Lisa Kipps_Brown - The author of Boomer Cashout and the upcoming Disrupt Your Now, Lisa Kipps-Brown offers Chief Web Officer expertise and disruptive strategic thinking to help entrepreneurs solve big picture problems. Since starting her web & marketing strategy company in 1996, she's been a pioneer in business use of the web and even sold a dot-com business just before the bubble burst in 2000.

Bridging the gap between designers, developers, marketing, and sales, Lisa helps clients understand all available options to avoid sinking thousands of dollars in the wrong solution. She also works with clients who want their business to mean more than money and is the mind behind the only NASCAR team racing to combat veteran suicide.

Lisa is the expert you’re missing, and likely didn’t even know you need. No gobbledygook, guaranteed!

Bonnie Hewitt of West View has used the pandemic as a chance to re-invent her business, which began as an Etsy shop, PoshNotions selling T-shirts, pillows and other items with inspirational messages. Then the pandemic struck, and Hewitt taught herself how to sew, so she could make masks (she sold more than xxx). Then, the pandemic continued, and things, such as fabric and elastic, were hard to come by. That’s when Hewitt, 42, had an ‘ah ha’ moment.

Instead of making new items, she uses junk to make things like totes, jackets and home decor. The idea caught the attention of entrepreneur and best-selling author David Meltzer, who is hosting a new business competition show on Bloomberg TV, 2 Minute Drill. During the show, five entrepreneurs get 120 seconds to pitch their business. Hewitt is a finalist for the third episode, which airs at 11:30 p.m. Friday. It will be rebroadcast on Amazon Video. The winner gets $50,000 in cash and prizes. (See the show’s trailer, which shows Hewitt crying.)

“I’m beyond thrilled to have this opportunity,” Hewitt said. “It was terrifying and exhilarating at the same time to give my pitch to three judges who own mega, successful businesses.”

It’s also given her the courage and inspiration to continue to learn new skills to grow her business, which she named Up-Cycle. She’ll be selling items on Etsy and from her website, poshnotions.com. Her next project is to take the torn vinyl liner from the family’s pool and create totes.

“I just hated the thought of throwing the liner in the trash,” said Hewitt, who’s always been environmentally conscious. “I thought, there has to be a way to give all the vinyl a new purpose.”  

Re-invention is not new to Hewitt, though. A decade ago she was an accountant living a perfectly normal life in her hometown of West View. In 2011, she was diagnosed with Guillain Barre syndrome, a rare disorder in which the body's immune system attacks nerves. Hewitt was temporarily paralyzed, and it caused her multiple autoimmune illnesses, debilitating chronic pain and other symptoms. Hewitt has spent the past nine years learning to heal and learning how to live with a disease that has robbed her of being able to return to her job as an accountant. She refuses to let it get her down, though.

So, as the pandemic continues, she’s juggling learning to sew vinyl, while helping her four kids with virtual learning and fighting to stay as healthy as she can.

Steph Shinabery is an artist, author, business coach and nurse anesthesiologist. She considers herself a free spirit, a bit of a rebel, a curious creative and explorer and always felt a little stuck-make that a lot stuck in the “9-5” frame.

When she discovered online marketing and the things you could accomplish online with a laptop, she was hooked. She’s on a mission to help women reach their highest potential and create an aligned life and business that they love. She helps heart centered coaches, consultants and experts add more clients. Focusing on having a Signature Offer and a Uniquely Branded Roadmap for the fastest path to results for their clients. 

Tucker Max is the co-founder of Scribe Media, a company that helps you write, publish, and market your book. He's written four New York Times Best Sellers (three that hit #1), which have sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide.

Curt Cuscino is the Founder & CEO of HypeLife Brands, a progressive brand development & marketing agency helping disruptive B2C lifestyle startups engage the Millennial Generation.

 Since HypeLife Brands’ inception in 2001, Curt's team at HypeLife has consistently employed a highly progressive approach to creating powerful, engaging brands and fundable startups in the ever-changing "universe of brand," while employing a heavy focus on precision marketing, keenly focused on building customer traction and long-term ROI.

