Advance Your Art: From Artist to Creative Entrepreneur

MEET EBONG EKA, CPA As a certified public accountant, entrepreneur and former professional basketball player in Europe, Ebong Eka understands the importance of teamwork, leadership, and development not only on the court but within companies. His experiences, both as a consultant and Soft Skills communication trainer with some of the largest professional services firms including PricewaterhouseCoop...

MEET ROB BATTLE Rob Battle is an American storyteller and novelist. Battle was born and raised in Hephzibah, Georgia. He had always shown an interest in writing short stories, songs, and poems. Due to Battle’s poor reading skills in school, his teachers did not encourage him to pursue that path. Serving 20 years in the US Navy and earning two degrees, Battle learned that the perception of others i...

MEET THOMAS NEEL After a decade in the specialty automotive industry, THOMAS NEEL undertook a major life-change and became a fine art painter. Live An Artful Life spans Neel’s 30-plus years of experience as an accomplished artist with over 40 one-man shows to his credit. Having been a gallery owner, involved in fine art publishing, an educator and writer he has also written a monthly newspaper col...

[caption id="attachment_3379" align="aligncenter" width="600"] KellyAnnCollins[/caption] MEET KELLY ANN COLLINS Kelly Ann Collins is a marketing expert and a former journalist with a passion for social media who is currently the CEO of Vult Lab. The company works with innovators, social change agents, and tech companies to bring their best ideas to the world. As a journalist, she worked for severa...

MEET KATHERINE MOLLER Katherine Moller’s music combines the rugged Highlands of Scotland, the lush greens of Ireland, and the majesty of the St. John River Valley. Performing classical, baroque, and fiddle, Katherine merges these influences in original Celtic compositions. She is an active educator, running a private violin/fiddle studio at the Charlotte St. Arts Centre as well as school...

MEET SARAH WILSON Sarah Wilson is the founder of PoP! Communications, a firm that excels at book launch management, public relations, and influencer marketing. PoP! Communications designs & executes highly customized platform development and cross-channel influencer marketing & public relations campaigns on behalf of authors, executives, brands & agencies PoP! provides book launch mana...

MEET WARREN WHITLOCK Warren Whitlock is a digital business development strategist. In 2008, he wrote the first book about Twitter and Mobile Marketing, and the best selling “Profitable Social Media: Business Results Without Playing Games.” He is the host of Social Media Radio and speaks frequently about social media marketing, online publicity and marketing, social networking and building lifetime...

Brianna Rooney, (AKA the Millionaire Recruiter) is 34 years old, owns Techees , has three houses, a top 100 restaurant www.mouthfuleatery.com , an amazing Chef of a husband and two little kids. Diego Danger (yes that's his real middle name) 5 years old, and a sweet little 2-year-old girl, Lima Ariel. Her very successful recruiting firm is the star of the show, www.techees.com . Techees is a firm t...

[caption id="attachment_2871" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] John Faisandier[/caption] Meet John Faisandier John Faisandier has worked as a teacher, pastoral assistant, university chaplain, counselor, Race Relations mediator, Life Skills tutor, psychodramatist and trainer of counselors in a residential drug and alcohol treatment facility. For the past 14 years he has run his own business TUF: T...

MEET CASEY HERD Casey Herd was born in Salt Lake City, USA where he began his ballet training at The School for Ballet West. After graduating from The Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington D.C. he began his professional career with American Ballet Theatre in New York City. He later joined Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle where he quickly rose to the rank of principal dancer. While in Seattle Mr...

tatiana-hires MEET TATIANA MOROZ TATIANA MOROZ is a soulful and outspoken singer-songwriter and the premier artist in the Bitcoin and Liberty activist communities. Following the release of several independently produced LPs, EPs, and singles, Tatiana’s album Keep The Faith was released in 2017 having been funded with cryptocurrency. Her music is a fresh take on the folk style of the revolutionary...

MEET DAVID MONROE David has been a photographer for almost 40 years. Until now, his fine art was held in private collections or museums. His style invites the viewer on a journey of revelation and intent. David says, “I am an imagist, not a photographer. I don’t take photographs, I create imagery! I have a unique perspective on the world from years of exercising not only my eye for lighting, compo...

MEET KINJA DIXON Kinja Dixon is the first sale executive to win the Gold Stevie and ARDA Awards in the same year (2013), recognizing him as the top salesperson in the world. He retired that same year to begin the next stage in his journey. He is the author of three books—Universal Talk Laws (2014), Re-Creationism: The Art of Shaping Reality (2018), and Lil Solar’s Book of Superpowers (2019)—and ha...

