Thrive LouD with Lou Diamond

Andrea Pacini is a presentation coach and founder of Ideas on Stage UK . In the last 11 years, Ideas on Stage has worked with thousands of clients, including Microsoft, Lacoste, The World Bank and over 500 TEDx speakers. They specialize in working with established business owners who want to grow their business and increase their influence through great presenting. Andrea is on a mission to change...

Lindsay Tjepkema is the CEO and co-founder of Casted , the first Amplified Marketing Platform and the only audio and video podcast solution designed for enterprise marketers. With more than 15 years of experience in B2B marketing, including agency roles, leading brand marketing teams, and even running her own consulting agency, she’s a dynamic leader who’s had tremendous success building and growi...

Shep Hyken is a  customer service and experience expert  and the Chief Amazement Officer of Shepard Presentations.  He is a  New York Times  and  Wall Street Journal  bestselling author and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for lifetime achievement in the speaking profession. Shep works with companies and organizations that wan...

Sonja Pemberton is a professional speaker and transformational catalyst. With a career spanning more than 25 years, she has been privileged to lead, mentor, and coach across all career levels and generations, sharing her knowledge and expertise in culture and inclusion, and leadership development. The movement she has founded, “Dispelling the Myth of the Other,” has been spoken on and taught world...

Lisa Buckley began her career puppeteering on a LIVE morning show back in 1980 and continues to work as a professional puppeteer. Her talent as a performer has brought her literally around the world, performing in  Cambodia, Philippines, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Madagascar, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Haiti and Bangladesh.  She has worked on countless stage productions, movies and television shows...

Kevin Pereau is Founder and CEO of TranscendIT Health, a healthcare management consulting firm focused on helping healthcare payers, providers and innovators better connect with consumers. He is a leading consumer advocate in healthcare, and is author of The Digital Health Revolution and It Takes a Village. He spent the early part of his career managing strategy and management consulting firms wit...

Rob Thomas is the Founder and President of RobThomasUSA, and he is the creator of the Rob Thomas Method (RTM) of Networking and Networking in Diners.   Rob is an entrepreneur, the author of Who Do You NEED to Meet? and is a dynamic public speaker. Rob works with business professionals to help them develop their networking skills to help them achieve business and personal success. Through his...

Sometimes you find something you misplaced and it has an appreciated value beyond your expectations. Well more than a year ago we did a catch up episode with Alexa Curtis and it never made it to the show stream. The team at Thrive LOUD dug it up and it's pure GOLD! Enjoy, what was, a Thrive LOUD Catch-up episode with Alexa Curtis recorded on Instagram LIVE right around the time of the 500th episod...

Dan Ashburn and his industry-leading team are responsible for delivering 8-figures in annual sales on Amazon. Operating in online marketing for 17 years, he is an international speaker, advisor, co-founder of SellerEvents, co-founder of Titan Network , head mentor on China Magic and more recently the co-creator of Amazing Selling Machine. Dan comes on Thrive LOUD to chat with Lou about where thing...

Having left a successful career on Wall Street to pursue her vocation as an artist, Virginia Dutton lives and works in New York, New York. She has an uncanny aptitude for sensing, focusing, and expressing energy in color and texture are at the heart of her gift for painting. Her ability to express herself through different and unusual media creates art in which energy takes chromatic, solid form....

Athena Severi is known the world over as the “Goddess of Networking” and a key person to know in the online sales sector. With 15 years of Marketing and PR experience, she is a Sales Training master and renowned Public Speaker. As an expert at building communities and creating unique Mastermind groups with top names in various eCommerce sectors, she is also known to host and organize international...

Christopher coaches men to master themselves and go within to manifest their dream reality outside. From the time we were children, we were sold that to be “worthy” and “valuable” we’re supposed to be tough, not show any emotions, be strong and muscular, have a fancy car, clothes, and house, supposed to have it all together and have all the answers. We’re programmed to believe that our answers and...

