Thrive LouD with Lou Diamond

Lorraine Dallmeier is the award-winning CEO of Formula Botanica, the online organic cosmetic formulation and business school, which has trained over 11,000 organic formulators and indie beauty entrepreneurs in 170+ countries. A Biologist and Chartered Environmentalist by training, Lorraine loves sharing her mantra of hard work, perseverance and systemization to get the message out to more female e...

Claudia Sasse is a heart-centered visionary intuitive and catalyst for light-filled transformation. One of her greatest joys is supporting her multi-talented clients to channel the wholeness of who they are into meaningful, joy-filled work that not only changes the world but also nourishes their soul. She uses her multiple claire-sensory gifts and her down-to-earth practicality to help them build...

Dana Bowling is a business and motivational coach with a passion for inspiring women in the beginning stages of starting a business. She has helped hundreds of women who have big dreams, huge ideas, and tons of passion get over their fears to launch and grow their companies onward and upward. She is the host of the AMP it UP podcast - a show for Ambitious, Motivated, and Positive women. In additio...

Dr. Angela Alexander is an Audiologist that has evaluated and provided therapy to hundreds of clients to help them hear and understand more quickly and accurately over more than a decade. ​She owns and operates Auditory Processing Institute ( APD Support) , where she trains her peers in the skills needed to provide effective APD diagnostic and therapeutic options.  In addition,  APD Supp...

Dom Faussette is an award winning speaker, best selling author and founder of ThinkReactlead LLC, He is a master at building strong teams by using effective communication, diversity and rapport. He is a strong believer in vulnerable leadership and enjoys sharing real-world insights that will help both leaders and team members achieve bigger goals today and also build new leaders for tomorrow. He a...

Amberly Lago is a leading expert in the field of resilience, transformation, and health and wellness. She shares her passion for turning tragedies into triumphs at exclusive workshops, public events, and corporate summits, and schools. She offers a carefully curated set of practical tools to teach others how to tap into their superpower of resilience and persevere through any of life's challenges....

As a resiliency expert, 5X author, executive coach and speaker, Allison Graham works with accomplished professionals and business owners so they can do all they do without the guilt, destructive stress and risk of burnout. Her problem-solving framework, tackles topics such as efficiencies, productivity, imposter syndrome, chronic worrying and revenue generation. Her latest book, Take Back Your Wee...

Proving the impossible is possible!  For the last 10 years Marisela Abasta has been helping people who are stressed out, overwhelmed feeling stuck in life by teaching them a powerful process to getting unstuck so they can live life with more Confidence, Clarity and Courage! But she’s on a mission to stop suicides by sharing with the world what depression really is. She’s passionate about chan...

Kathy Klotz-Guest , MA, MBA, MLA, is a business storytelling strategist, author, speaker, and comedian. Founder of Keeping it Human , her mission is to help organizations turn jargon-monoxide into compelling business stories, abolish boring marketing, and uncover boldly creative ideas for marketing content, products, branding and more. She calls them idea orgasms! A podcaster (Keeping it Human's I...

Inga Deksne is a social media and business strategist.  She helps business owners establish their social media presence from scratch. She created the High Impact Happiness brand because she loves working with businesses who create huge impact in the world and she wants them to be happy while they are running their business. She is the proud founder of the “Magical Creators” community that has...

In a bit of a twist, Thrive LOUD intern and producer of this episode Sophie Grippo sat down and interviewed Lou Diamond to commemorate the 600th episode of Thrive LOUD. In this episode, entrepreneur and the founder of Thrive LOUD shares his move from working on Wall Street to starting Thrive.  He also highlights the common theme of 'connecting' and how it is the center of all of the work he d...

Chef Lizette (Lizette Lopez De Arriaga) is OWNER of CHEF LIZETTE ENTERTAINMENT, a lifestyle brand advocating living more healthy using food as the foundation “one dish at a time”. Over the past 25 years of feeding the public Chef Lizette has cooked for over 5 million people including 5 US Presidents. As a speaker she works with organizations, private clients and schools across the country giving e...

