Business by Referral Podcast

Lori McDowell's BIO:  Dr. Lori McDowell is an international speaker, best-selling author, and founder of Reimagine U Strategies. She inspires audiences worldwide with talks that blend personal story, mindset mastery, and actionable clarity—helping others lead with purpose, courage, and joy. Lori is also the creator of Done-For-You Transformational Retreats, partnering with heart-centered coaches t...

Harvey Mitchell's BIO:  As a broker at Crane Agency and founder of Church Risk Advisors, I specialize in guiding organizations with complex needs through the insurance process with clarity, care, and confidence. Whether I'm working with a ministry, a pain management clinic, or a contractor, my goal is always the same: deliver protection that fits your mission.    In this episode, Virginia and   Ha...

Melissa Miranda's BIO:  Melissa Miranda is a Certified Public Accountant and the owner of Step By Step Accounting, a Woodard Top 50 Accounting Practice. Step By Step is a fully cloud based, teaching-oriented accounting and advisory firm. Melissa's mission is to empower 100,000 entrepreneurs to have financial success and mental health. She speaks about how businesses can be even more successful by...

Deidre Sirianni's BIO:  Deidre Sirianni is an International Best Selling Author, TEDx Speaker, and Founder of Radically Aligned Life Academy where Impact Driven Entrepreneurs, Visionaries, and Leaders come to master their inner world and make a bigger impact in the world with their gifts. She helps people who are ready to step into higher levels of leadership and impact the world, release self-sab...

Wendy Melrose's BIO:  Wendy Melrose is the founder of Resilience Press, an innovative publishing company dedicated to empowering survivors to share their powerful stories of triumph and victory. With over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience and a deep passion for storytelling, Wendy specializes in guiding authors from initial concept to published book, enabling them to make a meaningful impact...

Nikki Green's BIO:  Nikki Green is a Life & Business Resiliency Expert who has been in the international business industry for over 25 years and is a 7x published author. Nikki is an avid traveler, visiting 16+ countries and completing 7 marathons and dozens of triathlons across 3 continents. Nikki has dedicated her life to assisting others reduce their fear and go after their dreams. Nikki's grea...

Steve Koch's BIO:  Steve Koch is a CPA and the founder of Primary Care Financial, where he helps solopreneurs & small businesses get clarity on their business finances — from bookkeeping and taxes to big-picture strategy. After years of working in corporate finance and watching small business owners get left behind, Steve decided to bring Wall Street-level insight to Main Street entrepreneurs. He...

Shelby Hansen's BIO:  Shelby Hansen is a certified life coach, speaker, and chronic fatigue recovery expert. After going into kidney failure as a young mom of three—and giving birth to her fourth child while pregnant on the transplant list—Shelby believed her transplant would be the answer to everything. But even after surgery, the exhaustion, pain, and overwhelm continued. Her healing truly began...

Christian Hansen's BIO:  Christian Hansen Has gone behind the scenes in some of the biggest organiza'ons in the world to find out why some people get chosen and why others don't. As the interna'onally recognized author of The Influence Mindset—a #1 bestseller and one of LinkedIn's Top Ten Marke'ng Books—Chris'an helps individuals and organiza'ons stand out and become the obvious choice. With degre...

Frank Agin 's BIO:  Frank Agin is president of AmSpirit Business Connections, which empowers entrepreneurs, sales representatives, and professionals to become successful and gain more referrals through networking. He also shares information and insights on professional relationships, business networking and best practices for generating referrals on his Networking Rx podcast and through various pr...

  S. S. Coulter 's BIO:  S. S. Coulter is here to help everyday, busy parents feel extraordinary about their parenting. Her tools help parents compete with the additive draw of technology to help the youngest generation shift from a tech-centered-childhood back to play-centered-childhood. Her children's book series, The Fassa Tails, activities, and upcoming activity app offer screen-lite, easy way...

Lana Manikowski 's BIO:    Lana Manikowski is an author, keynote speaker, infertility advocate, and certified life coach who helps women thrive after infertility when motherhood didn't happen. She's the founder of The Other's Day Brunch and host of The "So Now What?" Podcast, both created to support women who are childless not by choice. After a seven-year fertility journey that ended without a ch...

