By Biz Bevs and Bites
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The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.
Renee DeMichiei Farrow is an entrepreneur, corporate director, small business advocate, and bestselling author who is highly lauded for her business branding, marketing, public relations, coaching, government, and nonprofit relations. Renee completed studies at Duquesne University and is a certified Professional Coach (PC) with the International Coaching Federation (ICF). She started her coaching business Results With Renee, during the pandemic in 2020-21 and restarted the award-winning Decorating Details. Besides making homes beautiful with Decorating Details, she helps people find their Ideal Self and live their Best Life as a remarkable coach.
Her goal with coaching is to show people how coaching can change your life. For anyone who STILL doesn’t know, a coaching series with Renee resulted in my anthology, Twenty Won. I never would have had the guts to take such a huge step. Renee was there supporting me from the word GO! - Kelli
Kelli and Cindy enjoyed some bevs and laughs with Renee – while learning valuable lessons about what a difference coaching can make in YOUR life. Enjoy!
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Hosted by: Kelli Komondor and Cindy Ellek
Corporate trainer and motivational speaker Mj Callaway is an award-winning author of 11 books. Her sweet spots include increasing team resilience, crushing change, and boosting sales quotas. As a two-time cancer warrior and domestic violence survivor, she’s known for shifting attitudes and producing results. The time spent with Mj Callaway is never without both laughs and tears – and most importantly, lessons learned. So, grab a notebook and a pen and learn from the Bounce Up Queen herself, Mj Callaway.
Hosted by: Kelli Komondor and Cindy Ellek
Produced by: Rob Oliver, Your Motivational Speaker
Supported by: K2 Creative & PR and the Cindy Ellek Marketing Group
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Deb Mortillaro is a food and wine expert. She’s a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. She has WSET certifications in Sake, Wine and Spirits and she is a certified Sake Sommelier and is the Queen of Quaffing!
In 1981, she moved to Pittsburgh where she was a private chef for 14 years. She met her now business partner, Mike Gonze when he came into the home to present wines.
She joined Dreadnought Wines in 1996. Over the years Deb and Mike have created two additional businesses, Palate Partners and Soiree Partners.
Those three companies sell wine, educate people about wine and spirits, and move alcohol around the state of Pennsylvania.
Deb has traveled the world (she left for Italy a few days after we recorded this episode) as both a distributor and wine educator, so she truly has an extremely unique insight and knowledge into the wine industry.
Anyone who is passionate about business, food, and wine, will enjoy the episode with the Queen of Quaffing!
Hosted by: Kelli Komondor and Cindy Ellek
Paul Furiga is the President and Chief Storyteller of WordWrite, a Pittsburgh-area firm offering brand strategy (storytelling), public relations, crisis communications, and digital & inbound marketing services to organizations that are looking to better tell their stories.
Paul learned storytelling by writing and editing more than 20,000 stories during two decades as a journalist before going into public relations. He's quite literally written the book storytelling, Finding Your Capital S Story, Why Your Story Drives Your Brand. The career path that Paul traveled to PR is a story in itself.
He’s been a racetrack photographer, theater usher, investigative journalist, wannabe musician, classical radio host, broadcast journalist, White House correspondent and editor.
At WordWrite, Paul ponders the question: "Why should someone consider hiring us, working with us, or partnering with us?" The answers to those questions help him chart the next chapter in WordWrite’s evolving Capital S Story. Before you had a brand, you had a story – the reason why people want to buy from you, work for you, partner with you, or invest in you. That’s why we take a distinctive approach to marketing communications: StoryCrafting®. In this process, we uncover your Capital S Story, the authentic, engaging, and persuasive story that is uniquely yours.
Hosted by: Kelli Komondor and Cindy Ellek
Episode 010 – Touching the Hearts of People in Business & in Life
Cindy and Kelli had a wonderful conversation with Joy Klohonatz who has been touching the hearts of clients, customers, and business colleagues for over 20 years.
