Aepiphanni Off the Cuff

Rob Turley is one of the founders of White Rabbit, an artificial intelligence company that focuses on sales enablement. As someone who runs a tech company, he's faced and lived through a lot of risks that have pushed his business to the 2-year mark. Since starting White Rabbit, he learned the importance of building products that people want and why it's not always about your vision.

Learn more about his key entrepreneurship learnings in Off the Cuff episode 16!

In this episode:

• What White Rabbit is and how vibrancy and harmonization play into it
• Sales enablement and following market demand
• How Rob found himself working from graphic design to AI
• Taking and pushing through risks
• Supporting yourself and allowing the people around you support you
• Testing yourself to the absolute limit
• Listening to the market and pivoting to Plan B
• Why the saying, "If we build it, they will come." is not true according to Rob

From working for corporate America to establishing a management firm, Barry Flink has seen it all. He's a man who places great importance in learning and helping people thrive, and it's some of the values he'd held dear to him throughout his life as an entrepreneur.

Learn how Barry Flink was able to create a business that thrived because they built it in an unorthodox manner. Listen to the whole Off the Cuff episode today!

In this episode:

• Barry's entrepreneurial foundation
• Entrepreneurship to help others
• The importance of making mistakes
• Why money shouldn't be the core of entrepreneurship
• Why Barry thinks sales is wasteful
• Why the way you treat people matters
• The top 3 most important lessons Barry learned
• Steps to recover from failure
• How Barry's firm helps other businesses

Sales can be a tricky thing and there's a lot to consider. From networking and getting leads to implementing systems that will get you closer to your prospects to taking data in consideration as you transform your company into a more profitable one.

Learn more in this 14th episode of Off the Cuff!

In this episode:

• The zigzag road towards successful networking
• Why getting personal goes hand-in-hand with networking well
• What is a CRM system and how does it get you closer to a client?
• Looking for and implementing CRM systems
• Adapting your sales system according to your team
• How important is software integration?
• Why having experience still also means you need to improve
• The ROI of data transformation
• Why it's important to digitalize at least one part of your company

Being the former President of the South Florida Alumni Club, Rob Finkelstein knows a lot about building communities and networking. He helped to grow membership and create a passionate affinity for the Blue Hen community and on top of that, he's an established business professional with over 30 years of management experience.

Rob learned the importance of developing innovative and creative solutions. He founded the Alumni Direct to connect university alumni to meaningful and rewarding experiences—with the ultimate goal to develop strategic partnerships to help benefit all those involved.

Listen more to his story in Off the Cuff's 13th episode!

In this episode:

· How Rob started developing innovative and creative solutions

· What is Alumni Direct and how helps forge relationships and create communities

· Building communities and opening opportunities for alumni

· Alumni Direct's relationship with the alumni organizations in universities

· Seeing opportunities in the market and pushing past the challenges

· The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people

Links: https://www.myalumnidirect.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AlumniDirect/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/alumnidirect/?viewAsMember=true https://twitter.com/alumnidirectllc?lang=en About Alumni Direct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdOiWagegA&feature=youtu.be

Maeghan Duckett is not your average realtor. She's passionate about growth and life transformation, debt freedom and wealth growth, and educating others about real estate. She's also the author of Inhale Courage, Exhale Fear—a book that embodies how she was able to reach real estate business success at such a young age.

Listen to the 12th episode of Off the Cuff to learn more about how Meaghan's drive to push against her mindset barriers and how this action led to her rapid growth as a real estate business owner.

The MWM Team website: https://www.themwmteam.com/

Buy Meaghan's book: Inhale Courage, Exhale Fear

Book a free consultation with Meaghan

In this episode:

· How Meaghan Duckett found her passion in real estate and turned it into a business

· Highlights in Meaghan's real estate career

· Expanding from a solo realtor into a team

· Facing mental barriers to achieve career and business growth

· Setting boundaries as you grow at a rapid speed

· How Meaghan's relationship with God guided her throughout her achievements

· What it means to inhale courage and exhale fear

· Why celebrating the little wins matter more than instant success

· Why staying in your lane is okay

New year, new opportunities to embrace change... something that perfectly fits the 11th episode of Aepiphanni's Off the Cuff! You'll get an inside look into the whole Aepiphanni rebranding process and what pushed the company to go through this change after having the same branding for 15 years.

You'll also learn more about how the whole rebrand represented the company's development as a whole, and why you should embrace the fact that growth is actually a journey and not a linear process.

Join the giveaway: Tell us all about your rebranding story and you'll be one of the lucky winners of the new Aepiphanni hoodie! DM us on @aepiphanni on Instagram or email us at [email protected].

Deadline to submit your entries is on March 20, 2021 and we'll reveal the winner by the end of March!