 His highly-awarded agency team's ability to navigate and master change quickly for HypeLife’s select roster of clients — a necessity in the digital age — sets HypeLife apart from your typical agency, enabling them to be far more nimble in tight spaces than many of their larger (and slower-moving) agency competitors. This unique agility makes HypeLife a highly valuable asset for their clients and those who are truly ready to elevate their brand to the next level.

Jesse Todisco is the founder of 46 & 2 Wealth Partners, a fee only registered investment advisory firm. His business ethos is rooted in showing others how to become free and create Happy Wealth.

Jesse also hosts The Jesse Tee Show. A mindset focused podcast that teaches anyone hunting greatness in business, health and wellness and in relationships, the secrets to success.

At an early age Jesse realized he had a knack for being an entrepreneur. He would buy, sell and trade comic books and sports cards. Growing up in Boston, during the harsh winter months, Jesse would shovel his neighbor’s sidewalks and driveways earning a few dollars and other times, a cup of hot chocolate.

In 2006, Jesse moved to Georgia and resumed his entrepreneurial path after leaving the military. He founded a series of successful companies that lead him to Charlotte, NC. After building an organization, Jesse experienced the loss of his daughter, Alana. He decided to move back to the Atlanta area to be closer to friends and family and continue the dream of starting a family.

Jesse is the proud parent of two sons, is a passionate human optimization nerd, enjoys getting into nature and is a psychonaut.

Rich Rudzinski has been infatuated with computers from the time he first locked eyes on the sweet 486 Windows machine his uncle got his family in the early 90s. He broke, fixed, and gamed on that computer until he saved enough to build his own machine from scratch. The top of his class in high school, Rich followed his passion for computers while studying at UCSD where he graduated early with an innovative art/technology major (ICAM), with a focus on building interactive experiences with new technologies.

Rich created Tragic in 2009, first focusing as a white-label development consultants for agencies across the US. After several years, the company pivoted to helping growing businesses and startups solve their biggest technology challenges from websites to applications to the cloud to IoT and beyond.

Rich brings over 15+ years of enterprise software development and consulting, a focus on solving problems and streamlining processes with software, and the unique ability to translate very technical concepts to non-technical leads. Clients Rich has worked with include Under Armor, Pixar, WD-40, FIS, Benihana, Iron Man, Intel, The Baltimore Ravens, The Atlanta Falcons, Lego, Burger King, and Qualcomm.

Rory Douglas is a Financial Educator, High Performance Life Coach

and an International Best Selling Author He has over 25 years of

experience in the Financial Industry Rory has a passion of helping

people pursue their purpose in life and has a great love for

humanity, social justice technology and artificial Intelligence

Today, he supports individuals in answering the questions ::“Who

Am I, What do I want, and How do I get it? Douglas is a Master

Coach who combines life coaching with the principles of spiritual

psychology He is passionate about supporting people out of

suffering and limitation and into fulfillment Bottom line he helps

people get “over it and on with it!” He is Best Selling Author of the

recent book "Cracking the Rich Code and also author of books

like “Fear to Freedom”, “The Power to Get Wealth No Money

Required” and “Artificial Intelligence”.

Dr. Jeff Spencer – serial success, performance visionary and legendary cornerman coach has helped athlete’s win over 40 gold medals, executives build iconic businesses and thought leaders catapult to the top of their fields using his Champion’s Roadmap process. He has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post and worked with Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Nike, Hitachi and Bulletproof. His proudest achievement is raising his adopted daughter with his wife.

Nic Peterson has scaled two companies past the $10m+. One of which was a digital marketing agency geared around helping gym owners scale and the other, a diet and nutrition company. Today he and his partners currently own and operate 7 companies from their Orange County, California office in industries as varied as tech, digital marketing, accounting and management consulting. A big part of their focus recently has been around consulting and creating community for ambitious owner-managers in and around SoCal who are ready to scale their businesses past the $10m mark and would like a bit of support to grow.