Networking Unleashed: Building Profitable Connections

Prosper Taruvinga ptaruvinga@gmail.com Please share a brief Bio. Prosper Taruvinga is the founder and CEO of Livelong Digital, a Melbourne-based consultancy helping coaches, consultants, and service-based entrepreneurs build profitable and enjoyable businesses. He’s the creator of the Own Your M.E.D.I.A framework — a movement teaching business owners to take control of their message, marketing, an...

Daria Rudnik rudnik.daria@gmail.com Please share a brief Bio. Daria Rudnik is a Team Architect and Executive Leadership Coach, author of CLICKING: A Team Building Strategy for Overloaded Leaders Who Want Stronger Team Trust, Better Results, and More Time , and co-author of The AI Revolution: Thriving Within Civilization’s Next Big Disruption . A former Chief People Officer and ex-Deloitte professi...

Jermane Cheathem jermane@creatorslearn.com Please share a brief Bio. Jermane Cheathem is a former B2B sales professional turned lifestyle entrepreneur. After growing up in chaos, he discovered sales as a way out — eventually closing over $50 million in deals and living in more than 40 countries along the way. His mission is to helps people create more money, meaning, and freedom by designing busin...

Arias WebsterBerry vivian@websterberrymarketing.com Please share a brief Bio. Arias WebsterBerry is a Dallas-based entrepreneur, master sales coach, and the founder of WebsterBerry Marketing. After a period of homelessness, he built his company from the ground up, pioneering a new, systems-based approach to business. His expertise lies in leveraging AI to drive scalable growth, having helped over...

Andrew Hinkelman andrew@pri-1.com Please share a brief Bio. Andrew Hinkelman is a certified Executive Coach and recent CTO and COO. He has more than 25 years of experience in the Technology and Financial Services industries across roles in IT, Product Management, and Business Intelligence along with consulting and fractional roles. Andrew helps high-achieving executives—CEOs, CTOs, and their teams...

Grace Gavin grace@knowhonesty.com Please share a brief Bio. Grace Gavin is a three-time founder and open and honest expert, helping leaders simplify how they communicate and eliminate the divides that stall progress. As co-founder of Know Honesty, she helps organizations build cultures of real communication — and has impacted thousands through her book, workshops, and keynotes. With nearly seven y...

Mike Hayes Mike@PodcastListening.com Please share a brief Bio. Two time Peabody award-winning documentary Director for NBC in New York longtime broadcaster longtime podcast, love local networking, and love training people to use ChatGPT at any age and learn how it can help them like the assistant they don't have in their life to improve their life, their love and their business. What are 2-3 thing...

Antoniette Roze antonietteroze@speakersglobal.com Antoniette Roze, CEO of WPC Speakers Global and host of the SPEAKPact Podcast, transforms experts into sought-after speakers with her proven system for securing consistent, high-value engagements. With 30+ years of industry experience, Antoniette and her Agency ensures that her speakers exponentially increase their impact, income, and influence wit...

Stephen Davies steve@salesgeekcsg.com Please share a brief Bio. I'm a fractional sales leader and certified sales trainer. I've worked in sales ever since I pulled my first pint in the Woolpack Pub 30 years ago! I've managed and owned a number of businesses, from audio conferencing to pubs, and internet safety to disaster recovery telecoms. I moved to the US eight years ago, and love the Atlanta a...

  Welcome to Networking Unleashed, building Proper Connections. I'm Michael Forman, and today is episode 100. Yes, you heard me correctly. 100 Chances to Ruin a handshake and 100 Chances to fix them Instead. So I'm flying solo today. Which means no guests to blame and all the best shortcuts to share straight with you. Each week, I give you tactical, no fluff strategies that turn small, talk into r...

Marvin Booker BookerFitnessAndPerformance56@gmail.com Please share a brief Bio. CEO and Performance Consultant of Booker Fitness And Performance, LLC is Marvin Booker Jr. Born and raised in New Jersey; Marvin has gained experience from being an All – State High School football player at Piscataway High School in Piscataway, NJ, a letter winner on the football team as a defensive end with Rutgers U...

Sid Mohasseb Sid@mohasseb.com Sid Mohasseb is known as the “Entrepreneur philosopher.” Sid is twice best-selling author (“You Are Not Them: The Authentic Entrepreneurs Way” and “The Caterpillar’s Edge: Evolve, Evolve Again and Thrive in Business”), a university professor at both engineering and Business School, a 2 time TED speaker, an advisor to fortune 500 leaders and an innovation thought leade...

