Systems Simplified

Cameron Bell is a Partner at Fairmont Capital Partners, a lower-market private equity firm focusing on tech-enabled B2B companies with revenues between $1 million and $30 million. They work with founder and family-owned businesses to help them build, grow, and exit through strategic partnerships and capital structuring. As a serial entrepreneur and investor, Cameron's first business was a bootstra...

Mike Krass is the Owner and Founder of MKG Marketing, the world's premier marketing agency for cybersecurity vendors. He focuses on helping businesses grow their sales pipeline through SEO, digital ads, and analytic programs. Mike founded MKG Marketing in 2011. He embraces a people-first philosophy, promotes strong work-life integration, and holds his employees and clients accountable. In this epi...

Jerry Fetta is the Co-founder and CEO of Wealth DynamX, a full-service, national, cloud-based wealth creation firm. He helps thousands of clients across the US build wealth. His passion is to provide financial education to families and individuals so they can become solvent and achieve greater financial freedom. Jerry is also the author of The Blueprint To Financial Freedom. In this episode: Many...

Robert Delavan is the Founder of Delavan Realty Inc., a real estate brokerage company, and Delavan Property Management Inc., a property management company for residential, commercial, and industrial properties throughout the Portland area. Through his 15 years of experience in finance, real estate management, and investments, Robert is able to analyze the value of every potential real estate trans...

Wendy Lieber is the Co-founder and CEO of ContentBacon, an inbound marketing company that helps build brands that people know, like, and trust. ContentBacon's client intake process helps them learn about their clients' industry, customers, prospects, opportunities, and brand personality to develop unique content to create more awareness and grow their businesses. Wendy is also a board member of th...

Ryan Redding is a business consultant, marketing strategist, and the Founder and CEO of DP Marketing Services, a full-service agency specializing in websites, SEO, PPC, social media, and reputation management for tier-two businesses. DP Marketing Services provides digital marketing solutions for HVAC, plumbing, and other home services companies so they can produce quality leads and generate higher...

Julia Barbaro is a Certified Life and Marriage Coach. After witnessing the power of coaching, she was inspired to give back and help others. As a married mother of six home-schooled children, Julia has the tools to motivate couples and their families to set goals, seek out their soul purpose, and envision what they want out of life.  To teach children decision-making skills and about the different...

Midori Verity is the CEO of Fuel to Fire, an invite-only accountability group for driven female entrepreneurs and leaders focused on big goals. As a serial entrepreneur with three decades of vetted experience, Midori knows what it takes to start, grow, and rapidly scale a business with ease. In this episode: Are you struggling to do everything inside your business? Are you feeling burned out? How...

Mark Miller is the Co-founder and President of Historic, a brand strategy and design thinking group based in Phoenix with clients all over the US. Historic's main focus is primarily on servicing nonprofits and cause-oriented businesses. Mark is a strategic and creative leader with an extensive background in company culture, branding, marketing, creative processes, and systems. He is also the autho...

Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder and CEO of Lately, a company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate high-performing, transformative social media content to drive optimum engagement. She is a former rock 'n' roll DJ and served over 20 million listeners as music director and on-air host at Sirius XM. She is also an award-winning radio producer, engineer, and voice talent with 25 year...

Adi Kaskavalciyan is the Co-founder of The Wealthy Contractor and gFour Marketing Group. The Wealthy Contractor provides real-world education, training, and best practices to help home improvement and home services business owners achieve more success, wealth, and freedom. Through gFour Marketing Group, Adi and her husband, Brian Kaskavalciyan, help clients nationwide create profitable, long-lasti...

Jon LoDuca is the Founder of PlaybookBuilder, a revolutionary knowledge management tool that helps drive higher results in organizations by supporting a continuous learning culture. PlaybookBuilder enables innovative organizations to onboard, train, and drive the adoption of their learning content and share it with team members, prospects, clients, and vendors.  In this episode: How can knowledge...

Jeff J. Hunter is the Founder and CEO of VA Staffer, a 170-plus-person virtual assistant staffing and marketing agency. He helps entrepreneurs and startups build and scale remote teams to dominate their brand category through his C.O.R.E. branding method. Jeff's company has been featured in several publications, including Forbes , Entrepreneur , and Inc., as well as on ABC and CBS. In addition to...

