The Work Talk Show

CEO of Women’s Leadership Coaching, Inc., Jo Miller is creator of the Women’s Leadership Coaching® system, a roadmap for women who want to break into leadership positions in business. Used successfully by thousands of women worldwide, the system identifies the key steps women must take to advance into positions of influence and leadership — especially in industries long considered “a man’s world,”...

Simon Salt is CEO of IncSlingers. He is an Author, Keynote Speaker (Digital, Mobile, and Social Marketing), and Digital Strategist. His first book on Social Location Marketing was published by Que publications in February 2011. His second book, The Shorty Guide to Mobile Marketing, debuted at #3 on the Amazon bestseller list in its category and has remained in the top ten since. We couldn’t wait t...

Michael Bowers serves as the District Director of the Ohio SBDC at Columbus State Community College. He brings 25 years of experience of working with entrepreneurs and small business owners. Michael is the founder of Ideas To Deals, a website committed to providing on-line support to those building small businesses. He is also the Founder/Director of the Ohio Growth Summit, a premier event committ...

Kevin Allen is a bestselling author, business growth consultant, and speaker. He has written two books, The Hidden Agenda: A Proven Way to Win Business and Create a Following (2012), which was a Wall Street Journal bestseller, and The Buoyant Leader: A Leadership Course for the Rising Star (2013). Kevin was also the pitchman behind MasterCard’s now iconic “Priceless” campaign and bestselling autho...

Steven Kotler is a bestselling author, journalist, and entrepreneur. His articles have appeared in over 70 publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, Discover, Popular Science, Outside, Details, and National Geographic Adventure. He is best known for his non-fiction books, including the New York Times bestseller Abundance, A Small Furry Prayer, West of Jesus, and his latest, T...

Matt Heinz is the founder of Heinz Marketing, a marketing agency that helps its clients all over the world to increase their sales pipelines and marketing strategies. He quit his job to start his own business right during the 2008 credit crunch without a specific blueprint for how he would chase success. The major factor he credits for his success is that he tries at all costs to avoid multitaskin...

Carrie Mess is a cow, cheese, music, and beer lover from Southern Wisconsin. In addition to working with her husband and his family on their 100-cow dairy farm, she spends her time blogging and speaking professionally, where she’s known as Dairy Carrie. If you’ve thought we’ve talked through some interesting work scenarios before, we raised the bar this week with someone who’s literally in the fie...

Chris Taylor is the founder of Actionablebooks.com – a company dedicated to helping business leaders develop themselves and their teams through the application of lessons from leading business books. Through his work at Actionable Books, Chris Taylor reads, writes, and speaks. A lot. And here’s the best part. He does it all from a cave. In Spain. Curious to know more? Learn more about your ad choi...

As the VP, Strategy for Social Media Explorer and the agency behind it, SME Digital, Tamsen draws from a variety of tools and experiences to help brands make strategic change happen. While she began her career as a change management consultant, Tamsen found herself managing change recently when she switched from a physical office with co-workers to a home office with a virtual team. We couldn’t wa...

Nichole Kelly is the President of SME Digital, the digital marketing division of Social Media Explorer. Her team helps companies figure out where social media fits and then helps execute the recommended strategy across the “right” mix of social media channels. They use a scalable content approach and measure the results to your bottom line. But how does Nichole approach her work? Learn more about...

Andy Craig has an interesting job. He teaches executives to talk more on the weekdays like they do on the weekends — when they are at their best as storytellers — and has hundreds of successful sessions to prove it. He also talks regularly to sales organizations and various associations about the power and importance of elevator speeches and meaningful presentations. With all of this talking about...

Davyeon Ross is the quintessential tech entrepreneur making things happen in the Midwest’s Silicon Prairie. He’s also something of an anomaly for combining his personal passion of basketball in not one, but two winning ventures. The first, was Digital Sports Ventures, which went on to be acquired by Digital Broadcasting Group. ShotTracker, his newest start-up, helps players measure their performan...

Pamela Slim is a seasoned coach and writer who helps frustrated employees in corporate jobs break out and start their own businesses. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation, is one of the top career blogs on the web. She is also the author of the books Escape from Cubicle Nation and the recently released Body of Work. A former corporate manager and entrepreneur herself, she understands the concerns...

