Thrive LouD with Lou Diamond

An entrepreneur from a young age, Stephanie Cartin walked away from her corporate career in 2012 to launch   Socialfly , a leading social-first digital and influencer marketing agency based in New York City. Within eight years, Socialfly has been named to Inc. 5000's fastest growing private companies for two years in a row and has worked with over 200 brands including the Girl Scouts, WE tv,...

  Ben Reinberg started building his commercial real estate empire at 24 years old with nothing but shoe leather and a lot of hustle. Today he owns over $500 million dollars in assets across the country and shares his wealth building, commercial real estate investing, self-improvement and leadership insights and knowledge with his audience around the world. Ben shares his thoughts on leadershi...

Robert Glazer is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of  Acceleration Partners , a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. He is the author of the inspirational newsletter  Friday Forward , and the #1 Wall Street Journal, USA Today and international bestselling...

Twenty-eight years ago, Jeff Buehner came across the writings of the richest man to ever walk the earth, Sultan Musa of Mali. No one’s ever come close to this guy, not Jeff Bezos and not Elon Musk. The Sultan could not talk openly about how he learned these secrets, so he embedded the principles of his success in a fairytale so compelling that centuries later nearly everyone in the world is famili...

Ruth Rathblott is an expert on inclusion and diversity. She is a TEDx and inspirational speaker, and an award-winning nonprofit leader. Ruth was born with a limb difference and speaks to companies on issues of equity and belonging, the gifts of being unique, and the freedom of accepting your differences. Her latest book  "Singlehandedly: Learning to Unhide and Embrace Connection." is one you...

Sean is the Founder and CEO of BluWave where he leads overall strategy and related sales, marketing, and operational activities. Sean is a ~20-year veteran of the private equity industry. Prior to founding BluWave, he was a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of SFW Capital Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm in New York specializing in information, data, and network e...

John Bowens is one of the most sought-after and respected educators in the self-directed IRA industry. As Director, Head of Education and Investor Success at Equity Trust Company, John draws from his 20 years in the real estate industry and his experience as an active real estate investor. In his travels across the U.S. and virtually, he has trained 60,000 investors during more than 400 workshops...

Jenna Blumenthal has spent 20 years as an executive in Corporate America counseling Fortune 500 companies on growth strategy and digital transformation and left during the pandemic pivot. Her latest book, Corporate Rehab: Ditch The Hustle Culture And Thrive Again , is the message all professionals can benefit checking out. She now coaches executive women to do their own Corporate Rehab , and grow...

In Las Vegas, where “you can’t beat the house”, there are a few elite players casinos fear. These are the Advantage Players™ (APs). Experts at "unbeatable" games like blackjack, they dominate by combining superior skill, lightning insight, and razor-sharp instinct, winning when the biggest bets are on the table. An AP and expert blackjack player turned venture capitalist and hedge fund manager who...

Seth Schachner is Managing Director of Strat Americas , a Los Angeles-based consultancy that provides strategic guidance and helps clients with media and technology partnerships.  Strat Americas has worked with clients in digital & social music, Web 3, live streaming, beauty subscriptions, AI and enterprise software. Recent clients include Microsoft, NFT-maker Vivid Labs, IPSY, live streamer...

Deepa Purushothaman is a former senior executive and a corporate inclusion visionary. She challenges and redefines the status quo of leadership, success, and power by centering the experiences of Women of Color. As a senior partner at Deloitte, Deepa spent more than 20 years helping clients grow. She was also the US Managing Partner of WIN, Deloitte's renowned Women's Initiative, and was the first...

Bradley Hoos is CEO of The Outloud Group, an influencer marketing agency that helps brands tell their stories through influencers. A proven marketing innovator, Bradley is responsible for setting company strategy, building client relationships, and making new business models come to life. Previously, Bradley founded Grand Circus, a Google For Entrepreneurs Tech Hub and coding bootcamp in Detroit....

Growing up as an award winning dancer, Tori Kubick later found her true love, the antiquated art form of Mongolian contortion. Many would tell her it was too late and doubted her dreams, she shirked them and hopped on a plane, and then later on horseback to make it all the way to the remote birthplace of contortion: Mongolia. Her full-grown womanly body was morphed day after day as she studied wit...

