Rising Tide Startups

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups podcast is Michael Marra.  Michael is the founder of Entre. "Entre is a social network for entrepreneurs and the future of work. We have created the hub for a new economy to connect, learn, and build. With our app, we combine the industries of social networking, e-learning, and business software to give entrepreneurs, startups, and freelancers of all types...

Our special guest on the podcast today is Elliott Holland.  Elliott, founder of Guardian Due Diligence is a business buying expert.  He has a Harvard MBA, spent 10 years buying companies for himself and others, and now prevents his clients from losing millions buying bad businesses. He’s the guy to hire to guard your money. Learn more at guardianduediligence.com  

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Molly Trotter Gomez.  Molly began her professional career telling stories live on television as a news anchor and reporter. It wasn’t long before she was giving her all, day-in and day-out and realized that her heart wasn’t in it. She began looking for stories that would have a much bigger impact. She packed up her car from Spokane, Washington and moved...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is JP, Clement, the newly-appointed CEO of Boomtime Marketing.  JP, with 30-years of experience under his belt, can help your audience in areas of marketing, digital strategy, and product management. JP, CEO of boomtime, has founded three digital marketing agencies and has worked with numerous companies ranging from startups to global brands such as Johnso...

Our very special guest today on Rising Tide Startups is Olivai Molesworth, founder of Bromleigh Capital.  After working in operational and strategy roles for several years in the eCommerce start-up space, at 22, Olivia founded Bromleigh Capital - Australia's first ethical debt financing company for small Australian businesses. Olivia is currently studying her Master of Business Administration at t...

Our special guest today is very well known to so many of our listeners, the founder of Invest Diva herself, Kiana Danial. Kiana Danial, CEO of Invest Diva is an award-winning, internationally recognized personal investing and wealth management expert. Having been featured in The Wall Street Journal, TIME Magazine, Fox Business, CNNi, Forbes, TheStreet, Nasdaq, Cheddar, 77 WABC Radio and 710 WOR Ra...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups this week is Stephanie Roulic.  Stephanie is the founder of Startup Boston, an organization on a mission to connect, celebrate, and educate the startup ecosystem. Their flagship event is Startup Boston Week, where they bring together 3500 attendees in September for a 5-day conference. The organization also organizes events and other initiatives throughout...

Our very special guest today is Jordan Levy, founder of Capsource.io.  Jordan is a serial education technology entrepreneur. He has started two EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His method is to integrate real companies into the education process through hands-on collaborations that expose learners to new circumsta...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Tricia Dunlap, founder of Dunlap Law PLC.  In 2007, she was a high school teacher and single-mom raising two kids. She decided to finally pursue my dream and get my law degree at the University of Richmond. After three difficult years and countless late nights, Tricia finished her Juris Doctorate and passed the Bar in Washington DC and Virginia. After a...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Domenic Rinaldi, CEO of Sun Acquisitions and Founder of K2Adviser.  A little story about Domenic: 17 years ago, he was in transition and deciding what to do next. He decided that business ownership was in his heart. So, he went out in the market to buy a business AND bought Sun Acquisitions a firm that specializes in helping entrepreneurs buy and sell b...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Julia McCoy.  Julia McCoy is a serial entrepreneur, content marketing strategist, and a passionate advocate of using content to build a business. She mentors and educates marketers at her brand The Content Hacker™, and leads operations at her agency Express Writers. Learn more at:  contenthacker.com and expresswriters.com Julia's new book - Amazon

Our special guest today is also a fellow podcaster, Tim Fitzpatrick, founder of Rialto Marketing.  Tim is an entrepreneur/business owner with expertise in marketing and business growth. He has 20+ years of entrepreneurial experience with a passion for developing and growing businesses. That passion served him well in operating and managing a wholesale distribution company he co-owned for nine year...

Our special guest today is Dylan Ogline.  Dylan is a high school dropout from a small country town in Pennsylvania. He started his first business when he was 14 selling cell phones. In 2016 he scrapped 10+ business projects and started focusing on one single thing, digital marketing. Tired from struggling getting no progress and working from his freezing basement, not to mention nearly a Million d...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is from our great neighbor to the North, Canada.  Darren Gallop, CISSPCo-Founder and CEO of Securicy.  Darren is a business leader and security professional with over twenty years of experience as a CEO and CISO of companies that handle sensitive data. Having founded a non-profit organization, three service companies, and two tech startups in his career, h...

Our special guest on the pod this week is Nick Stagge, CEO of VidArmy.  VidArmy is the first video production company making professional video affordable and easy. Before joining VidArmy, Nick has led teams at GoPro, Skullcandy, Zumiez, Wooly, and others. He's passionate about creating a culture of mental health advocacy within the workplace. Learn more at vidarmy.com

Our special guest this week on Rising Tide Startups is Nate Turner.  Nate is the co-founder of Ten Speed and a marketing expert with over 12 years of experience. Throughout the years he has helped companies get more results from the content they already have on their site by solving hard problems and scale revenue growth. He is passionate about what he does and would love to share all his insights...

Our special guest on Rising Tide is also our very first guest from Norway... Gro Eirin Dyrnes.  Gro is the Director of "Innovation Norway." She is also is an experienced leader with demonstrated results of working in the international trade and development industry and in the intersection between business and technology. Gro is skilled in leadership, strategy and change management, international b...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is the Greg Salles.  As a well-rounded awarded leader and techpreneur with 18+ years of experience, Greg has conducted scale-up activities across multiple business areas. He has dedicated his career to designing solutions that leverage innovative disruptive technologies and private markets to maximize impact.  Moreover, he is a fierce advocate for social i...

Our special, spunky and energetic guest on Rising Tide Startups today is Sarah Gallo... aka "The Five Foot Traveler!"  Sarah has traveled to 114 countries across all 7 continents.  She is also a highly sought after travel expert and destination marketer. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah has taken her knowledge and expertise to launch her own consulting business, and now consults individuals, sma...

We have a return guest on Rising Tide... one of our earliest guests.  Evan Kubicek, aka Coach K, aka serial entrepreneur, international business coach and now founder of the app, Spike Shot. Listen to hear the real story and mission behind Spike Shot.  Then go download the app!! Evan loves helping people, businesses, & communities become something greater.  At Eastern Illinois University he passes...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Grant Aldrich.  Grant founded OnlineDegree.com with a purpose-driven mission: make higher education more accessible and affordable for everyone. After graduating college with an overwhelming amount of debt, he was determined to change how students embark on their college education. Grant has spent his entire career working in startups with nearly 15 yea...

Our special guest today is Rachel Ellner Lebensohn, founder of seyopa.com .  Rachel grew up as a professional actress from the age of five to eighteen in both Israel and the United States. She then served in the Film Production Unit of the IDF Air Force before going on to graduate from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television. Rachel also holds a J.D. from the Benjamin N. C...

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Isabella Liu.  Isabella is the Founder of Invincible Co., a positivity movement which focuses on building positivity and validation from within to create your own purpose-led business and live as an entity for yourself, rather than an entity for other people. Learn more at - invincible-co.com

In a special Rising Tide Startups episode from New Zealand, we catch up with Anthony Baxter, founder of Firefly Digital. Anthony is not only founder and CEO, he is also a salesman, digital marketer and life enthusiast. Learn more at fireflydigital.co.nz

Our special guest on Rising Tide Startups is Albert Jing.  Albert Jing is the Founder and CEO of OneFriends. He founded OneFriends in late 2018. Since then, Albert has led an eight member team of specialist contracted app developers, engineers, QA testers and app designer in the development of the OneFriends app. OneFriends is now live on the Apple App Store after a long beta period and rounds of...