Impact & Legacy

On Today’s Podcast

This week I sit down with Steve Werner. Seven years ago Steve left his corporate job to change lives through live events and public speaking.

Since then he has:

• Held 63 sold-out events for himself and clients
• Built more than 138 different presentations
• Spoken on more than 200 live and virtual stages including Harvards business summit on marketing, influence, and conversion.

He focuses on helping coaches, influencers, and small business owners grow through webinars, one-to-many sales presentations, and live events.

How to Connect with Steve

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https://stevenphillipwerner.com/

www.facebook.com/steve.werner.5667

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This week I sit down with Amber Champagne-Matos. Amber Champagne-Matos, the owner and founder of multiple beauty businesses, believes in doing what you love; not what you once loved. Amber is a licensed esthetician, skincare entrepreneur, and former Senior National Educator for Benefit Cosmetics! During her career with Benefit, she traveled the country extensively and trained thousands of other estheticians. She also wrote groundbreaking educational content for the company, both nationally and internationally, contributing to Benefit's remarkable corporate growth. To put that in perspective, Benefit employs more than 6,000 estheticians in 59 countries across five continents and is part of the world-renowned luxury brand, Louis Vuitton. Her experience with this major cosmetics brand gave her the edge and knowledge she needed to confidently face the world of beauty and dare to dream. In the last year alone, Amber has established three interconnecting businesses, created a regularly visited beauty blog and shop, began to develop an up-and-coming skincare line, and became a Best Selling Author. This year, she is working on a second book, getting ready to launch her skincare line, expanding into other territories, and helping other Estheticians build their dream businesses. Amber has lived on both coasts, but she is a true "East Coast" girl at heart. She is fascinated by the Enneagram (she’s a 4w5 with strong 3 tendencies) and once did makeup during New York’s famous fashion week.

How to Connect with Amber

An Esthetician’s Guide to the Midlife Skin Crisis © at www.champagneapothecary.com

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[email protected]  

www.Instagram.com/champagneapothecary

www.Facebook.com/theestheticiansguidetobusiness

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This week I sit down with Tonya Hofmann. Tonya Hofmann is an international speaker and eight-time entrepreneur, envisioned a relationship-based platform that could konnect like-minded, like-hearted professionals in a safe, spam-free space who genuinely wanted to collaborate and help each other grow.

Consistent with her vision, BeeKonnected’s one-of-a-kind software matches business professionals in much the same way a dating app matches potential suitors—with a member rating system that ensures everyone is “there for the right reasons.”

• CEO & Founder of BeeKonnected
• Former CEO & Founder of the Public Speakers Association
• 8 x Best Selling Author
• International Speaker
• 5 x Cover of Magazines
• Winner yearly of major international awards

How to Connect with Tonya

[email protected]

https://beekonnected.com

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This week I sit down with Terri Lynn Yanke. Terri Lynn Yanke is the Founder, CEO, Biz Event Wizard + Experience Visionary of Eventful Advantage LLC, a premier event services company. Terri Lynn combines her MBA in Marketing, 20 years of executive-level corporate experience with event strategy and planning to help business owners and decision-makers create experiences, not just events, to build their business and brand plus be memorable. In addition, she is Managing Director of eWomenNetwork – Madison, a premier global networking community where she produces and facilitates two events per month. She enjoys speaking to various groups and associations about how to: “Create Experiences, Not Just Events – The Advantage of Taking Your Audience Over the Top,” “Build Your Business and Brand with Events – Whether In-Person or Online,” and “The Magic of Creating Experiences.” Born and raised in the Madison, WI area, she recently returned “home” after living away (Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Baltimore, New York City, Connecticut, Dallas) for various jobs since graduating from the University of Wisconsin School of Business. She is excited to be closer to family and cheer on both the Badgers & Packers at a closer distance. When not working, she enjoys the outdoors, exploring new restaurants, trying new cocktails, craft brews, wines, and traveling. Terri Lynn is mom to Lindsey, who lives and works in Washington DC, and her fur baby, Odie.

How to Connect with Terri

[email protected]

https://eventfuladvantage.com

www.linkedin.com/in/terriyanke

www.facebook.com/eventfuladvantage

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This week I sit down with Joyce Wietrecki. Joyce Wietrecki is a co-author of the book, "Overcoming Mediocrity: Unstoppable Women." She is a strategic Talent Management Professional in Organizational Leadership specializing in leadership development, team building and change management. Her expertise has been in high demand from blue-chip companies like Walgreens, AbbVie, Reynolds Consumer Products, and Kraft Heinz Company. She is President of her own venture, Corporate Training Group, Inc., which combines her expertise in talent management and executive coaching spanning over 25 years. Joyce has worked with hundreds of leaders to improve performance and develop them into excellent leaders, with a proven track record of transforming managers into extraordinary leaders. Conducting surveys, administering 360-degree feedback tools, using self-assessments, peer assessments, and team assessments, she provides them coaching and insight into individual, leader, and team dynamics. She served as a Professional Advisor for the School for New Learning at DePaul University, served as President for the Association for Talent Development in Chicago, and served on the National Board of Leadership Development for ATD. Also, she is a Certified Professional Coach.

www.linkedin.com/in/joycewietrecki

www.ctg.us.com

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This week I sit down with Sharmila Wijeyakumar. Sharmila is Sri Lankan by ethnic origin, British by birth, and has lived between North America and Europe for the last 21 years. She is a survivor of Human Trafficking, and she shares her journey of healing from this atrocity by acquiring faith in Jesus Christ and a passion for doing something about this issue.