  Lyndsay Mitcheson's BIO:    Lyndsay's journey is one of resilience, creativity, and transformation. After losing her leg to an MRSA infection, she set out to design a walking stick she could feel proud to use. What began in her kitchen became Neo Walk, a bold brand of stylish, colourful acrylic walking sticks that empower people living with disabilities to embrace their mobility with confidence...

Brian Parana's BIO:  Brian Parana is not merely a health coach; he is a transformative catalyst who comprehends the intricate balance between professional achievement, personal well-being, and family responsibilities. Brian's over two decades of helping 1,000's of clients0 in the nutrition and fitness industry serve as a testament to the importance of consistency and dedication in impacting indivi...

Tim Hyde's BIO:  Tim Hyde is the founder of Win More Clients, a leading marketing automation and CRM consultancy dedicated to helping service-based businesses scale smarter. With over 30 years of experience in strategy, technology, and sales systems, Tim is a master at transforming chaos into clarity.  Having worked with more than a thousand business owners, Tim has a proven track record of stream...

Janet Krebs' BIO:  Janet Krebs is a speaker, strategist, and 4X best-selling author who empowers families and influencers to lead with confidence, self-reliance, and heart. Drawing from her background in consulting, HR, and education—as well as 14 years as "Commander Krebs" in a space flight simulator guiding over 65,000 students—she blends practical leadership tools with real-world parenting stra...

Candy Barone's BIO:  Candy Barone is a Leadership Alchemist and Human Design Guide, empowering visionary leaders and changemakers to unlock their true leadership potential and lead with clarity, purpose, and alignment. With over 30 years of experience in leadership and business strategy, Candy specializes in helping leaders break free from outdated paradigms, reconnect with their soul's blueprint,...

Mason Brunsmann's BIO:  Mason Brunsmann is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® with Sirius Wealth Management, known for delivering comprehensive financial planning and investment management strategies tailored to the unique needs of business owners and families. His specialties include comprehensive financial planning, investment management, risk management, and income & tax planning. Mason is dedicate...

Laura Ballerini's BIO: Perspective shifter, Laura Ballerini is an accomplished designer who has been running a thriving communications firm for over 25 years. She started her creative journey in the Advertising Department of The Calgary Herald—during the heyday of newspapers. Ballerini has a degree in Visual Communications from The Alberta University of the Arts and is a recipient of numerous awar...

Alison's Bio: Alison C. Jones is a leadership transformation speaker and coach, and the founder of Wellness Society LLC. She's the best-selling author of Character Leadership, a book focused on building healthy leadership from the inside out. With a master's in industrial/organizational psychology, multiple certifications in wellness, change management, and leadership, and decades of hands-on expe...

Lila Veronica's Bio: As a Speaker, Coach and CEO of The Riverstone Movement School, Lila Veronica helps high-performers, business owners & organizational leaders own their worth & shift the physical component of their lives. She integrates mindfulness & movement into their mental-mastery journey, so her clients reach a greater potential faster without burning out. Lila has personally mentored lead...

Sophie Anderson's Bio: Sophie Anderson is a certified life coach who specialises in mindset and lifestyle. She is the founder of Cairns Coaching, where she partners with organisations to create health and wellbeing programs that actually work — the kind that go beyond traditional Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs). Her main focus is to help people become healthier, more productive, and more engag...

Alex Aanderud's Bio: Alex Aanderud, world renowned leadership, communication and human behavior expert, has been brought in by some of the top coaching companies, organizations and teams around the world to train their people on new and innovative perspectives of human performance, leadership and communication. Alex combines his background as an engineer supporting experimental flight test for Boe...

Kirstin Carey Bio: I'm a serial entrepreneur. I started my first business in college. I've built multiple 6- and 7-figure businesses that were brick-and-mortar as well as online virtual companies. I've been in business consulting, sales, health coaching, restaurants, and professional speaking, to name a few.  I'm also a holistic practitioner littered with certifications in neuroresilience, nutriti...

Georges Cordoba Bio: My life purpose is to help people live their best lives. I am a stage IV melanoma with metastasis in the brain cancer survivor. I fought the disease for ten years and had ten surgeries. Pharmaceuticals nearly destroyed my body, so with a leap of faith I took the natural holistic route to heal, and here I am, on my twelfth year free of cancer. I became a Holistic Health and Lif...