Accelerate Your Business Growth

Trivinia Barber joins me to talk about the best practices to hire a virtual assistant, how to ensure they're the right fit for your team, and the importance of outsourcing outcomes, not tasks. Trivinia is a straight shooter who uses her talents to help entrepreneurs maximize their time by effectively outsourcing. Founder/Owner of Priority VA, host of Diary of a Doer and mom of 4, Trivinia has mast...

Ali Smith joins us today to discuss how this can be done in the most simple fashion, along with unveiling some of the most common trademark misconceptions. Ali Smith is the Product Marketing Manager for Trademark.com. She has worked on intellectual property SaaS solutions for the last several years of her marketing career, and believes in making world-class resources available, accessible, and aff...

Learn the simple secret to being your own publicist. Not only CAN you do your own PR, the skills you learn in the process will make you a better businessperson in the process, and our next guest believes every entrepreneur SHOULD hold their own highly valuable media relationships. Heather Hawkins is a visibility coach who helps entrepreneurs build wildly visible personal brands using earned media...

Kim Dawson, host of the Sassy Strategist, joins me to talk about effective pricing, the value of niching, and pricing strategies that work. Kim is a business strategist specializing in helping creative and professional service-based business owners and solopreneurs connect their ambition to their results by focusing on revenue generation, pricing, sales, niching, business development, and growth....

Wondering how to grow your business by connection and collaboration? Tune in to hear what Maria Dismondy has to share about working with influencers in your market. Award-winning author and founder of the publishing company, Cardinal Rule Press, Maria Dismondy inspires and educates others in the book industry. When Maria isn’t working, she can be found embarking on adventures throughout southeast...

Mario Nawfal joins me to share his insights about how to not only deal with challenges and adversity, but to succeed in spite of it. Mario is the founder of Athena Group of Companies, a business conglomerate operating in more than 40 countries. He had bootstrapped his first business at the age of 22, with $300 in his bank account, selling blenders door to door which led to Froothie Australia. He m...

While strategies and business principles are important, it's also critical to build a company culture based upon integrity and extend these core values to clients and their businesses. Businesses thrive on transparency and trust. Rob Braiman joins me to share how core values will help your business become more successful, and how you can make an impact on the business world at large. Rob has spent...

In this lively and engaging ‘conversation starter’, Liz Dederer joins me to break down the social and emotional barriers that prevent us from feeling powerful in life’s most important conversations and leave you excited and prepared to talk about money with confidence, authority and ease!! Liz Dederer is Disrupting Sales For Good™.  As Founder & CEO of Selling With Service, Liz and her team have h...

There are 4 distinct phases of entrepreneurship, and knowing which phase you're in is crucial to business growth. In this episode, author Chris Cooper will teach you how to identify which entrepreneurial phase you're in, and how to move on to the next one quickly. When his first business almost went bankrupt, Chris sought a mentor and began chronicling his turnaround. That experience led to his fi...

Tap into the power of your breath & mindset for success using fast, simple and powerful tools in the moment, to enhance clarity, creativity and productivity. Sandy Abrams joins us to share how to breathe through workplace challenges, reach your goals, and how the simple practice of breath can lead to success.. Sandy Abrams is the founder of Moisture Jamzz, the author of Your Idea, Inc., and Breath...

Do you know the 7 phases of transformation? You need to! And Willard Barth joins me to fill us in. From ignorance to influence, discover the phases we all must go through to succeed. Willard Barth has been involved in the field of human behavior, personal and professional development for close to 30 years. The biggest lesson Willard learned from his time developing numerous businesses in various i...

Discover what you need to know to ensure you are growing and succeeding in your business. Monte Wyatt shares the 5 disciplines as well as other important guidance in this episode. Monte is one of the top coaches at ActionCOACH®, the largest and most successful global business coaching franchise. He brings over 25 years of remarkable leadership, business and personal development experience to busin...

