven President and CEO of multi-million-dollar international corporation with a key focus on sales, marketing and product development. His extensive experience in building a company from the ground-up including establishing budgets, marketing image and strategy, business culture, sales processes, support protocols and development of a product tailored to industry needs, makes him a great resource for startups. As a co-founder of Gnxcor Inc., Dan helped build a facility...
Apr 19, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dinara Zhumabek is a principal co-founder of a wellness startup, connecting world class personal trainers with people like you and I. She has come up with this idea after solving her own problem of finding a great personal trainer and not go broke, while doing it. She is a private equity professional with transaction and turnaround experiencing in MENA, Central Asia & Turkey and Sub-Sahara Africa. Her professional experience includes - management consulting in top global consulting firms lik...
Mar 16, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kanat Bektemirov is a tech entrepreneur, who graduated from University of Arkansas with 4.0 GPA and started his career at Amazon and Google. He has done a couple of his own startups and now works as a CTO for a company, connecting suppliers with big retail, helping CPG brands increase revenue, improve margins, and overall be happier by seamlessly introducing teams to modern digital thinking. In this episode, you will learn: 1. How to get into competitive tech internships 2. How to use "failure" ...
Mar 01, 2023•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast 0:40 Could you please share a little story about how you started and what kind of business do you have in your protfolio? 4:21 -4:31 What kind of job was it , when you left the house what was the first thing you did, did you go in New York and pursued your music? 6:54-7:18 How did you evolve to the second business and become eventually profitable, what was your story there ? 12:09 :12-27 What do you think has really chained together in your partnership for celebrity style catering , what else di...
Feb 23, 2023•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast With 20 years corporate leadership and 10 years into lifestyle change and rural business. Howard is a highly adaptable executive leader and manager having held a wide range of management roles during my career, including Finance, Sales, Marketing, Coach, Project & Programme Management, Strategy and Business Transformation. Director and Managing Partner of a highly successful diversified rural business (Bowhayes Farm) including a specialist tree nursery (Bowhayes Trees). Bowhayes ...
Jan 26, 2023•51 min•Ep 77•Transcript available on Metacast This is our Christmas special! Interview full of depth with an authentic human being, activist, an artist, philanthropist and entrepreneur. Andy Shallal the CEO and founder of Busboys and Poets, restaurant that unites and educates communities. Andy moved to the United States from Iraq with his family in 1966. He graduated from Catholic University of America and later enrolled in Howard University medical school. Shallal earned his MBA from the University of Maryland. Shallal worked as researcher...
Dec 15, 2022•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast As a leadership coach and Director of Executive Education and Coaching at George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Public Leadership, Ina Gjikondi is a change agent. Her passion is creating experiences for people around the world to awaken and enhance their leadership abilities and creative capacities. The goal: Bring the whole self — mind, body, soul, and spirit — into one’s life and work. Life often involves transitions, and hers includes civil society activist, poli...
Oct 10, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christina is an analytical marketer with creativity on the brain. She works exclusively with small businesses in the creative and cultural sectors, including creative retail brands, nonprofits, restaurants, and more. She has a passion for taking time to deeply understand a brand’s voice, mission, and goals, and helping them to uncover new strategies and increase engagement. Christina specializes in growing brand presence and driving sales through executing customized social media, email, and blo...
Aug 01, 2022•27 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Vladimir Chen is a dad, a husband, a life and leadership coach, an Ironman and a long-distance swimmer. After almost twenty years of working in the IT industry, Vladimir decided to dedicate his life to inspiring collective growth and elevating human consciousness in the world. Having once felt stuck and unclear of his direction in life, he is now devoted to supporting others in their journeys of transformation. Vladimir enjoys facilitating people’s insights and personal growth via coaching, spea...
May 16, 2022•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brandon Leibowitz runs and operates SEO Optimizers since 2007. It is a digital marketing company that focuses on helping small and medium-sized businesses get more online traffic, which in turn converts into clients, sales, leads, etc. In this episode, you will learn: 1. How to upload content, blogs, photos and videos on different platforms like Facebook, Youtube, podcasting, Spotify, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok in a way that will give you most advantage with each platform's algorithms 2. Why y...
