Interview with Nathan Graham, who is an AI entrepreneur, author, and founder of Synthetic Echo.

Nathan helps business owners use artificial intelligence to automate repetitive work, strengthen their marketing, improve lead conversion, and operate with the power of a much larger team. He is the author of The Synthetic Echo and AI Workflows: From Cold Lead to Closed Deal.

He is also the author of Why Won’t He Just Log Off?, which explores gaming, parenting, human needs, and the growing impact of technology on family relationships.

Nathan's web site is https://syntheticecho.com/

Interview with Stephen Wright, who is the author of PICK ONE: 4 Strategies to Focus and Accelerate Your Business. He helps small to midsize business owners cut through noise, identify the real issue, and choose the one strategic move that creates traction.

Drawing from years of experience working inside struggling and growth-stage companies, Stephen delivers practical, high-impact answers, stories and illustrations that move leaders from overload and reaction to clarity, focus, and profitable momentum.

He brings the unusual combination of real CEO/VP turnaround experience as well as more than 10 years consulting with business owners through growth, expansion, team development and execution challenges.

Stephen's web site is https://pickonemethod.com/7-questions

Interview with Zahra Antaramian, who entered the real estate and construction world under extraordinary circumstances. After losing her father—a highly successful real estate developer in South Florida and Massachusetts—she started her first business at just 20 years old.

Zahra later earned her contractor’s license and partnered with her father’s original business partners to build a second-generation family real estate services firm rooted in his legacy, while also carving out an identity and reputation of her own.

Today, Zahra’s firm provides litigation support, property management, construction consulting, owner’s representation, and construction management services. Collectively, her team has constructed, developed, or operated billions of dollars’ worth of real estate. Their current marquee project is serving as owner’s representative and construction manager on one of the largest construction defect restoration projects in the United States.

Zahra's web site is https://www.adg4companies.com/

Interview with Elena Komarova, who is a strategic PR consultant and the founder of After Comma Agency, an NYC-headquartered firm at the intersection of AI, tech, and public relations. Her track record of rapid growth began at age 21, when she built a top-10 national PR agency in Russia—an achievement that later qualified her for a US Extraordinary Ability visa at age 23.

Elena is currently directing a team of 30+ specialists and generating $500K in revenue, Lena combines youth-driven market insights with proven executive leadership.

You can connect with her at https://www.linkedin.com/in/lnkmrv/

Interview with Rita Rai, who is the founder of discussIt.co and a senior executive with deep roots in management consulting.

She's spent her career working with Fortune 500 leadership teams on strategic planning, operational improvement, digital transformation, and change management — the kind of work where the difference between a plan that sits on a shelf and one that transforms a business comes down to how well people connect, communicate, and share knowledge.

Rita's web site is https://www.discussit.co/

Interview with Tom Gersic, who has over 26 years in enterprise software and AI and has led go-to-market strategy for some of tech's most complex deployments.

This year Tom founded YouEx.ai — an AI-native platform designed to become the single destination for every lead a B2B sales team generates, turning pipeline chaos into revenue.

His web site is https://www.youex.ai/

Interview with Joel Miller, who has been running a boutique marketing agency with his identical twin brother Alan for 17 years — and they've never hired a single employee. That's not a gap in their resume. It's the whole point. While the marketing world keeps telling small businesses to scale up, hire more, and hustle harder, Joel and Alan quietly built The Sky Floor into a valuable agency by doing basically the opposite: staying small on purpose, turning away clients who aren't the right fit, and charging based on value instead of hours. 

Joel's web site is https://www.theskyfloor.com/subscribe/

Interview with Andrea Waltz, who is the co-creator of Go for No!®, a bestselling business book and mindset approach that helps entrepreneurs and sales professionals overcome fear of rejection and take courageous action.

Andrea's web site is https://www.goforno.com//quiz 

Interview with Mike Swenson, who retired in 2021 after a career as a broadcast journalist, press secretary to a Governor and founder and leader of a successful public relations firm. Mike founded Barkley Public Relations in 1987.

What began as a regional public relations firm is today a national leader in crisis management, influencer relations, purpose branding and employee engagement. During his career at Barkley, Mike became a nationally recognized leader in both crisis management and cause branding.

He also served as global president of IPREX, a collaboration of more than 100 independent public relations firms. Mike began his career in broadcast journalism working in both radio and television. Following that, he spent five years as press secretary to Kansas Gov. John Carlin.

Mike is also the co-host of a podcast, The Kansas City Marketing Legends.

His web site is https://crisistrak.com/

You can connect with Mike at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeswenson1/

Interview with Darren Padgett, who is Founder and CEO of NCKTR Business Solutions. Egos are checked at the door, he values ethics over shortcuts, and he helps businesses grow, transform, and thrive— none of the BS you see ads and influencers try to sell courses on, just results.

You can connect with Darren at https://www.instagram.com/ncktrbiz/