Chasing The Insights

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to accomplished author Scott Sloan, otherwise known by the pen name Sloane McQuiston.

Scott talks to us about his journey to becoming a published author and how you can do it too.

Scott Sloan is an accomplished author and professional. After publishing the Nigel Manning series, he continued his creative journey to write 'The Risk Manager', publishing this summer. He is based in Dallas, Texas and has attended several local events to share his creative perspective.

Scott has enjoyed a successful career in the commercial insurance industry, assisting businesses with reducing workplace injuries.

Scott knows everyone has a story to tell, and he hopes I can help someone else realize their dream of becoming an author.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to serial entrepreneur Blaire Brown.

Blaire talks to us about the basics of starting a business with entrepreneurship 101!.

Serial entrepreneur, marketing expert, and course creator, Blaire Brown is obsessed with all things entrepreneurship and helping others start their businesses.

Host of the Curate Your Success Podcast and featured in Forbes, ESPN Radio, and Yahoo! Finance, she created the Business Launch Lab to teach aspiring entrepreneurs how to become actual business owners so that they can achieve the freedom-filled lifestyle of being their own boss.

Prior to starting her marketing agency and launching the course, her career has been focused on operating entrepreneurial ventures, managing marketing and PR efforts across major contemporary fashion brands, and covering the shows at New York Fashion Week as a writer.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational podcast host and non-profit entrepreneur Heidi Johnson.

Heidi talks to us about the ways we can make a difference with our businesses.

Heidi Johnson is the creator and founder of Charity Matters, a weekly blog and podcast that, for over a decade, has told the stories of non-profit founders and their entrepreneurial journeys.

After co-founding the nonprofit, the Spiritual Care Guild, which provides 24/7 chaplain support to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Heidi wanted to share the stories of nonprofit heroes and their entrepreneurial journeys. Today she serves on CHLA as a member of their Board of Trustees.

Heidi is currently the Executive Director for TACSC, a non-profit youth leadership organization for middle and high school students, where she inspires thousands of youths to serve.

As a strong believer in education, she presently serves on the Chancellor's Advisory Board at Texas Christian University (TCU) as well as the Board of Visitors for Loyola Marymount University's School of Education.

Heidi is a past trustee of Mayfield Senior School and co-chaired the board of trustees at Verbum Dei High School in Watts. She has received multiple awards for service including The Cornelian Award, First Lady of Urban Compass and the Cardinal's Award, the highest recognition of service in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspirational entrepreneur Alfonso Cuadra.

Alfonso talks to us about how to find ways to thrive as entrepreneurs.

Alfonso Cuadra is a serial entrepreneur, real estate investor, speaker and author. As the founder & CEO of WealthGenius, his real estate education company, his passion is education and helping people to reach their full potential.

Born in El Salvador during the revolution, his mother, the head of the newspaper, was arrested for reporting the tell the truth to all about the corrupt government in power. After escaping to Canada and being raised in poverty, at 17 years old, he started a small company that quickly grew to over 600 units and $200 million+ in properties across Canada.

Alfonso is dedicated to showing others how to overcome their obstacles and become high performers and has shared his story with thousands of audiences around the world. He is a dynamic leader and is in the business of changing lives and has a special gift in his ability to connect with people and move them forward.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to the mastermind of masterminds Chris Williams.

Chris talks to us about launching and scaling high-ticket masterminds.

Chris Williams spends most of his time raising his five kids, exploring world communities, and trying his hand at adventures like shark diving, ice climbing, running ultra marathons, and riding electric skateboards:)

In his spare time, he works with entrepreneurial and business experts, speakers, coaches, and leaders helping them market, monetize, and lead their own high-ticket mastermind (or group coaching) programs.

As the world continues to shift, many experts are trying to build high-ticket groups for additional income, lead generation, or impact. Chris teaches experts how to generate leads, close high-ticket deals, and build strong, transformational groups.

He has his own digital agency, leads two masterminds of his own, and has learned many of these lessons the hard way, so sharing his journey and offering strategies is why he is here.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to serial entrepreneur and web3 pioneer Scott Kveton.

Scott talks to us about the state of crypto as we close out 2022 and go into 2023.

