Focus Forward Podcast for Business Owners

Kim Ades is the Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching™ and Co- Founder of The Journal That Talks Back™. Recognized as a pioneer in the field of leadership coaching and thought mastery, Kim uses her unique philosophy and direct coaching style to help leaders identify their blind spots and learn to direct their thinking to achieve extraordinary results. Author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and mom of five, Kim’s is dedicated to teaching her powerful coaching process to leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs worldwide.

Kim Ades is the Founder at Frame of Mind Coaching which she started in 2005, where she works with executives and entrepreneurs to develop the skills of deliberate thought that top performers instantly access and use to drive their success.

Kim discusses lessons learned in business and a favorite topic for her, the 7 Thinking Traps that Leaders Encounter. 

For more about Sturdy, please visit SturdyCoaching.com. 

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Join us for a discussion where Dr. Allen Lycka and I talk about living a meaningful life and bringing those principles into your business. 

You will appreciate Dr. Lycka's insights and wisdom. He can be reached at https://drallenlycka.com.

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As a successful tech entrepreneur and global business leader, Tim Angelillo brings 15+ years of experience running divisions of publicly traded companies like Yahoo! and Time Warner as well currently founding and leading three start-up businesses in Austin, TX.  These experiences allow Tim to share detailed insights on how to apply an entrepreneurial drive and marketing, sales, technology, and management skills both inside global companies and the tech start-up world.

As Global Business Leader for $900 million of revenue overseeing Yahoo! Sports and the Y! Commerce divisions and Executive Director founding and overseeing $100 Million of Sports Illustrated licensing, properties, and retail business units, Tim shares his experience with audiences around the world on the following topics:

During his talks on any one of these conference topics, Tim offers specific recounts of real-world experience, the lessons and solutions uncovered, and actionable insights the audience members can apply to succeed in their own endeavors.

Tim’s “Real World” experiences include:

Tim’s passion is to be of service to consumers, clients, partners, and other tenacious entrepreneurs by sharing his story and solutions that can be applied to companies large and small. Tim is an avid runner using more than 30 miles a week to think up the next business venture and the grateful husband and father of three children, RJ, Cooper, and Grace…all under the age of 10.

Carrie Morey is a lifestyle entrepreneur and founder of Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit.

She created Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit as a way to work in the food industry while raising her young daughters and being able to keep her focus on them. She discusses her inspiration and partnering with her mother to launch the company.

Carrie shares some great, and unexpected, lessons from her journey. I won’t give them away here. You’re just gonna have to listen to it in her words.

I hope you enjoy!

Carrie Morey founded Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit with the goal of making her mother’s handmade biscuits accessible nationwide. Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit has national retail exposure, 4 eateries and a food truck. Carrie is the author of cookbooks: Callie’s Biscuits and Southern Traditions and Hot Little Suppers (October ‘21), and stars in the docu-series, How She Rolls.

Learn more about Carrie and her entrepreneurial endeavors at the links below.

And by the way, get some biscuits! We sent out our testers across the South and they LOVED them. https://calliesbiscuits.com

Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit:

Carrie Morey:

How She Rolls:

Rashi Bahri Chitnis is an entrepreneur in Santa Barbara, CA who is striving to empower children through language and culture.

Rashi created Shoonya Digital whose mission is to create interactive edutainment content that is inspired by the stories and characters of the world. Think Disney meets 

Why Rashi began and how she went about making it happen inspires and informs. Her insights into the entrepreneurial journey will make you think and see in ways you maybe haven’t before.

Learn more about Rashi and her company at the links below.

Shoonya Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/3831263/admin/

Rashi Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/rashibahri

Shoonya Website: https://www.shoonyadigital.com/

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/shoonyakids

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shoonyakids/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shoonyalanguages/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Shoonyad

Renée Rouleau is a trusted and sought-after skin care expert and esthetician loved by celebrities, editors, bloggers and skincare obsessives everywhere. She is based in Austin, TX.

Renée is also a motorcyclist, adventurer, and entrepreneur. She shares with us her need to reinvent her brand to stay fresh through all the changes of the last couple of decades.

I enjoyed talking with and learning more about Renée’s entrepreneurial journey and how she has grown her business in a most counter-intuitive way.

Learn more about Renée and her company at the links below.

https://www.reneerouleau.com

https://www.instagram.com/reneerouleauskincare/

https://www.instagram.com/reneerouleau/

https://www.youtube.com/user/reneerouleau

https://www.facebook.com/ReneeRouleauSkinCare

Jackie Summers is an entrepreneur and founder at Jack From Brooklyn, makers of the “Perfectly rendered” Sorel liqueur.  https://sorelofficial.com

Jackie is the first black person to hold a distilling license in the United States, at least since Prohibition. His determination and persistence got him there, as well as through his 624 attempts at making Sorel delicious AND shelf stable. We are all better off for his diligence.

Listen to Jackie describe and take you through his entrepreneurial journey as he also shares the 500 year journey of sorrel, ultimately leading to the development of Sorel liqueur.

I hope you enjoy Jackie’s story as much as I did.

Learn more about Jackie, Sorel, and his journey at the links below.

https://sorelofficial.com

https://twitter.com/theliquortarian

https://www.linkedin.com/company/jack-from-brooklyn/about

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Aaron Kozinets is a 25 year old entrepreneur and founder at Influence Hunter (http://influencehunter.com).

Aaron never really thought about working for anyone else, but instead struck out on his own straight out of school. He has spent the last several years figuring out and refining his vision and strategy for Influence Hunter.

Influence Hunter brings the power of online influencers to smaller businesses matching niche influencers with unique brands.

Aaron’s journey is interesting and he shares his lessons and story freely.

I am sure you will enjoy Aaron’s perspective and insights.

http://influencehunter.com

https://www.instagram.com/influencehunter

Sara Roach-Lewis is a Feminist Business Strategist & Coach. Sara helps women business owners swap the hamster wheel for increased revenues without sacrificing their personal lives. She lives on Prince Edward Island, Canada. Sara also hosts the show “Break Through” on Voice America Business.

Sara comes from a non-profit background and talks about the transition to entrepreneurship as well as the similarities she has seen and experienced. She shares how she overcame her “crisis of confidence” in her first year and how she helps others overcome the same.

I found Sara’s take on self care and business to be refreshing and a great reminder to put your own mask on first. She also shares great insights into strategy to help you achieve more while opening up about her entrepreneurial journey.

I am sure you will enjoy hearing from Sara, her insights, and her expertise.

You can get in touch with Sara in the following ways.

Instagram

Facebook

Linkedin

Heather Deveaux is the founder of Heather Deveaux Instructional Design.

Heather took her experience and created a business where she helps content experts bring their ideas to life in 30 days or less. Think Big Move Fast is her mantra and she helps people create great content without getting caught up in the endless cycle of perfectionism.

Heather share her insights and stories of becoming and growing as an entrepreneur with some lessons you will not want to miss.

I hope you enjoy my conversation with Heather as much as I did.

You can get in touch with Heather in the following ways.

https://heatherdeveaux.com

Instagram

Facebook

Linkedin