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Entrepreneur, Investor, Award Winning Best Selling Author

John Cousins (@jjcousins) is an investor, tech founder, and bestselling author of Corporate Finance A$AP and over 60 other books.

John is the founder of MBA ASAP, which provides training to individuals, over 30,000 students in 165 countries, and corporations including Adidas, Apple, General Mills, Kaiser Permanente, Lyft, PayPal, Pinterest, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen.

John has taught MBA students at universities worldwide.

Currently General Partner at Tetraktys Global, a quantitative hedge fund, he is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols.

John was 15 years a public company CEO and CFO of two companies he took public.

John was the cofounder of Biomoda (IPO 2006), Advanced Optics Electronics (IPO 1999), FoodSentry (epic fail), MBA ASAP, and Tetraktys Global. He holds undergraduate degrees from MIT and Boston University and an MBA from Wharton.

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Bridget Cook-Burch

The Book Whisperer" New York Times & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author, Speaker, Trainer.

Bridget Cook-Burch’s clients call her “The Book Whisperer”. She is a New York Times & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, mentor, trainer, mamma-bear humanitarian, and speaker known for riveting stories of transformation.

Her powerful work has been showcased on Oprah, Dateline, CNN, GMA, The History Channel, NPR and in People among many others. She is the CEO and Founder of YourInspiredStory.com and Inspired Legacy Publishing. As a successful entrepreneur, Bridget has also owned and operated a multimillion-dollar trucking company, a phone book and a PR agency. She is also a co-founder and former executive director of SHEROES United, a non-profit organization that helps women and girls rise from trauma. As a leader, storyteller, trainer and humanitarian, her greatest passion is helping others to discover the importance of their own story, and to become leaders in their own communities, and worldwide.

Bridget’s many national bestsellers include Divine Turbulence, The Witness Wore Red; Shattered Silence; Skinhead Confessions; Leading Women; and also Living Proof. She is getting ready to publish three more in 2022.

Bridget invites you to believe in the power of your story to change the world. Join her writers’ retreats and leadership retreats in Utah, Italy, Ireland and more.

Find out more at www.YourInspiredStory.com, www.YourInspiredStory.com/publishing and www.SHEROESUnited.org.

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Ben Robins

Premium Coaching to Think Clearly, Lead Powerfully, Live Fully.

Ben Robins is a premium life and mindset coach who helps high performers create lasting change by raising the standard of their lives.

This isn’t about hacks, hustle, or affirmations. His work clears the hidden mental blocks most people don’t realise are running the show: doubts, stories, and conditioning.

With deep insight and direct conversation, Ben helps clients unlock clarity, energy, and results they didn’t think were possible.

Before becoming a coach, Ben led the European arm of a global consultancy. Today, he works online with clients around the world who are done settling and ready to create a life that actually excites them.

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Lynnette Fritshaw

Always stand in your power, and have the courage to speak your truth. Trauma Coach • Author • Retired Firefighter

I’m Lynnette Fritshaw—retired career firefighter, trauma coach, author of ‘You’re On Your Own’, and the first female career firefighter in my hometown department. But the part that matters most to your audience isn’t the title .. it’s the truth beneath it.

I spent nearly two decades breaking barriers in a male-dominated world that was not ready for me. Behind the uniform was a woman carrying invisible injuries: bullying, discrimination, misogyny, toxic leadership, and years of silence that cost me my identity, my voice, and my well-being.

What your audience will connect with is not just the hardship, but what came after: the rebuilding, the perspective shift, the self-ownership, and the fire it takes to rise from what tried to destroy you.

Today, I teach people how to reclaim their power after trauma by challenging their beliefs, owning what role they are playing in their own suffering, and breaking patterns of silence and self-abandonment. I show people how to stop living from fear and survival .. and start living and thriving from truth.

And I bring something most speakers can’t: the personal experience to back every lesson I teach.

I lived it before I taught it. I didn’t read about resilience .. I bled for it. I didn’t study adversity .. I survived it.

I truly believe I was given this mountain to show others that it can be moved.

Your audience will walk away with a real, relatable story of adversity in a world that told me I didn’t belong and I was on my own, a trauma-informed understanding of why people stay silent, stuck, or powerless, tools to regulate their nervous system and reclaim control in overwhelming moments, empowerment to stop abandoning themselves and start choosing their own voice, and hope and proof that it’s possible to rise, even when the system is built against you!

Whether your show focuses on mental health, resilience, women’s empowerment, healing, leadership, first responders, personal development, or transformational storytelling, I bring a message that resonates with anyone who has ever felt underestimated, powerless, voiceless, or alone in their struggle.

