Real People, Real Business

If you’ve ever thought about getting outside capital to fund your business but weren’t sure what your options were or what the process entails, my conversation with Lighter Capital CEO & Heads Over Heels  co-founder & chairperson, Melissa Widner, will help answer a lot of those questions.  In this episode, you’ll learn about the different financing options for founders and how Melissa is c...

Jeremy Gardner is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and venture capitalist who has found a great deal of success by diving into the ideas he’s passionate about and staying at the forefront of business and industry from blockchain technology, cosmetics, and psychedelics.  In this episode, Jeremy details how he’s always had a natural inclination to try things out which has served him well being...

Josh Fuller is the founder and CEO of Matic Digital, a digital strategy and talent growth agency that he grew to over $1.5M in new business in its first year. Josh shares how he did that while also battling serious health and business challenges that would have made most entrepreneurs give up - but he pushed through and kept going. Building a business is hard work on the best of days, but when you...

Ken Babcock, along with his 2 co-founders, dropped out of Harvard Business School during the pandemic to launch their business, Tango, a SaaS company that helps users create beautiful step-by-step tutorials of any digital process without the performance art of video recordings.  As a graduate student at Harvard Business School with a keen interest in what makes high performing teams tick, Ken and...

Vinnie Potestivo is an Emmy Award-winning Media Advisor and Creator Economist who helps clients leverage their media and content to make more impact. He is the Founding Creator of I Have A Podcast®, host of its podcast, and the Editor-in-Chief of ihaveapodcast.com, a verified Google News platform for independent podcasters. If you are a podcaster or content creator, you will not want to miss this...

Tommy Yionoulis is the founder of OpsAnalitica, a SaaS platform that helps multi-unit businesses manage and measure their daily team activities for more consistent operations.  In this episode, you’ll hear how Tommy went from being a “non-techie” guy working in the restaurant business and moonlighting as a standup comedian, to founding his SaaS company, OpsAnalitica.  As a business owner, Tommy sh...

Lindsay McMahon is the CEO of All Ears English and co-host of the All Ears English podcast serving professionals around the world where speaking English is key for their career success. The popularity of podcasting has exploded over the last several years, but back in 2013, ESL teacher Lindsay McMahon, recognized podcasting as an opportunity to teach English as a second language to adults in a new...

Jen Pelka is a co-Founder and CEO with a passion for empowering women. Featuring  world-class wines made by women, Jen has used values-based branding to build her business, Une Femme Wines, into the fastest growing sparkling wine brand in the US. After finishing college, Jen began her career working for a hedge fund in New York and thought that was the start of a long-term career. However, she fou...

Cathy Nesbitt is a worm advocate and the founder of Cathy’s Crawly Composters, an environmental business specializing in vermicomposting. Cathy helps educate people on how worms can help with waste management by turning garbage into nutrient rich “black gold” soil. Cathy likes to say she wormed her way into business the way that many would-be entrepreneurs do - she saw a problem and came up with a...

Andrew Wolgemuth is the co-founder and CEO of Wove, a jewelry company that is reinventing the jewelry industry by changing the way couples design and purchase engagement rings. As a US Army Ranger deployed in Afghanistan, starting a business was the last thing on Andrew's mind. But when he discovered a unique need among his fellow soldiers, his willingness to help them led him on an unexpecte...

Tahnee Sanders is a marketing strategist and copywriter who helps female founders of small to medium businesses communicate their value through their marketing and copywriting so they can charge what their expertise is truly worth and run enjoyable, profitable businesses. Tahnee landed a dream job in journalism right out of college climbing her way up the corporate ladder becoming the editor of a...

Becca Rich is a holistic time coach & educator who works with female entrepreneurs to overcome struggles with time management that goes far beyond just using the latest productivity tool or time hack. Becca delves deeper to heal many of the limiting beliefs and habits that keep us from spending our time well and living a life that is aligned with what we most want. Becca comes from a family of...

