Heartbeat For Hire with Lyndsay Dowd

Erin Brown got her start in NYC pedaling Xerox equipment while moonlighting as a stand up comic. Four day jobs, a handful of TV & radio commercials, and countless comedy performances later, Erin headed to Hollywood and began crashing events with her personal red carpet doing tongue & cheek interviews.   This stunt evolved into an award-winning web series 'Hot on the Red Carpet' which featured some...

Rich "Trigger" Bontrager is all about making people shine on camera.  He works with speakers, entrepreneurs, coaches and business owners and teaches media skills, dynamic speaking, how to build engaging virtual events, building confidence, your brand and image.  Rich has been in broadcasting for 30 years and is the CEO of Rock the Stage Media.  He is the creator and host of How To Rock the Stage S...

Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek is a Chief Marketing Officer, Speaker and Author.  As CMO, Michelle leads Skillsoft's global marketing. Her brand evangelism is building a vibrant community of passionate learners. With 25+ years experience, Michelle's personal mission is supporting women's advancement in business. Prior to Skillsoft, she served as CMO of IBM Watson and the global head of marketing for The...

Jerry Bui is a Keynote Speaker, Expert Witness and Managing Director at a large consulting firm where he has over 20 years of experience assisting clients with technology-related aspects of investigations. He has testified in over 15 civil matters, and his clients include major companies in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and tech industries. Jerry specializes in leading complex electronic dis...

Sara Davenport is an award-winning TV anchor, who spent decades on-air with different NBC stations across the US. While the Houston-based journalist loved being a TV anchor, she missed being home to see her children grow up. Sara knew in her heart that it was time to pivot and design a life that she loved. Sara is an entrepreneur, she freelances with various true-crime shows, She is a Linkedin Mar...

Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Carlton PR & Marketing , Innovation Nights and Innovation Women , or, as she calls them , the day job, the night job and the dream job. Carlton is an entertaining, tell-like-it-is speaker who speaks extensively (and passionately) about public speaking. In this episode, she explains all the wonderful benefits and advantages that public speaking provides; as well as...

Will Fuentes is a co-founder of Maestro Group. Will focuses on teaching both hard and soft sales skills and identifies opportunities to improve sales efficiencies. He has been in sales for more than 20 years spanning retail, and tech. Will spent eight years with national retail chains training their sales staff and managing stores. He then built a retail SaaS company that was on the cutting edge o...

Joanna Lohman is a leadership coach and youth sport innovator who elevates performance through authenticity and resilience. She is the author of, " Raising Tomorrow's Champions " and a keynote speaker for leading organizations. She is a former professional soccer player, member of the United States Women's National Team, and the first player in Washington Spirit history to have her jersey retired....

Leah Carr is the CEO of Tilr, a skills-first talent solution that enables HR and People leaders to measure and manage their team's skills, create strategic development plans and make-data driven talent decisions, has extensive experience in bringing new products to market, and hiring and growing teams. Her passion for workforce development is the reason she chose to join Tilr. Leah was employee 9...

Michael Mints is an International Speaker, Author, Coach and Executive Vice President of Sales for Grand Homes where he has worked for the last 25 years. His passion is to teach people how to be successful in life.  He took his practical lessons from his work as an executive and sales leader and has turned them into a coaching practice.  Michael exudes positivity and believes that having a mindset...

Ashley Pereira is a brand and marketing leader and founder of Ivrygold, which helps businesses drive revenue through authenticity and value-added strategies. She also launched her own intentional skincare line in 2022 called, Free Skin Co., which combines her love and passion for skincare with clean ingredients that work for sensitive and acne-prone skin with her drive to improve mental health iss...

Shannon Bahrke is an American Olympic freestyle skier and entrepreneur. She's won two Olympic medals, she's a highly-sought after keynote speaker, and she's the CEO of Team Empower Hour. She shares her story of making the Olympics. She is now writing a children's book about her daughter. She talks about how her career has expanded and how she has stayed true to herself as a woman and a mother. Lea...

Sam Sells is the CEO at Wild Mountain Capital, a company on a mission to aid America's affordable housing crisis while helping others achieve financial freedom. He shares the work he does for others by creating affordable housing for low-income neighborhoods with a higher standard of living. Sam and Lyndsay share the best practices as a leader, who makes a great leader, and why not everyone needs...

