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Episode #41 featuring Julius Becker, Founder of Newport & State.
Founder of Newport & State is a multifaceted Sports-Agency for Athletes and Brands. Starting at the collegiate level, Newport & State assists and represents athletes off the field while also providing a full strategy & implementation package to brands.
Listen to James Ontra and Julius Becker talk about Julius’s transition from being the athlete looking for an agency into the agency itself. Newport & State is one of several of University of Tampa’s thriving Incubator companies.
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Episode #40 featuring Kristin Shevis, Senior Director of Global Accounts at VMware. VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control.
Listen to AlexAnndra Ontra and Kristin Shevis sit down together and talk about how they capitalized on the key changes within the presentation management industry that have occurred throughout their years.
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Episode #39 Featuring Andrew Collier, Director of Corporate Partnerships for Kitchenery. Kitchenery is a company out of Tampa Florida focused on developing and producing wireless technology products that make life easier. No more messy wires, overloaded sockets, and electrocution hazards. With Kitchenery, you can have the world’s best cooking experience that will set you free in your kitchen.
Listen to James Ontra and Andrew Collier talk about Kitchenery’s plan to break into the market and revolutionize the cooking experience of the future
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Episode #38 Featuring Mike Lingle, the founder of Rocket Pro Forma. Mike has become an entrepreneur throughout his life and has started more than one presentation company. After almost driving his first business into the ground, Mike realized what he needed was a tool like Rocket Pro Forma which is a financial projections spreadsheet that helps you save time and headache so you can focus on what you do best.
Listen to James Ontra and Mike Lingle sit down at the Synapse Summit ‘23 and talk about how they used to be competitors within the industry of presentations and what has stuck with them throughout the years.
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Episode #37 featuring the CEO and Founder of Nootricious, Matt Tack. Nootricious is a product based dietary supplement business that provides busy athletic professionals with on the go nutrition to fuel their active lifestyles.
Listen to James Ontra and Matt Tack talk about the Entrepreneurial lifestyle and what keeps them going throughout the day.
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Episode #36 featuring Rosie Paulsen, the owner of Rosie Paulsen Enterprises. Rosie is a well known public speaker and business trailblazer throughout the Tampa bay region. Rosie was recently named one of the Top "50 Most Influential Leaders in Florida" by the Florida State Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Listen to James Ontra and Rosie Paulsen talk about their come up and what challenges they faced along their journey in business
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Episode #35 featuring Kyle Ontra. Kyle is a student entrepreneur from The University Of Delaware and the oldest son of the host James Ontra. Kyle is the president of the University Boxing club, Owner of Viper Enterprises, and an online personal trainer.
Listen to James Ontra and son Kyle Ontra talk about how college helps students overcome their fears of public speaking.
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Episode #34 featuring Sh’nai Simmons. Sh’nai is the executive director at the Collective Wellness Institute of Tampa. The Collective Wellness Institute gives everyone in the community an opportunity to experience therapeutic mental health services at an affordable rate. They provide services for adults, children, individuals and even families.
Listen to James Ontra and Sh’nai Simmons talk about giving back to the community, mental health, and what it was like living in the Bronx of New York City during the 1980’s crack epidemic
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Episode #33 Featuring Valerie Lavin, CEO of Luminary Global. Luminary Global is a veteran owned business that supports the men and women who are the lifeline between preventable death and hospital care by supplying them with products and emergency supplies to military, first responders, law enforcement and citizens.
Listen to James Ontra and Valerie Lavin talk about the importance of Luminary Global and the positive impact the veteran owned business has made on people since 2016.
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Episode #32 - Neil Jirele, the Founder of AppyHour. AppyHour is an app built entirely around bringing “butts to barstools and lips to glasses”. AppyHour is a direct-to-consumer platform that connects local bars and restaurants to the right consumers, with the right offers, at the right time.
Listen to James Ontra and Neil Jirele talk about the story of AppyHour and what inspired Neil to bring AppyHour to life.
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Have you ever felt like poking your eyes with needles when creating a slide deck? Felt humiliated and deflated after given an important presentation. Or maybe just embarrassed in front of your…
Then you’ve been to Presentation Hell.
Post pandemic, we are all making more presentations online than ever before. So, we need new, better skills to raise our presentation game. And, since there are fewer opportunities to speak and meet in person, the stakes are higher. We can’t afford to make a mistake, fall on our face and lose that one precious opportunity to make a 5 star impression.
Even from our phones, we are carrying social media posts, pictures, videos, documents everywhere we go. Every time we pull out our phone to show and tell, we are giving a presentation. It’s another chance to make a great impression. All the world is a stage. All the world is a presentation.