Tommy Breedlove is the founder of Choose Goodness, a company dedicated to helping executives and entrepreneurs focus beyond the financial bottom line. By empowering leaders, Tommy bridges the gap between humanity and profitably. He transforms organizations to attract and retain the best and brightest people, create a loyal customer base and promote goodwill within their communities. Choose Goodness provides both the rational and emotional perspectives to the strategic and financial decision making process.

• The importance of living by your value system and having a purpose in life
• How making conscious and courageous choices to invest in yourself can change your life
• Why you shouldn’t live in a state of fear or scarcity
• Asking yourself the question, “Did I choose goodness for myself today?”
• Being present in the moment, no matter who you are talking to
• The many different masks that we wear to cover up things in our lives
• Serving yourself before you serve others
• Why you should work on your mental and emotional state
• Focusing on what you’re good at and delegating the rest
• Having an accomplishment list instead of a priority list

• Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
• Website: www.choosegoodnessnow.com
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/choosegoodnessnow
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/3691549

Manoj Madhusudanan is the Co-founder and CEO of Ziligence, an AI-driven platform that reveals insights on businesses. Before starting Ziligence in 2017, Manoj led the creation of InsightBee, a platform for on-demand custom research. Earlier, he served as the global head of operations for corporate and professional services verticals at Evalueserve and was responsible for a global team of over 700 professionals serving clients a variety of sectors. You may remember Manoj and the wisdom he shared during Episode 444. If you haven’t listened to, studied, and applied all he shared during our first interview...I highly encourage you to add Episode 444 to your list of vital priorities.

What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• What Manoj has coming up in the next few months
• How AI and the advancements within AI are growing at a very fast rate
• The key to getting the most out of your day
• How success can mean different things to different people
• Why you should think of your customer’s problems as your own problems
• What fear really is and how it impacts entrepreneurs
• What makes an ‘A’ player an ‘A’ player
• The hardest part of hiring new employees
• How to improve your ability to provide mentoring to your teammates
• Strategies for creating and building platforms
• The importance of defining your processes that allow you to scale up

How best to connect with Manoj:

• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/manojmadhusudanan
• Email: [email protected]

Website: www.ziligence.com

Marie White is the author of five books, including the award-winning #1 bestseller entitled, Strength for Parents of Missing Children: Surviving Divorce, Abduction, Runaways and Foster Care. She is also a missionary, traveler, entrepreneur and the host of Bible Stories for Adults on YouTube with over half a million views. She is also the owner of Zamiz Press, an inspirational publishing company.

• Marie’s story of courage and strength
• The purpose behind Marie’s publishing company
• Building a relationship with your audience before thinking about how you’re going to monetize something
• The benefits of learning new technology and platforms sooner rather than later
• Creating a daily habit of getting outside in the sunshine
• Why constant learning and adaptability are critical skills to master
• Why you need to ask yourself if your product or business is important enough for you to get out of your comfort zone
• The importance of working through the hard parts of the process to get to the desired end result
• Facing the challenge of building your platform or process over time
• Realizing that you have something valuable to offer other people

• Website: www.MarieWhiteAuthor.com

• Book: "Strength for Parents of Missing Children"

Sander Flaum is CEO of Flaum Navigators, a consulting firm that helps companies accelerate business growth through transformational ideas that galvanize leadership, brand building, and innovation. He is chair of the Fordham Leadership Forum at Fordham University and Executive-in-Residence at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, and is the author of several books including “Boost Your Career: How to Make an Impact, Get Recognition, and Build the Career You Want.”

• Focusing on the important things first on your priority list
• Implementing reading into your daily routine
• Why you need to just listen instead of thinking about your response
• The story behind why Sander wrote his new book, “Boost Your Career”
• How to make an impact on someone
• Strategies to distance yourself from queasy environments
• Becoming a master of embracing change
• A life lesson that taught Sander to work harder and smarter than his competition
• Why you need to discern the real problems that a customer is having
• The importance of developing relationships
• The power of knowing what you are good at

• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.flaumnavigators.com

• Book: Boost Your Career

Carmine Denisco is a successful entrepreneur, inventor, author, podcaster, investor and sought after business startup consultant. Many of the products he has developed or aided in the design of over the years have sold in retail stores, TV shopping channels, online, and infomercials or have gone on to be licensed by major corporations. Along with his business partner, Rick Valderrama, Carmine co-founded Inventors Launchpad™, which is dedicated to helping inventors navigate the invention and manufacturing process to ensure their best shot at success. Carmine is also the host of the Inventors Launchpad Podcast.

• Why Carmine and his partner started Inventors Launchpad
• The benefits of having a podcast
• As an inventor, the top things that you must do in sequence in order to reach success
• How a provisional patent works
• Why your patent is only as good as the amount of money that you have to protect it
• Why being flexible and open-minded are critical skills to master
• Being passionate about your business without falling in love with it
• Why you shouldn’t be embarrassed if you need to close or get out of a business
• Why you absolutely need repeatable systems in place for your business
• The importance of saving as much cash as possible when you’re first starting out

• Website: www.inventorslaunchpad.com

• Book: The Inventor’s Roadmap to Success

Alex Charfen is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN. He has spent his life seeking to understand how to make businesses grow, which evolved into the question, “How do you help people grow?” Through his research and years as a top consultant the Fortune 500 and Global 100, this question led Alex to discover the long-misunderstood Entrepreneurial Personality Type or EPT. Alex is a highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness and has spoken around the world in front of tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses to help them identify and live within their strengths.