Tommy Breedlove is the author of the bestselling book "Legendary". He is a Keynote Speaker and a Business and Mindset Coach. He works with clients to live a life of significance and happiness without compromising their ambition. He pushes people to reach their full potential. Today on the podcast, he talks about how reframing your situation can lead you to find success. People often get trapped in...

Sabrina Stocker is a tennis player turned Forbes featured entrepreneur, international speaker, and a semi-finalist for the BBC One show, The Apprentice. Sabrina is the Founder of Two Comma PR, turning the stories of brands and blockchain projects into users using the power of public relations. After her own experience with a PR team post The Apprentice UK, she saw the issues that needed to be addr...

Today's guest Karen Ann Bulluck is a transcendent leadership specialist and founder of Transcendence: Living A Life of Meaning, a boutique executive coaching practice. She works with leaders to discover what really matters. On the podcast, she discusses with Lyndsay the importance of a good work environment and when it's time to leave. They talk about the importance of prioritizing what has meanin...

Richie Contartesi joins Lyndsay on the podcast today. He is a former Ole Miss football player. His system Next Play™, is a step-by-step playbook to hold sales reps and leaders accountable to their potential every week without micro-managing. He talks about how his parent divorce when he was young led him to be depressed. He had a football coach who asked him "what are you focusing when the ball's...

John Harrison is a Chief Strategy Officer, Mentor, Coach, Board Member,  Advisory Board Member and a Continuous Learner. He creatively solves business and human challenges with technology. John Harrison's passion has been to focus on the customer and to develop talent which then delivers superior business results. He is highly effective at leading international groups and those crossing organizati...

Heather Moyse was going to grad school when she was approached to join the Canadian Olympic Bobsled team. She had never competed before but took the challenge. She made the team and competed in the Olympics. She discovered that she is pushed by challenge. She joins Lyndsay today to discuss how finding challenge can motivate you to achieve more than you ever thought possible. Learn more about Heath...

Vince Walden is the CEO of Kona AI and is passionate about forensic data analytics and building leading, AI-driven compliance technology & anti-fraud/anti-corruption monitoring solutions.  Vince won the Certified Fraud Examiner of the Year in 2022.  He is a former Partner of Ernst and Young and an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School.  Vince is a regular columnist in Fraud Magazine writing on i...

Cristina Mendonsa is an EMMY/Murrow award-winning multimedia journalist, producer, spokesperson, speaker, and educator. She hosts the podcast "A Fresh Agenda" and is the founder of Mendosa Media. Cristina joins Lyndsay to talk about leadership, mistakes bosses make with their employees, and work-life balance.  Learn more about Cristina and find her podcast here: http://www.cristinamendonsa.com/

Esther Parks has been in the automotive business for 25 years.  She got her start as a salesperson and worked her way up to highly successful General Manager.  Her husband, Stephen got the most debilitating form of MS which forced them to reevaluate their work and Esther chose to step back from being a GM to care for her husband. Despite the horrible diagnosis, this provided the opportunity for Es...

Cicely Simpson is seasoned public operative, having served as Legislative Director for two Congressmen, and veteran of the C-suite, formerly as Vice President of Government Affairs at Dunkin' Brands, Inc., formerly as Executive Vice President of Public Affairs for the restaurant industry, and now as Founder & CEO of Summit Public Affairs. Her experience at all levels of government and expertise in...

For the past 20 years, Kim Daly has been helping people realize their dreams of business ownership through franchising. While helping thousands of other people to live their dreams of business ownership, she has been living her own. Today, she is recognized as one of America's top franchise consultants. She is an international best-selling co-author of Franchising Freedom and the founder and host...

Catherine Solazzo, Chief Marketing Officer at Syntax, is a seasoned executive with more than 18 years of experience in the IT industry at companies like IBM Corp and TD SYNNEX (previously Tech Data). Prior to joining Syntax, she served as the SVP of Marketing at TD SYNNEX where she built the first integrated marketing organization with an industry-leading organizational design, a digital-first app...