MEET HOWARD BERG Howard Stephen Berg is recognized as the world’s fastest reader thanks to the cutting edge accelerated learning techniques he developed that turn information overload into information assets. Respected internationally for his contribution to the learning process, he is listed in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records for reading more than 25,000 words a minute and writing more th...

MEET DAWN BROTHERTON Dawn Brotherton is the Global eBook award-winning romance author of Worth the Wait. She’s written nine books; one romance, two mystery, four middle grade fiction, and two nonfiction. Her book Softball Scoresheet is ranked in Amazon’s Top 100 in its category. Outside of writing books, Dawn is a freelance writer, professional speaker, and president of the Williamsburg Book Festi...

MEET JUDE CHARLES: Jude Charles is a story-driven filmmaker, brand strategist & speaker. For over 13 years, Jude has traveled the world, working with world-class brands such as Google, Coldwell Banker, and Steve Harvey just to name a few. Through his Dramatic Demonstration of Proof methodology, Jude helps entrepreneurs bring their story to life through documentaries and videos. He digs deep to...

Dealing with her own issues around food, Lana Nelson, began a journey of discovery that turned into her life’s work. Dealing with chronic pain, fatigue and the garden variety of ailments so many people live with, Lana was determined to find the cause and solution. After years of trial and error, Lana Nelson discovered the solution was as close as her kitchen cabinets and refrigerator… food. Going...

MEET KATHLEEN GAGE After nearly 25 years in business, cc is doing what most entrepreneurs would never dream of doing; changing her business direction and market in a big way. Creating a level of success many entrepreneurs aspired to achieve, Kathleen discovered a passion that had been percolating under the surface for years; a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. As a marketing and business strategi...

MEET CATHERINE ORER Catherine Orer is an award-winning Business & PR Strategist and founder of The Artist Entrepreneur, where she counsels professional visual artists and creative entrepreneurs who want to build sustainable businesses and careers. After working as a PR professional for multinational corporations, Catherine began studying the business of art at Christie’s Education and working...

MEET MADELEINE HENRY Madeleine Henry worked at Goldman Sachs and in investment management in New York City. She graduated from Yale in 2014 where she wrote comedy for The Yale Record, America’s oldest college humor magazine. Now working on her second novel, she shares more information about her life, writing, and yoga practice on @MadeleineHenryYoga. Breathe In, Cash Out is her debut. Breathe In,...

MEET MICHELLE MAZUR MICHELLE BELIEVES THAT SPEAKERS, ENTREPRENEURS, AND BUSINESS OWNERS SHOULD CRAFT A MESSAGE THAT IS BIGGER THAN YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS. THIS MESSAGE SHOULD CALL IN YOUR AUDIENCE. INCITE ACTION ALWAYS. TURN THE AUDIENCE INTO THE MESSENGERS OF YOUR MESSAGE. Michelle Mazur, Ph. D. delivers audacious breakthroughs for business owners & speakers who want to stand out, be the best-...

Although born in California, Adam De Collibus is a man of the world. In his early years, he lived in South America and his love of travel has led to him living and traveling in over seventeen countries. Inspired by both historical and actual events during his travels DeCollibus was compelled to write Caravan, his debut historical novel. Adam DeCollibus lives mostly in California where he spends hi...

MEET BETTY BOLTE My career after high school began first with retail sales until a government clerk position opened up. Then I worked as a clerk for several years before becoming a secretary for corporate America. All those jobs involved words one way or another. Then I quit my job at IBM and started my own freelance word processing business in 1988. While typing manuscripts in Virginia, I would “...

MEET JOHN VESPASIAN JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of ten books about rational living, including “When everything fails, try this” (2009), “Rationality is the way to happiness” (2009), “The philosophy of builders” (2010), “The 10 principles of rational living” (2012), “Rational living, rational working” (2013), “Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief” (2014), “On becoming unbreakable” (2015...

MEET RONAN LEONARD Most experts make the mistake of picking just one mode to deliver their expertise through. Accountants make money through accounting. Trainers make money from training. Chef’s cook. You get the picture. The secret to becoming a niche leader and having more revenue is to diversify how you deliver what you do. Ronan helps self-employed professionals who don’t earn enough revenue f...