Real People, Real Business

Today, we're breaking the mold on our usual format, and taking a minute to reflect on what being a woman means, on International Women's Day. While this day is often a bit of a Hallmark holiday, I wanted to dig in to something a bit more real, vulnerable and personal. Being a woman, and being with women, is a privilege and a joy. It can also be painful, frustrating and hard.  I wrote thi...

Chris Troka is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of Focused-Biz, an innovative marketing company that leverages AI to help businesses create better customer experiences, increase conversion rates, and reduce time spent on administrative tasks using automation. In this episode, you’ll hear how Chris identified a gap between technology and marketing and developed an AI-based solution to fill it,...

Ali Nichols is the co-founder of Getaway, an innovative real estate financing platform that empowers real estate entrepreneurs with creative financing solutions to build portfolios without taking on restrictive capital.  In this episode, you’ll hear how Ali merged her passions into founding a business, the insights she gained along the way that led her to shift business models, why she prefers wor...

Wil Reynolds is passionate about helping people and businesses grow. He’s the founder and CEO of Seer Interactive, one of the most reputable digital marketing agencies in the US, where he helps Fortune 500 companies develop SEO and digital marketing strategies. In this episode, you’ll hear how Wil launched his business after discovering his philanthropic side, how he’s grown Seer into a multimilli...

It’s our 100th episode at the Real People, Real Business Show, and we’re celebrating this milestone with a very special guest. Join my conversation with my longtime business partner, colleague, and dear friend, Jame Healy. Jame is a leading economist and entrepreneur who has spent the last 28 years helping executive leaders from Fortune 1000 firms credibly articulate, align, assure, and accelerate...

Cleoniki Kesidis is a copywriter and brand storyteller who uses her love of figuring things out and communicating them simply and clearly to help businesses connect with their audiences in a meaningful way. In this episode, you’ll hear how Cleoniki launched her copywriting business by combining her passions, how she uses relationships to grow her business, the importance of knowing your audience a...

After discovering her love of numbers in a high school bookkeeping course, licensed CPA and QuickBooks Top 100 ProAdvisor Crystalynn Shelton launched her corporate career in accounting. With years of experience under her belt, she left the corporate world to start her own consulting business, where she helps businesses large and small take control of their finances. In this episode, you’ll hear ho...

Moira Ni Ghallachoir is an international business mentor and speaker who helps female entrepreneurs create the impact, business income, lifestyle, and freedom they truly desire by speaking from the stage. In this episode, you will learn how to use speaking to grow your business, how to get started speaking on stage, developing a signature talk, and how to find and book stages to speak on. After mo...

Sebastian Schaffer is the co-founder of dofollow.io, a premium link-building agency he started as a side gig and grew to 7 figures in just four years.  In this episode, you’ll hear how Sebastian founded a successful business after initial failures, the business lessons he’s learned and incorporated into his business today, and the personal growth he’s achieved as a result of being an entrepreneur....

Tim Kachuriak is the Founder and Chief Innovation & Optimization Officer at NextAfter, a cutting-edge fundraising research lab consultancy that helps charities, nonprofits, and NGOs grow their digital fundraising. In this episode, you’ll hear how Tim built a for-profit business serving nonprofit clients, how he knew he had found his calling in the nonprofit space, the similarities and differen...

Are you passionate about driving positive change and disrupting the status quo? If so, this is the episode for you. Known as “America’s doctor,” Dr. Laura Purdy is a board-certified family physician and thought leader in digital healthcare who is on a mission to create the change she wants to see by disrupting the healthcare industry. In this episode, you’ll hear Dr. Purdy’s journey from military...

If you are a believer in the old adage when one door closes, another one opens , this is the conversation for you!  Donna Loughlin is the founder of LMG PR, a strategic public relations firm that helps futurists and innovators move their businesses forward by bringing their unique stories to life.  In this episode, you’ll hear how getting laid off from a successful corporate career during a recess...