David Mowery is The Chairman of Mowery Consulting Group, LLC – a public relations, public affairs and political consulting firm, based in Montgomery, Ala. David is a member of The American Association of Political Consultants Inaugural Class of 40 Under 40, The University of Georgia’s 2014 Class of 40 Under 40 Alumni, and was named a Rising Star by Campaigns and Elections Magazine in 2011. He is a...

Jen Hope is a Business and Executive Leadership Coach who leans on more than 20 years of executive experience, business acumen, and empathy to create a safe coaching environment where leaders can grow and thrive. Jen partners with leaders responsible for scaling organizations and has a wealth of experience in growing startup companies. Her business acumen and hands-on executive experience allow he...

Kate O’Neill is founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm committed to improving human experience at scale. Kate is widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is helping humanity prepare for an increasingly tech-driven future with her signature strategic optimism.  Her latest book, A Future So Bright: How Strategic Optimism Can Restore Our Humanity and Save the World is EXACTLY...

John Vuong is a seasoned sales professional and Internet marketer with an exceptional track record helping companies grow their clientele and profits. Over the last 15 years, He has developed a deep understanding of local marketing dynamics and consumer behavior. his entrepreneurial spirit and experience working with more than 5,000 local business owners inspired him to start his own company, Loca...

NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious Vivian, a RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier, and her books have been translated into 17 languages. As a born storyteller, Darynda grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, certain they went away the better...

Rob Ferre is an entertainer, speaker, game show host & Master of Ceremonies from Salt Lake City. He founded his company Life of the Party Entertainment in 2007 after spending 3 years in the family entertainment capital of the world, Orlando, Florida, where he worked for Disney, Universal and Nickelodeon. His entertainment company has been awarded Best of State three years running for Event DJ Serv...

Bill Humber t has been a Recruiter for 40 years, in an industry where fewer than 1% of Recruiters make it past 10 years. He pivoted every time he hit a wall. His business has been referred to as RecruiterGuy.com since 2001. His clients are spread across the US and many industries.  He only recruits for 1 company at a time and charges a flat monthly fee. “Just show me what the person looks lik...

For the 666th Episode of Thrive LOUD - we brought back author and speaker Sharón Lynn Wyeth. Sharón has spent the last 40 years developing the field of Neimology® Science.  So who better than her to look into the meaning of the names linked to the number '666' - the 'devil' and 'Lucifer'. We also look at some of the recent names that have been affecting all of us. And also make sure to check...

Ryan Richards has paved an incredible track record of success leading brand strategy teams and departments for many of the world’s Leading Creative Agencies, Fortune 500 Corporations, and Startups. At BBDO NY, Ryan led a team and budget of 10 strategists that repositioned AT&T from a phone company to a connected everything company. In this role, he activated a $3.6b marketing budget to drive all v...

Jena Axelrod is director and producer of the film Absurdity of Certainty , a surreal, spiritual, science documentary on the rise of the rigidity and polarization in the Western worldview, featuring Pari Center founder F. David Peat. Former author of a column ilLogic for SoulPancake where she flushed out many of the ideas for the film. Jena works as a comedian on stage and radio, most notably on Ja...

Keith Smith, co-Founder, and CEO of Payability , originally hails from the Pacific Northwest and now calls New York City home. Keith spent the initial few years of his career working as an analyst at a few financial institutions before founding CyberMortgage and then Zango. Keith was most recently co-Founder and CEO of BigDoor, which provides loyalty programs to large consumer brands, including; N...

Kirk Cooper is a former high school teacher turned CEO, who left his former career to start his own successful company, Ecom Automation Gurus . His business builds automated, highly profitable eCommerce stores for its users. They have helped dozens of investors make 5-figures a month passively. Kirk is an Entrepreneur.com contributor, and has been featured on Success Profiles Magazine, Thrive Glob...

For more than 25 years, Roberta Matuson, president of Matuson Consulting , has helped leaders in highly regarded companies, including General Motors, New Balance, and Microsoft, and small to medium-size businesses, achieve dramatic growth and market leadership through the maximization of talent. She’s the author of six books including, Evergreen Talent: How to Seed, Cultivate, and Grow a Sustainab...