Apr 28, 2022•39 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Casey is the founder of the award-winning sustainable building company, The Conscious Builder , the host of The Conscious Builder Podcast and The Conscious Builder Show on YouTube and the founder of The Conscious Builder Academy , an online course hub for future-focused builders who want to create better businesses. He has written almost 400 blog posts on topics such as marketing, branding, entrepreneurship, personal development, sustainability and more. (...
Mar 30, 2022•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast You have already met Brian Landau from our previous episode https://anchor.fm/open-school-of-business/episodes/What-app-will-help-you-stay-sane-during-COVID-19-pandemic-and-other-situations-in-life-edojnt/a-a24ov2a , where he shared his app, Vennly, like in many start-ups within a year, they implemented a major pivot and used their core competencies to create a complete new product for a new target customer. Tune in to find out more details of their exciting journey In this episode, you will lea...
Mar 23, 2022•27 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Michelle Thompson went from being an MBA graduate to having a second-grade IQ level overnight after suffering from a life-altering stroke at only 36 years of age. Literally starting her life over again, she’s had to learn how to automate and outsource as much as humanly possible. Now she’s on a mission to help others find freedom from all the unnecessary tasks they do, using the strategies and systems she’s successfully created for herself. After receiving her bachelor’s in counseling from Valle...
Mar 11, 2022•45 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Founded 4 startups, managed e-commerce company with 150 000 000 USD of annual gross-billings and 300 employees. Business mentor. In this episode, you will learn: 1. How Chocolife.me discount coupon service of Kazakhstan has achieved success despite of scepticism of many 2. What were the mistakes made in the beginning of their journey 3. Why Gennadiy Kim left the company at its highest peak and looked for new startup ideas 4. Kuhnyas, platform for cooking classes from chefs, and how ...
Feb 23, 2022•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dan Norenberg is an executive and strategic leadership team advisor, coach and author of “Executive Ownershift, Creating Highly Effective Leadership Teams”. Has over 30 years of managerial experience and shared his views on how to develop the right leadership skills and leadership teams for companies. In this episode, you will learn: 1. Why team coaching is more effective than the individual 2. Which team you should be loyal to, the one you manage or the one you belong, as an executive 3. When i...
Feb 14, 2022•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Amy Zander is a CEO and Founder of Zeedia Media, marketing services company. She is a serial-entrepreneur who has owned five businesses. Some worked out, some didn’t, one she sold, and for the last several years Amy has built a full-time gig doing the one she loves the most – marketing. More specifically – supporting business owners and creative people in their marketing efforts so they have the time to focus on doing what they love – and to actually have a life outside of work. In this episode,...
Feb 08, 2022•36 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast Dennis Consorte is a thought leader and an entrepreneur with a heart, he cares for small businesses and helps them through digital marketing techniques. He drives traffic through SEO, SEM and Affiliate Marketing while leveraging Social Media, Email, and other tactics. Creates content and experiences that resonate at different points along the customer journey based on user intent. Dennis founded a digital marketing agency, DVD rental by mail company and several small ecommerce websites. Launched...
Jan 31, 2022•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sales Expert, Ryann Dowdy, helps 7 and 8 figure CEO’s generate daily sales on demand WITHOUT more of their time, by building + training high-performing sales teams. Ryann is passionate about helping successful business owners take back control of the revenue in their business, their time, and their freedom by building a profitable sales team. With her business partner, Kelly Roach, they are on a mission to free CEO’s from the role of sales person in their business. In this episode, you will lear...
Jan 25, 2022•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. David Vago is Research Associate Professor and Director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Mind-Body (CNMB) Research Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. He is core training faculty for the Vanderbilt Brain Institute and Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation. Dr. Vago maintains a research associate position in the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vago is also Resea...
Jan 16, 2022•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Odile Faludi is a Keynote Speaker, Corporate Trainer, and Cold Calling Expert, she call herself Starting Customer Conversations Specialist, who Turns Walls into Open Doors! In this episode, you will learn: How to get your prospects interested in your service or product How to get their attention and book a call with you What to do if your potential clients give you a pushback How her full time job paved the way to her own business Why Odile Faludi is hiring now...
