In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, Ziv Raviv sits down with Rob Hinds, founder and CEO of Raise Your Lead Consulting, to uncover how business coaches can grow sustainably, serve more clients effectively, and avoid the quick-fix trap. With more than 20 years of experience in leadership, business development, and process optimization, Rob shares how he built his coaching practice from scratch—leveraging relationships, referrals, and speaking engagements—and why he believes small wins are the true foundation of lasting success.

Whether you’re a new coach wondering how to get clients, or a seasoned coach ready to expand your reach, this episode will give you practical strategies and mindset shifts you can implement right away.

Rob is a small business consultant, personal coach, advisor, and trainer spanning more than 20 years, with a specific focus on the development of people and building or refining processes. Rob’s background also includes successful careers in sales and business development, creating and facilitating group training programs, and small business ownership in multiple industries.

As a serial learner, Rob applies his knowledge to increase his personal and professional skills. Rob uses factual, proven data to assist his clientele in their growth process(es). Rob walks the talk on the subjects he advises on.

Rob continues to refine his focus to growing professionals, in all ranges, through customizing business processes, elevating communication skills, and developing leadership abilities. A dynamic mindset through detailed research keeps Rob on the forefront of real, valuable information. 

His ‘Avant-garde’ approach to group programs and individual discovery will result in the winning solutions for everyone he serves.

‘Non-traditional’, unbiased, and open-minded are the best ways to describe his approach. His communication style can be described as clear, direct, and kind.

Website: https://coachingforsmallbusinesses.com

In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, host Ziv Raviv sits down with Libby Gill – a former senior communications executive at Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting who reinvented herself as a leadership authority, executive coach, and bestselling author of seven books, including The Hope-Driven Leader.

Libby shares her journey from Hollywood’s fast-paced television world to coaching leaders across industries like Google, Honda, and Allo Yoga. She reveals why hope isn’t just a feel-good idea but a powerful, science-backed strategy for leadership, resilience, and growth.

Executive coach, leadership expert, and award-winning author Libby Gill guides emerging and established leaders to inspire purpose and drive performance. She is the former head of communications for Sony, Universal, and Turner Broadcasting, and her clients include Amazon, Capital One, Disney, Honda, Intel, Marriott, Microsoft, Royal Caribbean, Warner Bros. and many more.

She has been featured on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, the Today Show and in the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. The author of six nonfiction books including the award-winning You Unstuck and The Hope-Driven Leader, Libby’s debut novel, Malibu Summer, was published last year by Penguin Random House.

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What if the difference between closing a deal and losing it came down to etiquette? In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, host Ziv Raviv sits down with Arden Clise – president of Clise Etiquette, executive presence coach, speaker, and author of Spinach in Your Boss’s Teeth: Essential Etiquette for Professional Success.

From networking with ease to mastering digital diplomacy, Arden has built her career around helping professionals and organizations polish their presence, strengthen client relationships, and stand out in competitive industries. In this conversation, she shares the real-world power of etiquette—not as outdated formalities, but as a modern business growth strategy.

If you’ve ever wondered how polished communication, executive presence, and even the smallest of manners can impact your bottom line, this episode will give you answers.

Arden Clise, President of Clise Etiquette, is an expert in the field of business etiquette and customer service. As an author, speaker, trainer and coach, Arden helps companies have the competitive advantage through confident, polished and courteous employees.

Author of Spinach in Your Boss’s Teeth: Essential Etiquette for Professional Success, Arden also wrote a regular business etiquette advice column for 425 Business magazine and Puget Sound Business Journal. She has been quoted in several national and international publications including Real Simple magazine, the Wall Street Journal and China Daily USA.

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How do you scale a business without drowning in funnels, ads, or endless busywork? In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, I sit down with Celi Arias – founder of the GAB (Grown Ass Business) framework, strategist, and former fashion entrepreneur turned startup and corporate leader.

Celi shares how she built $250K in her first year without a landing page, branding, or even a website, proving that clarity and relationships matter more than flashy marketing. From her early days running a fashion brand in Argentina, to coaching founders and executives at scale, Celi has learned what truly makes businesses grow and why so many CEOs get scaling wrong.