She first fought Human Trafficking with Pro Nino, where she reduced the rate of child trafficking by 49% in 13 Spanish-speaking countries in the early 2000s. This led her to found Rahab's Daughters, a nonprofit fighting to prevent, rescue, and rehabilitate survivors of trafficking. She serves alongside her husband of 22 years and daughter to prevent trafficking and rescue and serve those trafficked. Sharmila leads over 200 volunteers and employees across 3 states.

​As well as leading her non-profit passion project, Sharmila works in the high-tech world of digital transformation for Veriday, a software & professional services company. She serves enterprise organizations with the help of an amazing team. She feels blessed to have the support & freedom to balance her faith, family, vocation, and passion.

www.RahabsDaughters.org

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/rahabsdaughters

https://www.linkedin.com/in/swijeyakumar/

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This week I sit down with Valerie Mrak. Valerie is a conflict transformation specialist, who takes exhausted, frustrated relationships and helps her clients transform them into productive partnerships. She helps teams and individuals go from inaction and infighting to action and creative collaboration.

She is a TEDx and international speaker, award-winning filmmaker and leadership coach who has empowered thousands across the globe to transform their business and personal relationships through creating possibility.

A bestselling author, she has been featured on radio and in publications such as the Chicago Tribune, and has more than a dozen years’ experience coaching, speaking and training.

Valerie has worked with organizations like AT&T, The National Park Service, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Rotary International and PBS.

She was named in “100 Women to Watch” by Today’s Chicago Woman magazine.

A life-changing conversation with the Dalai Lama led her to a commitment to transform the conflict in her own life and master the principles of peace. She has interviewed six winners of the Nobel Peace Prize as well as many former gang leaders. As a result, she discovered the secrets of how to find the possibilities in impossible relationships.

Mrak lives with her husband, Michael, at the southern tip of Lake Michigan in the state of Indiana, USA.

[email protected]

www.mrakulous.com

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This week I sit down with Sofia Husnain. Sofia's story began in the arms of a single mother in a country thousands of miles away where women are anything but equal partners in a male dominant society. At the age of 11, she moved to the United States with her family to find her American dream which also came at a difficult price.

From abandonment by her father to living with a chronic lifelong illness and learning to find, accept and love her true identity, Sofia's story is about self-discovery through the shadows of our past and the rebirthing that we experience through traumatic and extremely difficult challenges that we face that forever change us.

Sofia is a Registered Nurse, holistic wellness educator, author, and founder and managing director at Woman Disrupted.

How To Connect With Sofia

[email protected]

www.WomanDisrupted.com

This week I sit down with Erin Marcus. Erin Marcus is an award-winning business owner, international speaker, author, and consultant, who has been creating business successes for more than 20 years. Her vast corporate experience combined with her MBA business savvy and street-smart upbringing have her working with her clients at the intersection where magnetic marketing and actionable strategy meet. the mindset work needed to bust through obstacles and maintain the motivation to take quantum leaps forward. She has spoken for top organizations such as, Highland Capital Brokerage, Thrivent Financial, Women’s Council of Realtors, and US Bank, just to name a few. Erin is also the host of the “Ready Yet? Podcast” sharing stories of success and inspiration all focused on the fact that you’ll never do what it takes until you become the person it takes to do it. When not working, Erin is often volunteering at the Fox Valley Wildlife Rescue or taking care of her own small menagerie. She is also a fitness enthusiast, utilizing the ability to get uncomfortable and push for more in the gym to do the same in her business.

https://conqueryourbusiness.com

www.facebook.com/erin.marcus.3

www.linkedin.com/in/erin-marcus-9977592

Meet Today's Guest: Louie Sharp

Louie is a nationally renowned, world-class keynote speaker with over 11 years of professional speaking experience. He has been seen on NBC, ABC, and CNN and delivered keynote speeches for distinguished companies such as DuPont, Edward Jones, Sage, Fender, and Axalta and most recently shared the stage with Jack Canfield!

Louie served 20 years in the US Marines. His service included travel to 21 countries guarding American Embassies and flying Huey Helicopters.

He was the Vice President of sales for Sound Enhances, a global company. Add a successful business owner in his own right, Louie has started, bought & sold companies. He started his first company at 23, and 38 years later, it is still going strong.

Louie often donates his time speaking about leadership, self-confidence, and success to the less fortunate and abused. His forthcoming book is called “The Gifted Leader-How to Grow Your Business for More Profit & Freedom! “

What Is Your Story? How Did You Get to Where You Are Now?