Dec 20, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast a Digital Marketer & SEO Specialist by profession and an entrepreneur from heart. Every brand has stories to tell—stories that will not only engage, inform, surprise, and impact their audience, but that will also deliver on measurable business goals. Shiv is the conduit between brand and consumer. His tech-enabled SEO & Marketing Services help businesses grow by getting more online leads, calls, and revenue. He helps clients find the subject and medium that best fits their unique identit...
Dec 13, 2021•22 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast How a former Federal Reserves Economist breaks into the mobile game making Toby and Chris Madden are a father and a son duo, bringing educational video games and social media accounts to market through their Good Future LLC venture In this episode, you will learn: 1. How to use customers' feedback to test out your product before launch 2. How supply, demand, profit, margins and other economy concepts can be taught through a game 3. Selling to your existing network and also reaching out to new ne...
Dec 06, 2021•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Terry McDougall, PCC, MBA is an executive and career success coach with a marketing background. Author of "Winning the game of work: career happiness and success on your terms. She led marketing functions at financial organizations like Wachovia, BMO Financial Group, etc. Now she is the owner of "Terry D. McDougall" coaching and consulting company. In this episode, you will learn: 1. How dissatisfaction with your current work can lead you to a new business or new career opportunity 2. Why high p...
Nov 29, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ashwath Narayanan is the Founder & CEO of Social Currant, a DC based creative studio that works with nonprofits and social impact organizations to help them tackle emerging media platforms like TikTok, Reels & Influencer Marketing. Social Currant has worked with numerous clients, from the first Chief HR Officer at LinkedIn to large national nonprofits. Ashwath is also a Senior Advisor to DC Arch Angels, an angel investing group in DC. Ashwath was also named on the 25 Under 25 DC Cl...
Nov 17, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ashwath Narayanan is the Founder & CEO of Social Currant, a DC based creative studio that works with nonprofits and social impact organizations to help them tackle emerging media platforms like TikTok, Reels & Influencer Marketing. Social Currant has worked with numerous clients, from the first Chief HR Officer at LinkedIn to large national nonprofits. Ashwath is also a Senior Advisor to DC Arch Angels, an angel investing group in DC. Ashwath was also named on the 25 Under 25 DC Class of...
Nov 16, 2021•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Qaid Jivan runs a company called TalentMarketplace. They help IT leaders do more of what they love - deliver great projects for their clients with great people. We do this by replacing their side-of-the-desk recruitment activities (writing job descriptions, reviewing resumes, interviewing people who aren't a fit, etc.) with a blend of automation and the human touch. For fun, he builds and continues to manage a large music festival camp which has hundreds of members hailing from Vancouver, Seattl...
Nov 08, 2021•31 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Sara VanderGoot, CMT, e-RYT 200, e-RYT 500, RPYT co-founded Mind the Mat Pilates and Yoga. She studied Interdisciplinary Yoga with Don and Amba Stapleton in Nosara, Costa Rica and at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Sara completed her Prenatal Yoga Training at Blooma in Minneapolis. Sara is registered through internationally recognized Yoga Alliance as a e-RYT 200, e-RYT 500 and RPYT. Sara is Nationally Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a...
Nov 02, 2021•31 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Brooke Yoakam is founder of GiftPocket, the award-winning digital wallet app that allows users to manage all of their gift cards from their phone, pay with their gift cards in stores or online, exchange unwanted gift cards for gift cards they want, and send gift cards to people. Brooke Yoakam founded GiftPocket when she was 12 years old, after receiving a bunch of unwanted gift cards from elder relatives and knew there was a gap in the digital wallet space. GiftPocket and its namesake currency &...
Oct 18, 2021•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Announcing a competition to win Thomas's amazing book "C-Suite and Beyond: 4 Keys to Leadership Success" You need to: 1. Follow Open School of Business 2. Rate, review and subscribe to us on your favorite podcasting platform 3. Comment here that you are done and share the post! #competition Thomas Kereszti is an industry influencer, author, coach, speaker, educator, and mentor. His approach to leadership comes from a lifetime of international experience. His servant leadership princip...
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