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Mike Michalowicz is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion-dollar companies and is the author of Profit First, Clockwork, The Pumpkin Plan, Fix This Next and his newest book, Get Different. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneurial advocate. To learn more about Mike and get access to a treasure trove of entrepren...

Stephanie Scheller took the business world by storm. After three years in corporate America, she ramped up her sales training and coaching business in only four and a half months to completely replace her corporate income and walked away to run Scheller Enterprises, a company focused on disrupting the way the world goes into and stays in business. As attention shifted to creating a global impact,...

Fiona Murden is a chartered psychologist and multi-award-winning author . She  founded the company  Aroka Ltd  in 2007 working with leaders from across fields and applying cutting edge research to real lives in the real world. She is also the founder of OKA.life , a premier mentoring platform that matches mentors to mentees using behavioral science.  She hosts a podcast called  Dot-to-Dot  intervi...

Brian Boxer Wachler, MD is a highly sought-after eye surgeon and is known as “The Surgeon’s Surgeon” since so many other surgeons come to Dr. Brian for surgery on their own eyes. He is also a producer of the Steven Holcomb Documentary named " Holky: the Steven Holcomb Story, " available on IndieFlix. Find him online at:  http://boxerwachler.com , TikTok , Instagram , and at The No Cap Health Show...

Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, author, speaker, and business growth expert. He has built, bought, and sold 24 businesses with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. He empowers business leaders and investors to create valuable businesses that create global impact. His “Scale Up Your Business” podcast, which ranked #1 on iTunes’ and Spotify’s business charts have more than 2...

Joseph Woodbury the Founder and CEO of Neighbor.com, a marketplace disrupting the $40 Billion self-storage industry. Joseph has raised more than $65 million in funding with participation from the world’s top investors including Andreessen Horowitz and the creators of Airbnb, Uber, StockX, and DoorDash. Joseph and his team have grown Neighbor’s user base to cover all 50 states. Prior to Neighbor, h...

"Because You Can” is the mantra of Paul Gigliotti, President, and Founder of AXIS Lending Academy and PJ Operation, who is known for his ability to take action. His unique approach can be summed up in just one simple equation - creativity + innovation = success. Paul is happily married to his husband Aaron and father to his two beautiful children. Paul’s inspiration for his ventures in the mortgag...

Find Paul at:  paulepsteinspeaks.com Get your free gift --> A "Why" Discovery Assessment to help you find your Why, at  whyinstitute.com/purpose Paul Epstein has spent nearly 15 years as a pro sports executive for multiple NFL and NBA teams, a global sports agency, and the NFL league office. He’s transformed numerous NBA teams from the absolute bottom in league revenue to top-two in financial perf...

Larry is a voiceover actor in Los Angeles with a professional recording studio who has been active in the industry since 2009. He provides his voice daily to a wide variety of voiceover projects including Commercial Ads for radio and TV, Narration on Documentaries and Corporate projects, Political Ads, as well as eLearning/tutorials for corporate web presentation. His list of client credits includ...

After 20 years working as a technology evangelist, presenting ideas and innovative products at conferences, trade shows, and in customer meetings, Claudio began teaching others how to become more confident and more effective communicators in 2008. Since then, he has coached hundreds of presenters to reach deep into the hearts of any audience. Claudio's coaching clients include entrepreneurs, execu...

In today's episode of Speak Like a Leader , I chat with Shawna Schuh, a Leadership Coach, Speaker, Columnist, & Author. She's a 3 x attendee of finishing school, she's bold and fun and she teaches us that "you can't push a pig," and then tells us how that relates to leading human beings. We had a very fun, very valuable conversation and I very much hope you enjoy it! Visit Shawna: www. ShawnaSchuh...

In this episode, I talk with Howard Stephenson. Howard is an Education Reformer, Former Utah State Senator, & Former President & CEO of the Utah Taxpayers Association.  We talk about his long career in politics, his experience with leadership and communication in politics, the breakthrough realization that changed his life & his approach. He talks about passing the Utah Dream Act and we also discu...

