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Steven Kinder is the Founder of Loftwall, Co-Founder of GoodWork, and Owner of 1808. He is a design entrepreneur who has always had an infatuation with spaces. He’s focused on the design of new flexible, dynamic environments for people to bring big ideas and be better together. Not intimidated by the potential of a blank slate, Steve wants to create space where people can shape their own experienc...

Rob Hannah is the Managing Partner of Chicago Yacht Works. In 2011, Rob redirected his business experience to the marine industry after assuming control of Chicago Yacht Yard, a full-service marine service and storage facility located on the river in downtown Chicago. In a short time, this business has been transformed into an industry leader with significant gains in both service and storage as w...

Phil Ogilby is the CEO of STACK Construction Technologies. In 1984, Phil started his first construction contracting company in Dayton, OH doing residential and later commercial work. He witnessed firsthand the challenges of managing people, equipment, materials, and especially an ever-changing bid schedule. In 1995, Phil's 14-year-old son, Justin Ogilby, wrote the code for Buildware Pro estimating...

Paul Shapiro is the Co-Founder of The Better Meat Co. In addition to being the CEO of the company, Paul is also the author of the national bestseller, Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, and the host of the Business For Good Podcast. He is a four-time TEDx speaker, he has twenty years of experience as a nonprofit executive and has published more th...

Dan Rogers is the CEO and Founder of Point to Point Transportation. In the 90s, Dan was working in the restaurant industry as a Burrito Roller. Eventually, he decided to work as a Salesperson for a Moving company for 6 years. In 2002, he bought the moving company from its owner and it became Point to Point Transportation. From being an ordinary moving company, Dan shifted Point to Point towards Co...

John Simpson is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Patra. An innovator and entrepreneur, John founded Patra in 2005 and has grown the company to more than 3,200 employees worldwide. In 2017, Patra landed in the top third of Inc Magazine’s fastest growing companies. John understands the importance of efficient internal systems to support the complicated needs of a service organization. As an en...

Felicite Moorman is the CoFounder of STRATIS, a RealPage Company, and SaaS Platform for large-scale Internet of Things installations. STRATIS was named a top ten “Best Company in America” by Entrepreneur Magazine and ranked in the top twenty percent of Inc Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Companies” three consecutive years prior to acquisition. Felicite was simultaneous CEO of BuLogics, which designed,...

Paul Moore is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wellings Capital. After graduating with an engineering degree and then an MBA from Ohio State, Paul entered the management development track at Ford Motor Company in Detroit. After five years, he departed to start a staffing company with a partner. They scaled and sold the company to a publicly traded firm five years later. After a brief “retiremen...

Stephen Somers runs a company called Marketplace Superheroes. He and his business partner Robert Rickey are on a mission to help ambitious individuals build their own business selling simple branded products globally on Amazon. Stephen started his career by selling products in Amazon for several years, while Robert is also an online entrepreneur collaborating with other companies. They met and sta...

Greg Skloot is currently the CEO & Co-Founder of Crystal, the app that tells you anyone's personality. Greg is the co-author of Predicting Personality, a book published by Wiley in 2019 about using AI to understand people and win more business. He has also published two e-books: Getting Organized, a manual for growing a student organization at a university, and Startups

Nick Sarillo has one of the Top 10 busiest independent pizza companies in per-store sales in the U.S. In an industry in which the average annual turnover rate is more than 150 percent, Nick’s Pizza & Pub boasts less than a 25 percent employee turnover rate. He is a leading expert in leadership, organizational culture, employee engagement, and executive development. He also serves as a mentor and c...

Lindsey McCoy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Plaine Products. She is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the sustainable consumer goods industry. Her skills include Nonprofit Organizations, Sales, Management, Leadership, and Strategic Planning. Coming from a nonprofit background, Lindsey has made a career out of finding solutions. With a dream to have les...

Mike Begg is the Co-founder, Chief Strategist, and Chief Marketing Officer of AMZ Advisers, which helps manufacturers and brands maximize their sales on Amazon by creating content, developing marketing strategies, and managing advertising. Mike is 31 years old, from Connecticut, and currently resides in Guadalajara, Mexico. He is an Amazon marketing professional with over 7 years of experience sel...

