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Today’s guest has a mission for helping solopreneur experts do what they love and get paid what they’re worth. He is a recognized authority on entrepreneurship and leadership development, having served as a CEO, COO, and CFO in the not-for-profit sector as well as a project manager in the private sector. As the host of the business podcast Smashing the Plateau, he’s released over 400 episodes that...

Today’s guest unleashes human potential through mindfulness techniques. Known as the C-Suite Network Advisor on Mindfulness in the Workplace, she helps stressed-out leaders find and sustain greater focus, clarity, and inner peace, resulting in a more grounded and powerful presence and enhanced profits. She began her career in the world of nonprofits and volunteer leadership, teaching thousands of...

Today’s guest is made up of one part creativity, one part context, one part connections, and a sprinkle of playfulness. She is the founder and idea culturist behind sajory, an innovation consultancy that nurtures organization behavior and helps businesses transition its culture into a fertile space for innovation. Some of her past accomplishments include designing a city-wide leadership program fo...

Today’s guest is passionate about helping employees, managers, and business owners move their business and personal life to the next level through word of mouth referrals. He has experienced the same challenges that most employees and business owners face. He used his failures to craft a message as a speaker that resonates with his audiences and leaves them with actionable steps to improve their b...

Today’s guest is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” In her more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and corporate leader, she has served as the CEO of both public and private companies and in management positions at Fortune 500 companies. She has been profiled in Inc., Forbes, Venture Beat, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg Businessweek...

Today’s guest helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get “unstuck.” She helps them push past the doubt and indecision that consign great ideas to limbo. She is a serial entrepreneur who has started and sold a successful international executive search firm, built philanthropic and political action committees from scratch, and was a White House appointee on the team which created the national...

Today’s guest’s last bad day was July 11th, 2001, a day that changed his life in a significant way. Experiencing a harrowing cycling accident was the catalyst to the seminal shift that changed his perspective, mindset, and actions. Since then, he has been helping leaders make change stick at work and in their lives. In addition to executive coaching and speaking, he is the best-selling author of “...

Today’s guest is uniquely gifted at drawing out what’s best in others and helping them take their brilliance to the bank. She is a nationally recognized transformational speaker, best-selling author, Purpose to Paycheck Expert, and the Founder & CEO of Fierce Factor Lab. She has over 20 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, corporate executives, heads of states, celebrities, and nonprofi...

Today’s guest helps global leaders enhance their ability to adapt, contribute, collaborate, and grow. A former Financial Times executive, she started out her career working on strategy as a management consultant and as an assistant to Dr. Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in New York. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School Executive MBA Global Asia and the author of “Future...

Today’s guest, like many ambitious women today, pushed herself to the limit and happily wore the busy badge of honor for decades. Her suicide attempt as a young adult ignited a passion for personal development which led to her owning a nutrition business. Yet, while she made sure other women were taking care of themselves, stress, anxiety, worry, and fatigue were her constant companions. She sold...

Today’s guest helps workplaces build inclusive cultures by addressing barriers to equity and access. She is a diversity and inclusion strategist, author of an award-winning book, “The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality In The Workplace,” and Seattle University’s Professional-in-Residence in Communication. She was also recognized as one of 30 management thinkers to watch globally, as par...

Today’s guest uses hypnosis and hypnotic communication to help his clients grow their businesses. He used the principles of rapport and modeling to track what top business performers do differently to build several six-figure businesses of his own. Rather than just hypnotize his clients to become more successful, he helps them de-hypnotize the personal blocks that are holding back their business s...

Today’s guest breaks silos, works smarter, and gets things done. She is the Founder and CEO of Cotential, a global consultancy that helps organizations transform by delivering collaboration across teams, business units, customers, and other stakeholders. She is one of today’s most provocative business thinkers on the future of work. She advises business leaders and companies to lead markets throug...

Today’s guest is a freedom hacker. She helps freedom-seeking entrepreneurs to stand out, captivate their audience’s attention, and monetize their authentic brands online. She is a personal branding and online business strategist. From a standing start in May 2014, she’s grown her e-mail list and combined social media followings to over 200,000 people. Online entrepreneurs widely regard her Faceboo...

Today’s guest believes fun at work is finding an easier, simpler, or smarter way to spend more time doing what you are brilliant at and less time making business happen. She has over twenty years of B2B marketing experience in software and for small businesses. She was the second UK hire and marketer on the team who launched Xero in the UK. She is the co-founder of the Small Business Finance Schoo...

Today’s guest believes you have within you the ability to attract your ideal partner, create your ideal body, become a more empowered parent to your children, and magnetize success and abundance in every aspect of your life. She is a Transformational Leader, Celebrity Coach, and the New York Times bestselling author of “The Art of Having It All.” Before she learned the Law of Attraction she was un...

Today’s guest believes everything she needed to know to succeed in her multi-sector career she learned by growing up in a town of 600 people. She’s taken the lessons she learned and applied them to a career that has included Silicon Valley, a Fortune 100, non-profit, and higher education organizations. After starting her career in California, she returned home to Ohio where she helps her clients a...

Today’s guest helps executives break through the fears that hold them back from being the best leaders, strategists, business developers, and team members they can be. He knows a thing or two about how to overcome fear based on his first two careers: For twenty-two years, he served as an FBI Special Agent and Hostage Negotiator and prior to that he was an ordained minister for six years. In both c...

Today’s guest is a communications strategist and international consultant on a mission to help people create quality communications. As a presentation/pitch coach and media training expert, she has helped hundreds of clients prepare for high-stakes communications including TED and TEDx talks, keynotes, fundraising pitches, commencement speeches, job interviews and appearances on TV and at public e...

Today’s guest is a pioneer in the world of high growth women entrepreneurs. As the CEO of the Thought Leadership Lab, she works with purpose-driven entrepreneurs, executives, and non-profit leaders to scale their influence and impact. Previously, she was the founding CEO of the first trade association for high growth women entrepreneurs and the co-founder of Springboard, the women’s startup launch...

Today’s guest specializes in helping companies optimize their online presence. His journey to becoming a digital marketing expert was circuitous and includes being a couple’s therapist and senior director of a nonprofit that house and sheltered homeless women. His own experience with homelessness as a young child in Columbia makes his expertise in social media marketing, podcasting, e-mail automat...

Today’s guest deeply believes people owe it to themselves to be happy at work and that everyone can be a leader regardless of their role within an organization. As a career and executive coach, she has helped people and businesses in areas such as workplace communication, leadership development, and team building across many different sectors and industries. She brings over 25 years of professiona...

Today’s guest is an award-winning executive with over 30 years of experience. She has climbed the corporate ladder across multiple sectors, including high tech, consumer and nuclear sensors, aerospace, film production, and glass manufacturing. To say that she had a unique and difficult start in life is a major understatement. At just 18 years old, she fell blindly in love with a pimp and ran away...

Two decades ago, Business Week said today’s guest “may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age,” because he’s as focused on spreading ideas as the ideas themselves. He is a world-renowned speaker and author of 18 books that have been bestsellers around the world and have been translated into more than 35 languages. Entrepreneur said his blog was “one of the most-loved marketing blogs...

Today’s guest helps people re-discover their own greatness by asking tough questions and sharing powerful truths. She works with busy leaders to leverage the exponential power of recognition to retain top talent. She is the author of “Forever Recognize Others’ Greatness: Solution-Focused Strategies for Satisfied Staff, High-Performing Teams, and Healthy Bottom Lines.” Her book provides processes a...