A career open-source software advocate, Mike founded HotWax Systems in 1997. For over 20 years he has led high-profile web software projects for numerous national and global brands. His passion for sharing knowledge led him to a teaching position at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, where he also had earned a Summa Cum Laude B.A. in International Studies and an MBA in...

Nathan Gold, also known as The Demo Coach hails from the San Francisco Bay Area where he spends his days coaching people around the world on how to prepare for high-stakes speaking opportunities and how to harness speaking anxiety. He does this through keynotes, workshops, and 1:1 sessions, both in-person and online. Nathan  has personally delivered thousands of presentations along with thousands...

Mark Lovett's passion is impactful storytelling, from the stage to the boardroom and from universities to prisons. This passion led him to the world of TEDx organizing, and in turn, to storytelling and speaker coaching, which has helped people and organizations tell their stories in a way that impacts the lives of others. Mark is the founder of Storytelling with Impact, an organization that coache...

C. Jimmy Lin, MD, Ph. D., MHS is the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at Freenome, working on the early diagnosis of cancers. Previously, he was the CSO, Oncology at Natera (NASDAQ: NTRA), where he has led the development of new diagnostic technologies for cancer. Jimmy is also a 2016 Senior TED Fellow and Founder & President of Rare Genomics Institute, the world's first platform to enable any commu...

Dave Carroll is an award-winning singer-songwriter, professional speaker, author, and social media innovator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He began his music career with his brother Don in the band Sons of Maxwell and has been enjoying success as a solo artist since 2008.  He released his debut solo album Perfect Blue in 2008 and a second solo album in 2012 called Raincoat in Vegas . For...

Vince Warnock is an award-winning marketer, author, marketing strategist, and sought-after public speaker. A Fearless50 recipient, a program that recognizes the top 50 marketers in the world who are driving bold, fearless marketing and digital transformation.  Vince has a rather eclectic background, training as an Electronics and Computer Engineer before broadening into sound engineering, radio an...

David Lucatch is the CEO, President & Chair of the Corporation at Liquid Avatar . He has spent over 35 years as a serial entrepreneur in the international marketing arena and over 25 years of that developing technologies and taking them to market.  David has held senior management posts and directorships at both private and public technology and media firms. He is an active supporter of numerous n...

Jonathan Rivera has been podcasting since 2008. He knows how podcasting can work for your business. That's why the top coaches and consultants trust his team at The Podcast Factory® to help them leverage the power of podcasting to reach more people, make a lasting impact, and become more influential leaders in their communities. This all started as a personal development project. In a world where...

Richard Hackenberg is a retired captain in the US Naval Reserve active duty for 3 years and 21 in the reserves, and WWII converted destroyer escort for 3 years. Richard is a  results-oriented, marketing executive with diverse experience in advertising, public relations, direct marketing, sales promotion, and new media. He has a strong background in goal setting and strategic thinking. He is a bott...

Sharon Guynup is an award-winning journalist and editor who covers endangered species, ecosystems, climate change, energy, environmental health issues, pollution, national security, and other issues. She's written for National Geographic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Mongabay , and other outlets. She speaks on public...

Satyabrata Dam is a globetrotting thrill-seeker and a die-hard adrenalin junkie. At the age of 10 when he stepped on his first Himalayan Glacier and looked up awestruck at the peak, he was about to attempt, Satyabrata knew then that he was born to climb and the mountains of this world would become his home, friends, and family. Since then he has been climbing and exploring all the mountain ranges...

John Livesay, aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker where he shows companies’ sales teams how to turn mundane case studies into compelling case stories so they win more new business. From John’s award-winning career at Conde Nast, he shares the lessons he learned that turns sales teams into revenue rock stars. His TEDx talk: Be The Lifeguard of your own life has over 1,000,000 views....

Matthew Pollard is an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, blogger, author, mentor, coach, and serial entrepreneur with five multi-million dollar business success stories under his belt, all before the age of 30. He is the founder and CEO of Rapid Growth, LLC, dedicated to achieving maximum ROI for businesses of all sizes. Though his client list includes multiple Fortune 500 companies,...