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Marty Greenbaum, CFE is a 30+ year franchise industry professional, Certified Franchise Executive (CFE) and founder of Smart Franchise Investing.  Marty was fortunate to grow up in an entrepreneurial family, his grandfather owning one of the largest specialty printing companies in downtown Chicago and his father a serial entrepreneur that was a pioneer in the shipping and packaging industry. The f...

Grant Lira, co-founder of The Empathy Firm, revolutionizes sales through empathy, closing every deal that built his 7-figure PR firm. His formula for success isn’t a secret: he believes in prioritizing fit over closing percentages and harnessing creativity rather than relying on scripted sales calls. Connect with Grant: Website: https://empathyfirm.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grant.l...

Kelley Thornton was born and raised in Towson, MD. He moved to Brookfield, CT to finish up high school and start his first entrepreneurial pursuit, house painting. With the money he earned from the business he financed his college tuition at the University of Connecticut, where he would meet his future business partner and co-founder of Tiege Hanley, Rob Hoxie.   Through his experience at Purchase...

Maureen Falvey is a Leadership Coach and Consultant who works with high-potential individuals and teams who want to lead with greater purpose, influence and effectiveness.  Her results-based approach to coaching ensures that she and her clients go beyond having ‘nice conversations’ to instead create real and lasting transformation around clearly established goals. Maureen had a dynamic and fulfill...

Steven Pemberton is the American Dream, he and his wife have built multiple companies through their faith and unwillingness to fail.  In this episode Steven takes us through his journey of being broke, starting a business with his wife, losing the business! Then pivoting, rebuilding the business again, now pivoting to a new business that is based on serving and helping others.  His company Hollow...

Jermane Cheatham has a simple philosophy in life and business, it is: "If I can't make it simple, easy and fun then I'm not doing it." He is a minimalist entrepreneur who has mastered the skill and art of maximizing opportunities. In this convo we talk about how Jermane's philosopy on life, how he has managed to travel the world seeing and doing what he wants by applying his three basic principles...

ChatterBoss is the brainchild of Valerie Trapunsky, who founded the company in 2017 after a decade spent working as a top-level assistant for A-list celebrities and as the Chief of Staff for high-net-worth individuals and CEOs. During that time, Valerie developed a passion for effective problem-solving and became committed to bringing the same level of excellent service to solo entrepreneurs, busi...

Bryce Henson is CEO of Fit Body Boot Camp, the world’s fastest-growing fitness boot camp franchise.  Having over 10+ years of experience in the fitness industry and owning 2 FBBC locations, his passion is spreading fitness to the world, in addition to mentoring fitness professionals on how to grow their businesses and change more lives in their local communities. Bryce also co-leads FBBC Mastermin...

Skylar Bytendorp is a Personal Development Coach, Business Owner, Traveler, and Student. He believes life has to purposes - 1. To learn. - 2. Experience joy. - He believes the more we grow and expand ourselves the more of each of these we experience. He has spent thousands of hours and dollars in his journey in personal development, and he continues to do so everyday!   In this podcast we talk abo...

After being told she should never get into real estate, Denise Schroder rose to the challenge! Denise’s journey from broken to barrier breaker encompasses every aspect of her life.  The negative words spoken into her, while temporarily debilitating, eventually became the fuel to take her goals from being dreams to being reality. After many trials and failures, Denise married her FedEx guy, Troy, a...

Mark is a world-renowned expert in persuasion, negotiation and B2B content marketing. He has worked with some of the largest organizations in the world and he has been referenced in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Thrive Global and many other publications. He is a serial entrepreneur, sales and procurement veteran, podcast host, and speaker. He hosts two top-notch shows called Content Callout and Negotiatio...

Ryan Allen went from working in a small jewelry shop while looking to get placed as a full time fire fighter in South Florida, to seeing a need in the industry.  Ryan noticed internet sales were up in his space, but brick and mortar were closing.  He then set out to create a online market place connecting jewelers and customers in a transparent and fair fashion, where Jewelers can scale their busi...

