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#103 – Jason Richmond, CEO and Founder of Ideal Outcomes, Author of the book, Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth
Author Jason Richmond is a successful entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. Jason is an in-demand keynote speaker, widely recognized as a noted authority on helping companies build strong, sustained revenue growth by empowering their employees and developing energizing office cultures.
During his career of more than twenty years, Jason has assisted organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 100 companies. His book Culture Spark: 5 Steps to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth has been praised by corporate leaders as “groundbreaking,” “a great resource,” “inspiring,” and highly readable.”
#102 – 3strands Leadership - Rex Frank interviews David Russell
3Strands Leadership is the most simple yet powerful system for entrepreneurial-minded leaders to be their best. Manage 2 Win’s 3strands Leadership can transform someone without any leadership training or a seasoned executive into a better leader.
3strands Leadership has three disciplines that build upon one another: Systematic Power, Meaningful Work, and Sincere Gratitude.
Learn how 3strands Leadership makes you a better leader in this podcast.
#101 – Bob Wheeler, Financial Expert & Motivator, Book Author & Founder of The Money Nerve
As a man of true integrity with infectious energy, Bob Wheeler offers a simple and effective method for creating a healthy relationship with money. Bob is the founder of Founder of The Money Nerve. He hosts a weekly podcast, Money You Should Ask. Bob also conducts numerous Radical Abundance and Money at its CORE seminars internationally and across the U.S.A. Bob is a ‘CORE Energetics’ and Radical Aliveness Practitioner.
#100 – James Richardson, Founder of Premium Growth Solutions, author of Ramping Your Brand, Cultural anthropologist, Strategy consultant
James explains, “I’m here to democratize access to best practices in early-stage brand growth. BigCo paid me a lot to learn this stuff, but I don’t think they should have a monopoly on it. Look, I’m a fighter and a founder too.”
Dr. James Richardson helps leaders and their organizations “Think smarter about growth.”
Dr. Richardson is the founder of Premium Growth Solutions, a strategic planning consultancy for early-stage consumer packaged goods brands. As a professionally trained cultural anthropologist turned business strategist, he has helped more than 75 CPG brands with their strategic planning, including brands owned by Coca-Cola Venturing and Emerging Brands, The Hershey Company, General Mills, Kraft Foods, ConAgra Brands, and Frito-Lay as well as emerging brands such as Once Upon a Farm, Peatos, Ithaca Hummus, Mother Kombucha, Rebel Creamery, zaca recovery, and others.
James is the author of Ramping Your Brand: How to Ride the Killer CPG Growth Curve, the #1 Best-seller in Business Consulting on Amazon. He also hosts his own podcast — Startup Confidential, and his thoughts appear regularly in industry publications such as Foodnavigator.
#99 – Chala Dincoy - CEO & Founder of The Repositioning Expert who’s on a mission to change the world, one elevator pitch at a time.
Chala Dincoy is on a mission to change the world, one elevator pitch at a time. She is the CEO and Founder of The Repositioning Expert, a division of Coachtactics, and a Marketing Strategist who helps professional service companies change their messaging to attract more decision makers.
#98 – Tony Martignetti, Founder Inspired Purpose Coach, Chief Inspiration Officer, Leadership Development, Career Coach, The Virtual Campfire Podcast Host, Author
Tony is the founder of Inspired Purpose Coaching. He serves as an executive and leadership coach with a specialty in working with leaders and their teams to navigate through change and unlock their true potential. He supports leaders in gaining clarity so they can make well-informed decisions, improve their leadership skills, and ultimately increase their impact.
Tony is known for supporting leaders in finding clarity so that they are energized, unstoppable, and able to lead with a strong presence. When leaders unlock their potential and lead from a place of inspired purpose, their positive impact and powerful leadership are amplified exponentially.
#97 – Tony Guarnaccia, Founder Results Trained - Growth Strategist, Entrepreneur, Marketer, Author, Speaker, SaaS & AdTech Innovator
Tony Guarnaccia is widely recognized as an authority on digital marketing and has driven results for thousands of businesses across the globe, from small businesses to the Fortune 500.
Tony’s personal mission is to Democratize Marketing…
To level the playing field for every business to grow and succeed by sharing exactly what they need to do, how to do it, and providing the resources they need in a way that is easy-to-understand and simple-to-execute.
