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She’s back! Dr. Deborah Gilboa—aka Dr. G—returns to the podcast to share even more insights on all things resilience. She also breaks down everything you need to know about putting your name out into the media ether and meeting the right press partners.

Resilience expert, Deborah Gilboa, MD, aka “Dr. G” works with families, organizations, and businesses to identify the mindset and strategies to turn stress to an advantage. Renowned for her contagious humor, Dr. G works with groups across multiple generations, to rewire their attitudes and beliefs, and create resilience through personal accountability and a completely different approach to adversity. She is a leading media personality seen regularly on TODAY, Good Morning America and The Doctors. She is also featured frequently in the Washington Post, The New Times, Huffington Post, and countless other digital and print outlets. Dr. G is board certified attending family physician and is fluent in American Sign Language. She lives in Pittsburgh with her four boys.

When Kelsey Reidl decided to start her own nutrition and wellness business, she found herself turned off by the “sleazy” tactics taught in popular marketing programs. So she took matters into her own hands—developing a winning marketing strategy and forging an impressive career as an online business and marketing coach. Today she’s sharing some of her biggest insights with us. Listen in as she breaks down some of the biggest misconceptions about online marketing, and reveals what we can do to strengthen our strategies.

Kelsey Reidl is the founder of The Visionary Method, which is a weekly business coaching experience for aspiring & early-stage entrepreneurs who are ready to take their business from idea to full-time income, using a mix of innovative & time-honored growth strategies.

Her refreshing “No B.S.” approach to business & marketing has allowed her to work with 1000’s of individuals who want to; uncover their unique brilliance, sell services that stand out from the competition, and to reach a global audience so that they can do more of what they love, without sacrificing their sanity.

Kelsey also hosts a Top Podcast on the Canadian Entrepreneurship Charts called Visionary Life. In each episode, she chats with visionary entrepreneurs and creative thought leaders about the early challenges of starting their businesses, what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to marketing, as well as the realness of what it takes to build a business and a life filled with joy, success and limitless potential.

Kelsey lives in Toronto with her husband and rescue pup, Abby. She loves to explore the world in search of the best coffee shops, the most stunning nature, and the wildest experiences.

As the co-founder of Videosocials, Vikram Rajan takes the grunt work out of video blogging so you can have more time to grow your business, deepen your relationships, and expand your community. Today he tells us how he does it. During our conversation, we also take a deep dive into why video is an essential ingredient to a successful business.

Vikram Rajan is the co-founder of Videosocials, a community where over 115 lawyers, accountants & consultants are video blogging “together, fun & done!” using the social media automation. Vik is a frequent presenter at Bar Associations, CPA Societies, and other professional organizations.

When Sharon Holand Gelfand watched her son struggle with illness, she knew she had to take action. Now an accomplished nutritionist and author, Sharon helps her clients get better connected to their health and take charge of their lives. And today she’s helping us do the same. Listen in as she reveals more of her personal story, unpacks her winning GUT Method, and talks about the true importance of taking care of your gut.

Sharon Holand Gelfand is a holistic, functional and lifestyle nutritionist who helps get you in the driver’s seat of your health. She empowers busy, health-minded professional women over 40 with simple and effective home testing, giving them renewed energy, lowered stress, and control over their food and their lives. With something as simple as a snip of your hair, she can help you learn more about your body and your health without having to leave your home.

Author and profit coach Susie Carder knows all the right money-making moves—and today she’s imparting some of that wisdom to us. During our chat, Susie reveals how creating rogue spreadsheets helped her develop her winning method and explains why your net-worth will only go as far as your self-worth.

Susie Carder started out as a low paid hairdresser trying to support her two little girls. But working for someone else became a challenge (to say the least), so she decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood, sweat, and tears (mixed with cheap mascara) she went on to create, not one, but two $10 Million companies.

Her core genius is the ability to simplify complicated issues by creating simple proven systems that are guaranteed to create dramatic growth for any company. She has helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs increase their revenues by more than 3000% and worked with top business moguls including John Assaraf, Lisa Nichols, Steve Harvey, Doug Carter, and Paul Mitchell.

Her newest book (number 10) Power Your Profit is a bulletproof start-to-finish plan for taking your business from startup mode to the multi-million-dollar mark.

