INspired INsider Podcast

Deirdre Breakenridge is the CEO of Pure Performance Communications, a company that fuses strategic communications with innovative technology to impact business communications from consumer interest to brand loyalty and advocacy. Deirdre has been in PR and marketing for over 25 years, helping senior executives in mid-and-large organizations better communicate with their stakeholders.  Deirdre also...

Angela Lauria is the Founder of The Author Incubator, an $18 million business that provides guidance for aspiring authors on how to write and publish their books. The Author Incubator has succeeded in helping more than 1,000 authors write, publish, and promote their books.  Angela has published many books herself, including Make 'Em Beg to Work for You, The Incubated Author: 10 Steps to Start a Mo...

This Top Giver Series episode features some of the best and biggest givers who are experts in customer service, business development, relationships, and direct marketing. This episode includes recommendations and tips from amazing personalities such as Tony Grebmeier of ShipOffers, Brian Kurtz of Titans Marketing, Chris Dreyer of Rankings.io, Ian Garlic of StoryCrews, Joel Weldon of the Ultimate S...

John Doherty is the Founder and CEO of Credo, a company that he started in 2013 because he wanted to help businesses to avoid hiring bad marketing agencies. John is a veteran SEO and digital marketer and he ranked as one of the top 140 SEO experts that anyone should be following in an article by Search Engine Journal.  Through his company, Credo, top companies can meet the best pre-vetted digital...

Ben Wiener is the Managing Partner of Jumpspeed, the first and only micro-VC fund dedicated to investing in early-stage startups that originate within the Jerusalem startup ecosystem. Jumpspeed addresses the mismatch of supply and demand for the early-stage capital in the Capital of the Startup Nation. In this episode… All entrepreneurs know just how important seed capital is especially for startu...

Dr. Hoby Wedler is the co-founder of Senspoint, which has a sister brand called Tucker Branding, and it is a full-spectrum design company with a distinct focus on telling stories to create truly memorable experiences using all five senses. Dr. Wedler has been completely blind since birth. He is a scientist, a food and beverage expert, and a passionate explorer of anything sensory. Dr. Wedler earne...

Mark Timm has been an entrepreneur for almost three decades and he has started more than a dozen companies and has had six exits. Mark has spoken professionally for more than 25 years, giving thousands of speeches to millions of people worldwide.  Mark's most important role is being the CEO of the most valuable business in the world—his family. His own experience of dealing with entrepreneurial ch...

Zac Zeitlin is the Founder of New Ground Ventures, a venture capital investment platform established to fund and support breakthrough companies. They invest in companies from the early seed stage up to businesses with $10 million in sales. New Ground Ventures have a particular focus on food, health and wellness, education, and technology. Some of the companies they have invested in include Pipedri...

Ran Korber is Co-Founder and CEO at BreezoMeter, the leading air quality analytics company. It is one of Israel's top startups and has almost 100 million daily users from its customers, including Dyson, L'Oreal, Bosch, Unilever, and many more. In this episode… Good air quality is so critical to life but oftentimes, we take it for granted. Back in 2013 when Ran Korber and his wife were planning on...

Lior Sion is Co-Founder and CTO of Bringg, a SaaS technology that improves their client's pickup and delivery speed, capacity, and customer experience at scale. They've helped brands like Walmart, Coca-Cola, Panera, KFC, and many more.  Lior was previously CTO of GetTaxi and Clarizen. He is a serial entrepreneur with years of experience and know-how in disrupting the delivery industry. In this epi...

Aharon Horwitz is the CEO and one of the Co-Founders of AutoLeadStar, a company that uses cutting edge technology to help the automotive industry be more effective in engaging buyers. Through their bespoke technology, AutoLeadStar automates companies' processes to attract engaged and quality customers on the web and convert them into buyers. They have been featured in over 10 Auto publications inc...

Greg Hayes is the Co-Founder and CEO of Branch, an office furniture company. They've furnished companies like Google and Shopify with thousands of desks and ergonomic chairs and their office furniture company has appeared in many reputable publications. They make the most comfortable office chair and serve both large and small companies and even individual consumers. Their goal is to make it easy...