Making people feel appreciated is in Joy’s DNA. Joy shared stories and strategies of how to make people feel like they matter.
Joy told us, “If you can find a way to get to people's hearts, then you will get their business. You will get their respect; you'll get their trust.”
Joy believes in sending a card to people to celebrate birthdays, special occasions, etc. When you do this on a regular basis, especially with your clients, you’re staying top of mind with them in a nice and thoughtful way, which can lead to referrals for your business.
Fun fact about Joy - she was one of only seven female General Managers with K-Mart and spent 23 years with the company.
You can connect with Joy through her website or via email [email protected].
Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
Your ears are not playing tricks on you!
Yep, that familiar voice you hear is our producer, Rob Oliver. Cindy and Kelli had Rob on as their first guest, so you’ll most likely remember him from when he was chatted with us in episodes 003 and 004, Podcasting 101.
Rob sat in for Kelli so he dubbed this a “flip the script” episode! He asked Cindy about the tips and nuggets of advice she and Kelli received during their first four interviews with veteran podcasters.
This show is a “podcaster recap” of what was learned from our podcaster guests and friends, Rob Oliver, Jeremy Shere, Ingrid Thompson, and Jess Branas.
Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
Produced by: Rob Oliver, Your Motivational Speaker
Supported by: K2 Creative & PR and the Cindy Ellek Marketing Group
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We literally "shot the sh*t" with Jess Branas - we talked about so much - and learned all about her, her beloved dog Nacho, her cancer story, and how the shy kid who NEVER wanted to speak became a successful bestselling author (twice!), podcast host, and radio personality.
Branas Enterprises is a full-service Philadelphia podcast development and production company and media network. They specialize in concept development, technical (audio/video) production, distribution, and podcast marketing campaigns. They also offer a wide range of audio engineering and podcast editing services to help you save time while they handle the dirty work.
Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
We had the absolute pleasure of sitting down “under" with Ingrid Thompson - all the way from Sydney, Australia!
Kelli met Ingrid when she applied to be on her podcast, So You Want to Start a Business – and they’ve kept in touch ever since.
Ingrid’s goals are to make sure her audience understands how money works in their business and that they are financially savvy in all aspects of life, especially in their business!
She fills us in on the first podcast she ever recorded, the HUGE mistake she made, and how her guest saved her! She also talks about repurposing her interviews into “snipped episodes” to stretch the marketing and rebrand the information she gathers from her guests. She also tells us her one favorite question to ask her guests.
We learned a lot from our friend Ingrid – and we think you will too!
Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
We had the absolute pleasure of sitting down “under" with Ingrid Thompson - all the way from Sidney Australia!
Kelli met Ingrid when she applied to be on her podcast, So You Want to Start a Business – and they’ve kept in touch ever since.
Ingrid’s goals are to make sure her audience understands how money works in their business and that they are financially savvy in all aspects of life, especially in their business!
She fills us in on the first podcast she ever recorded, the HUGE mistake she made, and how her guest saved her! She also talks about repurposing her interviews into “snipped episodes” to stretch the marketing and rebrand the information she gathers from her guests. She also tells us her one favorite question to ask her guests.
We learned a lot from our friend Ingrid – and we think you will too!
Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
Jeremy Shere is joining us for part 2, episode 006 because his tribal knowledge of podcasting is so in-depth, we needed two episodes to cover it all!
He is the founder and CEO of Tribal Knowledge Podcasting, a podcast production agency that helps businesses start podcasts to grow revenue by connecting decision makers, establishing thought leadership, and taking content marketing to the next level. Hear how Jeremy spends a lot of time researching the guests to determine if they are a prospect for Tribal Knowledge and how he has ended the vicious cycle of endless cold email campaigns.
“We don’t talk about podcasting. For the most part, we talk about audience engagement, their business, their strategies – and with this I gain a lot of knowledge and I get to know these folks,” Jeremy told us.
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Hosted by: Cindy Ellek and Kelli Komondor
The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.