Cathlyn Melvin is a TedX Coach & Copywriter who helps mission-driven experts design and deliver their world-changing messages through TEDx coaching and done-for-you copywriting services. If you’ve ever dreamt of becoming a TEDx speaker, Cathlyn provides incredible insights and tips for how to do it, so definitely listen into our conversation. After getting her degree in theater, Cathlyn worked...

When John Cronin was in his last year of high school, he looked around at all of his options for his career, as a person with Down Syndrome, and didn’t like any of them. So he decided to create his own.  Together with his dad, Mark, John started up John’s Crazy Socks, combining his passion for entrepreneurship and his love for crazy, wild, colourful socks, which he says “Just let me be me”.  And t...

Tara Reid is a multi-passionate entrepreneur and introvert who helps other introverted business owners develop sales and marketing strategies that work best for their more reserved styles. In this episode, Tara shares her long business journey from starting and selling a jewelry business to becoming an online service provider. Tara’s business has grown quite a bit since her beginnings in 2007 to w...

After working as a Human Resources (HR) manager with one company, Human Resources Strategist, Candice Elliot branched out and began working with a variety of organizations bringing to bear all the expertise she had developed around HR best practices.   In this episode, you’ll hear how Candice started her own business, Fortress and Flourish, offering her own brand of HR helping impact-driven leader...

After following his love of Spanish and majoring in Spanish communication in college, Richard Blank landed an internship with Telemundo and the Importers of Corona which prepared him for a once in a lifetime opportunity taking him from Philadelphia to Central America.  In this episode, you’ll hear how a friend’s offer to teach English in Costa Rica launched Richard's entrepreneurial journey....

Many people stumble into entrepreneurship never intending to become business owners, and Business Coach & Strategist Lianne Kim is no different. Lianne’s story is one that a lot of women will relate to going from a successful corporate career to shifting her priorities after becoming a mom, which ultimately led her to starting a business. In this episode, Lianne shares how she went from 15 yea...

Like many people, Kristen Zavo climbed the corporate ladder and achieved success in her career, but even with all she had achieved, she found herself deeply unhappy at work. After switching jobs, she found more and more people asking her how she did it, so she began helping them make the same switch on the side of her corporate job.  After walking the talk by taking her own advice, Kristen authore...

Yvonne “Yvi” Heimann is a Business Efficiency Consultant who helps digital entrepreneurs dramatically increase profits and reclaim lost time by teaching them how to implement proven processes, systems, and automation. In this episode, Yvi shares her journey from being an electrician in Germany to doing web design and business consulting in the United States, how she uses her super power - seeing s...

Ellen Elizabeth is an author, sober mom to twins, recovery advocate, and infertility warrior who helps women dealing with addiction and infertility and the feelings of inadequacy that result from these conditions. In this episode, Ellen shares her courageous journey from addiction to sobriety, her battle with infertility, how those challenges inspired her to help other women struggling with those...

Jaime is a brand strategist, creative director, and consultant who helps small businesses craft comprehensive big agency caliber branding with the customization and accessibility exclusive to one-on-one consulting. In this episode, we learn about what took Jaime from Los Angeles to living in Japan, how she went from design school to working in an interior architecture firm, and how she made the le...

Leah is a Business & Life Strategist, Serial Entrepreneur, Professional Organizer, Writer, Speaker and independent mom. She has a deep passion for redefining success and a curiosity about what it really takes to truly thrive. Leah is celebrating 30 years as an entrepreneur where she started in health, wellness, and fitness. Over that time, she ran 5 different businesses in 4 different countrie...

Michelle is a Body Compassion and Movement Mentor who helps busy online business owners make time for self care to better manage their energy and reduce stress and burnout.  In this episode. Michelle discusses how she knew from an early age that she wanted to own her own business and help people, how she first tested her entrepreneurial skills as a diabetes coach under 2 different brands, and how...

Jackie is an expert in Human Design for business, a breathwork facilitator, subconscious transformation coach, retreat leader, copywriter, marketing consultant, and a lover of all things French! She’s been in business since 2013, but after a move to a new country thrust her into the online business world, she soon found herself on a path of many pivots - and discovered that pivoting is something s...