Ann Carden is a strategic business consultant, coach, author, and serial entrepreneur who launched and sold five successful businesses. Today she uses her marketing, sales, and business strategy expertise to help others reach higher levels of success.  In this episode, you will hear about Ann’s natural ability to recognize opportunities that took her from stay-at-home mom to serial entrepreneur we...

Ethan Song is the CEO of RareCircles, a business he launched to help creators and brands build community in the Web3 economy. He was previously the founder and CEO of Frank + Oak, the apparel brand whose mission was to make fashion more personal and sustainable for a new generation of creatives and entrepreneurs. In this episode, you’ll hear how Ethan left the security of a job to pursue entrepren...

Lindy Nowak is the Founder of Up in a Day™ – a new-to-market website service that is devoted to helping small business owners, entrepreneurs, and independent operators get their website up quickly, within budget, and with minimal effort from them. In this episode, you’ll learn about Lindy’s journey from her corporate career as a creative director in New York, working with big-name brands like L’or...

Indus Khaitan is the founder and CEO of Quolum, an On Deck Scale company, that helps companies effectively consume software at scale.  In this episode, you’ll hear how Indus went from writing code to launching his own SaaS business, how he educated himself on the business side of technology, and his successes and failures along his journey to developing and launching his SaaS solution. Indus talks...

Inspired by her own childhood, Alyse Maslonik founded RedefinED Advisors, a development company that raises financial aid for non-public and private schools to give underprivileged children access to quality education and help them break the cycle of generational poverty. In this episode, you’ll learn about breaking generational patterns of poverty, being clear on the energy you need to foster in...

Projjal Ghatak is the CEO and co-founder of SaaS company, OnLoop, creating a new category, Collaborative Team Development (CTD), in a legacy market with a software product that is redefining the way organizations conduct performance management for hybrid teams. In this episode, you’ll hear how Projjal made the leap into entrepreneurship by tackling what he observed to be one of the most disliked p...

Nicole Liloia is a small business coach and strategist who helps service providers build multiple income streams and grow their businesses by working smarter, not harder,  through her signature Bigger Business Bootcamp and Grow Your Income Mastermind.  In this episode, my conversation with Nicole delves into her journey going from a 9-5 to freelance therapist to business coach, the shifts she had...

Roslyn Ranse is a travel advisor, business strategist, educator, and mentor who runs a thriving travel business specializing in large international groups and corporate clients. She passionately shares her knowledge with other travel consultants, teaching them how to run and grow a successful travel business. In this episode, you’ll hear how Roslyn took her sales and marketing background, her inte...

Megan Dowd is a brand therapist, business strategist, storyteller, and certified equity-centered coach who helps business owners create a better human connection with themselves and their clients by drawing from who they are and what they stand for. In this episode, Megan shares how she translated her acting chops into business-building skills, the value in finding your internal language to make y...

Luis Báez is a sales enablement strategist and coach dedicated to empowering online business owners, B2B professionals, and underrepresented entrepreneurs by teaching them how to scale their revenues and impact by creating and selling high-end offers - all in addition to his full-time career.  In this episode, you’ll hear Luis’ unexpected path to becoming an expert in sales, how a simple request f...

Proov company founder, Amy Beckley, PhD, invented the first and only FDA-cleared at-home test to confirm ovulation after discovering her own infertility issues were caused by a progesterone deficiency. In this episode you will hear how Amy’s business was born when she invented the original PdG test in her basement so she could help other women, like herself, who were dealing with infertility issue...

Asher Laub is an in-demand violin soloist whose expertise in trans-genre improvisation has led him to performances at high profile venues like Madison Square Garden, Hammerstein Hall, Lincoln Center, the Jacob Javitz Center and across four continents.  In this episode, you’ll hear about Asher’s journey into music, how he chose the path of independent artist, the parallels between being an independ...

As an entrepreneur, you go through the highs and lows of business ownership. If you’ve ever struggled with finding the motivation to keep pushing through the challenges, my conversation with Vanessa Gabriel will give you the mindset reframe that will help you persevere.  Vanessa is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and co-founder of Drop Delivery, the technology company that provides the only all-...