Susie Carder is our profit coach. She has helped thousands of businesses rise, have radical success strategies, taking them from ordinary to explosive! And when you coach with her, being average or running an average business instantly drop from your list of options. She is relentless in pursuing your goals, comes with a 20-year proven track record, building two ten million dollar companies under...

Janna Johnson was diagnosed with Lyme disease, hypothyroidism, systemic candida, heavy metal toxicity, anemia, and leaky gut. She took her health into her own hands and began to use food as medicine. She starved the disease instead of feeding it. She completely eradicated Lyme from her body. She healed her gut. She healed her thyroid and it began functioning on its own. She rid myself of every sin...

Julienne B. Ryan spent the balance of her career working in Human Resources, developing talent and championing the benefits of developing diverse communities in corporations, associations and schools. Julienne is a Communications Catalyst. She helps people listen better so they can have more constructive conversations. The result is that they are able to have enriched communications, develop more...

Sarah Noll Wilson is on a mission to help leaders people better. Our goal is to empower leaders to understand and honor the beautiful complexity of the humans they serve. We create a safe, honest environment, preparing people to deal with real-world conflict, have more meaningful conversations, and create purposeful relationships. Working with CEO's, HR leaders, and organizations that care deeply...

Brent Mekosh is a CFP™ and Professional and Certified Investment Management Analyst®, that brings a brilliant, entrepreneurial perspective to his clients and community alike. Brent’s first book, In the Shadow of a Black Sun will be published in early 2023. Brent lives in Phoenix with his wife Paige, their children Nicholas and Arden, and their dog Kansas. He is a certified SCUBA diver and an instr...

Michelle Katz & Stephanie Gitlin met in college where they developed a life long friendship and a passion for their alma mater - Cornell University. So much so that their gratitude for their college years launched a podcast program called Cornell (thank) U where they introduce listeners to past and present Cornellians to hear where they are now and why they are most thankful to Cornell.  As p...

Isabella Masucci is the founder of the “ Masucci Method ” - a ghostwriting agency that specializes in transforming podcasts and online courses into self-published books. Learn all about Isabella, her love for writing, how this idea came to be and what the subtitle of this episode is all about as Thrive LouD’s special series “ Cool Things People are Doing in Podcasting ” continues. ***CONNECT WITH...

Adele Williams is the president of “ State of the Pod ” - a student-driven podcast at Cornell University giving emerging topics in science and technology the attention they deserve. As a former Thrive LouD intern, Adele has double-clicked down on developing incredible content for the world to digest. Learn all about Adela and this incredible initiative as part of Thrive LouD’s special serious - “C...

Minter Dial is a professional speaker, author and elevator, specialized in leadership, branding and transformation. An agent of change, he’s a three-time entrepreneur, who has exercised twelve different métiers and moved country fifteen times. Minter’s core career stint of 16 years was spent as a top executive at L’Oréal, member of the worldwide Executive Committee for the Professional Products Di...

Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling returns to Thrive LouD with Lou Diamond in a special 'catchup' episode. He still works all around the country performing his solo act of rapid-fire filthy jokes and the classic finale, “Stump The Joke Man.” and guests on many of the top national radio shows and podcasts. Jackie shares with Lou all about his own popular podcast Stand-Up Memories , why he believes HE l...

Sarah E. Brown is a B2B tech marketing leader, author, startup mentor, and ecosystem builder with more than a decade of experience scaling SaaS companies through customer-centric marketing. She specializes in leading high-performing teams that meet and exceed OKRs while fostering an environment where people feel supported and empowered to do their best work. Sarah created and executed the marketin...

Chris Jarvis helps you see differently, so you can business differently, money differently, life differently. For decades, Chris has helped hundreds of successful entrepreneurs and wealthy families build, protect, and transfer significant wealth. Along the way, he discovered the unusual paths to standing out and reaching the highest levels of success. Amazingly, each one of these strategies is sym...