Scott Kveton is a serial entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience building, scaling and leading companies that make products at an Internet scale. He has gotten to work at some amazing places like Amazon, RuleSpace and Janrain, as well as co-founding Urban Airship (now Airship), Odava and Bac'n.

He started as a systems engineer with a computer science degree he quickly shifted gears to the business side and is skilled at developing a company strategy, growing successful teams, creating positive/passionate cultures and raising capital. He's raised over $50M in venture and scaled SaaS sales to $40M+ ARR.

In early 2022 he co-founded Jump, which is focused on physically-backed NFTs. In his spare time, he's busy cooking and enjoying time with his wife and three children.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to the smart marketing expert, Clare Price.

Clare talks to us about the #1 growth killer of businesses.

Clare Price is the President and CEO of Octain Growth Systems, the marketing operations company that helps you take control of your marketing through smart execution. Her new book, Smart Marketing Execution, defines the strategies, execution process and automated systems mid-market companies need to use to accelerate their profits, performance and productivity for a successful exit.

Prior to launching Octain, Clare was a Research Director for Gartner's Internet Strategies Service. She also served as Vice President of Research for Demand Metric, a strategic marketing advisory service. At Demand Metric, she led the research analysis into cloud computing applications for marketing automation, social platforms, CPQ software, sales enablement, and cloud knowledge management.

In addition to her upcoming book, Smart Marketing Execution, Clare is the author of five marketing playbooks, Make Remote Work, a guide to success in the remote economy, and the bone chilling cyberthriller, Web of Betrayal.

She has been a featured speaker for the American Marketing Association, Vistage, the California Society of Association Executives, Women in Technology International (WITI), eWomen Network and the U.C. Davis Graduate School of Management.

On a personal note, Clare is a foodie, amateur ornithologist, and proud Mom of Shetland Sheepdogs Toby and Ashton.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and futurist Malene Bendtsen.

Malene talks to us about self-publishing in web3.

Malene Bendtsen is an author and a business strategist teaching experts, teachers, public speakers and other freedom seekers how to write, publish and market their books. She is also the editor of more than 30 nonfiction books which on average sold 5x market average and created significant business growth for the author.

Malene is a futurist at heart and as a business model innovator, she is determined to find new ways for authors to connect with their audience and strategically use their books to build their businesses.

Her personality is fun, passionate and provocative, and as a publishing rebel and a knowledge liberator, there are no darlings she won't kill. Her most recent book is about web3 may disrupt the publishing industry in the very near future.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to social responsibility evangelist, Lyle Benjamin.

Lyle talks to us about how entrepreneurs can provide Quality of Life through CSR.

Lyle Benjamin is an author, educator, financial advisor, and Social Responsibility Entrepreneur. He is the past publisher of the newsstand magazine Relationships Today and the Founder of three non-profit organizations dedicated to providing collaborative solutions to solving global issues that threaten Quality of Life for kids, people, and the planet.

What are your topic ideas?: How entrepreneurs (from solo to Fortune 500) can boost CSR, HR, PR, Branding & Revenue objectives by adding non-profit "Quality of Life" collaborative programs and initiatives that work for the betterment of Kids, People & The Planet.

In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to inspiring entrepreneur and resilience coach James Van der Walt.

James talks to us about how we can live a conscious life as an entrepreneur.

James Van Der Walt is the owner of VanDerWalt Coaching LLC in California.

He is a life transition and resilience coach who works with men and women 30 years and over, who feel disconnected and disjointed from who they truly want to be. James coaches and inspires clients to transition to a reconnected and energised life that is charged with curiosity and creative possibility.

James has worked as a Specialist Registered Nurse in the U.K. for over 20 years. Specialising in ICU nursing, Organ donation and transplantation nursing and bringing it all together in mentoring, higher education and coaching, before he moved to the USA in January 2020.

Wanting to take his career to a new focussed life purpose and direction, but continue using all his life experience to date, James become a certified Life and Health Coach at The Health Coach Institute. This led to him becoming an entrepreneur who started his own coaching company, with main aim of inspiring people to stop surviving life, and to start living their own lives!