Jon Schram is the co-founder & CEO of The Purple Guys. He’s responsible for strategic management and the growth of their company. 25+ Years of business and IT experience has taught Jon the business of business. He has built three successful startups and painfully learned powerful lessons from bad partnerships in the first two…

Jared Curry is the CEO and founder of Scope 16 Marketing. He is an 18 year old New Jersey native. At 16 years of age he read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and it completely changed his life. He started learning everything about Digital Marketing through an online course together with his friend in his junior year at High School…

As the creator of both the Lean Out Method and the 90 Day Lean Out Planner, Crista has been helping businesses achieve accelerated results and increased profitability for two decades.

Known as the "Business Optimizer", Crista helps leaders quickly cut through the noise and focus on optimizing the core things that will make the biggest impact to grow and scale a business…

Ablorde Ashigbi is the CEO of 4Degrees, a Chicago-based technology company applying machine intelligence to help teams in relationship-driven industries manage their most important source of opportunity - their professional networks. Ablorde speaks to audiences about the importance of relationship management in company building – with teammates, customers, investors, and advisors…

Malorie Nicole is the founder of Malorie Nicole and host of the Abundantly Clear Podcast. She’s not your typical entrepreneurial and executive coach, or what you’d picture when you hear “subconscious reprogramming specialist.” She’s a survivor who’s thriving, and helping others do the same.

Overcoming a traumatic brain injury, losing parts of her memory, and battling major health issues led Malorie’s to help leaders of established businesses experienced huge breakthroughs based on her laser-focused neuroscience-based process.

The subconscious mind accounts for 95-98% of all our…

Jennifer Chapman used to be a workaholic, known as the go-to person for getting things done and managing the most difficult clients at a Fortune 500 consulting firm. She thrives in challenging situations, proving to others time and time again that she can be invincible.

Today, Jennifer is the founder of Ambition Leadership, and an International Coach Federation (ICF) certified leadership coach, working with STEM leaders, team members, and college students to better understand their emotional intelligence (EQ). She helps them increase their behavioral strengths and eliminate weaknesses so they can blast through any glass ceiling to maximize their personal fulfillment and career advancement. (STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)

Jennifer Davis is an Executive Leadership Coach and Founder of Jennifer Davis Coaching. Her leadership coaching, speaking and workshops create an environment of curiosity that enables improved performance through changes in awareness, perspective, beliefs, actions and emotions.

Join us for our interview of Eric Partaker. He is a Peak Performance Expert who helps CEOs, entrepreneurs, and leaders reach their full potential, become better leaders, and build better companies. His approach draws from his time advising Fortune 50 CEOs at McKinsey, his experience helping build up Skype’s multi-billion dollar success story, and his own entrepreneurial journeys – together with behavioral science from Stanford University, as well as techniques from the worlds of elite sports and the military, areas where peak performance is key…

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.