Your Business Greatness

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," talks to Chris McShanag, CEO of MedVA and BizVA, about his journey and the role of virtual assistants (VAs) in business growth. Chris has a successful track record in guiding organizations from start-ups to prosperity in sectors like h...

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," talks to, CEO of Ingenium, Heather Johnson, an expert in hazardous waste management with over 20 years of experience. Her innovative approach for sustainable waste management has positioned her company as an industry leader in waste en...

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness, host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and DEI Consultant at "Your Choice Coach," talks to Dr. Baktari, CEO of E national testing E7 Health and US drug test centres. Dr. Baktari brings over 20 years of clinical and administrative and entrepreneurial experience and has been a triple board-certified physician specialising i...

On today's episode of ' Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Kitty Hart, VP of Client Brand Experience at Heroic Productions. Kitty talks about the challenges and trends Heroic Productions is noticing in the current business climate following the COVID-19 pandemic. Kitty talks about...

Simone Sloan, Executive strategist, Founder of Your Choice Coach, hosts a discussion with Paul Jackson, Founder and CEO of Method. Paul is a two-time entrepreneur who believes in building software for small businesses that work just like they do. He describes himself as having optimism, grit, and pessimism all at the same time. Through his journey in business, he has created an automation tool for...

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Raul Ochoa. Raul Hernandez Ochoa, Founder of Do Good Work and an experienced digital growth operator and strategist. He helps bootstrap digital businesses achieve profitable growth by using marketing to create new sales opp...

On today's episode of 'Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Mickie Kennedy. He is the Founder  and President of E-releases. The company helps small businesses, startups, and authors get website traffic and better-quality customers through coverage in the media. Mickie helps small bu...

Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Valerie Hayes. She is a fractional COO and is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds, push through those roadblocks, and become an industry leader. Three Key Points If you don't have the infrastructure in place to support that increase in sales and increase in fulfillment needs, then it's not going to w...

On today's episode of ' Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Bernadette Smith. She is the Founder and CEO of the Equality Institute and an IBPA Benjamin Franklin booksellers Gold medal award-winning author of three books on LGBTQ inclusion. She has been featured in places like USA Today, the New York Tim...

On today's episode of ' Your Business Greatness,' host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at "Your Choice Coach," speaks with Linc Kroeger. He is the President of Knight Moves and is passionate about fighting social inequity. He served on a technical association for Iowa boards for three years. Podcast Key Points: Linc talks about Knight Moves, the objectives, and who...

In today´s episode of ‘ Your Business Greatness’ , host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach and DEI Consultant at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with Kim Nichols, CEO, and Founder of Franklin Apprenticeships. Kim is on a mission to unlock the potential of the American workforce by creating a new route for tech careers via apprenticeship  and work-based education. Pod...

In today´s episode of ‘ Your Business Greatness,’ host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with guest Alexander Kopelman, Co-founder, President, and CEO of the ‘Children's Art Guild’ as well as a Writer, Advocate, and Social Entrepreneur. He talks about his personal and professional journey and how he arrive to a space of authenticity. Al...

In today's episode of ‘ Your Business Greatness,’ host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach,” speaks with guest Ingrid Naranjo, an Investment Banker Executive with two decades of experience working across four continents. She's passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, education, and non-profit work to improve communities.  Ingrid shares...

In today´s episode of ‘ Your Business Greatness’ , host Simone Sloan, Executive Strategist, Founder, and Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach”, speaks with guest Dr. Donna-Demetri Friedman, Executive Director of Mosaic Mental Health. Dr. Friedman shares the work that she’s doing with Mosaic Mental Health and the services that they are  providing. She also discusses some of her accomplishment...

In this episode, Marla Persky, CEO and President of WOMN LLC, talks about her experience serving on Corporate Boards of Directors.  If you are thinking about serving on a board, Marla shares questions you should consider and reflect on before  deciding to pursue  board service.  She provides tips on how to best position yourself to be considered for a corporate Board position....

Glenville (Glen) Forde is Founder & CEO of Elevate 360 and an entrepreneur.  Glen founded Elevate 360 to provide consulting, coaching and inclusion practices for organizations and individuals but with a geared focus on elevating underserved groups and the power of women.  He believes there are 3 strategic actions in building an authentic sense of belonging in any culture/organization...

In this episode,  Barbara  Jones, Founder/CEO of Lillii RNB Inc., shares her journey as a woman in technology and entrepreneur. Eight years in business, she shares her fears and courage that enabled her  to propel and scale her company. She says  she values her team.  She is Founder of Freeing Returns,  an Enterprise SaaS platform that helps retailers with store retur...

In this episode, Phil Jalovec defines “relationship.” He says it starts with a relationship vision.   He also shares how to tell when we are emotionally unavailable and its impact on our ability to build strong bonds.  He explains the degrees of safety either physical, financial,  or  emotional and how these  feelings of safety either allow or block our  ability to bu...

In this episode Monica Dema, CEO of MDINC, shares her perspective on digital content trends and how to distinguish between “good” and “bad” content. About Monica Dema: After working in a life sciences consultancy, Monica worked with Silicon Valley's best and realized there was still more to achieve. She created a digital agency that helps small companies leverage an on-demand marketing team and he...

In this episode, Simone Sloan, explores teaming. The idea of collaborating to leverage skillsets to bring a higher level of value to clients. Her co-collaborators include Elizabeth Eiss, Deborah Boulanger, and Ruchi Pinniger. Listen and learn how these four dynamic women bring teaming to life.  About Elizabeth Eiss: Elizabeth Eiss is a results guru who helps others get work done well. She’s a...

In today´s episode of ‘ Your Business Greatness’ , host Simone Sloan the Executive Strategist, Founder and Leadership & Executive Coach at “Your Choice Coach”, speaks with guest Bice Del Gado, Founder and CEO of ASD Solutions, a Non-profit organization. The organization’s objective is to provide various resources for Career Development, Life Coaching Community Support and Advocacy for the Neur...

In this episode Brandon Starkoff, CEO of Transparent Partners, shares his experience working with companies to help them  transform their brands. Transparent Partners is an independent marketing technology and data consultancy.  Brandon is a 10 year cancer survivor who shares how that  experience has shaped his appreciation for his work, impact on people and his clients, and his abi...

In today´s episode of Your Business Greatness, host Simone Sloan, Founder of Your Choice Coach, an executive strategy, leadership coaching, and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) firm, speaks with guest Kelly Fuller, DEI Consultant at Your Choice Coach. Their discussion revolves around what diversity, equity, and inclusion look like during the age of COVID-19 and what it means to bring your ful...

“It Takes a Long Time To Be On Time.” Elise Krentzel's professional journey has never been scripted. She drums to her own beat. She is very determined and is driven to experience new ideas, new concepts, and different cultures. In this episode, Elise shares her journey, challenges, insights from her travels with the band KISS,  living in Japan and Europe, and her work in South Africa. She is...

“Engage, Influence, Change” In this episode, Diane Winston, CEO and Founder of Winston Strategic Partners and Simone Sloan, CEO of Your Choice Coach,  share their experiences of working together through  value alignment, partnership, and collaboration.  We share our mantras and how we operationalize them both professionally and personally.  We also share why it is important to...