Trey Roth is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, platinum-selling songwriter and music producer, avid learner, hard worker. He is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in marketing technology. Serial entrepreneur and skilled leader with a heart for growing people and businesses. He is the founder of YAY STACK -- a social network for authentic referrals and recom...

Monica Tanner , married to her best friend, is a boss mom to 4 small humans,  is a weekly podcaster at On the Brighter Side ~Marriage For Entrepreneurs and is a relationship and intimacy Sexpert. She helps Passionate Entrepreneurs who are building or scaling their business stay happily married by up-leveling their commitment, communication and connection skills. Her goal is to help you create...

Lindsey Curry , Bestselling Author, Speaker, Trained Dancer, Choreographer, Entrepreneur, Thought-leader, Wife, and Mom of 5 brings decades of lessons learned that will make you laugh, cry and best of all take you to the next level of your evolution. She brings a fierce wit to topics such as fear of failure, self- acceptance and what it really means to be yourself shamelessly. She is an ember carr...

Neil Sahota is a futurist and leading expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other next generation technologies.  He is also an IBM Master Inventor, former leader of the IBM Watson Group and professor at the University of California at Irvine. He is the author of Own the AI Revolution (McGraw Hill) and works with the United Nations which uses AI to solve issues like poverty, homelessness...

Born and raised in Kentucky, Vanessa Price first caught the wine bug working in a small winery down south. She followed her passion for wine and moved to New York City in 2007, starting as a sommelier on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From there she moved on to wine education, PR and events for wine-focused client services, consulting for private wine collectors and wine lists in NYC restaurant...

Jesse Bradley is a former professional soccer goalkeeper, radio host, podcaster, author and speaker.  He didn't grow up believing in God and never expected to become a pastor.  Yet his unique journey -- Overcoming life threatening illness (fight for my life for a year and ten years to recover), changing careers from soccer to pastor providing wisdom of servant leadership, becoming an adv...

Through her regular live streams, online courses – Tapping Into Abundance and Tapping Into Your Big Vision, her weekly Facebook show Big Vision TV and online community, Melanie Moore inspires you to not only think and dream bigger, but she also gives you the tools to help you change the trajectory of your life. She helps people at a crossroads in their life to get clear on their vision, then to co...

Brandy Wilson Edwards is a Texas attorney turned Empowerment Speaker and Coach in Dallas, Texas. She is the founder of The Self-Love Challenge and emphasizes the importance of self-love, confidence and courage. Her message is a kind reminder to make empowering choices that help you believe in yourself more and love yourself without conditions Part of Thrive LOUD's continuing series on Elevating th...

Charity Gibson is the National Account Coordinator for Peerless Umbrella, owner of Green Banana Social, a founding Chef and Executive Committee member of industry 501(c)3 PromoKitchen, and the host of the Badass Women of Promo Podcast .  She started her career on the distributor side of the promotional products and decorated apparel industry,  and moved to the supplier/manufacturer side...

Rachel Haley has worked in the finance and tech industry for the past 10 years. Rachel started her career at Hall Capital Partners in the portfolio management group, focusing on portfolio management, market analysis and financial modeling. After Hall Capital, Rachel moved to Salesforce to work in the finance and strategy department. In 2015, she Co-Founded Clarus Designs, which now has over 100 em...

Daniel Ponce De Leon is a professional baseball player, husband, father and author. Daniel wrote a book entitled One Line Drive, about his return to pitching after being hit in the head on the mound in AAA. He suffered a major brain injury and subsequent surgery/rehab.  The story is about perseverance, family, faith, baseball, and triumph over tragedy that is extremely relatable to any person...

Leslie Ehm will reach into your soul, pull out your most powerful authentic self, and help release your badass swagger into the waiting world. Former TV host and advertising Creative Director turned training guru, Leslie Ehm has spent decades traveling the globe with her award-winning company Combustion , working with executives and teams from top organizations like Google, Disney, Pepsico, TD Ban...

Lynda Sunshine West is a Mastermind/Accountability Coach who helps driven women entrepreneurs gain confidence to ask for their worth, clarity to attract clients TO them, and focus to get faster results. For an entire year, in 2015, she faced one fear every day. In doing so, she gained an exorbitant amount of confidence and teaches her clients how to do the same so they get paid what they are worth...