Guy Glass is one of Israel's e-commerce pioneers. He founded StyleRiver, the first fashion e-commerce site in Israel. As COO and CTO, Guy needed to address order fulfillment problems which led him to search for an economic warehouse robotics solution that offered adaptive processes that can work with their existing infrastructure and flexible enough to handle sales spikes.  In order to get the sol...

Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and he is the co-founder and CEO of OurCrowd. In 2008, a New York Times' publication named Jonathan as one of the top 10 most influential Americans who have impacted Israel.  OurCrowd is the world's largest equity crowdfunding platform that has raised more than $1 billion from over 770 companies since its launch in 2013.  Jonathan was also the co-founder an...

Gal Salomon is the CEO and Founder of CLEW Medical, a company that uses artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to improve the outcome of critically ill patients. They help doctors predict who needs life or death medical care before they're needed.  Before founding CLEW Medical, Gal founded Sansa Security and led the company as CEO until 2010. He then served as the Chairman of the Board u...

Joseph "Yossi" Vardi is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's first high-tech entrepreneurs and for over 50 years, he has founded and helped build over 100 high tech companies in various fields.  In 1996, he became the founding investor of Mirabilis, the creators of ICQ which was the first instant messaging application that was released to the web; AOL eventually bought it fo...

Chris Kneeland is the CEO of Cult Collective, one of North America's premier engagement marketing firms and they help companies embrace proven marketing principles that Chris discovered while working with the most iconic cult-like brands on the planet. He co-founded Cult in 2010 and has consulted with Harley-Davidson, Canadian Tire, Zappos, Best Buy, Keurig, and many more. Prior to founding Cult,...

Zach Benson is the Founder of Assistagram, an Instagram marketing agency with a network of over 220 million Instagram followers to drive brand awareness, leads, and sales. They've helped businesses grow their Instagram following by 30,000 or more followers per month. Zach has worked with companies run by people like Russell Brunson, The Rock, and even helped the official Dubai account and so many...

John Corcoran is a recovering attorney, an author and was a former White House writer and speechwriter to the Governor of California. Throughout his career, John has worked in Hollywood, the heart of Silicon Valley, and ran his own boutique law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area catering to small business owners and entrepreneurs. John has been the host of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast sin...

Fran Biderman-Gross is the CEO and Founder of Advantages, an award-winning New York-based end to end communications agency. She is also the co-author of the book, How to Lead a Values-Based Professional Services Firm: 3 Keys to Unlock Purpose and Profit , which she wrote with Don Scales.  Fran works with senior executives to see the results of purpose-driven marketing and leadership. She leads her...

AJ Wilcox is a LinkedIn Ads Specialist and Founder of B2Linked.com, a LinkedIn Ads-specific ad agency. He has managed over $130 million in ad spend across 400 ad accounts.  AJ is an official LinkedIn Partner, and he hosts The LinkedIn Ads Show podcast which is a top source for news, how-tos, and insights about the LinkedIn Ads platform.  AJ has managed some of the world's largest LinkedIn Ad accou...

John Munro is the CEO of Chargeback, a Utah-based industry-leading software company that helps merchants automate dispute management. This technology-driven solution leverages APIs, plugins, and other integrations to maximize the recovery of revenue lost to customer disputes and fraud. They have a real-time dispute management platform built to empower internal teams with expert knowledge and robus...

Garry Ridge is the CEO and Chairman of the WD-40 Company. He joined WD-40 Company in 1987 and has worked directly with WD-40 Company in over 50 countries, and he was elected as its CEO and Chairman in 1997. Garry is passionate about empowering organizational culture that he has helped establish at the WD-40 Company. Garry is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Diego, where he teache...

John Warrillow is the Founder of The Value Builder System™, a cloud-based assessment tool that business owners use to assess their company's scalability. John has helped more than 55,000 business owners improve their company's value by up to 71%. He's the author of Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You . Both Fortune and Inc magazines have recognized the book as one of the...

Robert (Bob) Sutton is a Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-founder of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the D School).  Bob is currently working with Huggy Rao on The Friction Project, where they focus on why companies make the right things too complicated and the wrong things too easy and...