Real People, Real Business

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March 23, 2023

Megan Dowd - Stepping Onto Your Spicy Soapbox

Megan Dowd is a brand therapist, business strategist, storyteller, and certified equity-centered coach who helps business owners create a better human connection with themselves and their clients by drawing from who they are ...

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March 15, 2023

Luis Baez- Moonlighting for Good: Building a Business to Give Back

Luis Báez is a sales enablement strategist and coach dedicated to empowering online business owners, B2B professionals, and underrepresented entrepreneurs by teaching them how to scale their revenues and impact by creating an...

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March 8, 2023

Dr. Amy Beckley - Finding Fertile Ground For Your Ideas

Proov company founder, Amy Beckley, PhD, invented the first and only FDA-cleared at-home test to confirm ovulation after discovering her own infertility issues were caused by a progesterone deficiency. In this episode you wil...

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March 3, 2023

Asher Laub - The Business of Being an Independent Artist

Asher Laub is an in-demand violin soloist whose expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to performances at high profile venues like Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center a...

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Feb. 22, 2023

Vanessa Gabriel - Persevering with an Entrepreneurial Mindset

As an entrepreneur, you go through the highs and lows of business ownership. If you’ve ever struggled with finding the motivation to keep pushing through the challenges, my conversation with Vanessa Gabriel will give you the ...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Melissa Widner - The Changing Face of Founder Financing

If you’ve ever thought about getting outside capital to fund your business but weren’t sure what your options were or what the process entails, my conversation with Lighter Capital CEO & Heads Over Heels co-founder & chairpe...

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Feb. 8, 2023

Jeremy Gardner - Serial Success on the Bleeding Edge

Jeremy Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist who has found a great deal of success by diving into the ideas he’s passionate about and staying at the forefront of business and industry from b...

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Feb. 1, 2023

Josh Fuller - Overcoming Obstacles By Going All In

Josh Fuller is the founder and CEO of Matic Digital, a digital strategy and talent growth agency that he grew to over $1.5M in new business in its first year. Josh shares how he did that while also battling serious …

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Jan. 27, 2023

Ken Babcock - Leaving Harvard to Bet On Yourself

Ken Babcock, along with his 2 co-founders, dropped out of Harvard Business School during the pandemic to launch their business, Tango, a SaaS company that helps users create beautiful step-by-step tutorials of any digital pro...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Vinnie Potestivo - Big Conversations in Small Media

Vinnie Potestivo is an Emmy Award-winning Media Advisor and Creator Economist who helps clients leverage their media and content to make more impact. He is the Founding Creator of I Have A Podcast®, host of its podcast, and t...

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Jan. 20, 2023

Tommy Yionoulis - Staying the Course as a Bootstrapped Startup

Tommy Yionoulis is the founder of OpsAnalitica, a SaaS platform that helps multi-unit businesses manage and measure their daily team activities for more consistent operations. In this episode, you’ll hear how Tommy went from ...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Lindsay McMahon - Staying One Step Ahead in a Crowded Market

Lindsay McMahon is the CEO of All Ears English and co-host of the All Ears English podcast serving professionals around the world where speaking English is key for their career success. The popularity of podcasting has explod...

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Jan. 13, 2023

Jen Pelka - Disrupting the Wine Industry with Values-Based Branding

Jen Pelka is a co-Founder and CEO with a passion for empowering women. Featuring world-class wines made by women, Jen has used values-based branding to build her business, Une Femme Wines, into the fastest growing sparkling ...

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Jan. 11, 2023

Cathy Nesbitt - Worming Your Way Into Business By Solving A Rotten Pr…

Cathy Nesbitt is a worm advocate and the founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters, an environmental business specializing in vermicomposting. Cathy helps educate people on how worms can help with waste management by turning garba...

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Jan. 5, 2023

Andrew Wolgemuth - Diamonds in the Rough - Finding Opportunity in the…

Andrew Wolgemuth is the co-founder and CEO of Wove, a jewelry company that is reinventing the jewelry industry by changing the way couples design and purchase engagement rings. As a US Army Ranger deployed in Afghanistan, sta...

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Dec. 28, 2022

Tahnee Sanders - Marketing for the Real World

Tahnee Sanders is a marketing strategist and copywriter who helps female founders of small to medium businesses communicate their value through their marketing and copywriting so they can charge what their expertise is truly ...

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Dec. 21, 2022

Becca Rich - Healing Your Relationship With Time

Becca Rich is a holistic time coach & educator who works with female entrepreneurs to overcome struggles with time management that goes far beyond just using the latest productivity tool or time hack. Becca delves deeper to h...

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Dec. 14, 2022

Cathlyn Melvin - TEDx Coaching for Business Owners

Cathlyn Melvin is a TedX Coach & Copywriter who helps mission-driven experts design and deliver their world-changing messages through TEDx coaching and done-for-you copywriting services. If you’ve ever dreamt of becoming a TE...

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Dec. 9, 2022

John and Mark X. Cronin - 7-Figure Growth by Spreading Happiness

When John Cronin was in his last year of high school, he looked around at all of his options for his career, as a person with Down Syndrome, and didn’t like any of them. So he decided to create his …

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Nov. 17, 2022

Tara Reid - Business Building for Introverts

Tara Reid is a multi-passionate entrepreneur and introvert who helps other introverted business owners develop sales and marketing strategies that work best for their more reserved styles. In this episode, Tara shares her lon...

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Oct. 26, 2022

Candice Elliott - Sustainability in Human Resources

After working as a Human Resources (HR) manager with one company, Human Resources Strategist, Candice Elliot branched out and began working with a variety of organizations bringing to bear all the expertise she had developed ...

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Oct. 19, 2022

Richard Blank - Creating Connection & Balance With Games

After following his love of Spanish and majoring in Spanish communication in college, Richard Blank landed an internship with Telemundo and the Importers of Corona which prepared him for a once in a lifetime opportunity takin...

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Oct. 12, 2022

Lianne Kim - Growing A Membership Mentoring Mompreneurs

Many people stumble into entrepreneurship never intending to become business owners, and Business Coach & Strategist Lianne Kim is no different. Lianne’s story is one that a lot of women will relate to going from a successful...

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Oct. 6, 2022

Kristen Zavo - Finding Fulfillment in Work and Life

Like many people, Kristen Zavo climbed the corporate ladder and achieved success in her career, but even with all she had achieved, she found herself deeply unhappy at work. After switching jobs, she found more and more peopl...

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