We had every intention of recording a “real,” “host-only holiday edition” episode this week. But, alas, time got away from us (and travel impeded technical logistics). So, well, we decided to each record a short greeting/thank you from our iPhones. We patched it together, and it turned into this! Oh, and in case you are wondering, we each took those selfies yesterday. Nick with his “Winter Beard”...

Kerry O’Shea Gorgone is a speaker, writer, attorney, and educator. She hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs. She is also a contributing writer for numerous sites, including MarketingProfs, Huffington Post, Mark Schaefer’s {grow} blog, and Social Media Explorer. With all of these digital irons in the fire, we couldn’t wait to ask Kerry how she juggles all of this. Learn more...

Bryan Kramer is a Social Business Strategist and CEO of PureMatter, where he’s led his agency to consistent growth over the last 10 years, earning a spot as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing private companies by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Bryan was recently listed globally as the 43rd most talked-about marketer by senior marketers in a report study via LeadTail. As such, we couldn’...

Jim Tobin is the founder and president of Ignite Social Media, one of the world’s leading social media marketing agencies. Ignite Social Media designs and executes social media marketing programs for many of the world’s largest brands, including Microsoft, Samsung, Chrysler, Nike, Disney, E&J Gallo, and Carlson-Rezidor Hotel Group. Jim is also the author of two books and a parent to three kids. Ho...

As co-founders of online customer service community platform Get Satisfaction and co-authors of the New York Times Bestseller Get Lucky, Thor Muller and Lane Becker know a thing or two about working together. While they are both working on “solo projects” currently, this dynamic duo took a moment to sit down and chat with us about how they get stuff done together and apart. Enjoy! Learn more about...

Mitch Matthews is a leading authority on innovative thinking, human performance, and goal achievement. But he’s probably best known simply as “The Big Dream Guy.” This is due in part to his passion for inspiring people to think about their big dreams and put a plan in place to achieve them. In 2006, Mitch and his wife started something called the BIG Dream Gatherings. We were excited for some time...

How much fun can two hosts have on a podcast with no guest? It turns out, quite a bit. This week we took a break from our regularly scheduled programming to bring you a host-only discussion where we cover working from home versus working on-site, a couple of new podcasts we’re both working on, and our own favorite apps that we can’t live without. Let’s get started! Learn more about your ad choices...

Rand Fishkin is the CEO of Moz. He co-authored the Art of SEO from O’Reilly Media, co-founded Inbound.org, and was named on PSBJ’s 40 Under 40 List and BusinessWeek’s 30 Best Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30. Rand is an addict of all things content & social on the web, from his blog on entrepreneurship to Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Foursquare. We couldn’t wait to sit down with Rand and c...

Jon Miller leads strategy and execution for all aspects of Marketo’s communications, thought leadership, and content marketing programs. Before co-founding Marketo, Jon was VP of Product Marketing at Epiphany and held positions at Exchange Partners and Gemini Consulting. In 2010, The CMO Institute named Jon a Top 10 CMO for companies under $250 million in revenue. In addition to all of this, Mille...

Marcus Nelson is a lot of things. A half-Kiwi/born-Texan and raised in the Midwest, Nelson now makes his home in the Bay Area. He’s the founder of the new social brand empowerment tool, Addvocate. He’s also a dad to three and an advisor to many start-ups, as well as an in-demand public speaker. Marcus gets a lot done while also working closely with how technology has impacted employees and brands....

David Meerman Scott is a marketing strategist, advisor to emerging companies, bestselling author of eight books, including three international bestsellers, and a professional speaker on topics including marketing, leadership, and social media. As a recovering marketing VP who now earns his living by speaking and writing books, David has gotten work done in a variety of ways. He was kind enough to...

Mark W. Schaefer is a globally-recognized blogger, speaker, educator, business consultant, and author who blogs at {grow} — one of the top marketing blogs in the world. Mark has worked in global sales, PR, and marketing positions for nearly 30 years and now provides consulting services as Executive Director of U.S.-based Schaefer Marketing Solutions. As you can imagine, we couldn’t wait to hear ho...