He believes that by growing small businesses, together we can impact not just our local communities but also our world by supporting the non-profits, charities, ministries and causes that drive positive change.
#96 – Echo Huang, CFA, CFP®, CPA, Wealth Management Expert, Founder of Echo Wealth Management
Echo Huang left China at age 20 to cross the ocean with nothing but $800 and the hope of achieving the American Dream. Her courage and dedication fueled her journey through the business world over the next twenty years, gaining experience working in financial planning firms of all sizes before venturing off on her own.
Today, as founder and President of Echo Wealth Management with multiple designations such as CFP®, Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license, and Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter, Echo helps the country's top executives and entrepreneurs take the complexity out of their finances, giving them the confidence to follow their dreams and achieve their goals.
#95 - Rod Khleif, Director and Founder of The Lifetime CashFlow Academy
Rod Khleif is an entrepreneur, real estate investor, multiple business owner, author, mentor, and community philanthropist who is passionate about business, life, success, and giving back. As one of the country’s top real estate trainers, Rod has personally owned and managed over 2,000 properties.
Rod is Host of the Top-Ranked iTunes Real Estate Podcast which has been downloaded more than 8,000,000 times – “The Lifetime Cash Flow Through Real Estate Investing Podcast.” Rod is the author of “How to Create Lifetime Cash Flow Through Multifamily Properties” considered to be an essential “textbook” for aspiring multifamily investors.
As an accomplished entrepreneur, Rod has built several successful multi-million dollar businesses. As a community philanthropist, Rod founded and directs The Tiny Hands Foundation, which has benefited more than 75,000 community children and families in need. Rod has combined his passion for real estate investing and business development coaching with his personal philosophy of goal setting, envisioning, and manifesting success to become one of America’s top real estate investment and business development trainers.
#94 – Jonathon Hensley, Author, Speaker, Co-Founder & CEO at Emerge Interactive, Digital Transformation & Product Consultant
Jonathon Hensley is co-founder and CEO of Emerge, a digital product consulting firm. For more than two decades, Jonathon has helped startups, Fortune 100 brands, technology leaders, large regional health networks, non-profit organizations and more, transform their businesses by turning strategy, user needs and new technologies into valuable digital products and services. Jonathon writes and speaks about his experiences and insights from his career, and regularly hosts interviews with business leaders and industry insiders.
Originally from Silicon Valley, Jonathon got into the digital product space inspired by the incredible people developing new technologies all around him and the possibilities they unlocked. This fueled his curiosity to understand how technology transforms the ways in which people live and work.
#93 – Siimon Reynolds, award-winning marketing expert, performance coach, and the author of WIN FAST
Siimon Reynolds founded his first company at 23 years old and went on to build the 15th biggest marketing services group in the world, consisting of 54 companies in 14 countries employing over 6,000 employees.
He is currently a leading expert on high performance, having earned more than 50 awards and touting a 30-year career as an owner and leader of many successful companies. Siimon mentors entrepreneurs and CEOs from all over the world and has coached more than 1,000 high achievers, including leading celebrities and very high net-worth individuals.
Siimon's latest book, WIN FAST, is a go-to manual for today’s busy, on-the-go achiever that offers short, digestible chapters packed with actionable strategies and zero fluff.
#92 – Lance Graulich, Founder and CEO of Ion Franchising
Lance Graulich is the Founder & CEO of ION Franchising, an industry leading franchise consulting and development group, that represents over 500 franchise brands & business opportunities within 90 categories.
As a start-up expert and former multi-state franchisee of Wingstop and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Lance has more than 25 years of experience and has served as President of various franchise advisory councils and boards advising emerging franchise brands. He has helped a multitude of companies grow efficiently & effectively, and routinely provides advisory services to private equity firms covering the restaurant industry.
Lance is currently the founder of a doughnut chain called Pinkbox Doughnuts in Las Vegas, and his latest start up bakery project is with a Food Network star.
#91 – Margy Feldhuhn, Co-Owner of Interview Connections
Margy Feldhuhn is the co-owner of Interview Connections, a podcast booking agency located in Rhode Island. She joined the company in 2016 as a contractor, becoming the first employee in 2017 and equal co-owner by 2018. She has helped to quickly scale the business by designing and implementing systems to increase revenue, streamline operations and achieve the highest quality client experience. Margy has taken on a creative role in the agency as well, co-hosting and producing podcast and video content for the company.
