Mind Your Business

Today I'm joined by Diane Primo. Diane is on a mission to help businesses find their purpose, and live it out every day.

She is the CEO of Purpose Brand Agency, an award-winning, Chicago-based public relations, branding and digital marketing firm. She is the only African-American female CEO of a purpose-driven communications agency. Diane’s focus on impact marketing stems from the belief that brands must be relevant, purpose-driven and committed to consumers to be successful today. Consumers’ demand for meaning, transparency and authenticity has changed the nature of and raised the stakes in all communications.

As founder of Purpose Brand, Diane builds on a 30-year career leading some of the top marketing organizations in the country. She served as General Manager at Quaker Oats, President of Product Management at Ameritech and SBC (currently AT&T), Chief Marketing Officer of CDW and CEO of a Kleiner Perkins-backed e-commerce startup in the home services sector. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Smith College.

She serves as a board member for P33, the private-sector initiative to promote Chicago’s standing as a technology center, as well as serving as a member of World Business Chicago’s ChicagoNEXT. She is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Chicago Network and the Business Leadership Council. Primo received the 2020 Top Women in Communications Trailblazer Award.

To find more about Diane, visit https://purposebrand.com/about/our-team/diane-primo/

Entrepreneurs: Stay motivated, avoid burnout and live a balanced life you love. Sounds easier said than done, right? Today's guest has been able to do just that.

As the CEO of Social Squares, Shay has built and grown a multi-six figure business that serves A-list powerhouse female entrepreneurs all while working only 16 hours a week. Today she’s going to share the powerful secret to how she harnessed working less to make more. If you are currently teetering on the dangerous edge of burnout and know that you can’t continue at this pace forever, lean in, this one's for you.

To learn more about Shay, visit https://www.shaycochrane.com/. To sign up for Social Squares, vist socialsquares.com/emilylyons and use coupon code LYONS20 for 20% off.

Today i'm joined by the brilliant Brooke J Lacey.

Brooke Lacey is your tech savvy best friend. A technologist for the better part of 30 years, she is a prominent voice in the rapidly changing world of blockchain, web3, NFTs – helping to simplify these complex concepts so that the world can effectively push forward in this new paradigm shift.

In this episode we break down and dive deep into all things Web3. A must listen for all!

To learn more about Brooke, visit https://brookejlacey.com/

My guest today is the incredible Barbara Majeski. In 2015, on the heels of a divorce, Majeski was confronted with a stage 3 colon cancer diagnosis and thought she would lose her life, leaving behind three young children. During her six months of chemotherapy treatment, Majeski says she had a breakthrough. After beating the disease she has gone on to accomplish absolutely incredible things, and in today's episode, shares exactly how she is able to do it. You don't want to miss this!

To learn more about Barbara visit https://www.barbaramajeski.com/

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In this interview, you'll hear from Mike Zeller, serial-entrepreneur, speaker and leading success coach. After building up successful businesses he had a string of bad luck that ended with him losing everything.

So, how do you rebound after losing everything? How do you keep going after hitting rock bottom?

Well Mike bounced back and then some. He shares how he did it, and how you can too. How to find strength no matter where you are in your journey.

To learn more about Mike visit https://mikezeller.com/

Today i'm joined by the incredible Molly Dare. Molly Dare Hillenbrand is a serial entrepreneur, PR maven, and media personality known for her company, hillenBRAND Media and her podcast On Air with Molly Dare.

Molly has continually had to reinvent herself after failures, obstacles and pivots, but like a true entrepreneur - she just doesn't stop. She takes her dreams seriously, and shares how and why you should too.

To learn more about Molly visit www.mollydare.com

Raj Sharma has the kind of story that movies are made of. Born in India to an impoverished family, his parents left him in search of a better life in North America. Eventually Raj too made his way here and was determined to change his future. He has since become a serial entrepreneur, exiting his most recent company in the range of $100 million dollars. He is so humble and simply brilliant. I hope you enjoy this episode!

If you want to make a lasting impact in the world, kindness is your key. It's not always easy to be kind when people are being difficult or when you're feeling frustrated, but it can make all the difference in how others perceive you and your business. Kindness can help win customers for life and turn them into advocates of your brand. It can help you win, through and through.

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Today's guest is Keith Grossman - innovator, disruptor and the President of TIME. To date, Keith has done nothing short of incredible things in his career. Today he shares some of his story, how to create the success you want in your life, using failure to your advantage and dispelling the work life balance myth.

Co-Founders Gina Skelton, Crystal Almeida and Nicole Puckerin have built a powerful community in a short period of time. If you aren’t familiar with the Mom Link, it’s a powerful community of like minded, female entrepreneurs. They established the company earlier this year and have already amassed 20,000 people into it, including myself. They’ve built the community off the fundamentals of giving back, providing support and then monetizing through resources, incredible events, sponsorships and a shop.

Having a community around your brand, your mission, your niche is so powerful for all entrepreneurs for a variety of different reasons. People are craving community now more than ever. Years ago joining a community meant finding something generic locally, now with the internet you can find just about any niche community and they’re global.

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As an entrepreneur building a community is essential for lasting success, in whatever capacity you can. Community is so much more than just gathering people in some capacity, whether on app or website. When you’ve built a great, like minded community you can harness that power to get valuable consumer insight, build brand loyalty, increase awareness, have loyal customers, referrals, incredible support and so much more. After-all, there is POWER in proximity.