Powers Hour

Cassie Shankman is an Austin-based composer/orchestrator, pianist and DJ (Cass&Ra). As a composer and orchestrator, she has been recognized for her work with film, visual artists, chamber groups, wind ensembles, apps, musicals, and music therapy technology. As a performer and DJ, she's played with legendary musicians such as jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and DEVO's frontman Mark Mothersbaugh, and has DJ'd for audiences of 500+ people. She will be DJing Spredfast's SXSW Social Suite 3-Day House. You can find more about her upcoming shows on her facebook page DJ Cass&Ra. She is also an active committee member for the Grammy Foundation's education board. Cassie is Managing Director/Lead Producer for the non-profit Golden Hornet, a music composition laboratory for commissioning and producing new and original works, co-founded by composer Graham Reynolds. Her current focus is creating compositions utilizing brain-based music technology in collaboration with Austin's Center for Music Therapy. She'll be speaking at SXSW 2017 on this topic, "Movement Tracks: Where Biotech and Music Converge." For more information on Cassie Shankman please visit: www.cassieshankman.com or @cassieshankman for social media handles. For more information on Laura please visit her website at www.powershour.biz. You can also follow Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers and on instagram @laurapowers44.

Paul Aitken grew up in the Greater Washington DC area; and eventually made his way to Albuquerque, NM where he obtained a degree in criminology from the University of New Mexico. After co-founding a couple of businesses and selling them, he caught the RC bug and began flying remote controlled planes and multi-rotors, which led him to Unmanned Vehicle University in Phoenix, AZ where he graduated at the top of his class. While running a successful strategic marketing company, he continued to hone his UAV flight skills at every opportunity and began to take on UAV training opportunities, including training pilots for the National Association of Broadcasters and students from the BBC, CNN, Fox News, ABC and CBS. Having now been fully immersed in flying UAV’s and training others to fly, he realized he loved training and helping others who were wanting to turn the same passion he had for flight into a new career for themselves. It was around this time that Drone U was born with Paul being one of the co-founders. While working on developing curriculum for Drone U and discovering more and more information that could be passed on to budding UAV pilots, he continued to improve his own piloting skills and began to get noticed, and ultimately hired, by people and companies who saw the value in well executed drone footage. Paul has flown, and continues to fly, for multiple multi-national companies in multiple genres, including BBC, ITN, Fox News, Discovery Channel, Sony Pictures, Marriott Hotels and Resorts and Centurion Boats, to name a few. It is his love of flight and his real life experience that he strives to share with the Drone U community, which is why he wrote the book "Livin the Drone Life." Find out more about “Livin the Drone Life” at: Http://droneubook.com. For more information on Paul, his work and his classes, please visit the following sites: Http://taitkenflight.com or Http://thedroneu.com. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Paul Aitken grew up in the Greater Washington DC area; and eventually made his way to Albuquerque, NM where he obtained a degree in criminology from the University of New Mexico. After co-founding a couple of businesses and selling them, he caught the RC bug and began flying remote controlled planes and multi-rotors, which led him to Unmanned Vehicle University in Phoenix, AZ where he graduated at the top of his class. While running a successful strategic marketing company, he continued to hone his UAV flight skills at every opportunity and began to take on UAV training opportunities, including training pilots for the National Association of Broadcasters and students from the BBC, CNN, Fox News, ABC and CBS. Having now been fully immersed in flying UAV’s and training others to fly, he realized he loved training and helping others who were wanting to turn the same passion he had for flight into a new career for themselves. It was around this time that Drone U was born with Paul being one of the co-founders. While working on developing curriculum for Drone U and discovering more and more information that could be passed on to budding UAV pilots, he continued to improve his own piloting skills and began to get noticed, and ultimately hired, by people and companies who saw the value in well executed drone footage. Paul has flown, and continues to fly, for multiple multi-national companies in multiple genres, including BBC, ITN, Fox News, Discovery Channel, Sony Pictures, Marriott Hotels and Resorts and Centurion Boats, to name a few. It is his love of flight and his real life experience that he strives to share with the Drone U community, which is why he wrote the book "Livin the Drone Life." Find out more about “Livin the Drone Life” at: Http://droneubook.com. For more information on Paul, his work and his classes, please visit the following sites: Http://taitkenflight.com or Http://thedroneu.com. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

