Chasing The Insights

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author, entrepreneur and mayor Debbie Peterson.

Debbie talks to us about win-win negotiating styles, whether with employees, customers, or citizens work across the board..

Debbie Peterson was the first directly elected female mayor of Grover Beach, California, after serving as a city councilwoman and planning commissioner. Debbie chronicles those years in her Amazon #1 New Release, the first in her Integrity 101 Series: The Happiest Corruption: Sleaze, Lies, and Suicide in a California Beach Town, the true crime story of the corruption she and a diverse group of citizens battled during her time in office.

Her second book in the series, City Council 101 - Insider's Guide for New Councilmembers, launches TODAY! January 8, 2023. The third book in the series, We the People 101 - How to Beat City Hall, will be out in 2 months.

Debbie now offers her expertise to entrepreneurs and citizens who wish to take up their roles as active citizens and to those they elect through speaking, consulting, and coaching engagements, her online course, Double Dais - Adventures in Local Government, and her podcast, Corruption Chronicles.

Before her government service, Debbie helped her mother launch The Brownie Baker, baking handmade family-recipe cookies, and expanded her mother's concept into a successful bakery, cafes, and trucking and distribution outlets in Scotland and London. By 1992 the company had annual sales of $7 million and one hundred employees.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational entrepreneur and web3 innovator Rosalind Panda.

Rosalind talks to us about innovative women in web3.

Rosalind Panda as a Thought leader, Visionary, and Changemaker is here to inspire and empower others to do what inspires them so that all of us together can make this world a better place.

She lives a life with Purpose and optimism serving mankind and benefiting the World through the fundamental elements of life e.g. Art, Technology, Creative design thinking, and Innovation.

She is the CEO and Founder of Rosalind Business Group LLC. CEO of Rosalind IT Services, Founder of Rosalind Arts, CEO of Rosalind Constructions, and Founder of ROVA Token and Rosalind Prasad Foundation, INC. She is on a board member of the River Art Works Organization and an Influencer in the International Association of Women organization, an author, and a public speaker.

As the Founder of Rosalind Arts Gallery and a well-known global fine art artist living in New York, Rosalind is a highly versatile creator with pieces in the realms of abstract, landscape, impressionistic and contemporary, modern speaking the language of love toward humanity, inner peace, world peace, Positivity, enthusiasm, and Optimism in life.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to accomplished entrepreneur Christopher Cumby.

Christopher talks to us about how we can gamify our life and business.

Christopher Cumby is an accomplished entrepreneur and Business Development Consultant, and Sales Pro who has spent his career helping clients design, build and implement successful sales & marketing strategies using gamification as leverage.

Christopher wrote "The Success Playbook" and "How to be Kick-ass" to share his arsenal of practical, applicable success strategies with people who are ready to make a change and start living the life they want.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and entrepreneur Jan Cavelle.

Jan talks to us about why when we look after our people, the customers look after themselves.

Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur from the UK who has a few decades of running entrepreneurial businesses behind her.

She started from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million turnover business.

She has been involved in many campaigns to encourage others on their entrepreneurship journey and now does so through her writing. She writes articles on her own blog, a regular piece for Elite Business Magazine and others.

Jan's first book was Scale for Success (Bloomsbury Publishing) aimed at helping entrepreneurs to grow their businesses during the big leap of 1-10m.

Her second, Start for Success, is to encourage aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs who want to build fast-growing, but sustainable businesses. It launches on 25th January 2023.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational author and success coach, Tami Jaffe.

Tami talks to us about how we can speed up our startups.

Tami Jaffe is a success coach, energy shifter, author, and speaker who inspires successful professionals who are dreaming to do something new and make better decisions.

Her Amazon #1 best-selling book You Already Made the Decision, You Just Aren't Happy With It, is a guide on how to make better decisions or live with the ones you've already made.

