Donald Halpern is a serial entrepreneur, having founded companies such as Loss-Proof, Freakmount, and Loctote Industrial Bag Company. For Loctote, he pitched the company on the show Shark Tank, where he made a deal with shark Robert Herjavec to raise $150k for the business.

High Bank Distillery Co. is a distillery and restaurant located in Grandview, OH. The team at High Bank distills Whiskey, Vodka, Gin, and Rum, and their restaurant serves a variety of options that change fairly often with the seasons. They’re most known for their world-class meals, award winning cocktails, and unmatched environment.

Dryver is a personal driving service that serves both business and personal needs in the Columbus area and Nationwide (32 states, 77 cities). They’ve been providing safe transportation and creating jobs since 2010; and they’re slightly different than other ride share companies as they’ll drive your car so that you don’t have to.

battleface provides travel insurance benefits and services to travelers visiting or working internationally, including in the world’s most challenging destinations. They cover emergency medical treatment, evacuation and accidents, adventure activities, and travel to isolated places, with 24/7 assistance and claims services. Sasha Gainullin is the CEO of battleface, and Anthony Spiteri is the CTO. Anthony …

Floriss Group helps CEOs and sales leaders build reliable, high-performance sales growth engines at scale; led by Founder and CEO, James Rores. On this episode, Mike and Josh talk with James about his entrepreneurial journey, how he helps business leaders systematize their sales teams, and more.

Valter Veliu is the Owner and Head Chef of Valter’s at the Maennerchor, a German restaurant in Columbus’ own German Village.

Noble Method is a new fitness studio in Columbus, Ohio that focuses on bringing the most cutting edge fitness equipment and methods to the city, along with capturing the big-city feel that you get working out in studios in cities such as LA or NYC.

Amy is a nationally-recognized sales strategist, author, and keynote speaker. She also has served as chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland for four years. In this role, she has overseen a $16 million transformational initiative to build a new STEM and leadership center to transform workforce development. Amy also …

The Dayhuff Group is a born-in-the-cloud service provider supporting their customers in accelerating the reinvention of their applications and data in the cloud. They excel in developing and deploying data lakes and analytics, ML/AI, automated attendants, and data modernization + development by leveraging AI technologies from IBM and AWS to drive measurable business results.

Green Light Improv provides classes on improv to university students and corporations to help improve their team’s creative thinking skills and innovation.