It’s the picture of the future that drives strategy and goals for a company. And it takes everyone embracing the vision in order for it to become reality. This is Jill Valdez’s strategy for helping companies get everyone inspired to action for the shared accomplishment of achieving the vision.  And she joins us to share her views. Jill Valdez has been helping corporations for over 18 years create...

To e effective, everyone in an organization needs to influence others. From selling ideas to gaining consensus to handling difficult people, persuasive people get more done. Mike Schmidtmann provides great insights into how to be persuasive without being pushy. Mike Schmidtmann has led Information Technology sales teams for over 20 years. He currently works with organizations across the US on sale...

Digital marketing works well when the audience is there. Sometimes it makes sense to combine marketing venues so you maximize your efforts. Ryan Cote joins us to share some ideas on this topic. Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third generation family-owned direct mail and digital marketing company based out of Fairfield, NJ. With Ballantine since 2003, a f...

In this episode, our guest Brad Sugar will give us some tips for starting a small business in the right direction. He will also give us advice on how to avoid losing our company and what it takes to become the best version of our business.  Brad Sugars is the founder of ActionCOACH®, the largest and most successful global business coaching franchise. As leaders in business coaching, he and his tea...

Monica Shah joins me to talk about how we can overcome any difficult relationships with have with money so we can become debt free and grow our revenue. After getting her MBA from Kellogg School of Management and in her first year as a business owner, Monica was $25,000 in debt. After paying close attention to her numbers and identifying what made money the fastest she was able to end up with no d...

Mark Willis is a man on a mission to help you think differently about banks, Wall Street’s abuses and from financial uncertainty. After graduating with six figures of student loan debt and discovering a way to turn his debt into real wealth as he watched everybody lose their retirement investments and home equity in 2008, he knew that he needed to find a sane way to meet his financial objectives a...

There are over 20 ways that companies' policies, procedures and practices drive customers away to alternatives. David Arvin provides a multitude of strategies and tactics that businesses can use to attract and retain new customers. David Avrin, CSP has become one of the most popular speakers on customer experience in the world today.  In recent years, David has presented for enthusiastic organizat...

Entrepreneurs who create products through crowdfunded campaigns sometimes have problems determining how and where to sell their products. There are ways for creators to develop a strategy to sell their products both in the U.S. and internationally. We The People’s Nison Chan shares tips on how to take a crowdfunded product global. Nison Chan is a co-founder and managing director of purchasing & br...

Gerri Detweiler, joins us to talk about the importance of building business credit. Credit expert Gerri Detweiler is the Education Director for Nav, which provides businessowners with tools to build strong business credit and financially healthy companies.  She’s been interviewed in more than 3000 news stories. Her articles have been widely syndicated, and she is the author or coauthor of five boo...

Using the social platforms to grow your business is a great idea. Of course, that's provided you do it well. Jonathan Soares joins us to share his strategy for social selling. Jonathan Soares is the Founder & CEO at Agency Labs. Founded in 2011, the firm is a trusted engineering partner to leading digital, creative and advertising agency teams. The foundation of Agency Labs’ business stems from a...

Discover the 3 must-do steps that are universal to all business exits with Ashley Micciche. This episode will inspire you to get unstuck and make progress toward a successful exit. Ashley Micciche is the CEO of True North Retirement Advisors, an independent financial advisory firm managing $230 million in client assets, and located just outside of Portland, Oregon. It's a family business, that she...

Studies prove that companies ranked high for ethics grow faster and outperform companies that don't. What’s more, half a trillion dollars in productivity is lost every year in the United States because of employee disengagement and workplace conflict. Yonason Goldson will join me to discuss how and why organizations that radiate ethical values automatically generate enthusiastic employees, loyal f...

Learn the tips and tricks to scoring free publicity for your business or brand without wasting time or money. Heather Saffer shares the secrets your competitors won't tell you and publicists don't want you to know. Heather Saffer is the founder of Dollop Gourmet; a better-for-you frosting brand sold in thousands of major retail stores. Heather is a winner of Food Network's Cupcakes Wars and author...