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Rich Ashton

Serial entrepreneur, author

During his 45 year career owning small businesses Rich Ashton became frustrated about the choice between bringing in outside leadership talent who didn't fit the culture of his organizations versus promoting excellent, but unprepared existing employees into leadership positions. He developed a training program to develop leaders in his own company which was so successful he was able to retire and leave management of his businesses to his leadership team. His book, "Growing Your Own, common sense advice for developing leaders in small business" is a guide to the principles taught in the training course. The book has been described as "practical, actionable and based on Ashton's real world experience in small business

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Beth Mielbrecht

Health Detective

For Health Podcasts: Beth is a Health Detective who works with brilliant, intuitive people who know their symptoms mean something, She helps people get exact answers, not more guessing. She uses digital muscle testing to find hidden imbalances and provides custom remedies with one-on-one coaching. Clients describe Beth as having 'Google Maps for your health.

For Business Podcasts: Beth is a Health Detective who helps high-performing leaders unlock peak performance and protect their most valuable asset—their people. She resolves the hidden health issues that silently drain productivity and profitability. She uses digital muscle testing to find hidden imbalances and provides custom remedies with one-on-one coaching. Clients describe Beth as their secret advantage to having the energy and focus they need to lead at the highest level.

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Kern Carter

Novelist and Entrepreneur making a living with words.

I'm living a dream.

I told myself at 8 years old that I would be a novelist and that is exactly the life I'm living today. That said, it took a lot to get here.

I dropped out of high school at 18 when I became a father. But I believed so much in the power of education that I found a way to earn my final credit then accepted a full athletic scholarship to play basketball at a university in Upstate New York.

University is where I started writing my first novel in earnest. After self-publishing my first two books, I secured an agent and signed my first publishing deal in 2021, then two more in 2022 with Penguin and Scholastic. I currently have multiple publishing contracts.

I also have a thriving creative business that includes Film Production (one of my films is on Amazon Prime Video), Ghostwriting, and building platforms for emerging writing and creative talent.

My story is all about perseverance and strategy. I didn't get here by accident. I planned each step of my journey with precision and now I'm living the live I've always dreamed of.

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Ange Dove

Feeling overlooked? Simply start showing up.

I've left millions on the table because I did not leverage my personal brand. It's an expensive mistake that I want to make sure no up-and-coming business owner makes.

I was crippled with insecurity, hid behind my business brand, fell apart in front of the camera, left decades with no photos of me because I refused to be seen, and paid the price in my business.

I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen to your guests and that they get known for one thing with a message that's crystal clear.

Building my copywriting business offline over 20 years ago, I transitioned it to a fully online business in 2016, bringing fixed overheads down from $80,000 per month to just the few hundred dollars it takes to run the subscriptions for my online tools, and giving myself the freedom to run my business from anywhere on my terms and around my lifestyle.

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Lisa Haynes

Retired and Killin' It: The Ultimate Retirement Plan

I remember the moment I decided to retire. It wasn’t a long, drawn-out process. An executive coach I was working with asked me a few questions to help me think about what I wanted in my next role. After I sat down and completed the exercise, it hit me: I didn’t want another role. I was ready to retire—and to finally do other things I had put off for years.

After I retired, I was invited to speak on a leadership panel at MBA’s mPowering You conference. On that stage, I told the audience, “I’m retired and killin’ it.”

That moment stuck with me. Later, I became a certified executive coach and discovered retirement coaching—a field focused on helping people prepare for and transition into retirement, emphasizing the non-financial side of this life stage that so many overlook.

That led me to create the KILLIN’ IT formula and write the book Retired and Killin’ It to help others navigate life after work with clarity and purpose.

An estimated 14.8 million Boomers will retire in the next five years—and most are unprepared for what comes after the paycheck stops. I’m here to help them step confidently into this next season, using my KILLIN’ IT formula to build purpose, connection, and joy in the years ahead.

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Tom Fox

The Compliance Evangelist

Tom Fox is passionate about podcasting and compliance. He is the Leading Voice in Compliance, having founded the only podcast network in compliance, the award-winning Compliance Podcast Network. Tom is also a co-founder of the award-winning Texas Hill Country Podcast Network, which focuses on a rural area of Texas. Tom has won 33 awards for podcast hosting and producing podcasts. He is also an award-winning blogger, having posted the FCPA Compliance and Ethics Report daily since 2010.

Tom is also a best-selling author, having written 30 books in the areas of compliance, business ethics and leadership. He is the author of the seminal compliance work, The Compliance Handbook, now in its 4th edition. He is author of two other international best-sellers on compliance; Lessons Learned on Compliance and Ethics and Best Practices Under the FCPA and Bribery Act. He is most proud of his 3 best-selling children’s books on compliance Being a Compliance Officer is Awesome, Speaking Up is Awesome and Compliance Saves the Galaxy. All 3 were published by Dinosaur House and are available at Amazon.com.

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