Soul of Business with Blaine Bartlett

What are you saying before you open your mouth? Join me and my guest, Richard Newman, founder of Body Talk. Over the past 22 years Richard and his team have trained over 120,000 business leaders around the world, to improve their communication and impact, including one client who gained over $1 Billion in new business in just one year, using the strategies that Richard teaches. He is a keynote spe...

Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!!! People are suffering. Covid, inflation, job burnout, quiet quitting, and silent firing are creating high levels of stress, anxiety, and fear. Join me and my guest, Bill Murphy, founder of the non-profit Thrive Foundation and author of Thriving in the Storm as explore his experience that everyone has the power within themselves to overcome any difficult situatio...

Walk a Path Of Destiny Through A Universe That is Actively Weaving a Web of Connections...  Join me and my guest, Carrie Hart, author of Sojourner In Ataquay, as we explore mind expanding ideas and practical tools for the open-minded seeker of a meaningful life. Carrie is also a singer/songwriter with two albums of original music. Songwriting and live performances further awakened Carrie’s curiosi...

Join me and my guest, Dr. Grant Tate, CEO of Bridge Business Transformations, a high-performance business consultancy. Grant is a servant leader, transformational coach, and business consultant who helps people learn how to thrive in our chaotic world. He challenges leaders and emerging professionals to answer the questions: Who am I? What am I called to do now? Who am I going to work with to get...

Heart attacks aren't funny....Join me and my guest, David Valentine, CEO of Avadel Agency(www.avadel.com) and owner of seven businesses which have generated over a billion dollars collectively for over 1000 clients, including major brands and Fortune 100 companies like Target, Time Magazine and American Express. When his doctor asked him at the age of 29 “Are you prepared for your heart attack?” h...

Your next disaster is not a matter of what but of when! Join me and my guest, Steve Blue, CEO and President of Miller Ingenuity (milleringenuity.com), a 75-year young international manufacturer of high technology products that save lives and preserves the environment. Steve has more than forty years of experience in massively increasing profit in every business he has led. His experience ranges fr...

Peace is the true fuel to performance excellence!! Join me and my guest Amy Balog, Founder of ConnextionPoint Services (connextionpoint.com). As a senior executive coach, facilitator, writer, and speaker, Amy wakes up every morning and pursues her passionate mission to show the world that peace is the true fuel to performance. In her fifteen years of coaching partnerships with global leaders, Amy...

Join me and my guest, Kim Calvert, CEO and Founder of Belfast based Dynamite Lifestyle, LTD. (dynamitelifestyle.com) for an absolutely fascinating and riveting interview. Kim worked closely with her personal mentor, the late Bob Proctor and is a global expert in high performance, both on a personal and professional level. As a success mentor and international speaker, Kim devotes her life to helpi...

Just when you thought is was safe!!! Join me and my returning guest, Dan Frechtling, CEO of Boltive (www.boltive.com), an industry leading data and privacy security company providing security against invasive media. In this reprise episode, Dan and I take a MUCH deeper dive into the challenges of data protection and personal identity security and Dan is the man for this conversation. He has a phen...

Get it right and you can SOAR!! Join me and my guests Mali Phonpadith and Marissa Levin, CEOs of SOAR Community Network and Successful Culture International, as we explore the magic created when a successful merger occurs. In their words, "This is a marriage of two organizations that are aligned in purpose, values, and culture who share a passion for raising the consciousness of leaders and organi...

What do you need to succeed in business? According to my guest Amanda Holmes, it’s “pig-headed discipline and determination.” Amanda Holmes is CEO of Chet Holmes International (www.chetholmes.com) and is the daughter of the legendary Chet Holmes. Chet was America’s top marketing executive, trainer, strategic consultant, and motivation expert, working with over sixty of the Fortune 500 companies wi...

ARGGHH.....Not another Zoom Meeting!!! Join me and my guest Bob Priest-Heck, the Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Freeman Company (www.freeman.com) to discover that there is life after Zoom. Freeman is one of the world's top event management firms and Bob is their amazing leader. Known as a visionary leader of people and events, Bob’s extensive experience across industries, technologies,...