If you’ve ever felt like you “need more” before you can succeed, Celi’s story will flip that belief upside down.

Celi Arias is a top-tier Scale Strategist and the founder of The Grown Ass Business® Method. She specializes in helping established companies break through complex growth plateaus by auditing and triaging their operations. Unlike conventional coaches who give you someone else’s blueprint or consultants who specialize in only one area of business, Celi leverages her proprietary Key Growth Systems Methodology to identify the root causes of stalled growth, leading to immediate and sustainable results. 

Her real-world experience as a former COO and her unique combination of an MBA and Masters of Divinity provide her with a rare ability to blend academic rigor with the hands-on strategies needed to close multi-million dollar deals and scale 7, 8- and 9-figure businesses.

Stages of Growth freebie: https://go.celiarias.com/the-GAB-Stages-of-Growth

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What happens when you build a multimillion-dollar career, beat aggressive cancer, and still realize something’s missing? In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, I sit down with Heather Moulder – former Big Law partner, breast cancer survivor, and now business coach for lawyers. Heather shares her powerful journey of walking away from a lucrative law career to design a coaching business rooted in values, balance, and purpose.

She reveals how she went from struggling to find her place as a new coach to carving out a niche that allows her to help lawyers build thriving practices without sacrificing their health or their lives. If you’ve ever questioned what “enough” looks like in your business or wondered how to align profit with purpose, this conversation will leave you rethinking success.

Heather Moulder is a former BigLaw partner turned lawyer business coach and host of Life & Law, a lawyer podcast about achieving success without the sacrifice. After building a multi-million dollar law practice around a full life, she left it all to help other lawyers do the same.

Heather is known for blending mindset work with practical business strategies designed to enable lawyers to grow profitable practices that play to their strengths, reflect their values, and leave room for the life they actually want.

When not helping lawyers ditch the grind, you’ll find Heather cheering on her football and baseball-loving teen in the searing hot Texas sun.

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In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, Ziv Raviv sits down with Doug Thorpe – renowned executive coach, business advisor, and host of the top-ranking podcast Leadership Powered by Common Sense. With over 30 years of leadership experience spanning the military, banking, consulting, and entrepreneurship, Doug brings unmatched insights into what it really takes to lead effectively in today’s business world.

From his journey as the son of a single mom who instilled in him the value of mentorship, to creating his Edge Business Blueprint and authoring his latest book Stop Leading on Empty, Doug shares how leaders can adapt, thrive, and build businesses that last. This conversation is packed with practical strategies, hard truths, and inspiring lessons for business coaches and entrepreneurs ready to grow beyond six figures.

Doug is a trusted advisor and coach for CEOs, Business Owners and Senior Leadership Teams. He has over 30 years of business and leadership experience. He is the President & CEO of HeadwayExec, LLC and the Doug Thorpe Group. Doug is also a podcast host of “Leadership Powered by Common Sense.”

He helps owners understand the ways they need to reshape their thinking and attitude to make a successful break through the invisible wall of management.

In this episode, Ziv sits down with Erica Carrico – award-winning Soul Business Coach and 2020 International Coach of the Year to unpack how she scaled from her first six figures to multi-seven figures without living on social media. After a life-altering cancer diagnosis, Erica rebuilt her career around purpose, grew fast through in-person workshops and earned media, then systemized scale with group programs, a lean VSL funnel, and a commission-only sales team. She shares numbers, frameworks, and the mindset shifts that helped her build a business that’s profitable, values-aligned, and sustainable.

Erica Carrico is the Bestselling Author of Awaken Your Purpose, Purpose & Prosperity Mentor, Cancer Survivor, and Single Mom who has spent the last decade empowering women to create 6 & 7 Figure Soul-Aligned Businesses.

Through her coaching, speaking, and podcast Mess to Millions, Erica guides women to discover their life purpose, heal what needs to be healed, and build businesses that allow them to quit their 9-5’s and make fabulous money doing what they were put on earth to do.