Tami has made it her mission to liberate independent success-minded professionals from the shackles of a corporate career so they can start and grow their business and not only replace their income but exceed it.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to brain coach ST Rappaport.

ST talks to us about the 28 thinking skills and why understanding them can accelerate your growth.

ST Rappaport is a brain coach & founder of LifePix University and just like you, wants to be more efficient and effective.

ST is also the host of the LifePix University podcast and her goal is to help you understand how your brain works and support you in using it even better so that you can overcome obstacles, experience more inner peace and accomplish your goals.

Most entrepreneurs want to grow their businesses but find themselves constantly procrastinating & getting stuck. At LifePix University we help you rewire your brain to become more efficient and effective while experiencing more inner peace.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to serial entrepreneur Nina Szewczak.

Nina talks to us about finding your own blueprint.

Nina Szewczak, MSc, CMgr, FCMI (She/Her) is the Midlife Revolution Specialist.

Nina's experience and expertise combine over 17 years of work & study in the realm of transformation and change, leadership and management, coaching, mentoring and HR and revolutionizing lives.

She is the queen of turning situations from tragic to magic she is the expert in showing people how to:

• To get better, not bitter
• To choose wisdom over wounds
• To lead with love, not hatred
• To take the reins and maximize any experience for all the growth and wisdom it offers To develop a bulletproof mindscape and make life great again!

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to serial entrepreneur Adam McChesney.

Adam talks to us about the importance of Personal Branding.

Adam McChesney is a serial entrepreneur based in St. Louis, MO. Originally a medical device sales rep, he transitioned into entrepreneurship full-time in the midst of the pandemic in July 2020.

Leaving a comfortable and secure job during uncertain times has brought a lot of challenges along the way. Adam went from making $200k+/yr working for a well-known CPAP manufacturer to take a chance and bet on himself.

He was tired of going through the motions, and always knew that there was something more to life, other than just money and nice things. Having the entrepreneurial bug, an opportunity to go into digital marketing full-time seemed like the right move.

Since going out on his own, Adam has leveraged his skillset of digital marketing to grow multiple companies at this point. He is the Owner/Partner of Hite Digital St. Louis, and Owner of Auto Glass Repair of STL.

Hite Digital St. Louis is now a 7-figure digital marketing agency, a member of the INC 5000 at #868, and was awarded Future 50 St. Louis, an award that's given to the fastest growing companies in the city.

Obstacles along the way have included overcoming criticism and doubt from many for leaving corporate America, and making the transition from sales rep to CEO.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to networking queen Jevonya Allen.

Jevonya talks to us about the power of networking.

Jevonya Allen commands attention as the Creator and Chief Visionary Officer of Twisted Networking, an internationally recognized business networking organization.

Known for her success as an author, a certified business consultant, and a networking coach, Jevonya's mission is to teach people who are selling a product or service how to become skillful at building relationships that will result in both personal and professional growth.

Jevonya's clients range from entrepreneurs in the ideation phase to the alumni association for a top high school in the United States.

Her book, The Introvert's Guide to Becoming a Master Networker, is garnering much publicity as a must-read for entrepreneurs, startups, small business owners, network marketers, and sales teams.

In 2022, Jevonya received an Outstanding Leadership Award for her contributions to marketing and advertising. Jevonya's digital course, Networking School, is positioned to transform many lives worldwide.

Jevonya loves discussing entrepreneurship, personal development, business, marketing, and networking. Jevonya has three adopted sons, and she currently lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to podcasting and storytelling innovator Seth Silvers.

Seth talks to us about why NFTs are going to be the future of content membership.

Seth Silvers is the founder and lead strategist at Story On Media, a premier podcast agency. Seth Silvers has worked with leaders such as Mark Cuban and Patrick Lencioni along with other leaders in their industries as he helps them use podcasting to expand their audience.

Seth and his team are also working deeply in the web3 and NFT space exploring the best ways for content creators to leverage NFTs to build an engaged community.