Christian Jakobsson is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Medino. Before founding Medino, Christian was in IT Sales and Project Management. He began his career working as an intern in an advertising agency in the Philippines. He then worked in an IT-Consultant Company in Stockholm until he transferred to London and started Medino. He works with all sides of the business in Medino and he even...

Rich Razgaitis is the CEO and Co-Founder of FloWater. Raz, as most people call him, is passionate about creating a brand new, amazing type of water that’s at the epicenter of the sustainable movement. Their vision is to inspire the world with water, eliminate single use plastic water bottles, and provide everyone access to the world’s best tasting water anywhere they work, rest, and play. Raz and...

Tim McLaughlin is Co-Founder of GoTab, a leading contactless ordering and payment platform serving full-service food & beverage establishments in almost thirty states and still growing. GoTab launched in 2016 as a code on the receipt for mobile payment of restaurant tabs. In 2018 it became a QR code. The idea started in 2015 when Tim co-opened his first restaurant and brewery, Caboose Brewing Co.,...

Terry Koosed is the Founder of Bel Air Internet, a Los Angeles based Internet Service Provider, and a leading authority on successful entrepreneurship. He has founded and successfully run seven companies in the high-tech industry during the past 40 years, sometimes concurrently, and is what some would call, a serial entrepreneur. Listen to Part II, right now: How Exceptional Customer Service made...

Will Breakell is the brainchild and founder of the Blazy Susan brand. Will is a young entrepreneur from Roanoke, Virginia. Although Will graduated from the esteemed Virginia Military Institute, he soon realized that he was meant to take a different path than the majority of his peers. The mountains of Colorado were calling for him, and so was the emerging cannabis industry. Join our 🔥 Facebook Gr...

Diagnosed with a learning disability early in his life, Paul Rathnam persevered through all the challenges and reached success by becoming the business owner of a unique and innovative company called ModPools. His very first company was ModPro, which customizes shipping containers for a variety of client's needs. Containers are custom modified as per clients' requests including but not limited to...

Josh Clemente spent the first half of his professional career working at SpaceX and Hyperloop– two companies, one founded by and the other supported by Elon Musk. At SpaceX, Josh spent six years working on rocket and spacecraft systems, while at Hyperloop, Josh worked on infrastructure level engineering and life support systems development. To combat fatigue, Josh applied his characteristic engine...

In 2003, Ethan Wendle was attending an Engineering Entrepreneurial class when he met Matt Chverchko. They partnered in a classroom project that grew from a garage operation to a real full-time enterprise. Thus, DiamondBack Truck Covers was born. Ethan attended Penn State University from 2000 to 2003 and took up Civil Engineering. Listen to Part II, right now: Surviving a Labor Union Takeover to Re...

When the Coronavirus pandemic started, Grant Morgan was developing a powerful UV-C disinfection device capable of destroying over 99.99% of pathogens to make commercial space as safe as possible for employees and customers. Grant, along with his co-founders, runs R-Zero Systems, which is a biosafety company dedicated to making safer everyday spaces and common places. Among their top priority is to...

Since launching The Game Agency 13 years ago and The Training Arcade 3 years ago, Stephen Baer has developed award-winning games for new-employee on-boarding, sales and product training, leadership development, safety, security, compliance, systems & processes, customer service, and many other training topics. Listen to Part II, right now: The Creation of a Game Agency (a Continuation of EP 204) ....

Igor Avidon is a digital marketing expert with a decade of experience in online marketing & advertising. He is also the founder of Avidon Marketing Group, which is a boutique SEO company. His career began with a personal interest in helping his family's business survive the 2008 economic recession. During this period, he autonomously learned paid search advertising using Google's AdWords platform....

Aviv Shalgi is a serial entrepreneur, and is the CEO of an energy tech startup Solar Simplified, which is a platform that matches renters and homeowners who care about the environment and want to save money on the electricity bill with local solar farms. For more than 6 years, Aviv has been a Board Member, Mentor, and Advisor to many entrepreneurs, startups, investors, VCs, and non-profit organiza...