Ramsha Khan ramsha.khan@northstarfinancial.com Please share a brief Bio Ramsha helps business owners & professionals pursue their financial goals and priorities. Upon being empowered to help others establish healthy relationships with their money, Ramsha transitioned to a financial advising position with North Star’s Atlanta office. In this role, she leverages and financial planning skills to...

Henry L Kaplan henrylkaplan@gmail.com Please share a brief Bio. Born and raised in New York in a loving family with three siblings, I discovered my entrepreneurial spirit at a young age. By eight years old, I knew I wanted to be in real estate, and 41 years later, I’m still pursuing the career I love. My success as both a sales manager and a realtor is rooted in building genuine interpersonal rela...

Paul B. Thornton pbthornton74@gmail.com Please share a brief Bio Paul B. Thornton has maintained a lifelong passion for leadership. He studied management, psychology, and political science at Ohio University. He continued his education, earning master’s degrees in business (MBA) and education (MEd). Throughout his corporate career, he served on various senior leadership teams, gaining firsthand ex...

Nathan Turner nathan@earnestinvesting.com Please share a brief Bio. Nathan Turner is an experienced mortgage note investor and the founder of Earnest Investing, where he helps investors achieve passive income through the power of note investing. With years of experience in the real estate space, Nathan transitioned from real estate ownership to specializing in mortgage notes, using his expertise t...

Andy Semotiuk Andy@myworkvisa.com Please share a brief Bio Andy Semotiuk is an author who has published five books. He is a U.S. and Canadian immigration lawyer and practiced law in Los Angeles for 10 years, worked in New York for 5, and helped over 10,000 clients with various legal problems. Andy is a former United Nations correspondent, but for the last 10 years, he has written for Forbes, where...

Shauna Wekherlien – The Tax Goddess shauna@taxgoddess.com 602-362-7939 Please share a brief Bio to be read on the podcast. Shauna A. Wekherlien, CPA, MTax, CTC, CTP, CTS, Tax Goddess, is a highly sought-after Certified Public Accountant and founder of Tax Goddess Business Services, PC, established in 2004. Tax Goddess is a global team of 93+ specialists that uses plain language (not tax code) to h...

Dr. Kelly King kelly@ask-drkelly.com Please share a brief Bio Dr. Kelly Jackson King, a native of New York, is an OB/GYN now practicing in Georgia In her work, she witnessed the beauty, miracle, and at times, the fragility of life. These experiences deepened her belief in the importance of preparing for both life’s beginnings and its unpredictable end. Dr. Kelly believes that the desire to protect...

Ginger King Maria@influencerpress.com Please share a brief Bio to be read on the podcast. Ginger King is an award-winning cosmetic chemist and the founder of Grace Kingdom Beauty a cosmetic product development firm in New Jersey specializing in creating beauty brand from concept to launch including formulation. Ginger holds multiple patents and awards in beauty and prides herself on being Allure m...

Ginger King Maria@influencerpress.com Please share a brief Bio to be read on the podcast. Ginger King is an award-winning cosmetic chemist and the founder of Grace Kingdom Beauty a cosmetic product development firm in New Jersey specializing in creating beauty brand from concept to launch including formulation. Ginger holds multiple patents and awards in beauty and prides herself on being Allure m...

Ginger King Maria@influencerpress.com Please share a brief Bio to be read on the podcast. Ginger King is an award-winning cosmetic chemist and the founder of Grace Kingdom Beauty a cosmetic product development firm in New Jersey specializing in creating beauty brand from concept to launch including formulation. Ginger holds multiple patents and awards in beauty and prides herself on being Allure m...

Ginger King Maria@influencerpress.com Please share a brief Bio to be read on the podcast. Ginger King is an award-winning cosmetic chemist and the founder of Grace Kingdom Beauty a cosmetic product development firm in New Jersey specializing in creating beauty brand from concept to launch including formulation. Ginger holds multiple patents and awards in beauty and prides herself on being Allure m...

Dennis Meador dennis@thelegalpodcastnetwork.com Please share a brief Bio. Dennis "DM" Meador is the founder of The Legal Podcast Network and a nationally recognized expert in legal marketing. With over 25 years of experience helping law firms grow with clarity and credibility, Dennis combines entrepreneurial vision with bold, creative strategy. Through his company, he helps attorneys build authori...

Brandon Sherwood brandon@gladlygood.com Brandon Sherwood President at EcoSolutions & Gladly Network Brandon Sherwood is a relationship-driven leader who somehow ended up running two businesses despite a healthy skepticism of most “business advice.” He’s spent the last decade growing EcoSolutions, a national leader in dental scrap refining, and more recently launched Gladly Network, a platform...