With a BS in Psychology, an MBA, and years of business leadership experience, Erica combines strategic acumen with deep spiritual wisdom. After surviving cancer, she built a Multi-Million Dollar Coaching Business as a single mother and now helps women worldwide create the same soul-aligned success and financial freedom.

For 10 years, Erica has been proving that you can heal your life, live in alignment, AND build a lucrative empire. Because purpose without profit is just a hobby, and you were meant for so much more.

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In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, host Ziv Raviv sits down with Corinna M. Hagen – leadership communication coach, author, fractional CMO, and founder of Zaradigm. With more than 20 years of experience guiding Fortune 500 leaders and high-growth entrepreneurs, Corinna specializes in helping leaders master high-stakes communication whether in the boardroom, in negotiations, or when rallying a team.

Corinna is an executive & business coach, and an author of several books on high-stakes communication, and leadership.  She focuses on communication, leadership development, and transformation and is based in Dallas, TX. You can connect with her on LinkedIn or follow her monthly newsletter for leaders, called the/SHIFT.

What does it really take to build a business that’s profitable, purposeful, and aligned with your authentic self? In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, Ziv Raviv sits down with KC Rossi – founder of HeartGlow CEO, business and leadership coach, podcast host, and creator of the SoulPrint Method.

KC shares her journey from building a seven-figure gourmet food company to pivoting into coaching, where she helps mission-driven entrepreneurs grow profitable businesses without burning out. She opens up about the bold leap she made from aromatherapy and holistic wellness into high-ticket coaching, how she finds her clients in micro-niches, and why authenticity will always outperform surface-level strategies.

If you’ve ever struggled with niching down, worried about the size of your market, or felt pulled between strategy and soul, this episode is packed with insights you won’t want to miss.

Kc Rossi is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Transformational Business Mentor, and host of the Heart Glow CEO® podcast.

With over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Kc specializes in helping creatives, healers, and entrepreneurs align their mindset, emotional intelligence, and energy to achieve lasting purpose, performance, and profit.

As the creator of the Soulprint Method®, Kc blends strategic business acumen with wholistic practices to guide mission-driven individuals toward sustainable success – without losing themselves. Her work is rooted in the belief that when soul and strategy meet, lasting transformation follows.

Through private coaching, experiential workshops, and her internationally recognized podcast, Kc empowers her clients to breathe joy into their mission, supporting them to lead from a place of clarity and confidence.

When she’s not coaching, Kc enjoys cacao ceremonies, hiking the Finger Lakes trails, and whipping up plant-based eats.

Free Gift – Self-Leadership Manifesto: https://www.heartglowceo.com/self-leadership-manifesto

Website: https://www.heartglowceo.com/

Podcast: https://www.heartglowceo.com/podcasts/heart-glow-ceo

In this episode of Beyond Six Figures, we sit down with Thorsten (Thor) Claus – founder of ThinkStorm Ventures and a seasoned venture capitalist who has helped build funds ranging from $100 million to over $1 billion. With a career spanning engineering, large-scale data systems, and global investing, Thor brings a rare blend of technical expertise and financial insight.We dive deep into the realities of venture capital – from when it’s the right time to raise money, to how VCs evaluate founders, and what separates a “painkiller” idea from a “vitamin” one. If you’ve ever wondered what makes investors say “yes” (or walk away), this is an episode you don’t want to miss.

Thorsten Claus is a venture investor and builder with more than 15 years of private equity and venture capital experience. He has raised nine funds, managed over $4.8B across global platforms, and led or overseen more than 120 direct investments, generating returns of 3x–7x net to investors.

His current work focuses on dual-use technologies at the intersection of defense, security, and national resilience. Guided by the discipline of Howard Marks, the systems-level thinking of the Consilience Project, and a commitment to internalizing externalities, he invests in teams and technologies that strengthen sovereign capability and long-term societal stability.Beyond capital, Thorsten is a hands-on builder. He machines defense-critical and space components, restores historic race engines, and writes on production systems and resilience at blog.thinkstorm.com. This grounding in physical production complements his investment practice, keeping judgment tied to real-world constraints.

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