Join me and my guest, Kevin Shimota, a leading expert on digital technology in China and a former senior executive at WeChat. With nearly a decade of experience in China, he worked as Global Head of Marketing and Partnerships for WeChat (Tencent) for 4 years. Recently, he has been Director of Platform Strategy for Accenture, and a leading expert on “Superapps” (also the name of his latest book). K...

You "own" the most valuable 25 square inches of visual territory on earth. Join me and my returning guest, Dan Hill, founder and President of Sensory Logic (sensorylogic.com) and author of 9 books including the best seller Emotionomics. Dan says that there are two currencies in life: dollars and emotions. For over 20 years now, Dan has specialized in the latter – often in terms of business applica...

What about the dog? Join me and my guest, Sande Hart, an award-winning leader in the fields of women’s empowerment and interfaith community building and author of "The Liminal Odyssey", What is the psychology behind liminal spaces - the space between “what was” and “what’s next”? The Liminal Space is a threshold to the unknown and frightening though it might be, it is also the passage to unknown g...

Join me and my guest, Chris Adams, CEO & Founder of Ellis Adams Group. Chris and his international luxury hospitality consulting firm EAG are currently opening 100 hotels during Q3 and Q4 of this year, partnering with Marriott International to transform locations for The Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, W, Westin and Renaissance among others all over the world. He has worked on everything from the acclaim...

OMG, our boat is leaking! Join me and my guest, Dan Frechtling, CEO of Boltive (www.boltive.com), an industry leading company providing security against invasive media for platforms, brands, and producers when everyday solutions fall short​. Dan has led B2B SaaS businesses since 1999. Prior to Boltive, he was President of G2 Web Services, acquired by Verisk, where he expanded G2’s cyber security s...

Novel Idea: You Don’t Have to be Ruthless to Win! Join me and my guest, Johnathan Keyser, Founder of Keyser (http://www.keyser.com), one of the most innovative and trustworthy commercial real estate firms in the country. Keyser was recently named one of the Top 50 Most Trustworthy Companies in America. He’s a #1 Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author of, “You Don’t Have to be Ruthless to Win”, an...

Join me and my guest, Andrew Futrell, Founder of Mindset Marketing (mindsetmarketingllc.com), a full service digital advertising firm that provides conversion based services and consulting for marketing and business strategy. Founded in Metro Detroit in 2017, Andrew’s goal with Mindset Marketing is to make the digital marketing experience easy for localized businesses. He's created a culture that...

Aspiring to be a nobody? Join me and my friend and guest, Mark McNally, Founder and Chief Nobody at Nobody Studios (nobodystudios.com), a rapidly growing venture studio that aims to create 100 compelling companies in the next five years, guiding them from ideation through MVP to full-scale company validation. Mark’s first startup (at age 24) went public on the Nasdaq, reaching a ~4 Billion market...

Join me and my guest Steve Hoffman, the Chairman & CEO of Founders Space (foundersspace.com), a global innovation hub for entrepreneurs, corporations, and investors, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books. With the mission to educate and accelerate entreprene...

Zen Out....Join me and my guest Zen Cryar DeBrucke, a member of the illustrious Transformational Leadership Council, Zen has worked with over 40,000 people to teach them how to listen to , respond to, and honor their Inner Guidance System, including training 4,000master students. And now her offline Smart Soul Academy (https://www.smartsoulacademy.com) is coming forward to encapsulate 30 years of...

Join me and guest Tim Shurr, one of the World's Top Hypnotists and founder of the One Belief Away Hypnosis Method. Tim facilitated over 15,000 individual coaching sessions and hundreds of group training experiences over the last 32 years and discovered how to quickly eliminate anxiety and self-sabotage while skyrocketing productivity and leadership impact. As an award-winning Leadership Speaker, h...

Mindfulness and Compassion belongs in the workplace - you have no choice if you want to be successful! Join me and guest Scott Shute, former head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn. In an earlier role he managed a team of over 1,000 employees at LinkedIn as an operations VP before switching roles to combine his long-time passions with his practical leadership and operations skills as Head o...

What's At Your Core? Join me and guest Jay Steinfeld, founder and former CEO of Blinds.com, the world’s number one online window covering retailer. Boot-strapped in 1996 for just $3,000 from his garage, Blinds.com was acquired by The Home Depot in 2014. Jay remained as its CEO and later joined The Home Depot Online Leadership Team. After stepping away from these roles in early 2020, he teaches ent...