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  • The Resiliency Effect with Cady North, CEO and Founder of North Financial Advisors.
    https://secure.acuityscheduling.com/clients.php?action=detailandfirstName=CadyandlastName=Northandphone=9292663757andbackto=401652405 (Cady is the CEO and Founder of North Financial Advisors. After getting her MBA from Georgetown, she became a CFP and became an analyst. Over the years, Cady has worked as a lobbyist, a business coach, and even a senior financial analyst and Advisor at Bloomberg LP.)
    https://secure.acuityscheduling.com/clients.php?action=detailandfirstName=CadyandlastName=Northandphone=9292663757andbackto=401652405 (The financial industry currently focuses mainly on people looking to retire, or people who have already retired. Cady, however, has carved out her niche in the industry by working mainly with women and entrepreneurs to define and rank their goals early on in life.)
    26 min
  • What could be accomplish through grit and tenacity with Bernadette Capulong, CEO of BC Design Haus
    Bernadette Capulong is the CEO of BC Design Haus, is a strategic design and branding agency in the Los Angeles area. Beginning in 2009 at the cusp of the recession, She fell into this business and struggled for almost 2 years hustling for any work that she could find. It was a rough start but eventually, She built a client base of 20 accounts in less than 2 years. Bernadette realized then, what she could accomplish through grit and tenacity.
    Although she meant to be an entrepreneur, she also meant to be a mom, a single one at that. She has juggled the challenges of family and business while building a fast-growing boutique agency and raising her son whom she adopted in 2015. The hardest job she faces is being a good mom to my son. Being a parent helps prepare her to be an inspiring leader and, as her own boss and have better control over work-life balance.
    30 min
  • Justin Wells CEO at Interlaced.io - Propelling teams towards their dreams. People-focused IT for modern, creative organizations.
    Justin Wells CEO of Interlaced.io that deliver IT solutions that revolutionize the way modern businesses leverage apple technology. Built by Apple employees, Interlaced is the industry’s most operationally mature provider of Apple IT services. Access real-time support from an Apple-certified technical consultant with the simple click of a button.
    Interlaced.io are the single IT solution provider for all of your company’s Apple IT needs. Our team of certified Apple IT Consultants, Jamf Pros and IT Strategists use the industry’s leading support tools to simplify technology and deliver an excellent IT experience.
    27 min
  • Reyanne Mustafa CEO of SOUL MUCH, a women led startup venture that has found a solution to restaurant food waste by repurposing.
    Reyanne Mustafa is a nutrition enthusiast and startup co-founder, dedicated to closing the gap within our food system by making healthier food more accessible while reducing our carbon footprint.
    SOUL MUCH is a women led startup venture that has found a solution to restaurant food waste by repurposing what would have been food waste into healthy snacks such as cookies.
    HOW DOES IT WORK? At the end of the night the chefs put the grains left over in the rice cookers into a container we provide. They store overnight in the fridge. The following morning our crew comes by and picks the grains up to take to our kitchen. We then begin to dehydrate the grains, grind into a flour, and with that flour bake into healthy snacks such as cookies.
    27 min
  • The Innovation Navy SEAL, Malcolm Deleo Founder of InnovationMuse
    Malcolm Deleo is a Senior Sales Executive, Chief Evangelist and Founder of InnovationMuse. Malcolm works with both people and organizations to help drive change that brings tangible business results.
    InnovationMuse Consulting is focused on helping companies of all sizes build a stronger bridge between their products/services and their balance sheet. Between these two sides of the chasm are elements such as tools, process, culture which every company needs to develop in order to successfully drive their long term vision. All executives needs support to help them navigate this chasm. They need both someone to help build their strategy while simultaneously bring it to life through outstanding execution. We excel at providing the vision to see where you want to go with the focus on execution most consultants lack. We want to sit beside you by bringing a strong commitment to collaboration, a unique approach to making strategy real and the governing principle that strong relationships are at the core of making your business thrive.
    25 min
  • CEO Flow - Sharing is Karma with Mark Cave, CEO of FAVEme
    Mark Cave is the CEO of FAVEme collects Rewards, VIP gifts and Upgrades for users, shared with users' friends, from participating businesses. Users automatically receive all the Rewards, Gifts and Upgrades that their friends collect, too.
    The more rewards you share, the more FAVE friends you gain, and the more rewards you gain back. Get into your CEO Flow
    "Sharing is Karma".