Jordan (Or“Jordo” as he’s known)is the founder of one of the fastest-growing marketing platforms online, DropFunnels. Garnering attention from top entrepreneurs and marketers online, DropFunnels is the world's first only tech-free platform to easily build your entire website, sales funnels, SEO-powered blog, courses, and more… built on the world's most powerful and fast infrastructure, WordPress....

David Saltzman is the founder of The Saltzman Group and a certified story brand guide.  Most companies want to put forward a clear and compelling message that differentiates them, but they don't know where to start and they can't afford a full-time Chief Marketing Officer. We provide the same services as a CMO, but on a fractional and more affordable basis. In this podcast, David and I cover how t...

St John Craner is the founder of Agrarian, the host of the podcast "The Rural Sales Show", and author of "How to Succeed in Rural Sales".  St John specializes in teaching sales psychology to help sales reps serve their clients at a high level, but using techniques that allows the salesperson to lower the guard of their prospect and have an effective interaction.  This was a fun and insightful conv...

Brent Michael Phillips was a successful MIT-trained engineer who experienced a staggering physical challenge when his arm became immobile and frozen at the elbow after a surgery.  After a long battle of failed conventional and alternative treatments, Brent experienced a miracle when he his elbow instantly healed from energy healing. In this interview we dive into why and how the metaphysical can b...

We all have the same amount of time in the day.  Most of repeat the same thoughts and actions everyday, thus leading to the same results year after year.  This is a short clip on how to look at how you wan to become in the future and how to start working on that now.  Check out the book "Be Your Future Self Now" by Dr. Benjamin Hardy: https://amzn.to/3VTUj6L +++++ ▶︎ Subscribe to the Podcast! PODC...

In this podcast I talk with Jeanne (pronounced Zhan) Omlor, a Certified Business Strategist and Online Business Coach.  As a natural born motivator, encourager and voracious researcher and strategist, she became an online business coach to help people reach their ultimate success. She is here to help my clients operate at their Ultimate Potential and Performance level. We cover her story how she f...

At 19 years old, while preparing to become a firefighter and paramedic, Sam Tejada opened his first company, Rescue-101, and turned it into an authorized provider of CPR, First Aid, and Lifeguard Training Courses for the American Red Cross in South Florida.  While he was a Licensed Firefighter & Paramedic, he learned about the health benefits of Nutrient IV Therapy. He also learned from Dr. Robert...

Prior to starting Shift, JR was Chief Revenue Officer at Pillir, a low code platform company based in Chandler Arizona. He joined the company in the fall of 2019 to take over go to market. He built a successful partnership with AWS  - achieving the top status as an ISV Partner and the #1 ISV in terms of new logos for AWS’s SAP on AWS team in 2020 and built a scalable and repeatable sales process f...

Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert, and former college and professional football player. Following his football career, Rick translated his competitive drive to sales and entrepreneurship by founding Simply Noted, an automated handwritten letter company founded on the idea of making it easy to create simple, scalable, powerful, and meaningful real pen-written communication....

On this podcast I chat with Emily, Sylvia and Elizabeth Co-Founders of Sable Advisory Services, a company focused on helping other company integrate ESG into their current business strategy.  As the globalization continues to shrink, we need better ways to strategize around how we scale our companies in way that is meaningful and long term without sacrificing our environment and our people!   More...

In this episode we have Adam McChesney, a serial entrepreneur based in St. Louis, MO. Originally a medical device sales rep, he transitioned into entrepreneurship full-time in the midst of the pandemic in July 2020.  Leaving a comfortable and secure job during uncertain times has brought a lot of challenges along the way. Adam went from making $200k+/yr working for a well-known CPAP manufacturer t...

As a classically trained brand marketer with an entrepreneur's mindset and varied experience leading teams in the startup growth trenches, Derek blends analytical, strategic, and creative approaches in a way most tech marketers can't. As both marketing executive and consultant, he has consistently delivered double-digit monthly growth across a variety of markets and business models. He is an exec...

When Leslie first arrived in the US 16 years ago, she gained 50 pounds in a year. It was a month in China that helped her lose it all over 12 months. She didn’t need to use any diets, and it was a cruise.  Years later, she founded Rise Lean and started coaching people from around the world, to help them live and play on the level they are designed to. she realized her client's biggest challenge wa...