Passage to Profit Show - Road to Entrepreneurship

In this episode, we hear from Sam Caucci, the Founder & CEO of 1Huddle (formerly Sales Huddle), which offers an innovative workforce training platform using science-backed, quick-burst games to help companies across the globe to make training more fun, effective and accessible for their employees.  Leading the charge to help organizations better prepare their people for the workforce. Clients are from across multiple sectors including professional sports teams, politics/government, hospitality, retail, automotive, college/universities, and more.  Read more about Sam and 1Huddle at, https://1huddle.co/

The Featured Executive Spotlight is Michele Joseph, the Founder and Executive Director of SGAP Leaders (Student Global Ambassador Program), a non-profit organization with a vision to cultivate the next generation of global leaders through programs for 7th - 12th grade students, focused on STEM, Sustainability and Social Justice.  Read more about SGAP Leaders at, https://www.sgapleaders.org/

Featured Pitch Presenters:

Zula Oliveira with SGAP Leaders (Student Global Ambassador Program), is a 12th grader from Madison High School, NJ, who attended the 2019 Student Leadership Conference at the United Nations through sponsorship by SGPA Leaders. SGAP Leaders serves curious and ambitious young leaders (7th -12th graders) who want to make a difference in the world at, https://www.sgapleaders.org/

Brandon Persaud with KB Operation Hope, is a student at the Knox School of Saint James, New York and a volunteer with KB Operation Hope, a non-profit organization that advocates to governments for the welfare of international poverty-stricken children, and through donations, provides these children with educational and medical necessities at, http://kboperationhope.org/

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Starting a business or interested in starting one?  In this episode, get sound advice from Lisa Ascolese, aka "The Inventress" is the founder of Inventing A-Z.!  She has been taking ideas, hers and many others, from concept to fruition for over 35 years and counting. The New Jersey-based entrepreneur, consultant, and agent has successfully created, patented, marketed, and launched dozens of products in QVC, HSN, national retail stores and more. She also runs the networking group AOWIE and has conferences and events throughout the year. You can read more about Lisa at: https://www.inventingatoz.com/


Featured Presenters:

Antonia Tamao, with Antonia's Promise, a spiritual line, her own rendition of the holy cross, to be a reminder for prayer. Her crosses will debut at the AOWIE conference on April 19th, 2020. The website will be up in April under "Antoina's Promise".

Lisa Pietracatella with Sun Head Pillow, a recreational, portable and all-purpose pillow that helps with cervical alignment for both laying on back or on the stomach, provides a handy storage pocket for keys, phones etc., and for inserting ice or heat packs. Her product will also debut at the AOWIE conference on April 19th, 2020. The website will be up in April under "Sun Head Pillow".

Diane Simovich with BWNICE - Business Women Networking LLC Involving Charity and Education, provides women at all stages of business and personal life with support, education and resources. The organization brings women together to gain meaningful business connections, learn new ways to succeed, and foster an empowering environment, at https://bwnice.org/.

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In this episode hear about franchising a business from Michael Shapiro, a hyperlocal media expert, news entrepreneur and attorney. He owns and operates TAPinto.net, a network of more than 75 all-online hyperlocal news franchises in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Florida, with more than 8,000,000 readers during the past year. Each site is franchised to a local owner/publisher and provides original objective daily local news reporting. Current franchisees include business executives, public relations professionals, journalists, hardcopy newspapers, nonprofits and universities. TAPinto.net was founded in October, 2008 by Michael and Lauryn Shapiro, who sought to provide their town’s residents with an all-online, objective, independent, daily local newspaper. 
You can visit his website at www.TapInto.net . 

Featured Presenters:

Susannah Bailin with Advice Coach, an App for patients to help them remember what matters: how to recover at home using prescribed exercises and when to go back to see the doctor, at https://advicecoach.com/. 

Reed Benet with HeroHomes, a company dedicated to helping VAs build financial security by using their VA mortgage benefit to purchase multi-family properties they can provide for their own families and to help others as well at http://www.herohomes.com. 

Omid Esmaili with College Foundry, offering classes, speaking events, and one-on-one consulting for students to understand how to get the most use out of their college years, to maximize opportunities and to make the most of their investment, at https://collegefoundry.com/.

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In this episode hear from business coach and mentor, Tony Vengrove about what it really takes to lead innovation. As Warren Bennis once said, “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing or dance. Or one can create the environment in which singers and dancers flourish.” Using his Idea Climate Equation® and Seven C’s of Creative Leadership frameworks, he helps leaders and organizations learn how to walk the innovation talk and create the conditions for ideas to transform into successful innovations.  Visit his website at www.MilesFinchInnovation.com

Featured Pitch Presenters:

Gil Bar-Lev with Homeroots, a market leader in B2B sales of Furniture & Lighting products curated to the needs of customers, at https://www.homeroots.co/. 

Kathleen Edinger with TeaScapes, a store that offers access to exclusive blends of premium, customized loose tea blends, and tea accessories, at https://www.enjoyteascapes.com/. 

Caroline Strzalka with It’s By U, selling do-it-yourself flower arrangement kits with farm-fresh blooms, by subscription, at https://itsbyu.com/.

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In this episode, hear from celebrity entrepreneur, Arthur Wylie, on how to take a vision and create a successful roadmap to success.  Arthur is one of the hottest brands in the country with over $1 Billion of assets, transactions, and deals managed under him since starting his first wealth management business, out of his college dorm room, no less. He’s a book author, film producer, investor, international speaker, philanthropist, and serial entrepreneur.   You can visit his website at www.ArthurWylie.com/

Featured Pitch Presenters:

Audrey Davis-Dunning with Get Your Goddess, an organization dedicated to celebrating what is right and beautiful about you, at www.GetYourGoddess.com.

John Carini with iEnterprises CRM, a leading provider of intelligent CRM solutions who prides themselves in staying ahead of the industry and being focused on delivering the best user experience for their customers, at www.iEnterprises.com

Walter Contaldi with Halftime Razors, a unique, patented razor design that gives you the quickest, smoothest shave of your life at www.HalfTimeRazors.com.

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