Dawne has been a professional speaker for over 30 years and is an expert in networking and helping people build their businesses.

During this episode, Dawne shares stories of her experiences and how she has been able to use her connections to grow her business. She encourages entrepreneurs to reach out for help, build partnerships, and look for different ways to expand their businesses.

Jon is a lifelong Richmond resident with a unique understanding of the entire Richmond metro area, including Chesterfield County and Henrico County.

Not only is Jon an area expert, but he is well-connected and provides a great network of support. Relentless, focused, and hard-working, Jon leverages those connections to serve his clients better. 

During this episode, John shares his inspiring journey of growth and success as an entrepreneur, musician, and educator. He emphasizes the importance of using modern platforms to spread your message and stay up to date on the ever-evolving business landscape.

Tim Cox is the co-founder and leader of the sales team of Car Now, one of the fastest growing companies in the digital retailing space right now winning awards. They have amassed over 4,000 dealer customers in their 6 short years in business. Tim started his career originally in the automotive industry.

During this episode, Cory and Tim discuss partnerships, scaling, and the importance of culture. Learn about the keys to a successful partnership, and what it takes to scale successfully and rapidly. 

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Superstar real estate agent, Kevin Thomas, is a native of Detroit Michigan and an army veteran. He served in the military and then got into the retail automotive industry and ended up opening up his own independent dealership with his wife right outside of Savannah Georgia, and was really focused on the military community.

Over the next 15 year period, they opened other businesses including car rentals, self storage facilities, limousine companies, coffee shops and now residential and commercial real estate investment company and agent. He’s also a published author and an inspirational speaker. 

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Douglas Levin was a professional drummer living in Chicago for about 10 years before he started to sell on Amazon in his spare time. He started this in 2014 and from that point he went on to wholesale, private label, and was able to have all of these scenarios where he got enough money coming in that eventually he was able to bring his wife into the business.

In preparation for the launch of his first brand, Doug became obsessed with chatbots and messenger and built himself a list of over 20k subscribers which he was able to convert into $20k in monthly sales within his first 90 days of launch. It helped him start his business, his brand and ultimately start to do other things without relying on Amazon. 

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Within 5 years, Dre Baldwin went from the end of his high school basketball career on the team’s bench, to his first contract and a 9 year professional basketball career. While playing professional basketball, Dre pioneered new genres of personal branding and entrepreneurship via an ever-growing content publishing empire.

Dre started blogging in 2005, got on YouTube in 2006. He has published over 7,000 videos to 134,000+ subscribers, his content being viewed over 73 million times to date. Dre’s daily Work On Your Game Podcast MasterClass has over 1,500 episodes and more than 3 million downloads.

Dre has given 4 TED Talks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness and Personal Initiative and has authored 27 books. He has appeared in national campaigns with Nike, Finish Line, Wendy’s, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, STASH Investments and DIME magazine. He’s a Philadelphia native and Penn State alum, and currently lives in Miami.

During this episode, Cory and Dre talk about opportunity created out of necessity, and taking advantage of it.

Learn about finding the intersection of what you love doing, what you are good at, and money to be made. Dre goes through his four principles of being successful, and simplifying the process to achieve success. 

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“It used to be there wasn’t enough information, nowadays there’s too much so you’re only job now is filtering out and finding the right people that you want to connect with who are speaking your language” - Dre Baldwin

Willie and Dee Jolley are the ultimate power couple. Willie is a CPAE in the speaking world, which means hall of fame, and how it runs is Dee Jolley is the one making it all happen. Willie has the number one motivational show on Sirius radio, he's spoken across all the countries and continents, and helped Ford Motor Company during their turnaround process. 

Steve Stauning is the founder of his namesake company Stauning solutions group which is a leading training and consulting firm. He’s also a prolific author. His books include "Ridiculously Simple Sales Management", "Assumptive Selling", and "Sh*t Sandwich". He’s a guy that really has sometimes contrarian views, but he’s one of those people that sometimes says things that everyone is thinking, but no one wants to say. 

During this episode, Cory and Steve talk about the decision to leave corporate America to start his own business. Steve talks about the importance of doing what makes you happy, and not spreading yourself too thin by trying to do everything and be everywhere. 

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Jim Fitzpatrick is a 25-year veteran of the retail automotive industry, and he owned his own dealership by the age of 40. He additionally held some executive positions with companies like AutoNation.

After owning the dealership, he went on to found Force Marketing, which became one of the biggest digital marketing companies servicing the automotive retail space. Most recently, with his wife and partner Bridget, he went on to form JBF Business Media, which is now operating 2 leading digital TV networks including CBT News and the Atlanta Small Business Network. 

During this episode, Cory and Jim discuss Jim’s ultimate entrepreneurial journey, jumping from startup to startup after owning a car dealership at the age of 40. Learn about the effect that ego has on business decisions, and knowing when to move on from one challenge to face a new opportunity.  

Todd Smith is an American serial entrepreneur who has pioneered digital marketing and retail solutions particularly in the automotive industry. Todd’s experience spans more than 30 years and includes finding successes, a Chevrolet dealer and the founder of a company called ActivEngage, which went onto become the largest managed large chat company in the automotive industry.

Todd’s latest venture is 360 converge which is a communication platform that is delivering next generation CRM. Todd continues to be a highly sought after thought leader, speaker, writer and a great mentor.

During this episode, Cory and Todd discuss adjusting, the work behind the scenes, work-life balance and not letting money be the only north star. Learn about the importance of staying flexible and adapting your plans to succeed as an entrepreneur.

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