As the co-founders of Fireside Strategic, Dan King and Leeza McKeown joined forces to bring humanity and warmth back into the world of strategy. In today’s episode, they’re giving us an insider’s glimpse into their business, unpacking the true importance of embracing (and celebrating) human-centered leadership, and revealing why being your authentic self will help you make deeper and more meaningful connections.

Dan King is a tennis and meditation-loving lawyer turned executive coach. As a legal advisor to one of the Sharks on the Shark Tank TV show, he realized he was far more interested in people’s leadership and human challenges than their legal challenges. After building and selling a career transition company, he started Fireside Strategic with Leeza McKeown. Fireside is dedicated to helping companies determine their post-COVID strategy and aligning their people behind that new strategy.

Leeza McKeown is a human-centric management consultant. Aside from leading 50+ projects around the world in M&A analytics, growth strategy, and operational optimization, she loves to dance, travel, and hike with her fluffy rescue pup and high-school-sweetheart-turned-husband. Amid a brilliant friendship with executive coach, Dan King, they realized the power of combining best-in-class consulting and coaching to help businesses achieve exceptional results. The result was Fireside Strategic, which today grows companies – and their leaders – through human-centered strategy and alignment.

Dr. Ruth Gotian has built an illustrious career helping high achievers find even bigger success. Today she’s spilling her secrets. During our conversation, she breaks down the top four things it really takes to achieve your goals, and reveals the true importance of opening up to fresh perspectives.

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success.

During her extensive career, she has personally coached and mentored thousands of people ranging from undergraduates to faculty members. As Assistant Dean for Mentoring, she oversaw the success of nearly 1,800 faculty members at Weill Cornell Medicine. Currently, she researches the most successful people of our generation, including Nobel laureates, astronauts, CEOs and Olympians, in order to learn about their habits and practices so that we may optimize our own success.

Dr. Gotian received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York and certificates in Executive Leadership and Managing for Execution from Cornell University. She earned her doctorate at Teachers College Columbia University where she studied Adult Learning and Leadership and focused her research on optimizing success.

Dr. Gotian publishes in both medical education and lay journals on topics ranging from networking, mentoring, leadership development and optimizing success and has given talks on the topic all over the globe. She regularly publishes in such journals as Nature, Scientific American, Academic Medicine, Forbes and Harvard Business Review. She is the co-editor of a book on medical education, won numerous mentoring awards and is currently working on a book on the 35 best places to find a mentor.

In today’s episode, author and TEDx speaker Todd Cherches reveals how working for some seriously horrible Hollywood bosses led him to pursue a successful career in leadership development. During our conversation, Todd unpacks why storytelling should be at the heart of everything we do, and explains how visual thinking can make us all better managers and leaders.

Todd Cherches is the CEO and cofounder of BigBlueGumball, a NYC-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching. He is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership in the Human Capital Management master’s program at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker (“The Power of Visual Thinking”), and the author of VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life.

Today marks Dov Gordon’s second appearance on Access To Anyone, and boy did he bring some major insights into the world of networking. Listen in as he breaks down everything you need to know about alchemy networks —which is definitely as cool as it sounds—and reveals why everything and anything is possible when you build the right relationships.

Dov Gordon helps consultants get ideal clients by becoming “under-the-radar” leaders in their industry. You can find him at ProfitableRelationships.com.

Beth Granger helps people grow their businesses and expand their brands by harnessing the power of LinkedIn. Today she’s spilling her secrets. During our conversation, Beth breaks down her best practices for engaging with people on the platform, talks about the dos and don’ts of self-promotion, and shows us how we can get into the LinkedIn content game.

Beth Granger is a trainer, consultant, speaker, moderator, emcee, and certified virtual speaker.

She loves helping people who are not comfortable with technology to embrace its power. She works with organizations and individuals who want to grow their business, fill their sales pipeline, and build their professional brand using LinkedIn.

Beth helps produce and facilitate engaging and interactive online networking events for American Business Associates and is a host of LinkedIn Local, a series of events designed to let attendees “meet the people behind the profiles.” Every week, Beth broadcasts on LinkedIn Live to introduce interesting people to her broader network through ½ hour conversations.