Check out the new branding and website: https://aepiphanni.com/

In this episode:

· On Aepiphanni's rebranding and how it represents the company's mission

· The whole branding process and accepting changes

· On expanding to other countries and being open to opportunities

· How Aepiphanni's internal growth shined through the rebrand

· How trusting specific processes to the experts can contribute to your company's growth

· Advice to companies who are going through their own transformation

In this special Off the Cuff episode, Rick and Ingrid sat down with three other Aepiphanni team members—Stephanie Torres (Digital Marketer), Hazel Haygood (Project Manager) and Mariana Skafi (Community Manager)—to talk about how the year 2020 played out for them as professionals and for the team as a whole.

Episode 10 dived deeper into the Aepiphanni team's dynamics, the kind of leadership Rick practices and how COVID-19 had been pivotal to each of the member's lives.

In this episode:

· How COVID-19 became the best time to grow as an entrepreneur

· Having an inclusive and fun team environment

· Interacting with different cultures, accents and nationalities

· How having a remote team can help you create an agile workplace

· How to handle multiple projects and how having a shared team vision can move everything forward

· Working together and delivering results as a global team

· How COVID-19 pushed leaders to grow and develop

· The importance of delegating work

Danica Vince Cruz and Charles Collins are the founding team behind Danica VC Media, a creative marketing strategy agency with locations in Frederick MD, Chattanooga TN, and West Palm Beach FL. The driving force behind their effective marketing approach is their ability to blend out-of-the-box strategies and cultural fluency to create marketing campaigns that engage audiences on a deeper level.

And now, they're here to share their own insights with you.

Value-packed with marketing advice and motivational pushes, Off the Cuff's 9th episode is for every business owner—whether you're already an Instagram maven or a budding newbie exploring options —who wants to leverage the power of authentic social media marketing and consistent content creation for your own business.

Listen now!

For the past 15 years, Eddie Brumbaugh has been running her interior design and furniture business through her brand, Jackson Charles.

Through those years, she went from offline to online, ran different kinds of events that brings people together in a new way, and started a lifestyle brand that stemmed from her belief that mistakes are what help you progress.

Her path has not been as picture perfect and luxurious as what you may expect from someone with a lifestyle brand but, in Eddie's words, she's been "owning it!"

Listen to Eddie's full journey to owning a life unstyled in Off the Cuff's 8th podcast episode!

In this episode, you will discover:

· How Eddie transitioned her interior design firm from offline to online

· Carving her own niche and process in the interior design world

· Career pivots and finding more about what actually drives her

· Owning her passion and the road to realizing what really matters

· The opportunities COVID presented

· Merging and pursuing different interests

· A refreshing look at break-ups and relationships

· Creating a different setting for events and how it ties to her interior design business

· Managing different brands and businesses

· What it means to be "Unstyled" for Eddie

· Being okay with not being the best and just wanting to be better

When it comes to digital marketing, Nakimbe B'aobab is a woman who truly knows what she's doing. Not just for her own marketing, but also for the businesses big and small that she serves , as well with her digital marketing and mobile application company, Mappdom International.

Her passion for the field shines through her work and personal life—so much so that this gained her the opportunity to become a TED Talk speaker at the TEDxUTSC event. Other than being an accomplished digital marketer and CEO, Nakimbe is also a motivational speaker, self-improvement coach, sales trainer and author.

However, behind the marketing campaigns she had built and the support she offers businesses, lies her true inspiration and motivation—building an entrepreneurial legacy for her children and the chance to create a life well-lived and well-loved.

Listen to her whole story today by checking out Episode 7 of Aepiphanni's Off the Cuff!

Watch Nakimbe's whole TED Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDg4sX4j5VI Nakimbe's website: http://www.nakimbebaobab.com/

In this episode:

· Why Nakimbe chose digital marketing

· Creating a job for yourself and attaining total freedom

· Facing financial challenges as an entrepreneur

· Creating an effective marketing formula for both big and small businesses

· The formula behind Nakimbe's TED Talk and tapping into people's psychological needs

· Motherhood, entrepreneurship and leaving a legacy for her children and grandchildren

· Being a black entrepreneur in North America

· How digital marketing can help small businesses

· How growing organically on social media will benefit a business more

· Nakimbe's mission statement and leading by example

· Reprogramming herself and creating the person she is now

Quotes:

"Running a business and being an entrepreneur is like a whole other being of existence."

"I'm really about the people looking to leave a legacy for their kids."

"One of my goals in life is to be one of my children's hero or one of their idols."

"Technology is going to keep expanding and it's going to be more and more rapid. So if I don't get comfortable with it now, I'm going to fall further and further behind."