    Users gain the benefit of the discounts, gifts, rewards and upgrades that their friends collect. Businesses gain the loyalty of their customers - and the business of their customers' friends.
    27 min
  • Multiple Streams Of Income - Helping businesses structure a plan to get out of debt with Crys Noel the Chief Visionary Officer of T&T LLC
    Crys is the Chief Visionary Officer of TandT LLC - A company mainly focused around helping businesses structure a plan to get out of debt. After being laid off from her job as an Accounting and HR Assistant in 2008, Crys decided to start her company in the middle of the recession. Through a lot of trial and error, she has structured a system to not only help current business owners get out of debt but teach them to understand why they were in debt in the first place so that they don't make the same mistakes moving forward. It's time to get those Multiple Streams Of Income online!
    One unique strategy they use to test the competence of the C-Level Executives in these businesses is by asking a randomly selected group of employees why the company is in the position it is in right now, and what the plan is to avoid it moving forward. Crys and her team believe that all of the employees in the business should be educated by their superiors to know and understand the previous mistakes in order to help the company grow in a healthy direction.
    16 min
  • Rich, First, and Warm with Mike Koenigs, Founder of The Superpower Accelerator and CEO of MikeKoenigs.com, Inc.
    Mike Koenigs’ passion is turning business owners into Transformational Business Celebrity Influencers. He’s helped over 55,000 clients get attention, multiply your revenue, amplif, create awareness, become a bestselling author, speaker, influencer and media masters who get and command attention.
    13-time #1 bestselling author, “Marketer of the Year”, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, filmmaker, international speaker and patented inventor. Mike built and sold his last two businesses to publicly-traded companies, his most recent exit was selling Traffic Geyser and Instant Customer. His first exit, Digital Cafe, was sold to the publicly-traded Interpublic Group in 1999.
    Mike Koenigs is a stage 3a cancer survivor! After completing 9 months of chemotherapy and 33 radiation treatments, his doctors say he’s healthy and cancer-free. His 13th book, "Cancerpreneur" gives anyone with cancer hope and a system for survival.
    It's not all about the money, an active philanthropist, Mike has raised over $2.6mm for the “Just Like My Child” foundation.
    Mike has interviewed, consulted and advised celebrity clients, billionaires and bestselling authors including Tony Robbins, Paula Abdul, Richard Dreyfuss, JJ Virgin, John Assaraf, Brian Tracy, XPrize founder Peter Diamandis, Jorge Cruise, Harvey Mackay, Daniel Amen and Darren Hardy. He's created over 1,800 bestselling authors worldwide.
    43 min
  • Sarah Piha Owner of Springer Graphic Design and Founder of GOAT Nail Lacquer
    https://secure.acuityscheduling.com/clients.php?action=detailandfirstName=SarahandlastName=Pihaandphone=8583951400andbackto=405436621 (Sarah has been in the Graphic Design Industry for almost 10 years. She started out by working at a Real Estate Company in order to build up connections that would eventually help her grow her own company. Sarah Founded Springer Graphic Design in 2015 and has been growing ever since. She takes pride in having a personalized approach in which all of her clients are able to reach her at any time on her cellphone. After seeing other businesses in the industry, Sarah noticed how long it can take to get a project done for a client. This is because there are different people involved at every step of the way. One person for the website, one person for the social media pages, etc. It is for this reason Sarah has created a one-stop-shop for all of her clients.)
    https://secure.acuityscheduling.com/clients.php?action=detailandfirstName=SarahandlastName=Pihaandphone=8583951400andbackto=405436621 (Sarah is also the founder of GOAT Nail Lacquer where she has created a vegan nail polish that is 7-free. This means that her nail polish does not contain the 7 most common ingredients used in nail polish that can be harmful to your body as well as the planet. She started the company in 2019 and is using her connections from her mentor and coach Tiffany Pegula who runs Blue Luna Hair in LA.)
    25 min
  • CEO vs President - The evolution of the business card with Sohaila Handelsman, CEO and Founder of MyCEO Card.
    The evolution of the business card with Sohaila Handelsman, CEO and Founder of MyCEO Card. Are you a CEO vs President?
    Sohaila is the founder of the CEO Agency, Sophaila International, and the Escondido Small Business Growth.
    Sohaila is mainly focused on helping women become stop being invisible and start being invincible. She does this by using her 40+ years of experience in the dancing world, in which she pioneered the belly dancing industry in Mexico at 17 years old!
    Through her multiple businesses, DVDs, and books, Sophaila has helped thousands of people transform their life.
    21 min

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