On this episode we discussed how to make money selling t-shirts on amazon. Elaine Heney grew her Merch by Amazon business to 6 figures, selling over $128,295 with profit of $53,000 in her first 10 months. Over the last 3 years, Elaine is also triple #1 best selling author, international keynote speaker, movie producer and Amazon FBA and Merch consultant. She has also published over 300 mobile apps across Amazon, Apple & Google, and enjoyed over 20 million app downloads and over 50 #1s worldwide. She has been featured in the Huffington Post, BBC, CNN, Entrepreneur.com and Forbes. Elaine is the CEO of Merch Entrepreneur and host of the Merch Entrepreneur podcast. For additional information or to connect with Elaine Heney through her website at: http://www.merchentrepreneur.com. For more information on Laura and her work please visit her website at: www.powershour.biz. Laura can, also, be found on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

In this interview, Laura talks with Kelly Roach, a Business Growth Strategist on what we can do to increase revenue and effectiveness. Kelly was a Senior VP in a Fortune 500 company and realized she did not her lifestyle. She re-evaluated and shifted and now focuses on helping small business owners grow their businesses. Kelly discussed scalability and that there is an epidemic of business owners running themselves into the ground. We discussed focusing on the mindset and the end in mind. She addressed that it’s important to look at where your time is going because the vast majority of things are not effective. Before you can think of moving forward, release what is not working. Kelly is fan of the Automate, delegate, outsource, delete. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

In this interview, Laura talks with Kelly Roach, a Business Growth Strategist on what we can do to increase revenue and effectiveness. Kelly was a Senior VP in a Fortune 500 company and realized she did not her lifestyle. She re-evaluated and shifted and now focuses on helping small business owners grow their businesses. Kelly discussed scalability and that there is an epidemic of business owners running themselves into the ground. We discussed focusing on the mindset and the end in mind. She addressed that it’s important to look at where your time is going because the vast majority of things are not effective. Before you can think of moving forward, release what is not working. Kelly is fan of the Automate, delegate, outsource, delete. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Kelcy Pegler, former President of NRG Home Solar and CEO of MemberWhen, builds companies that can manage rapid growth and move quickly to exploit market opportunities in new industry sectors. Fresh off an exit in the Solar Energy space Kelcy is now building an explosive growth business in the personalized podcast space. You can connect with Kelcy via email at: [email protected]. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Josh Elledge is the Founder and Chief Executive Angel of SavingsAngel.com®, and is one of the nation’s leading experts on consumer savings. Josh is a weekly syndicated newspaper columnist – reaching more than 1.1 million readers. He also regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country – having appeared on TV or radio more than 1500 times. upendPR provides step-by-step video coaching, live training, direct access to over 1 million media contacts, media monitoring for ongoing story-ideas, agency-level journalist inquiry monitoring, ongoing pitch creation, and impactful consulting for entrepreneurs and startups seeking to exponentially increase sales & traffic. Josh lives in Orlando, FL and is a US Navy veteran, a dad of 3 awesome kids, and is a self-proclaimed fitness geek. Josh will be revealing all his best step-by-step strategies to become a media celebrity in this Podcast and for additional information, you can connect with Josh via his website: http://upendpr.com/ or on Twitter @JoshElledge. To receive the complimentary video on using twitter for PR that Josh mentioned on the call, go to http://upendpr.com/powers. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

Josh Elledge is the Founder and Chief Executive Angel of SavingsAngel.com®, and is one of the nation’s leading experts on consumer savings. Josh is a weekly syndicated newspaper columnist – reaching more than 1.1 million readers. He also regularly appears on more than 75 TV stations across the country – having appeared on TV or radio more than 1500 times. upendPR provides step-by-step video coaching, live training, direct access to over 1 million media contacts, media monitoring for ongoing story-ideas, agency-level journalist inquiry monitoring, ongoing pitch creation, and impactful consulting for entrepreneurs and startups seeking to exponentially increase sales & traffic. Josh lives in Orlando, FL and is a US Navy veteran, a dad of 3 awesome kids, and is a self-proclaimed fitness geek. Josh will be revealing all his best step-by-step strategies to become a media celebrity in this Podcast and for additional information, you can connect with Josh via his website: http://upendpr.com/ or on Twitter @JoshElledge. To receive the complimentary video on using twitter for PR that Josh mentioned on the call, go to http://upendpr.com/powers. For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.

With over 15 years in technology, former developer, business analyst, and then project manager, Dan is now involved in helping startups and middle market companies solve complex technical problems by applying DXY Solutions' design first strategies to break apart business needs and putting them back together again in a usable manner. In this podcast we concentrate on how a solution will interact with then key users even before the development process begins. You can connect with Dan via his website: https://www.dxydoes.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DXYdoes/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theonedannelson and Twitter: https://twitter.com/theonedannelson For more information on Laura and her work you can go to her website www.powershour.biz and you can find Laura on twitter @thatlaurapowers.