Action and Ambition

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is Autumn Calabrese, a celebrity trainer and Beachbody Super Trainer, best-selling author, and working mom. Autumn's first programs for Beachbody were 21 Day Fix® and the follow-up 21 Day Fix Extreme®. She revolutionized the Beachbody fitness model with her simple approach to portion control. To build on that success, Autumn launched the Ultimate Portion Fix nutrition program in 2019. Her other fitness and nutrition programs include the body-sculpting program, The Master’s Hammer & Chisel™ with fellow Super Trainer Sagi Kalev, Country Heat, and 80 Day Obsession, which features her unique Timed-Nutrition Meal Plan. Make sure not to miss it. You’re going to love this episode.

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is James Bonadies, co-founder of Local Marketing Vault and 8 figure business owner who has helped thousands of entrepreneurs make their first 1000s online with more than a dozen of those clients making over a million dollars. Local Marketing Vault is one of the fastest online programs to hit 8 figures, and one of the longest running local marketing programs on the internet today. He attributes the longevity to putting the student first, and caring about anyone who wants to be coached. Along with his business partner, they are confident that by sharing their time tested and proven skills with attendees, people will finish this 6-week program ready and able to get more customers and increase their return on investment. Make sure not to miss this episode! You’re going to love it.

Welcome to another episode of the Action and Ambition podcast. Today’s guest is Sam Naficy. Sam is currently the CEO and primary investor of a startup called Prodoscore, an employee productivity software company, a SaaS company that he joined about two years ago as an investor. Sam has kind of been a serial entrepreneur, a business guy, which has its own ups and downs. Some successes have been fortunate and a bunch of failures, but we're all used to those. Nevertheless, he raised over $300m of Debt & Equity. You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is Jason Morgese. He is the founder and CEO of Leavemark, the first ad-free, data storage and social media hybrid, designed to allow its users to archive life’s most important memories and documents with the ability to share today or in the future. Prior to creating Leavemark, Jason spent 9 years as the founder and President of ehealthScreenings, a technology centric biometric screening company that became one of the nation’s leading providers, which he successfully sold to provide equity in 2017. With his latest venture, Jason’s mission for Leavemark is to become the world’s most loved company to preserve and share life’s most important memories. You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Our guest for today is Ignas Jurkonis. He is a US Based entrepreneur, businessman, consultant, and top executive. His primary focus is on company value turnarounds, combining traditional industries and modern management philosophies. Ignas is known for his support of young entrepreneurs, multiple social projects, and non-profit activity, with a guest lecture series in place with University of Southern California (UCS) – Marshall School of Business. Under his formed NCS Group, Ignas is currently leading and developing a group of companies through a series of M&A acting as a priority freight forwarder and visionary supply chain solution for Fortune 500 companies, also inclusive of notable brands like Walgreens, Boots Alliance, 3M, GlaxoSmithKline across the U.S. market. He is truly inspiring and a visionary constantly looking for inspiration. Don’t miss it! You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest are Jake Warner & Joey Chowaiki, founders of Magma, a platform that allows users to create their own digital magazines directly from their phones. The idea of creating Magma sparked when Warner was frustrated with the available mobile tools while working as a designer and media manager. Not long after designing the first prototype, he partner up withChowaiki, a lifelong friend who founded one of the first social media marketing firms in the space called Open Influence.They used their networks to brainstorm and gather data from some of the top creators, publishers and brands, allowing a product to formulate that could be useful and effective for anybody and everybody. From just a vision and pitch deck, Magma is live in the iOS App Store two years later with a familiar and fresh interface and powerful tools for creation and consumption. You will surely enjoy this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today’s guest is Florian Otto, co-founder and CEO of Cedar, the leading patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and independent medical groups. Prior to founding Cedar, Florian was an executive at Zocdoc where he drove the commercial adoption of the platform. Florian also founded a daily deal company in Brazil (ClubeUrbano) that was eventually acquired by Groupon. After the acquisition, he became Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Brazil, growing the company to one of Groupon’s top three international markets. Florian began his business career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company within their healthcare practice. Florian holds a M.D., D.D.S. and PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany. An accomplished entrepreneur and former physician, Florian now drives growth and sets overall direction across all facets of Cedar’s operations. Don’t miss it. You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. We are joined today by Ed Laczynski, the co-founder and CEO of Zype, the infrastructure for digital video. He is focused on Zype’s vision, talent, and corporate strategy on the mission to connect the world’s streaming video. Prior to Zype, Ed was the SVP of Cloud for Datapipe, building one of the world’s fastest-growing and pioneering enterprise cloud management companies. Before then, he was the founder of LTech, an early cloud backup and management software startup and early Google and Amazon Web Services cloud partner. Ed has also held product leadership positions at Volt and Credit Suisse. Let’s discover how Ed went from where he was before to connecting the dots to where he is now with Zype. Stay tuned! You’re going to love this episode!

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Today's guest is David Freedman, founder of Freestar, who is here to help you monetize the "eyeballs" coming to your website. He discusses hiring, growth, monetizing, and knowing your metrics, and outside-the-box traffic strategies. You're going to love today's episode.

Welcome to another episode of Action and Ambition. Davis Clayton Kiyo is the founder of Octave & Myster High-End Accessories, a company that specializes in modern and innovative cannabis hardware. He's a makeshift engineer who is here to explain his strategy regarding discipline, creativity, product design, focus, and so much more. Tune in to hear Davis' best entrepreneurial insights. You will love today's episode!