I like to start in high school, in how I was involved in so many things. In high school, I couldn't wait to get out. I couldn't wait for my life to begin. I wanted to see the world. I came from a family that really didn't have a lot of money growing up. I knew college wasn't an option. So, I enlisted in the Marines when I was still in my senior year of high school. I worked that summer and then left for the Marines in October and never looked back. I spent four and a half years on active duty. It's funny because the last guy I worked for was my boss in the Marines was an alcoholic. So, I got off of active duty, and I started as an apprentice in a body shop in Arlington Heights at the time. And it turned out, as fate would have it, that he was an alcoholic as well. I remember he had a company meeting. And I think there were 11 or 12 of us at the time. And he stood up. And now this is 1981. He stood up and said, I'd like to make $50,000 more for me this year, but I can't afford to give anybody a raise. So I stood up and said, I want my check. I'm done. A bunch of other guys were like, Are you crazy? What are you doing? I said, did you hear what he just said? He just told all of us that he expects us to work harder, and we get nothing. It's all about him.

At that point, I broke out on my own, and I literally started in a one-car garage that had no heat, no running water. I started with $500 in my toolbox. That was almost 40 years ago; Sharp Auto Body is still going. I now have 10 employees, and it was funny because I never really set out to be in business for myself. I went into business because I was going to go back to school full time. I've been working full time during the day and going to college at night. And then I saw an ad in the paper, and there was an ambulance company looking to hire a body man. I called up, and I said, you don't want somebody coming into this building where all your drivers are sleeping overnight and fixing your ambulances from accidents with Bondo, dust, paint fumes, and all that stuff. I ended up contracting their work, and at that point, I decided to go into business full time and give up college. And as they say, the rest is history. In that process, I started a towing company, bought a mechanical repair shop, sold the mechanical repair shop, sold the towing company, still have the body shop, and started my speaking consulting business. So, you know, there's 40 years in there, but that's kind of how it got started.

I think that I still have wanderlust. I still love to travel. For me, some people are really drained by traveling. It energizes me. I think of it as an adventure. I love to see new places, experience new things, new cultures. I've always been curious, and I think that when you're curious and afraid to try new things, you discover all kinds of things that you're good at and things that you like to do and have fun at.

Tell us a little bit about how you got into the world of speaking?

I went to a one day Jack Canfield event for personal development and personal growth. They were taking applications for this program called, Train the Trainer. And to be honest with you, up to this point in my life, I didn't even know that professional speaking or motivational speaking was a thing. But I went to this event, and I filled out an application. They said they were taking applications from people worldwide and would give you a call to interview you. Well, I never got a call. So I figured they didn't pick me. Then, one day, I get a phone call, and they say you've been accepted. So, I go to the program; it's a year-long program. I was selected without an interview because I was one of two veterans they took into the program because Jack Canfield wanted his work to get back to the veteran community. I ended up doing a total of 20 years in the Marines, but the rest of it was inactive. I was in the reserves. I did active duty for 14 months in Desert Storm.

During this year-long training called Train the Trainer, a woman named Lisa Nichols came in and spoke to us and told us her story. And she had us laughing; she had us crying, she had us laughing, she had us crying. And at the end of the story, she said, I shared my story because I want you to know your story matters. And at that moment, it was like the sky parted. And God struck me with a bolt of lightning. And I realized at that moment that everything that had happened to me in my life, all of it, had happened for a reason.

I was abused as a child, and then I did time in the Marines and started a business and all that stuff. And so when that hit me, you had to do homework. And one of the things you had to do in this training was you had to go back home because it was three weeks of live training with Jack Canfield in a room; he ended up with 86 people from literally around the world. And a majority of them, I'd say 90% of them, were already business coaches, consultants, or speakers of some sort. And here's Louis being The Body Shop guy thinking, man, I'm in the deep end of the pool without a life preserver. And so you had to do at least a half-day seminar, and you had to do a keynote speech. So, a friend of mine got like 50 business owners in a room, and I went out. It's weird because it was like I've been doing it my whole life. And to this day, I tell people, I don't get nervous; I get really excited for it to start, right. But I don't get nervous. I don't have butterflies. I don't get queasy or lightheaded or any of that stuff. I just get really excited for it to start.

I've also had some experiences. I play guitar, and I've played in bands for the last 35 or 40 years as well. And I've had nights on stage when people have come up to me after a set or at the end of the night and said, Man, you were awesome tonight. You were playing out of your head. And I tell them I was because it didn't come from me, it came through me, and the music just flowed through me. So I can tell you that every time I speak, it usually takes four or five minutes, and then for me, it's the Holy Spirit. You can call it whatever you want. But it just moves through me, and I tell people that if you saw me do a keynote speech, and you wanted to interview me immediately after, and held a gun to my head and asked me to repeat it, you'd have to kill me. Because I practice really hard, I research, live what I talk about, have a PowerPoint, and prepare like everybody else, but I just let it go once it starts. And that's when the magic and the miracles happen.

Who Are the Clients That You Work With?

I normally consult businesses and corporations that are looking to improve their proficiencies to get profit and time.

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