Margy is active in animal rescue, and organizes a yearly fundraiser called Art for Animals. In 2019 she was recognized for her efforts with a "Humane Heroes" award.
#90 – Keith Knapp, Entrepreneur, Business Credit Expert, Account Executive at Credit Suite
Keith Knapp is a nationally recognized speaker and educator in business, marketing, and credit. With over 20 years of financial experience and business to business marketing and sales, Keith is recognized as the go to for financial product development, marketing, and lead generation. Keith is a respected blogger with multiple publications on credit and business credit published across multiple platforms in various industries.
Keith has the privilege of running the affiliate & partner program at Credit Suite working with thousands of businesses to offer business credit and funding as a strategic add on to their current business models. From startups to internationally recognized businesses, Keith has consulted with some of the biggest and best businesses out there to develop lucrative strategies for everyone involved.
#89 – Aaron Walker, Life and Business Coach, Founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind
Aaron Walker is a life and business coach and the founder of Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind. He is the creator of The Mastermind Playbook, an incredible resource for starting, running and scaling masterminds, and the author of View From The Top – Living a Life of Significance. Aaron has founded more than a dozen companies over the past 41 years and attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with mastermind counterparts like Dave Ramsey, Dan Miller, Ken Abraham, and other amazing entrepreneurs.
Aaron lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife and family.
#88 – Ira Wolfe, Keynote & TEDx Speaker, Author, President of Success Performance Solutions
Ira S Wolfe is the founder of Success Performance Solutions and president of Poised for the Future Company. He is a popular presenter at SHRM and business conferences around the country. He is the author of 6 books including his latest, Recruiting in the Age of Googlization, which was recognized as one of the best HR and Recruiting books of all-time by Book Authority. He is also founder of the Googlization Nation community, host of the podcast Geeks Geezers Googlization and a frequent contributor to HR and business blogs including CornerstoneonDemand’s ReWork and Medium.
#87 – Elizabeth McCourt, International Leadership Expert, Executive Coach, TEDx Speaker, and Author
Elizabeth McCourt is an executive coach with a TEDx talk entitled, “Why You Should Spill Your Secrets.” She often works with C-suite clients on their leadership challenges and speaks globally about resilience, mindset, and the non-linear path to success.
Prior to founding McCourt Leadership Group, she worked as an executive recruiter in financial services for Wells Fargo, UBS, and Ameriprise. Since 2013 she has participated in the prestigious Recruiter’s Roundtable with On Wall Street magazine. Prior to being a recruiter, she worked as a trial lawyer in product liability and class actions.
#86 – Siimon Reynolds, award-winning marketing expert, performance coach, and the author of WIN FAST
Siimon Reynolds founded his first company at 23 years old and went on to build the 15th biggest marketing services group in the world, consisting of 54 companies in 14 countries employing over 6,000 employees.
He is currently a leading expert on high performance, having earned more than 50 awards and touting a 30-year career as an owner and leader of many successful companies. Siimon mentors entrepreneurs and CEOs from all over the world and has coached more than 1,000 high achievers, including leading celebrities and very high net-worth individuals. Siimon's latest book, WIN FAST, is due to be released on August 25th, 2020 – it is a go-to manual for today’s busy, on-the-go achiever that offers short, digestible chapters packed with actionable strategies and zero fluff.
#85 – Steve Taubman, International Speaker and Bestselling Author of Bulletproof
Steve Taubman is an international speaker and the bestselling author of Bulletproof: What If Everything That Bugged You, Blocked You, or Brought You Down...Didn’t?
Steve is the author of multiple books and a celebrated performance trainer who has worked with Coca Cola, Johnson and Johnson, Toyota, the Boston Celtics, the Navy Seals, and more. His mental toughness process creates teams that are more engaged, productive, profitable, and energized. Learn more at http://www.mentaltoughnessu.com/stevetaubman
#84 – Kris Plachy, Executive Coach and Expert in Entrepreneurial Management
Kris Plachy is an executive coach and expert on entrepreneurial management. for Entrepreneurial Management. Kris earned her leadership stripes in a corporate start up culture and was quickly and consistently recognized as a top performing leader, year after year. Despite the changes in the market and in the business, Kris consistently built teams that not only won together, but stuck together.
The Five Step Management System is Kris’ Signature Strategy. After 25 years of leading, managing and coaching leaders, Kris has a unique ability to quickly assess challenges and apply immediate, simple solutions.