• What differentiates entrepreneurs from everyone else
• What laid the groundwork for Alex’s book, “The Entrepreneurial Personality Type”
• The common attributes of the entrepreneurial personality type
• How high sensitivity and awareness allows you to make things happen in your life
• How low pressure and noise compares to high pressure and noise
• Why Alex believes that entrepreneurs don’t know the difference between happy and sad
• The one thing entrepreneurs are driven by
• The power of taking on challenges while facing resistance
• How we become cognitively clearer when in momentum
• The four different types of people in the world

• Entrepreneurial Personality Type book: freemomentumbook.com
• Podcast: momentumpodcast.com
• Momentum Masterclass: www.momentummasterclass.com

Linda Adams has over 40 years of experience as a Human Resources Executive with leadership roles at several marquee corporations such as Ford, PepsiCo, and Level 3 Communications. Abby Curnow-Chavez has over 20 years of experience as an HR leader and management consultant for several fortune 500 companies. In 2008, Linda co-founded the Trispective Group, an all female-owned leadership consulting firm based in Denver, and Abby later joined as a partner. Together with their partners, Linda and Abby co-authored the new book, “The Loyalist Team: How Trust, Candor, and Authenticity Create Great Organizations.”

• How and why the book, “The Loyalist Team,” was developed
• How only 15% or less of teams are highly-functioning and productive
• The characteristics that define a loyalist team
• The obstacles that prevent business owners and leaders from developing a loyalist team
• An area where leaders tend to struggle
• One of the most important things for a team to do
• Why you need to model the type of culture that you want to have as a leader
• The best thing that leaders can do to help their teams evolve and develop
• One of the greatest skills and gifts that a mentor can give someone
• How to raise the performance levels of a team through mentorship and coaching

• Website: www.theloyalistteam.com
• Website: www.trispectivegroup.com
• LinkedIn (Company): www.linkedin.com/company/the-trispective-group
• LinkedIn (Linda Adams): www.linkedin.com/in/lindajadams
• LinkedIn (Abby Curnow-Chavez): www.linkedin.com/in/abby-curnow-chavez-69bb164

• Free assessment: takesnapshot.com

Dixie Decker is a real estate investor and housing specialist who has extensive experience with complex real estate transactions having bought, financed, and overseen transactions in excess of $26 million. She specializes in student housing, turning regular single family homes into multiple units for students and now has over 200 tenants. Dixie also hosts multiple workshops and tours, even introducing her local competitors and their business models…in full transparency…to create an exceptional learning experience for all of her attendees. Dixie attributes her success to her team building, talent, and systems in place for automating the business.

• The power of changing your mindset
• Why follow-up and taking action are vital habits for success
• How documenting your actions can help free up your time to do other things
• How pace, patience, and persistence can lead to more money and opportunity
• Why you should consider getting a mentor sooner rather than later
• Mastering your inner circle
• Why you shouldn’t give up on a strategy before you find out if it’s working
• Taking action to generate revenue
• Why you need to have systems in place
• How the fear you feel can be false

• Website: www.dixiedecker.com

Kevin Bupp is a Florida-based real estate investor and serial entrepreneur with over $40 million of real estate transactions. Today, you will find him educating investors to locate, acquire, and create “higher than average” returns in the Mobile Home Park investing niche through his Mobile Home Academy and sharing his expertise as host of the top-rated iTunes podcast “Real Estate Investing for Cash Flow”.

• Doing whatever it takes to get things done
• The most important part of having a mentor
• How commercial real estate helped Kevin scale his business to a much larger size in an efficient manner
• The different type of seller or buyer in the commercial side vs. the residential side of real estate
• What attracted Kevin to the commercial side of real estate
• How Kevin got started in investing in mobile home parks
• Having a recipe in place to ‘plant a flag’ in your niche
• Understanding what you are passionate about
• The reason why a barrier to entry exists for mobile home park investing
• Why the ROI is different with mobile home park investments compared to other investments

• Website: www.kevinbupp.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Website: www.MobileHomeParkAcademy.com
• Website: www.SunriseCapitalInvestors.com

Vince Parry is a 30-year veteran of the health and wellness communications industry and a branding expert. He is the founder of the Parry Branding Group, and throughout his distinguished career, he has worked on many of the most well-known corporate, franchise, service, and product brands. Vince has appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, guest lectures at the Rutgers Pharmaceutical MBA program on healthcare branding, and is the author of the new book Identity Crisis: Health Care Branding’s Hidden Problems and Proven Strategies to Solve Them.

• Vince’s new book, ‘Identity Crisis: Health Care Branding’s Hidden Problems and Proven Strategies to Solve Them’ and why he felt compelled to write it
• How healthcare branding is different from consumer branding
• How writing a book can positively impact your business development plan
• Having discipline around how frequently you check your email & how it can influence your productivity
• Why you need to be aware of your key stakeholders personal and business objectives
• Mastering the skill of listening
• Knowing what your identity is & what you’re promising people
• An influential lesson that Vince learned that taught him how to embrace failure
• The value of admitting what you don’t know & finding someone who does
• Broadening your revenue stream to give you more financial security

• Website: www.parrybrandinggroup.com