Chris Guinn III is the Principal Broker and Co-owner of Dwell Realty, a real estate brokerage firm. He started his entrepreneurial journey 35 years ago in residential sales before starting Dwell Realty in 2009 with his friend Tracey Hicks. Not long afterward, Chris decided to get into property management which led to the founding of Dwell Property Management, where he manages residential and comme...

Dondi Scumaci is the President of Dondi Scumaci, Inc., where she and her team consult with organizations to develop better employees, leadership, and overall company culture through its public and private seminars, keynotes, and management retreats.  Dondi has many years of experience as an executive in the financial industry and transitioned to consultancy to help businesses and people thrive. Sh...

David Brier is the Founder and CEO of DBD International, Ltd., a branding consultancy that helps build brands for clients worldwide, no matter your size, location, or industry. He is a branding expert and the recipient of over 330 international industry awards in branding, rebrands, design, and brand strategy.  He received the Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship medallion and has b...

Cindy Free is the Owner and CEO of HR Annie Consulting, a human resources consulting firm located in Portland, Oregon. She started her career in the ski industry, and after college, she started working in HR. She officially joined HR Annie Consulting in 2012. The company was originally founded by her mother, Ann "Annie" Reed, in 2009. Annie transferred ownership to Cindy in 2016. HR Annie Consulti...

Isaiah Nolte is the COO at Traction Tools, a cloud-based software platform that helps organizations implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) with ease. It helps businesses manage meetings, operations, member permissions, and communications across the organization. Its "To-Dos" functionality enables users to create a list of tasks during meetings and send automatic reminders. Isaiah is...

Mitchell Levy is a global credibility expert, a 2x TEDx speaker, an international best-selling author of 65 books, and an Executive Coach for the Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches community. Mitchell has interviewed 500 thought leaders on credibility, which led him to publish an international bestseller book, Credibility Nation . He has also delivered a powerful TEDx Talk on humanity, created courses...

Jackie Kibler is a Certified EOS Implementer™ for EOS Worldwide. She is passionate about helping CEOs and business leaders transform their companies and, ultimately, the quality of their lives. Jackie has held various leadership roles for about 30 years, with 10 of them being a coach for CEOs. As a Certified EOS Implementer™, she has clients all over the US in a variety of industries. Jackie is al...

Jeremy Ryan Slate is the Founder of The Create Your Own Life Show , a podcast that studies the highest performers in the world. He is also the Co-founder and CEO of Command Your Brand Media, a public relations firm that helps premium brands and leaders maximize the power of podcasts to change the world. Jeremy was ranked #1 in iTunes' business category and #78 in the Top 100. Throughout his career...

Bob Burg is the Founder of The Go-Giver Community Network, an organization that connects private, global businesses. In the past 30 years, he's helped companies and leaders evolve their communication habits in order to increase their sales and grow their businesses. He is also the Co-author of The Go-Giver , a book that talks about the five laws of stratospheric success, what they are, and how the...

Anne Huntington Sharma is the President and a Board Member of Huntington Learning Center, the leading learning and tutoring center in the country for test preparations. The center was founded in 1977 by Dr. Ray And Eileen Huntington, Anne's parents. The center currently has over 300 locations and more than 500 part-time and full-time employees.  In this episode: How do you run a mission-driven com...

Bonnie Low-Kramen is the Founder and CEO of Ultimate Assistant Training & Consulting, where she provides assistants and their leaders the tools they need to build the ultimate partnership and workplace. Bonnie was the Personal Assistant for Oscar-winning actress Olympia Dukakis for 25 years and learned the skills needed to be an incredible assistant. She is also an international speaker and the Au...

Ian Vacin is the Co-founder and Chief Customer Officer of Karbon, a collaborative practice management platform for accounting firms. Ian has over 25 years of experience in technology and more than 15 years of leadership experience in the accounting profession. Before starting Karbon, he was the Vice President of Marketing and Product at Xero and the Offering Leader and Group Manager of Intuit's Qu...